HENRY FERREIRA

risd connections: MFA in Printmaking, 1980; Associate Professor and Head, Printmaking Department; teaching at RISD since 1981

about his work: “My life consists of overlapping circles of family, work and teaching. I think of my work as a means of inquiry and exploration; I want it to make a point but not be too obvious, ask unanswerable questions, produce images that stay in the mind and make one thinkÉ. I combine iconographic cultural images, text, photo and mark-making, sometimes within a printmaking process, always in a visual way. Through exploration, I hope to bring together the question and the way it’s asked, maybe getting closer to the answer along the way.”

selected exhibitions
2005 Faculty Biennial, RISD, Providence, RI
2003 Contemporary Etching Invitational, Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA
2002 Masters Show, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
2002 Invitational Show, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
1999 Faculty Exchange Show, Portland College of Art, Portland, OR
1999 Printmaking Biennial, RISD, Providence, RI
1998 Renaissance Press Gallery, Hillsboro, NH
1994 Installation and Prints, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
1993 Purchase Street Gallery, University of Massachusetts, New Bedford, MA

selected collections
Silvermine Guild Gallery, New Canaan, CT
Metropolitan Museum, Miami, FL
University of North Dakota, Fargo, ND
Renaissance Press, Hillsboro, NH

education
RISD, MFA in Printmaking, 1980
University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education and Art, 1973; BFA in Visual Design, 1972
Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA, 1968