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John Raymond Henry
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American
, born 1943)
John Raymond Henry
Maciachini Model 2,
2008
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John Raymond Henry
Sidewinder,
2010
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John Raymond Henry
Star,
2009
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Biography
Timeline
Exhibitions
Timeline
1943
Born in Lexington, Kentucky
1961 - 1965
University of Kentucky
1962
University of Washington
1966 - 1969
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A.
1967
Illinois Institute of Technology
1968 - 1969
University of Chicago
1996
Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Kentucky
2008 "Treemonisha", Intersection of I-44, I-55 and Truman Parkway, Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, MO
Selected Works in Public Places
1975 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
1982 Dade County Art in Public Places, South Miami Metrorail Station “Paciencia”, South Miami, Florida
1985 State of Illinois Capital Development Board Commission, Central Atrium, State of Illinois Center, Chicago, Illinois
1990 Florida Individual Artists Fellowship
1988 Florida Art In State Buildings, Florida Arts Council, University of Florida “Alachua”, Gainesville, Florida
1989 Florida Art In State Buildings, Board of Regents, Florida Arts Council, Florida State and Florida A & M University, Joint Engineering School, “Journey to the Mountain Shire”, Tallahassee, Florida
2003 "Transformation", Outdoor Museum of Art, Chattanooga State College, Chattanooga, TN
1991 Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Commission, “Dance of the Sun”, Kyongju City, Korea
1994 American Bankers Life Insurance Group, Commission, “New Directions”, Miami, Florida
1987 Temple Beth Am, Commission, “Mattathias’ Legacy” South Miami, Florida
2002 “Fulcrum”, Eschborn, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (October)
1992 Harold Washington Public Library, “David’s Tower”, Chicago, Illinois.
1999 “Wake Dance” University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Gallery & Sculpture Gardens, Lincoln, Nebraska
1994 “Gateway” Commissioned by Grove Isle Yacht & Tennis Club, Coconut Grove, Florida
1995 Coopers & Lybrand, Commission, Miami, Florida
1991 Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dance of the Sun”, Kyongju city, Korea
1989 Florida State and Florida A&M University, “To The Mountain Shire”, Joint Engineering Complex, Tallahassee, Florida
1988 University of Florida, “Alachua”, Marston Science and Engineering Library, Gainesville, Florida
1986 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, situated on the university grounds
1985 Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska, commissioned by the Alaska State Council on the Arts and The Alaska State Department of Transportation as a part of Alaska’s Art in Public Places Program. The sculpture hangs overhead in the domestic arrival and departure complex in the main terminal
1982 State of Illinois Center, Chicago, Illinois, the sculpture situated on the main floor at the entrance of the building was commissioned by The Capital Development Board of the State of Illinois as a part of the State For Art Program.
1981 Dade County, Florida, Miami, Florida, South Miami Metro rail Station, commissioned by the Dade County Art in Public Places Program
1979 Bradley Sculpture Garden, (Milwaukee Art Museum) Milwaukee Wisconsin, purchased by Mrs. Alan Bradley in 1979.
1978 City of Sioux City, Iowa, Downtown Mall, Sioux City, Iowa, commissioned through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Iowa Beef.
1974 Governors State University, Park Forest South, Illinois, National Endowment for the Arts Works of Art In Public Places Commission.
