J.M. Henry was born in Glens Falls, New York, and received his bachelor of fine arts from the State University of New York at Albany. After studying intaglio printing at the University of South Carolina, he relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was inspired by the land to create abstracted landscapes that he creates by layering paint, using traditional and unconventional techniques. Henry explores the elements of pattern, repetition, and color and how they interact in minimal compositions on the canvas.

Henry’s work is exhibited nationally and is in numerous corporate, private, and public collections, including the Fayetteville Museum of Art, the Hickory Museum of Art, the Gaston County Museum of Art and History, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo Bank.

In 2003 Henry received a North Carolina Regional Arts Grant