Bio

Janet Olivia Henry (b. 1947; East Harlem, New York) lives and works in Jamaica, Queens, New York. She was educated at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and received a fellowship in education from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In partnership with filmmaker Linda Goode Bryant, Henry produced Black Currant, a magazine which highlighted the experimental work of artists who were showcased by Just Above Midtown Gallery (JAM).

Henry has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; PPOW Gallery, New York; the New Museum, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Newark Museum, New Jersey; Artists Space, New York; and Just Above Midtown, New York. Her work has been reviewed and featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, and Smithsonian Magazine, among others.

As as an art administrator, Janet Henry has worked at the New York State Council on the Arts, the education department at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, as an educator at the Lower Eastside Girls Club Studio in a School, and recently retired from teaching grades one through eight at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School.

Solo Exhibitions & Installations

2024 Janet Olivia Henry Recent Academic Abstractions, Stars Gallery, LA

2004 "Two Series," Lower Eastside Girl's Club, NYC

2003 “Janet Henry Recent Work,” Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA

2002 “American Anatomy and Other Work”, PPOW Gallery, NYC

1998 “In Situ,” John Jay College, NYC

1995 “American Anatomy,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

1995 “American Anatomy,” Pulse Art, NYC

1992 “Social Commentary Sewn-up in Vinyl,” Seventh St Photo Gallery, NYC

1990 “Collecting, Organizing and Transposing,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, SI, NY

1982 “Janet Henry Retroactive,” Just Above Midtown Gallery (JAM), NYC

1981 “Handel Was No Fool,” Basement Workshop, NYC