John Henry

Born, 1943, Lexington, Kentucky US

Education & Degrees

University of Kentucky 1961-65
University of Washington 1962
Illinois Institute of Technology 1967
University of Chicago 1968-69
School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1966-69, B.F.A.
Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Kentucky, 1996

Selected Positions

Member of the Advisory Board of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, Chicago, 1970
Coordinator & Advisor to the Art Institute of Chicago & the City of Chicago for the Sculpture in the Parks Exhibition, 1974
Advisor to the Art Council of Greater New Orleans for Super Sculpture New Orleans, 1976
President/Chairman of the Board, ConStruct Corporation, Chicago, IL 1978-1980

National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts,
Board of Trustees 1991 – 1996,
Chairman Programs Committee, 1993, 1995, 1997-1999, 2006,
Co-Chair Board of Trustees, 2002-2003
Board of Trustees Executive Committee 2000-2012

International Sculpture Center,
Chairman, Board Development Committee, 1996-1999
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees 1998-2000,
Chairman of the Board 2000-2002,
Committee on Directors (Committee Chair) 2006,
Chairman Emeritus 2008

Distinguished Professor of Art, Chattanooga State College, Chattanooga, TN 2001 – 2011
Founding Curator, Outdoor Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN 2003
Founder, Sculpture Fields Sculpture Park, Chattanooga, TN – Chairman Emeritus, 2018

Curator, German Symposium, OMA, Chattanooga State College, Chattanooga, TN, 2004/2005
Curator, Art on the Trail, Macon, GA 2006
Curator, American Sculptors in the Shadow of the Alps, St. Urban, Switzerland, 2007
Curator, Under Azure Skies, Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Sarasota, FL 2011-2012
Curator, American Sculpture in the Tropics, Miami, Florida

Visiting Professor of Sculpture
University of Iowa, Iowa City 1970
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay 1971
University of Chicago, 1979-80
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Selected Awards & Commissions

Ford Foundation Educational Grant School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Edward L Ryerson Fellowship at the Art Institute of Chicago
National Endowment for the Arts Works of Art in Public Places Commission, Governors State University, University Park, IL
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Grant, 1975
National Endowment for the Arts Funded, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
National Endowment for the Arts, Works of Art in Public Places, matching grant Iowa Beef Processors, Sioux City, IA
Dade County Art in Public Places South Miami Metro rail Station, South Miami, FL, 1982
Alaska State Council on the Arts Commission for Anchorage International Airport Anchorage, AK, 1985
State of Illinois Capital Development Board Commission Central Atrium- State of Illinois Center Chicago, IL, 1985
Temple Beth Am, South Miami, FL, 1987
Florida Art In State Buildings, Florida Arts Councils University of FL, Gainesville, FL, 1988
Florida Art In State Buildings Board of Regents Florida Arts Council, Florida State and Florida A & M University,
Joint Engineering School, Tallahassee, FL, 1989
Florida Individual Artists Fellowship,1990
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju City, Korea, 1991
Grove Isle Club and Resort, Coconut Grove, FL, 1994
American Bankers Life Insurance Group, Miami, FL, 1994
Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Miami, FL, 1995
United Capital Corp., Great Neck, NY, 1997
Park Place Office Park, Napierville, IL, 1999
Toto Lotto Foundation of Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Germany, Kunst Mile, 2000
Governor’s National Award in the Arts, Commonwealth of Kentucky, 2002
Mayor’s Award of Distinction in the Arts, Chattanooga, TN, 2004
Honor by the Tennessee State Senate recognition on the floor of the Senate, Nashville, TN, 2005
Distinguished Alumni AwardUniversity of Kentucky, College of Fine Arts, 2005
John Henry Way – Honorary renaming of North Cermak Road, Chicago, IL, 2005
Arison Arts Foundation for the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2008

