EDUCATION

MFA Art Practice in Interdisciplinary Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY                                2014

Masters of Political Science/International Relations Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey         2000

Bachelors of Fine Arts / Painting and History of Art University of Houston, Houston, TX                   1991   

ART PROJECTS / FOUNDER / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

TODOS, Houston, TX. trailer: https://vimeo.com/1177152433?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci,                                    2026

http://www.loccart.org/todos  Bilingual, experimental film about artists and political philosophy.

 

THE BIO-ART BAYOU-TORIUM, Houston, Texas https://www.bioartbayoutorium.org/                         2018-present

A socially engaged bio-art science laboratory/art studio situated on the banks of Buffalo Bayou in

Houston’s Second Ward Hispanic neighborhoods. With sponsorship from the Buffalo Bayou Partnership.

 

L.O.C.C.A.: LAW CENTER for CITIZENSHIP and ART, Houston, TX    http://www.loccart.org/         2015-2022

A social-practice art project that serves as a law office and a collaborative platform for art and social justice.

 

THE ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT, Brooklyn, NY http://www.englishkillsproject.com/                         2012-2016

A socially engaged, bio-art project seeking ecological transformation of a Newtown Creek tributary in Brooklyn, NY.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

norMAL and unreMARKable, 2-person exhibition with Heather L. Johnson                                             2026

The BioArt Bayou-torium @ Tony Marron Park, Houston, TX, KBR Kids Day, Oct 19th                          2024

The BioArt Bayou-torium @ Yolanda Black Navarro Nature Park, Houston, TX, Oct 1-16                      2022

The BioArt Bayou-torium @ Yolanda Black Navarro Nature Park, Houston, TX, Oct 2-17                      2021

The BioArt Bayou-torium @ Tony Marron Park, Houston, TX, April 13-28                                              2019

Underwaterscapes, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn NY                                                                                2018

Patriot Games, Civic TV Laboratories, Houston, Texas                                                                               2018

The English Kills Project Presents, The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, NY                                                     2016

Sunview presents The English Kills Project, Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY                                 2016

What Do You Want to See in English Kills?, Kings County Saloon, Brooklyn, NY                                   2015

Presenting the English Kills Project, Bushwick Open Studios site, Brooklyn, NY                                     2015

The ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY                                                               2014      

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Artist Breakfast, Ruth Street Projects and Stinson House, Houston TX                                                       2026

The Space We Make, Throughline Collective Gallery, Houston, TX                                                           2025

The BIG Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX                                                                                     2024

Climate Migration, Houston Climate Justice Museum, POSTHTX, Houston TX                                     2023

Ancestral Echoes: A Decade of Bio Art, School of Visual Art, Manhattan, NYC                                       2022

The More-Than-Human Anthropocene, Houston Climate Justice Museum @ Rice University                2022

Withstand: Latinx Art in Times of Conflict, Holocaust Museum Houston                                                  2021

Outta Space, SITE Gallery / Silos @ Sawyer Yard, Houston, TX                                                                2019

Lines Drawn, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX                                                                                                   2017

Dia De Los Muertos in the East End, East End Studio Gallery, Houston TX.                                            2016

Dia De Los Muertos Festival, Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts, Houston, TX.   2016

Where Is The Art in Bio Art, SVA Flatiron Gallery, NY, NY                                                                     2014

AQUA-CULTURE, McKinney Avenue Art Center, Dallas, Texas*                                                             2014

Greenpoint Film Festival, Woven Spaces, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY                                                        2014

Greenpoint Film Festival, Woven Spaces, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY                                                        2013

Electronic Arts Intermix, MFA video screening, New York, NY                                                                2013

Current Practice, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY                                                                                           2013

Fictitious Truths: Exercises in Realism, Rooster Gallery, NYC                                                                 2012

Bushwick Film Festival, Microscope Gallery, The Church/BobbyRedd, Brooklyn, NY                             2012

Bushwick Film Festival, Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY                                                                2011

Returning Home, East End Studio Gallery, Houston, Texas                                                                        2010

OCTET, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey                                         

AUTHORED ARTICLES

From Darwin to Deepwater: Brandon Ballengée’s “Sculpting Endless Forms” at Redbud Gallery  Feb. 20, 2023

https://glasstire.com/2023/02/20/from-darwin-to-deepwater-brandon-ballengee-sculpting-endless-forms-at-redbud-gallery/

“Made In the Moment”, review of PULP at Jonathan Hopson Gallery, GLASSTIRE                          Aug. 7, 2022

https://glasstire.com/2022/07/23/made-in-the-moment-pulp-at-jonathan-hopson-gallery-houston/

“Arts Funding in Pandemic Texas, Part 2”,GLASSTIRE,                                                           Nov. 23, 2020

https://glasstire.com/2020/12/01/arts-funding-in-pandemic-texas-part-2-houston/

“Arts Funding in Pandemic Texas, Part 1”,GLASSTIRE,                                                           Dec. 1, 2020

https://glasstire.com/2020/11/23/arts-funding-in-pandemic-texas-part-1/

“Slow down and Listen: Lina Dib’s Breakthrough At Space HL”, GLASSTIRE,                       June 24, 2019

https://glasstire.com/2019/06/24/slow-down-and-listen-lina-dibs-breakthrough-at-space-hl/