2000 “Shen Blue” Central Park, City of Shenzhen, China. (October)
1997 United Capital Corp., Commission, Great Neck, New York
2003 Chattanooga State, College on the River, Chattanooga, TN Campus Gateway Commission, “Transitions”
2000 Toto Lotto Foundation of Lower Saxony, Commissioned as a gift to the City of Hanover, Germany for the “Kunst Mile” “Symphony in Rott”
Selected Positions
1969 Visiting Professor of Sculpture, University of lowa, lowa City
1970 Visiting Professor of Sculpture, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
1970 Member of the Advisory Board of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, Chicago
1971 Visiting Professor of Sculpture, University of Chicago
1974 Coordinator and Advisor to the Art Institute of Chicago and the City of Chicago “Sculpture in the Parks Exhibition”
1976 Advisor to the Art Council of Greater New Orleans “Super Sculpture New Orleans” Exhibition
1978-80 President/Chairman of the Board, ConStruct Corporation
1979-80 Visiting Professor of Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1991-96 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Board of Trustees
1993, 1995, 1997-99 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Chairman Programs Committee
1996-99 Chairman, Board Development Committee; International Sculpture Center
1998-2000 Vice Chair, Board of Trustees; International Sculpture Center
1999 Park Place Office Park, Commission, Napierville, Illinois
2000-02 Chairman of the Board of Trustees, International Sculpture Center
2001-05 Distinguished Professor of Art, Chattanooga State College, Chattanooga, TN
2002-03 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Co-Chair Board of Trustees
2003-05 Founding Curator, Outdoor Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
2004-05 Member of the Board of Trustees, International Sculpture Center
2006 Curator, Art on the Trail, Macon, GA
2007 Curator, American Sculptors in the Shadow of the Alps, St. Urban, Switzerland
Awards and Commissions
2008 Arison Arts Foundation for the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2005 Honor by the Tennessee State Senate with recognition on the floor of the Senate, Nashville,TN
2005 John Henry Way – Honorary renaming of North Cermak Road, Chicago, IL
2004 Chattanooga Mayor’s Office Distinguished Artist Award, Chattanooga, TN
1973 Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, a gift to the Museum from Saran Corporation (Mr Samuel Dorsky) New York, New York
2002 Governor’s National Award in the Arts, Commonwealth of Kentucky
2000-05 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Board of Trustees Executive Commitee at Large
1972 City of Rockford, Illinois, “Cape” purchased for Beatty Park with funds from several agencies.
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Exhibitions
2009
New Works, Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Sculpture for New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
New Works By: John Henry, Henry Lautz, STRETCH & Robert Theile, STRUCTURES and Kelley Roy Gallery, Miami, FL
2008
Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Toronto Art Fair, Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
London Art Fair, Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project, Florida, USA
Venues: Sarasota, FL; Tallahassee, FL; Orlando, FL; Tampa, FL; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL (solo)
Inside the Sculptor’s Studio, Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL (solo)
Peninsula Project Illustrated, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL (solo)
Five Decades of Sculpture: A Retrospective, OrlandoMuseum of Art, Orlando, FL (solo)
American Monuments, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
Annual Exhibition, Century Association, NY, NY Vancouver Biennale (2005-2007), Vancouver, BC In the Shadow of the Alps, American Sculptors at Art St. Urban, Switzerland
Masters in Sculpture: Atchugarry, Botero, Cárdenas, Chia, De Stables, Di Suvero, Henry, Lichtenstein, Stella, Tamayo, Nader Sculpture Park, Miami, FL
2007
John Henry Sculpture: Solo Exhibition, Broadbent, London, UK (solo)
2006
OPEN Exhibition, Venice, Italy
3-D Discovery, Lubeznik Center, Michigan City, IN
Real-Irreal-Surreal, Art St. Urban, Lucerne, Switzerland
Masters in Sculpture, The Sculpture Park, Gary Nader Gallery, Miami, FL
Sculpture/Drawing Show: Willard Boepple, Charles Ginnever and John Henry, Broadbent, London, UK
2005
Members Survey, Century Association, NYC Inaugural Exhibition, Nader Collection/Gary Nader Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Vancouver Biennale, Featured Artist, Vancouver BC
“John Henry: In the Desert”, Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, California (solo)
2004
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida (January) (solo)
Chicago Sculpture, Foundry Gallery, Chicago, IL (December)
2003
“Steel”, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (October) (solo)
Bal Harbour Shops, Bal Harbour, Florida (Dec 2003 – May 2004) (solo)
2002 - 2003
“New Monuments” Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri (solo)
2002
Sculpture Symposium and Exhibition, Schwerein, Wiligrad, Germany
2001
“John Henry & Jae Hahn”, Gallery Seo Hwa, Seoul, Korea (December)
“Wandering Spirit”, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy (January) (solo)
“New Works” T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, Florida (December) (solo)
2000
“John Henry in Hanover” KO 25 Gallery, Hanover, Germany (May) (solo)
“John Henry” Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee (solo)
“Sculpture 2000” Robert McClain & Co., Houston, Texas (June)
1999
“New Works” John Henry at T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, Florida (solo)
