Janet Henry

**Janet Henry** nyɛla lihigu nuchee ni baŋda ŋun be New York City.

## Piligu biɛhigu mini Shikuru baŋsim

Henry nyɛla ŋun daa zoogi East Harlem pɔi ka daa labi Jamaica, Queens, ni ka o be saha ŋɔ.

O nyɛla ŋun chaŋ School of Visual Arts mini Fashion Institute of Technology. O nyɛla ŋun daa be Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited program (HARYOU) ni ka o daa laɣim ni  Betty Blayton Taylor. Yuuni 1974, Henry nyɛla ŋun daa deegi Rockefeller Fellowship in Museum Education din daa niŋ Metropolitan Museum of Art.

## Exhibitions
### Solo exhibitions and installations
* Lower Eastside Girls Club Community Gallery, "Two's", NYC, 2004
* Cedar Crest College, Recent Work, Curated by Cynthia Hawkins, Allentown, PA, 2003
* PPOW, "American Anatomy and Other Work", NYC, 2002
* John Jay College, "In Situ," NYC, 1998
* Hallwalls, "American Anatomy," Curated by Sara Kellner, Buffalo, NY, 1995
* Pulse Art, "American Anatomy," NYC, 1995
* Seventh Second Photo Gallery, "Social Commentary Sewn-up in Vinyl," Curated by Wendy Tiefenbacher, NYC, 199290
* Public Art Fund, "Messages to the Public: Eventually," NY, 1988
* Various Sites in Queens, "American Anatomy," NY, 1986
* Studio Museum in Harlem, "From the Studio: Artists-in-Residence," NYC, 1983
* Just Above Midtown Gallery, "Janet Henry Retroactive," NYC, 1982
* Basement Workshop, "Handel Was No Fool," NYC, 1981
* The Exhibitions Gallery, "Drawings and Other Things," Jamaica, NY 1978

