Henry Art Gallery

June 3, 2024

LOVERULES

The Henry Art Gallery's current exhibition covers 20 years of Hank Willis Thomas’s work and is drawn from the collection of the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation.


February 23, 2024

People relaxing in a bright yellow museum room. They're staring at the ceiling, which has a large panel of acetate and tape made to look like stained glass.

Dazzling display

Artist Raúl de Nieves blends mystical symbols and Mexican craft in a Henry Art Gallery exhibition.


August 29, 2023

Museums are magical

After 15 years leading the Henry Art Gallery, Sylvia Wolf shares her thoughts on the magic of museums.


May 28, 2023

Exuberant abstraction

Artist Sarah Cain transforms the Henry’s two-story East Gallery into the monumental painting, “Day after day on this beautiful stage.”


May 29, 2022

Immersive art

The Henry Art Gallery’s commissioned work from Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca is on display through April 2023.


June 10, 2021

The B-Side

“The B-Side,” on display at the Henry Art Gallery, is a large-scale wall painting, is one of Gary Simmons’ “erasure drawings.”


June 10, 2020

The Wright eye

Virginia Bloedel Wright, 1929-2020, brought the Broken Obelisk to the UW and funded countless shows at the Henry Art Gallery.


December 16, 2016

Up Close

A new exhibit surveying the work of Chuck Close, ’62, runs through April 2 at the Henry Art Gallery.


September 1, 2014

Prey for the senses

Ann Hamilton delves again into the world of animal-human relationships in her upcoming show at the Henry Art Gallery.


December 1, 2010

Special collection

The Henry Art Gallery, UW Libraries and UW Press are teaming up to bring the beauty of the Seattle Camera Club to the public.


March 1, 2006

The mountain mover

From the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to her new topographical installations at the Henry, Maya Lin has permanently altered the landscape—and the way we look at it.


June 1, 2002

Who was Henry?

In 1926 Seattle businessman Horace C. Henry gave 172 works of art to the UW-and enough money to build a museum to house them.


March 1, 1997

Henry renovation shows the benefits of partnership

A public/private partnership between the state, the UW and the Henry Gallery Association produced a $17.5 million renovation.


Artistic expansion

The Henry will take a major step forward as the familiar red brick building is joined with a new, modernist three-level structure.


June 1, 1994

Boost for Henry

The Allen Charitable Foundation will donate up to $5 million for the capital campaign for the Henry Art Gallery.