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Artist Residencies

Residencies support the creative process by providing artists with time and space to work without interruption or the distractions of everyday life. Henry Brown has been awarded residencies at Yaddo (three times), MacDowell, and Millay Arts.

  • MacDowell has more than 30 studios scattered throughout its 450-acre wooded property. The residency is in Peterborough, New Hampshire, a small town in a rural area of the Monadnock Region.
  • Millay Arts is located at Steepletop, the historic property of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, in Austerlitz, New York. 6-7 multidisciplinary artists are in residence at a time.
  • Yaddo is in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its 55-room mansion, houses, and studios are on an estate with woods and lakes. May-September, 25-30 artists are there at any given time, and about 18 during the rest of the year.

Art Writing

  • Painters on Paintings features essays by artists that move beyond conventional criticism to examine works of art from a practitioner’s point of view. Painters on Paintings published “Henry Brown on Piet Mondrian” on April 5, 2026.

Art in Embassies

  • Art in Embassies, of U.S. Department of State Art, creates exhibitions for the representational spaces of U.S. embassy residences, chanceries, consulates, and annexes worldwide. Art in Embassies included Henry Brown’s work from their collection in exhibits held in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Republic of South Sudan.

Nonprofit Exhibition Spaces

  • Drawing Rooms is a nonprofit art space at the Mana Contemporary complex in Jersey City, NJ. They exhibit work by emerging and mid-career artists located in New Jersey and the New York City area. Henry Brown is included in Black White & Gray: an Achromatic Color Exhibition (2026) and was also in On the Grid, Off the Grid (2026).
  • Westbeth Gallery is a nonprofit fine arts gallery located within Westbeth Artist Housing in the West Village, New York City. The gallery exhibits work by professional Westbeth artists, as well as artists and curators from outside the community. Henry Brown curated Beyond Black and White at Westbeth Gallery.