### Selected group exhibitions and installations

Source:
* Jamaica Center for Learning and Arts, "What Comes out of Our Textbooks," Queens, New York 2021
* Queens Museum, "Queens International 2018: Volumes," Curated by Sophia Marisa Lucas and Baseera Khan, NYC, 2018
* A.I.R. Gallery, "Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together?" Curated by Roxana Fabius and Patricia M. Hernandez, NYC, 2018
* York College Fine Arts Gallery, "Southeast Queens Biennial: A Locus of Moving Points," Curated by NLE Curatorial Lab, NYC, 2018
* Brooklyn Museum, "We Wanted a Revolution," Curated by Catherine Morris, NYC, 2017
* FiveMyles Gallery, "No Place Like Utopia," Curated by Matt Freedman, NYC, 2008
* City Without Walls, Corridor Gallery, "Close to the Edge," Curated by Reynolds and Kevin Sampson, Newark, NJ, NYC, 2008
* Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, "Inside/Out", Curated by Duston Spear, NY, 2008
* Indiana State University, "Contemporary Women Artists," Curated by Judy Collischan, Terre Haute, Indiana, 2005
* Light Work, Menschel Gallery, "Ties that Bind," Syracuse University, 2002
* Center for Photography at Woodstock, "We are Named," Curated by Susan Evans, NY, 2001
* Exit Art, "Choices 99," Selected by Carrie Mae Weems, NYC, 1999
* Art Resources Transfer, NYC, 1999
* Giordano Gallery, "The Bead...," Cathy Valenza, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, 1999
* Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City University, "Picture/Image/Word," Mauro Altamura, 1998
* PPOW Gallery, "Rights of Spring," Curated by Carrie Mae Weems, NYC, 1998
* 1612 Pine Street, "Summer Camping," Curated by Dean Daderko, Philadelphia, PA, 1998
* PS 122 Gallery, "Shake: An Exhibition of Snow Domes," Curated by Jane Harris, NYC, 1998
* Dorfman Projects, "Tip of the Iceberg," Art Resources Transfer, NYC, 1998
* Betty Rymer Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, "Sexting Myths: Representing Sexuality in African American Art," Curated by Kymberly Pinder, 1998
* Henry Street Settlement, "Stiches," Curated by Kathleen Spicer, NYC, 1997
* Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery, "Figuring Woman's Lives," Janice Farley, 1997
* Abington Art Center, "New American Portraits," Dean Daderko, Jenkintown, PA, 1996
* The Drawing Center, "Cultural Economics: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement," Curated by Julie Ault, NYC, 1996
* Algira Center of Contemporary Art, "With All Deliberate Speed: Revisiting Race and Education," Curated by Howard McCalebb and Carl Hazelwood, Newark, NJ, 1996
* Manhattan Borough President's Gallery, "Through Our Eyes - By Women About Women," Curated by Laura Litchfield, 1996
* Anderson Gallery, "X-Sightings," Buffalo, NY, 1996
* New Museum, "Human/Nature," Benefit Exhibition, NYC, 1995
* 494 Gallery, "Pride and Prejudice," Shari Diamond and Honor LaSSale, NYC, 1995
* The Gallery at Hunter College, "Beyond Circumstance," Curated by Margeret McInroe, NYC, 1995
* 42nd Street Development Project and Creative Time, NYC, 1994
* Puffin Room, "Identity Crisis," Curated by Laurie Ourlicht and Kenny Schacter, NYC 1994
* Art in General, "Little Things," Curated by Holly Block, NYC, 1994
* Momenta, "Yes I Am - No I'm Not," Curated by Laura Parness and Eric Heist, NYC 1994
* New Museum, "Bad Girls," Curated by Marsha Tucket, NYC, 1994
* Artists Space, "Artists Select," Selected by Lanie Lee, NYC, 1994
* Longwood Art Gallery, "Urban Masculinity," Curated by Bettie-Sue Hertz and Calvin Reid, Bronx, NY, 1993
* Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 1994
* AC Project Room at 303 Gallery, "Welcome Edition," Curated by Paul Bloodgood and Alissa Friedman, NYC, 1993
* Artists Space, "Activated Walls," Curated by Carlos Solana, NYC 1993
* Momenta, "The Art of Self Defense and Revenge," Laura Parness and Eric Heist, NYC 1993
* Queens Museum at PaineWeber Gallery, Curated by Phyllis Billick, NYC, 1992
* 494 Gallery, "Race and Culture," Curated by Suzanne Nicholas, NYC 1991
* Maryland Art Place, "Collecting, Organizing and Transposing," Olivia Georgia, Baltimore, MD
* Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, 1989
* Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, "Art from the African Diaspora: Survival," Curated by Lorenzo Pace, Newark, NJ, 1988
* Diverse Works, "Coast to Coast," Organized by Faith Ringgold and Clarissa Sligh, Houston, TX, 1988
* Intar Gallery, "In Her Own Image," Curated by Howardena Pindell, NYC, 1988
* White Columns, "Resistance (Anti-Baudrillard)" Curated by Group Material, NYC, 1987
* Longwood Arts Project, "Toys Art Us," Curated by Fred Wilson, Bronx, NY, 1986–87
* The Clocktower, "Progressions: A Cultural Legacy," Curated by Vivian Browne, Emma Amos and Julia Hotten, NYC 1986
* Longwood Arts Project, "In the Tropics," Curated by Kellie Jones, Bronx, NY, 1986
* California State College, Stanislaus at Turlock, "Exchange of Resources: Expanding Powers," Curated by Rebecca Ballenger, 1983
* Just Above Midtown Gallery, "A Love Story," Curated by Kathleen Gonchorov, NYC, 1983
* School of Visual Arts, "Transmogrify, "Selected by Caren Rosenblatt, NYC, 1983
* Ohio State University Gallery, "All's Fair in Love and War in Feminist Art,"Curated by Lucy Lippard, Columbus OH, 1983
* University of South Florida, Tampa, "Henry, Hill, Payne," 1983
* Hamilton College, "The Regentrified Jungle," Curated by Joe Lewis, Clinton, NY, 1983
* Franklin Furnace, "Allegory of an Artist's Career," with Sydney Blum, NYC, 1981
* Studio Museum in Harlem, "En Route," Curated by Patricia Monan Bell, NYC, 1981
* A.I.R. Gallery, "The Dialectics of Isolation," Kazuko, Ana Mendietta and Zarina, NYC, 1981
* 626 Gallery, "Private Worlds," Curated by Joyce Kozloff, NYC 1981

## Pina
* Penny McCall Foundation, Award, NYC, 2001
* Art Matters Foundation, Artist's Fellowship, NYC, 1994
* Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Cash Prize, "Artists Choose Artists," 1994
* New York State Regional Initiative, "Artists Projects," 1994
* Public Art Fund, Spectra-Color Board Commission, "Messages to the Public," NYC, 1987
* New York State Council on the Arts, Visual Artists-sponsored Project, 1985
* PS1, Studio Recipient, Long Island City, NY, 1983
* Public Art Fund, Mural Commission, Jamaica, NY, 1975
* School of Visual Arts, Scholarship, NYC, 1964

## Residencies
* Light Work Visual Studies, One Month Residency, Syracuse, NY, 2000
* Yaddo, Three Week Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1998
* Studio Museum in Harlem, Artist-in-Residence, NY, 1983

## External links
* https://janethenry.com/home.html 
* Janet Henry  on the African American Visual Artists Database

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