“A Vision for a New Houston Museum”, GLASSTIRE,                                                                June 3, 2019

https://glasstire.com/2019/06/03/a-vision-for-a-new-houston-museum/

“Who are the Houston Bio-Artists?”, GLASSTIRE,                                                                     May 27, 2019

https://glasstire.com/2019/05/27/who-are-the-houston-bio-artists/

Contributor to GLASSTIRE’s Top 5:

https://glasstire.com/2019/06/13/top-five-june-13-2019-with-henry-g-sanchez/June 12, 2019

https://glasstire.com/2018/11/29/top-five-november-29-2018-with-henry-g-sanchez/Nov. 11, 2019

CURATORIAL PROJECTS*

AQUA-CULTURE, McKinney Avenue Art Center, Dallas, Texas                                                      2014

GEO-LOCO, Outpost Resources, Ridgewood, NY                                                                             2011

DATA DADA, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York                                                             2010

OCTET, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (assistant curator)                                                               2009

CONFERENCE, LECTURE & PANELS

norMAL and unreMARKable, artist talk with Heather L. Johnson, Dr. Weston Twardowski-moderator  Jan. 17, 2026

Gulf Coast Connections, National Academy of Science and Rice University Center for Environmental Studies,

Galveston, TX                                                                                                                                             Feb 6-8, 2025

Gulf Coast Scholars Program Conference Workshop, Rice University, Houston, Texas                        April 11, 2024

Advancing Science Communication and Inspiring Community Action Through Art Science Collaborations,

Gulf of Mexico Conference, Tamp FLA.                                                                                                 Feb. 18-20, 2024

Lost and New Horizons: Re-Imagining Houston’s New Ecologies, (a conversation with Jaime Gonzales)

POST, Houston, TX                                                                                                                                       Feb, 29, 2024

DASER, Wonder Workshops, Art and Gulf Futures, National Academy of Science,                               Jan, 11, 2024

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6o5vAo2W0s&list=PLLfdQrZVuMNUvYgiZ9BAnrwgkPTU7ejkV&index=10

8th Annual Bayou Vermillion Symposium, Lafayette, LA.                                                                        Mar. 31, 2023

Visiting Lecture @ North Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona                                                               Nov. 21, 2022

Dwelling Breathing, Dreaming: The Afterlife of Waste, Houston Climate Justice Museum, Houston.     Jan. 29, 2022

LAS FRONTERAS: Houston Artists in Nature with Science, L.O.C.C.A., Houston, TX.                         April 7, 2019

Contemporary Art Appreciation, Instructor – David McClain, Houston Community College                 2017

Open Engagement Conference: “What’s the Plan? Artists, Planners and New Models for                  Apr. 21, 2017

Naturally Hyper-Natural: Visions of Nature, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY                                      Nov. 14-16, 2014

REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA NOTICES

GLASSTIRE Houston, http://glasstire.com/events/2018/03/05/henry-g-sanchez-patriot-game/                2018

GLASSTIRE, http://glasstire.com/2017/12/18/a-conversation-with-henry-g-sanchez-at-diverseworks/2017

BRIC TV: Brooklyn Stories, Brooklyn Arts Media House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY.               2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfS0xTDVW_M&feature=youtu.be

MUSEE Magazine, Science & Technology Issue, No. 14,  pp. 26-27                                                         2016

https://issuu.com/museemagazine/docs/musee_edition_14_final?e=0%2F34394358

ASCI:Art & Science Collaborations Inc., Member of the month of March-April,                                    2016

http://www.asci.org/artikel1476.html

ANTENNAE: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Winter 2015, http://www.antennae.org.uk/2015

Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents, 8 Artists to Watch from the                                       2015

Bushwick Open Studios, http://hyperallergic.com/212865/8-artists-to-watch-from-the-2015-bushwick-open-studios/

Bushwick Daily, “Art, Art Baby: Summer Art Shows to Keep you Sexy”, July 10,                                    2014

http://bushwickdaily.com/2014/07/art-art-baby/

HONORS

Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Buffalo Bayou Partnership                                                                        2022-present

Idea Fund Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation, DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, Project Row House  2021

For TODOS, experimental film project

SoA CAMP (School of Art Community Artist Mentorship Program), University of Houston              2021

Artist Mentor during Spring semester 2022

Support for Artists and Creative Individuals Grant, City of Houston’s Houston Arts Alliance                2020

Idea Fund Grant, Andy Warhol Foundation, DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, Project Row House  2019

For BioArt Bayou-torium at Tony Marron Park

Let Creativity Happen Grant, City of Houston’s Houston Arts Alliance                                                  2019

BOARDS

Throughline Collective                                                                                                                                 2024-present

Arts Takes Action Houston, Advisory Committee                                                                                    2017-present

HALA: Houston Alliance for Latinx Arts                                                                                                  2018-2024

Arts Accountability Houston, Advisory Committee                                                                                 2020-2025

Houston Latino Non-Profits Organization                                                                                                2017–2019

Greater Houston Coalition for Justice                                                                                                       2017-2019