“Drawings by Sculptors” and Maquettes, Print Works Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (May)
Art Chicago, at Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois (May), Thomas McCormick Works of Art, Chicago, Illinois
“Richard Hunt and Friends” Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Missouri
Robert McClain Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1998
“New Works” John Henry at Thomas McCormick Works of Art, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
Connecticut Sculpture Park, Washington, Connecticut (Oct)
1997
“New Works”, View Gallery, New York, New York (October) (solo)
Group Exhibition, Kwangju City, Korea
“Recent Sculptures” View Gallery, New York, New York
Pier Walk “97”- Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois (May)
“BOOM” T. Curtsnoc- Grand Opening (Sept)
1996
“Manif Seoul 96”, Seoul Art Center, Art Expo, Seoul, Korea
“Cerrillos Cultural Center”, Cerrillos, New Mexico (July)
“Art In Chicago, 1945-1995”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
“Socrates Sculpture Park 10th Anniversary Show”
“Art Chicago 96”, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Project 30×30, Museum ‘T Coopmanshû, The Netherlands
1995
“Metal, Shape and Time – a Synthesis”, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri (solo)
“Metal, Shape and Time – a Synthesis”, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Project 30×30, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshaffen, Germany
1994
Art Miami, Miami Beach, Florida
1993
Seo Hwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
International Art Expo, Chicago, Illinois
Lineart, Ghent, Belgium
1992
The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1991
Jaffee Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida (solo)
Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, Palm Beach, Florida (solo)
International Art Expo, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Nina Owen Ltd, Chicago (solo)
1989 - 1991
Traveling Exhibitions: Marseille, France; Geneva, Switzerland; Hasselet, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; throughout the State of Florida
1989 - 1990
“Florida’s Finest” North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida; Capitol Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
1989
“Six Florida Sculptors”, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, Florida
1988 - 1989
“Evolution In Scale” Twenty Year Retrospective, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Museum of Art, Ft Lauderdale, Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee (solo)
1988
“Made in Florida” University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
1987
Contemporary Sculpture from Florida Collections, University Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Inaugural Exhibition of Sculpture, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Matthew Scott Gallery, Miami, Florida (solo)
1986
Bell Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York (solo)
“Heavy Mettle”, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1985
Group Show, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1984
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Models for Illinois State Commissions
1983
ConStruct, North Miami, Florida (solo)
“Eight American Sculptors”, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida
1982 - 1981
Group Show, ConStruct, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago International Art Expo, Mayor Byrne Mile of Sculpture, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1982
“American Eight”, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, Sponsored by Interpace Corporation
ConStruct South Sculpture Park, Inaugural Exhibition, Miami, Florida
1981
“American Eight” Parsippany, New Jersey; Ashland, Ohio
ConStruct, Chicago (solo)
1980
Gallery 10, Aspen, Colorado (solo)
ConStruct Traveling Sculpture Exhibition, Hempstead, New York; Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois; Arts Festival of Atlanta, Georgia; Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque, New Mexico; “The Sculptors of ConStruct”, Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington D.C.
“American Eight” Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York; New Britain Museum, New Britain, Connecticut
1979
“Illinois Invitational”, Springfield, Illinois
1978 - 1980
Group Sculpture & Drawing Shows, ConStruct, Chicago
1978
“Chicago: The City and Its Artists 1945-1978”, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
“Chicago Abstractionists: Romanticized Structures”, University of Missouri at Kansas City
1977
“Sculpturescape”, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri (solo)
“The Chicago Connection”, Crocker Museum, Sacramento California, Traveling Exhibition
Art in the Park, Atlanta, Georgia
1976
Greenway Plaza, Houston, Texas (solo)
Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (September) (solo)
“Super Sculpture”, New Orleans, Louisiana
1975
Monumental Sculpture, Houston, Texas
Riverside Park, New York City (solo)
1974
Space, Scale & Urban Environment, Illinois Center, Chicago
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, llinois (solo)
1973
Sculpture Off the Pedestal, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1972
Dorsky Gallery, New York City (solo)
1970
Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum, Indiana
1969 - 1971
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (solo)
1969
Chicago 8 Conspiracy Exhibition, LoGuidice Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Eight American Sculptors, Equitable Plaza, Chicago
1968
Monumental Sculpture Exhibition PACGallery, Chicago
1963
Borenson Gallery, Burien, Washington
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