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. 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 for artists and social justice activists to collaborate on art projects and program events that addressed issues confronting the Latino/a/x, Hispanic and Mexican-American community.
Sanchez is also 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 to conceived of community driven wetland design workshops with maps, drawing templates, videos, digital mediated experiences, and performance art lectures.
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.
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 in Manhattan. Sanchez taught fine arts digital media at the School of Visual Arts, BFA Fine Arts Department (NYC), from 2009-2016. Sanchez had a brief career in politics and working in non-governmental organizations in the New York metro area 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.