Henry Church is the artistic alter ego of a creator marked by emotional intensity, visual storytelling, and aesthetic honesty. Henry Church was born—first as a joke, then as a symbol of freedom, rebellion, and personal transformation.

From a very young age, art was a natural part of his life. At seven years old, he already knew he wanted to be a tattoo artist. He carried a notebook to school with a list of classmates, whom he would draw in turn with markers during recess. At home, he covered the table with drawing materials and experimented fearlessly, guided only by curiosity.

He began tattooing in 2012 and spent years traveling across Europe doing guest spots in different cities and studios. 

This intense and formative professional stage ended in late 2019, just before he received the news that his father had terminal cancer. The death of his father in 2020, the loss of his mother’s partner, and the cancer she herself faced that same year marked a turning point. Since then, he decided to retire definitively from tattooing to focus entirely on painting.

During his mother’s chemotherapy sessions, he met the painter Massarati, who asked him why he wasn’t painting. That was the starting point of a new language. One year later, Henry Church held his first solo exhibition.

Since then, he has developed a deeply symbolic painting style, combining cartoon characters that remind him of loved ones with themes that fascinate him: childhood, memory, fantasy, the sense of good, faith, and family. At first glance, his works appear light, colorful, and optimistic. But if observed closely, they reveal intrusive thoughts, fears, and hidden emotions. As if trying to build an image bright enough to cover the darkness beneath.

Henry Church has exhibited across continents. In Barcelona, he had an exclusive collaboration with the Patricia Cancelo gallery, where he has participated in numerous group exhibitions. He has also taken part in two auctions at the Lamas Bolaño house and a charity auction at the Cromática Museum supporting childhood cancer research, an event covered by La Vanguardia and national news on TVE1. Including “Mental Hazards & cowboys and fasts cars” art solo in August 2025.

In 2023, he participated in the international fair ART021 in Shanghai, where one of his works was featured on the cover of a Chinese newspaper article, just after Botero. That same year, he held a solo exhibition at Original Song Gallery (Shanghai), with whom he maintains exclusivity in China, and also participated in a group exhibition in the same city.

His work has been acquired by collectors in Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, with presence in countries such as the United States, Russia, Dubai, China, and Kenya.

Henry Church paints to share a refuge. He wants those who see his work to feel happy, to discover in his colors a beauty that transcends suffering. He believes a bright image can cover, even if just for a moment, all the bad in this life.

From a personal and conservative perspective, uncommon in contemporary art, he defends values such as family, memory, and tradition, without renouncing irony or tenderness. His work is a way to reconcile what hurts with what sustains.

Painting, silence, and truth.