About

Martha Henry has been working in the art world since she graduated with a degree in art history from Columbia University. She founded her company, Martha Henry, Inc. Fine Art, in 1987 as an art advisory firm that can handle all aspects of appraising, purchasing and selling your art, from old master paintings to contemporary artists. The firm can locate artwork in the primary as well as the secondary art markets for private, corporate and museum collections as well as fellow art dealers.

MHIFA has a special emphasis on American 1950's and 1960's figurative expressionism, the School of Hofmann and African-American masterworks from the 19th century to the present. We maintain a large inventory of artists from both areas and we are always looking to add to our holdings. We have curated and organized several museum and gallery shows on the figurative legacy of Hans Hofmann. We exhibit annually at the National Black Fine Art Show in New York City and at Embrace in Atlanta.

Martha Henry also works in the non-profit art world as a curator and organizer of exhibitions traveling to museums and university galleries throughout the U.S. Catalogs are usually produced in conjunction with these shows. The most recent tour was "Art from the Inside: Paño Drawings by Chicano Prisoners", a show of 120 ball point pen drawings on handkerchiefs by Texas inmates. A 56 page color illustrated catalog accompanied the show and is available for purchase.

Martha Henry has worked as an associate project manager, with Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts, for public and corporate art commissions. She has assisted in all phases of running public art competitions including researching artists; writing proposals and fundraising brochures; giving slide show presentations; and acting as a liaison between the artist and client. She is a founding member of the Art Program at the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY. She worked on a public sculpture competition for the Jackie Robinson/Peewee Reese Commemorative Sculpture at KeySpan Park, Coney Island, NY for the City of New York Public/Private Initiative during Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration and assisted in a sculpture competition for a memorial to the victims of 9/11 for American Express Corporation, NY. Most recently she assisted on a public sculpture competition to honor the Korean War veterans at Kissena Park, Queens, NY and a Vietnam War Memorial in Queens, NY.

Martha Henry is a co-director with Kim Vaadia at Slate Gallery (www.slategallery.com), a new contemporary art gallery located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 2007, the team founded Urban Art Projects (www.uaprojects.org), a 501(3)c non-profit corporation, whose first project is the Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition in East River State Park scheduled to open in fall 2009.

Other professional memberships include American Association of Appraisers, American Association of Museums and National Association of Women Business Owners.