HENRY G. SANCHEZ
Henry G. Sanchez is a Houston based interdisciplinary social practice artist. His long-term projects concentrate on social and environmental justice, and the natural sciences. Sanchez is the founder of the Bio-Art Bayou-torium, a bilingual, socially engaged bio-art project. In 2019 he created this art studio-science laboratory housed in a shipment container along Houston’s Buffalo Bayou. The Bayou-torium’s mission is to foster stewardship of Houston's Bayous from residents of Houston’s Hispanic East End neighborhoods. In 2012 Sanchez founded the ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT, a bio-art and social practice project proposed community-based, bio-remediation strategies to mitigate Newtown Creek, a Superfund site in Brooklyn, NY. The ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT collaborated with the biologist Dr. Sarah Durand (associate professor La Guradia City University of New York), the Newtown Creek Alliance and the North Brooklyn Boat Club. In cooperation with each organization, he conceived of community driven design workshops, videos, digital media, science tool mediated experiences, performance and “explorer’s excursions” along Newtown Creek’s inaccessible shorelines. From 2015 till 2022 he established the Law Office Center for Citizenship and Art (L.O.C.C.A.) in Houston, TX. Located in Houston’s East End district L.O.C.C.A. is social practice platform addressing issues confronting the Latino/a/x, Hispanic and Mexican-American community. L.O.C.C.A. was a space for artists and social justice activists to collaborate on art projects and program events while celebrating and strengthening the Hispanic artistic/creative presence in. L.O.C.C.A. has collaborated on programming with DiverseWorks, United We Dream Houston, Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, the Center for Mexican American studies at U of H, and the Hispanic Archives of the Houston Public Library, La Unida Once and the Houston Alliance for Latinx Arts.
His work has shown internationally, New York City and throughout the United States. Sanchez’s work has been exhibited and screened at Electronic Arts Intermix, NYC; Microscope Galley, Brooklyn New York; DiverseWorks, Houston Texas; Civic TV, Houston; Holocaust Museum Houston; Houston Climate Justice Museum; POSThtx; SITE Gallery, Houston; Momenta Art, Brooklyn; The School of Visual Arts, NYC; Greenpoint Film Festival, Brooklyn; Guggenheim Museum, NYC; McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX; Rooster Gallery, NY; Lab Gallery, NYC; Jersey City Museum; Here Art Center, NYC; Pera Musuem, Istanbul, Turkey; Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ; Rupert Ravens Contemporary and Affero Gallery, Newark, NJ; City University of New York; 58 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ; Taller Boriqua Gallery, NYC; Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University; Ben Shahn Center, William Patterson University; and Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain. His curated exhibitions include AQUA-CULTURE at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, Texas (2014), GEO-LOCO at Outpost Artists Resources (2011), and DATA-DADA at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, NY (2010).
Sanchez is a frequent contributor to the online art magazine, GLASSTIRE. He has lectured and participated in panels at universities, symposiums, and conferences across the United States. He served on many non-profit organization boards. Sanchez is a founder member and Steering Committee member for the Houston Alliance for Latinx Arts.
In 2022 Sanchez was named the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Buffalo Bayou Partnership in Houston, TX. He is a 2014 graduate of the Art Practice in Interdisciplinary Arts M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts. Sanchez taught fine arts digital media at the School of Visual Arts, BFA Fine Arts Department from 2009-2016. Sanchez had a brief career in politics and working in non-governmental organizations and is a 2000 M.A. in International Relations from Rutgers University. Born and raised in Houston, he received his BFA in Painting at the University of Houston in 1990. Sanchez resides in Houston’s East End neighborhood.
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Henry G. Sanchez es un artista de práctica social interdisciplinario basado en proyectos, cuyo trabajo se concentra en la historia, la justicia social y ambiental y las ciencias naturales. Su trabajo se ha mostrado a nivel internacional, en la ciudad de Nueva York y en todos Estados Unidos. En 2012, Sánchez fundó el ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT, un proyecto de BioArte y práctica social que propone estrategias basadas en la comunidad para introducir la remediación ambiental en Newtown Creek, un sitio de Superfund en Brooklyn, Nueva York . El ENGLISH KILLS PROJECT colaboró con la bióloga Dra. Sarah Durand (profesora asociada de La Guradia City University de Nueva York), la Newtwon Creek Alliance y el North Brooklyn Boat Club. Con cada organización, concibió talleres de diseño impulsados por la comunidad, videos, medios digitales, experiencias mediadas por herramientas científicas, desempeño y “excursiones de exploradores” a lo largo de las costas inaccesibles de Newtown Creek. En 2015, estableció L.O.C.C.A.: Law Office Center for Citizenship and Art (Centro de Oficina de Derecho para la Ciudadanía y el Arte) en Houston, TX. Ubicado en el distrito de East End de Houston, L.O.C.C.A. es una plataforma de práctica social que aborda los problemas a los que se enfrenta la comunidad latina / a / hispana y mexicoamericana, y propone proyectos de arte en colaboración con artistas y la gente del vecindario. L.O.C.C.A. ha colaborado en programación con DiverseWorks, United We Dream Houston, los Servicios de Defensa de la Justicia Ambiental de Texas, el Centro de Estudios Mexicanos de los Estados Unidos de América y los Archivos Hispanos de la Biblioteca Pública de Houston, La Unida Once y la Alianza de Houston para las Artes Latinoamericanas. La programación de L.O.C.C.A. también celebra y fortalece la presencia artística / creativa hispana en el vecindario, la ciudad y el estado de Texas. Sánchez expuso y colaboró más recientemente en presentaciones de arte en “Lines Drawn” en DiverseWorks en el otoño de 2017, y en una exposición individual, Patriot Games, en colaboración con miembros de United We Dream Houston en Civic T.V en la primavera de 2018. A 2014 M.F.A. Práctica de arte en artes interdisciplinarias, graduado de SVA, Henry G. Sanchez reside en Houston, mientras mantiene su proyecto de arte en Nueva York.
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