Biography
Born 1971. Lives & works in London
Solo Exhibitions
“Album” Canal Boat Contemporary, London 2025
“Dumb Ritual” Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2025
“Bethany” (book launch & presentation) Frestonian Gallery, London 2025
“Engine Room” m2 Gallery, London 2024
“Medusa & Other Stories” London Art Fair, Kittoe Contemporary, London 2024
“From Woolwich” Oasis, Frinton on Sea 2023
“Baffle” Aleph Contemporary, London 2021
“Abracadabra” AMP Gallery, London, 2018
“Henry Ward” Stark Gallery, London, 2004
“Henry Ward – Paintings and Drawings” North Bank Gallery, London, 1995
Selected Group Exhibitions
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2025
London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London 2025
“Cahoots” curated by Lee Skully, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton 2025
The Lido Open 2025, Lido Stores, Margate, 2025
Wrexham Painting Prize, Wrexham School of Art, Wrexham 2025
“Shared Origins” Winns Gallery, London 2025
Cubitt Invites, Cubitt Studios & Gallery, London 2024
“G.R.I.T” Kunstpunkt, Berlin and Drawing Projects UK, Dundee 2024
Wells Contemporary 2024, Wells 2024
“Concrete Abstract” Terrace Gallery, London, 2024
“Knot – Rachael Causer & Henry Ward” Stone Space, London 2024
“Carnevale – Friendly Little Monsters” Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2023
“Don’t Look Back” Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2023
“Look Both Ways – Dan Preece & Henry Ward” Kittoe Contemporary, London 2023
“Colour, Texture, Substance, No Name” Warbling Collective, Kingsgate Space, London 2023
“A Little Closer” Aleph Contemporary, London, 2023
“Shapeshifters” Irving Gallery, Oxford, 2023
“Small is Beautiful XL” Flowers Gallery, London, 2022
“Swamp Legends” Terrace Gallery, London, 2022
“The Aesthetics of Enchantment in Abstract Art” Aleph Contemporary, London, 2022
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring UK, 2022 – 2023
“on Surface – Perspectives on Painting” Messums London, 2022
Beep Painting Biannual 2022, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2022
“A Generous Space 2” The New Art Gallery, Walsall 2022
“Roam – Rebecca Gilpin & Henry Ward”, Fitzrovia Gallery, London 2022
“Football Art Prize” Touchstones, Rochdale then touring 2022
“A Generous Space” Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, 2021 – 2022
“Lost in Abstraction 1, 2, 3 – Henry Ward & Mark Wright”, curated by Alistair Hicks, Aleph Contemporary, London 2021
“Oxlade Soup” co-curated with Karl Bielik and Angela Johnson , Terrace Gallery, London, 2021
“Your Foot in my Face” curated by Dan Howard-Birt, Kingsgate Space, London, 2021
“This Year’s Model Part III” Studio 1.1, London, 2021
The Lido Open 2021, Lido Stores, Margate, 2021
“Swimming Backwards” Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2021
“Studio Confetti” curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, London, 2021
Drawing Biennial 2021, The Drawing Room, London, 2021
“Without Borders” Elysium Gallery, Swansea then touring to Norway, , USA, Canada, Venice and Japan, 2021 -22
Wells Contemporary 2020, Wells 2020
“Way Out” La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Lès-Reims France 2020
Beep Painting Biannual 2020, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2020
“Binary” Elysium Gallery, Cardiff and Terrace Gallery, London, 2020-2022
“This Year’s Model Part II” Studio 1.1 Gallery, London, 2020
“6 Days in December”, curated by Martin Gayford, Thameside Gallery, London 2019
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring UK, 2019 – 2020
“A Tapered Teardrop” curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, London 2019
“Fully Awake 4.6” curated by Ian Hartshorne and Sean Kaye, Edinburgh, 2019
“Paint” PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2019
“This Year’s Model Part II” Studio 1.1 Gallery, London, 2019
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring UK, 2018 – 2019
“This Year’s Model Part I” Studio 1.1 Gallery, London, 2018
Residencies
Falmouth Painting Platform, Gwithian Chapel, Cornwall 2025
Stephen Swindells Studios, Burgundy, France 2024
The Albers Foundation, Connecticut USA 2023
Wolverhampton Art School 2019
Collections
Private Collections, UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe
Soho House, London
Department for Education, London
Reviews, Articles & Publications
Bethany – texts by Fritz Hortsman, Jenni Lomax, Amy Sillman and Jonathan Watkins 2025
“Baffle” review AN Magazine https://www.a-n.co.uk/reviews/henry-ward-baffle/
“From Gutter to Gallery” Art Daily 2021 https://artdaily.cc/news/137087/From-gutter-to-gallery–Aleph-Contemporary-exhibits-works-by-Henry-Ward-#.YOwugBNKiYA
Shed Paintings – Henry Ward (including essay by Ben Street) Hato Press 2021
Henry H Ward – Glorious Like Guston https://lonelyocean.art/
“Coronavirus – How artists are depicting the lockdown” Ella Wills, BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52296886
“Self help is key for an art world in lockdown” Laura Cumming, The Observer https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/29/self-help-is-key-for-art-world-in-lockdown
“A Tapered Teardrop” Terrace Gallery by Geoff Hands https://fineartruminations.com/
“About Abstraction – an interview with Henry Ward” Chris Francis https://www.artpedagogy.com/about-abstraction-henry-ward.html
Education
Middlesex University, PhD, 2013
Goldsmiths College, PGCE Secondary (Art), 1999
Winchester School of Art, BA Hons (Fine Art), 1993
Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design, Foundation Diploma, 1990