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1966-67 University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
1969 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1971 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1972 Dorsky Gallery, New York City
1973 Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
1975 Riverside Park, New York City, NY
1976 Greenway Plaza, Houston, TexasLaguna Gloria Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Sculpture Now, Inc. NY
1977 Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MissouriPittsburgh at the University of Pittsburgh, PA
1980 ConStruct, ChicagoGallery 10, Aspen, Colorado
1981 ConStruct, Chicago, IL
1983 ConStruct, North Miami, Florida
1986 Bell Gallery, Rhinebeck, NYExpressions Art Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL
1987 Matthew Scott Gallery, Miami, Florida
1988-89 Evolution In Scale, Twenty-Year Retrospective
      Art Museum of South Texas. Corpus Christi, TX 
      Museum of Art, Ft Lauderdale, FL
      Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, FL
      Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
1990 Nina Owen Ltd, Chicago, IL
1991 Jaffee Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, Palm Beach,
FL Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
1993 Seo Hwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Jaffee Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1995 Metal, Shape and Time – a Synthesis, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MI
1997 All that Glitters, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL
New Works View Gallery, NY, NY
1998 New Works, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 New Works, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2000 John Henry in Hanover, KO 24 Gallery, Hanover, Germany
John Henry, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN,
Wandering Spirit, Centro Espositivo Chiesa S. Agostino, Panicale, Italy,
2001 Wandering Spirit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy,
Wandering Spirit, Gulf Coast Museum, Largo, FL
New Works, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2002 New Monuments, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
2003 Selected Works, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY
Back on the Plaza, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
Steel, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bal Harbour Shops, Bal Harbour, FL
2004 Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2005 John Henry in the Desert, Featured Artist Season, Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2007 John Henry Sculpture: Solo Exhibition, Broadbent, London, UK
2008 Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project, Florida, USA
    Star Pointer, Sarasota Bayfront Park, Sarasota, FL
    Quark, Doug Burnett Park, Tallahassee, FL
    Chevron, Loch Haven Park, Orlando, FL
    Big Max, MacDill Park, Tampa, FL
    Meridian, Boca Raton Museum of Art School, Boca Raton, FL
    Je Souhaite, Bicentennial Park, Miami, FL
   Monuments Around the World, Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL
   Inside the Sculptor’s Studio, Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL
   Peninsula Project Illustrated, Frost Art Museum, Miami,
   FL Peninsula Project Illustrated, Miami Beach Regional Library, Miami Beach, FL
   Made for Space Wandering Spirit, Selby Gallery Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
   Five Decades of Sculpture: A Retrospective, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
   American Monuments, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2009 Metal Geometric Sculpture of John Henry, San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio, TX
2011 Structures at Appropriate Scale, Sonja Roesch Gallery, Houston, TX,
Poetic Builder, Flomenhaft Gallery, NY,
Silo Point, Baltimore, Md.
2013 Mostly Red, Art Nouveau Gallery, Miami
2014 Precision/Logic, Jim Kempner Fine Art, NY
2017 Structural Integrity, Samuel Lynne Galleries, Dallas, TX
2018 Constructivist Dialogue, Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA

Selected Group Exhibitions

1963 Borenson Gallery, Burien, Washington
1968 Monumental Sculpture Exhibition, PAC Gallery, Chicago
Chicago Artists Invitational, Art Institute of ChicagoEight American Sculptors, Equitable Plaza, Chicago
1969 22nd Annual Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Chicago 8 Conspiracy Exhibition, LoGuidice Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1970 Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum, IN
1973 Sculpture Off the Pedestal, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1974 Space, Scale & Urban Environment, Illinois Center, 111 E Wacker Drive, Chicago
Sculpture in the Park, Grant Park, Chicago
1975 Monumental Sculpture, Houston, Texas
1976 Super Sculpture, New Orleans, Louisiana
Southwest Invitational, Galveston, Texas
Gallery Exhibition, Sculpture Now, Inc., New York
Art in the Park, Atlanta, Georgia
The Chicago Connection, Crocker Museum, Sacramento California, Traveling Exhibition
1977 Sculpturescape, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sculpture Potsdam 77, Potsdam State University, Potsdam, New York
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
ConStruct Traveling Outdoor Exhibition, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, NY
1979  Group Sculpture & Drawing Show, ConStruct Chicago,IL
Illinois Invitational, Springfield, IllinoisUniversity of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1980 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 Britain Museum, New Britain, CT, Interpace Corp.
ConStruct’s Small-Scale Traveling Exhibition,
Univ.North Dakota; Grand Forks, ND
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Columbus, IN
American Eight, Parsippany, NJ & Ashland, OHSponsored by Interpace Corporation
Made in Dade, Dade County Library System, Dade County, FL
1981 Group Show, ConStruct, Chicago, IL
1982 Group Show, ConStruct, Chicago, IL
1982 American Eight, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, Sponsored by Interpace Corporation
Group Show, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chicago International Art Expo, Mayor Byrne Mile of Sculpture, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Inaugural Exhibition ConStruct South Sculpture Park, Miami, FL
Illinois Sculptors, Invitational Tarbel Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
1983 Eight American Sculptors, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida
Selections from the Collection of Robert Vogele, Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
1984 Illinois State Museum, Chicago, IL Models for Illinois State Commissions Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Group Show, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1986 Heavy Mettle, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Drawings by Sculptors, Expressions, Coconut Grove, FL1987
South Florida Collects, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Contemporary Sculpture from Florida Collections, University Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Inaugural Exhibition of Sculpture, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1988 Made in Florida, University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, FL
1989-1991 Traveling Exhibition;
Marseille, France; Geneva,Switzerland; Hasselet, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; Throughout the State of Florida
1989 Six Florida Sculptors, Thomas Ctr Gallery, Gainesville, FL
1989-90 Florida’s Finest, North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL & Capitol Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
1991 International Art Expo, Tokyo, Japan
1992 The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Florida Artist Collection, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
International Art Expo, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
1993 International Art Expo, Chicago, IL
The New Pier Show, Chicago, IL
FIAC, Paris, France;
Lineart, Ghent, Belgium
Art Miami, Miami Beach, FL
Spring Vernissage, Grove Isle, Miami, FL
Group Show, Dietrich Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Project 30 x 30, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshaffen, Germany
Group Show, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Ltd., Miami, FL
Project 30 x 30, Museum ‘T Coopmanshû, The Netherlands
Manif Seoul 95, Seoul Art Center, Art Expo, Seoul, Korea
Metal, Shape and Time – a Synthesis, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1996 Manif Seoul 96, Seoul Art Center, Art Expo, Seoul, Korea
Pier Walk 96, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago 96, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Drawings by Sculptors, Pardo View Gallery, NY, NY
Group Exhibition, Galiere AMI, Seoul, Korea
Cerrillos Cultural Center, Cerrillos, New Mexico10th Anniversary Show,
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island, NY
Art In Chicago 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Group Show by Gallery Artist, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, N. Miami, FL
Group Exhibition, Kwangju City, Korea
Recent Sculptures, View Gallery, New York, NY
SOFA, Miami, FL
Art Chicago, at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Robert McClain & Co., Houston, TX
Pier Walk ’97, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL,
BOOM, T. Curtsnoc- Grand Opening, Miami, FL
Connecticut Sculpture Park
1998-1999 Selections, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Art Chicago, at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL,
Thomas McCormick Works of Art
Robert McClain Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Pier Walk ’98, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Connecticut Sculpture Park, Washington, CT
Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1999 Pier Walk ’99, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Drawings by Sculptors and Maquettes, Print Works Gallery, Chicago, IL,
Richard Hunt and Friends, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
2000 – 2001Sculpture 2000, Robert McClain & Co., Houston, TX
Blickachsen III, Bad Homburg, Germany
John Henry & Jae Hahn, Gallery Seo Hwa, Seoul, Korea
2002Sculpture Symposium and Exhibtion, Schwerein, Wiligrad, Germany
2004Chicago Sculpture, Chicago, IL Annual Members Exhibition, Century Association, NYC
2005Art Expo Chicago, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL & Millenia Gallery, Orlando, FL
Century Association, NYCInaugural Exhibition,
Nader Collection/Gary Nader Fine Arts, Miami, FL,
Vancouver Biennale, Featured Artist, Vancouver BC
2006OPEN Exhibition, Venice, Italy
From Maquette to Model, Century Association, NYC
3-D Discovery, Lubeznik Center, Michigan City, IN
Odyssey Exhibition, Purdue North Central University, Westville, IN
Real-Irreal-Surreal, Art St. Urban, Lucerne, SwitzerlandArt Basel Miami,
Gary Nader Gallery, Miami, FL
Morgan Stanley Exhibition, West Indiana Office, IN
Masters in Sculpture, The Sculpture Park, Gary Nader Gallery, Miami, FL
Sculpture/Drawing Show: Willard Boepple, Charles Ginnever and John Henry, Broadbent, London, UK
2007 Masters in Sculpture: Atchugarry, Botero, Cárdenas, Chia, De Stables, Di Suvero, Henry, Lichtenstein, Stella, Tamayo, Nader Sculpture Park, Miami, FL
Sculpture/ Drawing Show: Willard Boepple, Charles Ginnever, & John Henry, Broadbent, London, UK
Annual Exhibition, Century Association, NY, NY
Vancouver Biennale (2005-2007), Vancouver, BC
Art Moves on Main, Lyndhurst Foundation, Chattanooga, TN
In the Shadow of the Alps, American Sculptors at Art St. Urban, Switzerland
OPEN 2007, Lido di Venezia, Italy
Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Sarasota, FL
2008 Member’s Exhibition, Century Association, New York, NY
Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Toronto Art Fair, Broadbent Gallery, London, UK
London Art Fair, Broadbent Galelry, London, UK
Art Miami, Miami, FL, Thomas McCormick, Chicago, IL
Red Dot, Seth Beitler Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2009 Sculpture and Photography Exhibition, Century Association, New York, NY
Sculpture for New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
2010 Structures, Miami, FL
Professional Sculpture and Photography Exhibition, Century Association, New York, NY
Sculpture for New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sculpture By The Sea, Cottlesoe, Australia
Encounters Governors Island, NY
Arthamptons, Sayre Park, Bridgehampton, NY
Sculpt Miami, Miami, Florida
2011 Exhibition of Artist Members, Arts Club of Chicago,
Annual Professional Sculptors Exhibition, New York
Under Azure Skies, Sarasota
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art
2012 American Sculpture in the Tropics, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami,FL
Engineered Art – An International Sculpture Exhibit at Georgia Tech, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
2015 “The Bascom Outdoor Sculpture Invitational”– Highlands, North Carolina
‘’Sculptures in Charlevoix’’ Le Domaine Forget, Quebec City, Canada LINK
2016 Sculpture Fields, Chattanooga, Tennessee LINK
2017 Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin LINK
2018 Two Person Show, Raphaelle Goethals & John Henry, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN LINK

Selected Large Scale Works in Public Places

Illinois Landscape #5, Governors State University, Park Forest South, Illinois, National Endowment for the Arts Works of Art In Public Places, 1974
Suntarget II, University of North Carolina, Charlotte,Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, National Endowment for the Arts, 1974
Sioux City, Downtown Mall, Sioux City, Iowa, City of Sioux City, National Endowment for the Arts and Iowa Beef, 1978
Sun Target I, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, Missouri Arts Council
Pittsburgh, Bluff Park Bigalow Parkway, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, National Steel, Levinson Steel and Tygart Industries (Mr. & Mrs. Sydney Feldman)
Illinois Landscape, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, Illinois State Museum & the Paul Powell Estate, 1972
Cape, Beatty Park, Rockford, Illinois, City of Rockford, 1972
Paciencia, South Miami Metro Rail Station, Miami, Florida, Dade County Art in Public Places Program, 1981
Anchorage, Anchorage International Airport, Anchorage, Alaska, Alaska State Council on the Arts and The Alaska State Department of Transportation, Alaska Art in Public Places Program, 1985
Bridgeport, State of Illinois Center, Chicago, Illinois, Capital Development Board, State of Illinois, % For Art Program, 1982
Superfly, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Saran Corporation (Mr. Samuel Dorsky), 1973
Largo, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Reef, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, M A Lipschultz of Boca Raton and Chicago, 1986
Pin Oak, Bradley Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin, Mrs. Alan Bradley,1979
Jasper, Oklahoma City Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
Baldwin’s Mountain, Heritage Park, Plantation, FL,Broward County Art In Public Places
Alachua, University of Florida, Marston Science and Engineering Library, Gainesville, FL 1988
Journey To The Mountain Shire, Florida State and Florida A&M University, Joint Engineering Complex, Tallahassee, FL, 1989
Dance of the Sun, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju city, Korea, 1991
David’s Tower, Harold Washington Public Library, Chicago, IL, 1992
Untitled, Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. 1992
Gateway, Grove Isle Yacht & Tennis Club, Coconut Grove, Florida, 1994
New Directions, American Bankers Insurance Group, Cutler Ridge, Florida, 1994
Grand Rouge, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, 1999
Wake Dance, Sheldon Memorial Gallery & Sculpture Gardens, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB, 1999
Symphonie in Rot, Kunst Mile, City of Hanover, Germany, Toto Lotto Foundation Lower Saxony, 2000
Shen Blue, Central Park, Shenzhen, China, Shenzhen Sister City Association & City of Houston, 2000
Fulcrum, Eschborn, Germany, 2002
Transformation, Outdoor Museum of Art, Chattanooga State College, Chattanooga, TN, 2003
Treemonisha, Intersection of I-44, I-55 and Truman Parkway, Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, MO, 2008
Je Souhaite, Bicentennial Park, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, 2008
Songbird of Seattle, Martin Selig Real Estate, 5th and Yesler, Seattle, WA, 2009
Complexus, Sarasota Season of Art, Sarasota, Florida, 2012
Entrada, Pyramid Hills Sculpture Park, Hamilton, NJ, 2013
Tatlin’s Sentinel, Hall Arts District, Downtown Dallas, TX
Despedido Bienvenido, Entrance to City of Doral, FL 2015