J Henry Fair

"The vivid color photographs of J Henry Fair lead an uneasy double life as potent records of environmental pollution and as ersatz evocations of abstract painting...information and form work together, to devastating effect."
-Roberta Smith, The New York Times

Photographer J Henry Fair is best known for his Industrial Scars series, in which he researches our world's most egregious environmental disasters and creates images that are simultaneously stunning and horrifying, and more closely resemble abstract paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe and Jackson Pollock than what the collective views as reality. Mr. Fair's work has been featured in segments on The TODAY Show, CNN, NPR's Marketplace, and WDR German TV, as well as in most major publications, including The New York Times, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, Harper's
Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and GQ. Additionally, Mr. Fair's work travels around the world in fine art exhibitions at major museums, galleries, and educational institutions.

Mr. Fair has served as Artist-in-Residence at some of the nation's top educational institutions for art and environmental studies, including Dartmouth College, Colorado College, Vanderbilt University, and mo...

•2024-04-08• MIA Art Fair with Artco Gallery, Berlin, Milano, Italy

•2023• Industrial Landscapes, Artco Gallery, Aachen, Germany

•2023• On The Edge: Coastlines, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany

•2022• Scarred Landscape: The Adirondack Photographs of J Henry Fair, Adirondak Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, USA

•2022• World Photography Awards, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

•2022• Waste Land, Museum of Natural History Oxford, Oxford, UK

•2022• The Hidden Costs -Ewigkeitslasten, LWL-Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg, Waltrop, Germany

•2022 Sony World Photography Awards, Somerset House, London, UK

•2021 Planet Writes Back, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany

•2021 BioDiversité: Nos Futurs, Espace Des Arts, Paris, France

•2021 The Hidden Costs -Ewigkeitslasten, Zeche Zollern, Dortmund, Germany

•2021 WasserGeister, Neue Galerie Kassel, Kassel, Germany

•2021 Das Lied von der Erde, Ludwigsburg Festival, Kassel, Germany

•2021 The Hidden Costs -Forever, Nachtigall Museum, Witten, Germany

•2020 Wasteland, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel

•2020 BioDiversité: Nos Futurs, Espace Des Arts, Paris, France

•2020 The Hidden Costs, Yale NUS Singapore University, Singapore

•2018 Artefakte, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin...