Henry Link received his bachelor of fine arts in 1971 and his master of fine arts in 1978 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He taught drawing and painting at UNCG and at the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art in Winston-Salem before becoming curator at the Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro from 1992 until 2000.

Link is an observer of North Carolina’s landscapes and skies, and his paintings convey their beauty and vitality in a representational and accessible style. His work has been included in exhibitions at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Hickory Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, and the Cameron Art Museum. In addition, his work is found in many corporate and institutional collections, including IBM, Duke University Medical Center, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and American Express.