Brenda White Henriquez is an award-winning realist painter. With a BS in Biological Sciences from Cornell University, she is also a published scientist. She was also a winning designer on HGTV’s television show, Designer’s Challenge with a design firm she co-founded in 2003 and was a muralist painter for over twenty years.. With decades of experience scrutinizing details and merging her backgrounds in science, design and art, White Henriquez is uniquely equipped for observing and understanding the intricacies of the natural world. This scientific foundation seamlessly translates into her oil paintings where she excels in capturing the subject's subtleties with incredible precision. Through meticulous brushwork, Brenda captures the nuances of nature and everyday life offering viewers a new look into their world and transforming the mundane into captivating. Through her dedicated attention to detail, everyday objects metamorphose into intriguing focal points. White Henriquez just began to enter juried exhibitions in 2023, and her works have already been shown nationally and internationally. Her oil paintings have been selected in many national and regional juried exhibitions, winning awards and accolades in several, and are in private collections around the world.

AFFILIATIONS, GALLERIES & PAST and PRESENT JURIED SHOWS:

Oil Painters of America, Blue Mountain Gallery NYC, North River Arts Society, Scituate Arts Society, Duxbury Art Association, Hull Artists, James Library and Center for the Arts, Attleboro Art Museum, Art Center East in Connecticut, MVN Design in New York, Monson Art Council, South Shore Art Center, and the Academic Artists Association.

EDUCATION

1990-1994 Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Biological Sciences Major, CALS

Published Maternal Behavioral Senior Scientist

1990, Valedictorian, CNS High School, NY, Major in Art, Math, Science, English & Spanish

ART & TELEVISION PUBLICATIONS

2025 Published in Studio Magazine Volume 52

2024 Blue Mountain Gallery Winter Juried Show Publication

2006 HGTV Designers Challenge Design Winner, Season 14/episode 4

SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS

'Works' James Library and Center for the Arts 9/6/24-10/5/24

AWARDS and JURIED COMPETITIONS

2025 North River Arts Society Festival of the Arts National Juried Exhibition, jurors Peter Alpers, John Ruffo, David Black

2025 Hull Artists Regional Juried Art Show, juror Bill Houser

2025 Scituate Art Association Annual Juried Show, 2 works selected, Robert Beaulieu & Sally Dean

2025 SSAC Spring Juried Show, Night, Light, & Half-Light, 2 works selected, juror Kristine Feeks Hammond, co-director Galerie d’Orsay, Newbury Street, Boston, MA

2025 James Library Spring Juried Show, Second Place Winner, juror Allison Rudnick, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, curator of drawings and prints

2025 Duxbury Art Association 52nd Annual Winter National Juried Exhibition, jurors Christina Godfrey, Jennifer Okumura, Emily Gray

2025 Monson Art Council Spring Exhibition, 3 works selected, jurors Beverly Hanson,

Gretchen Holesovsky, Barbara L. Green

2025 NRAS Poster Exhibit two works

2024 James Library and Center for the Arts Fall Juried Show, juror Associate Curator, Macayla May, The Art Institute of Chicago

2024 James Library Spring Juried Exhibition, Best in Show, Larisa Grollemond, Assistant Curator, Manuscripts Department, Getty Museum Academic Artists Association 74th Annual Exhibition

2024 Scituate Art Association Annual Juried Show, 2nd Place Oils & Acrylics, two works selected

2024 Arts Center East Juried Still Life Exhibition, juror Sanchitha Vishwanath, four works selected

2024 Attleboro Arts Museum National Juried Exhibition, 2 works selected

2024 Hull Artists Association Juried Exhibition

2024 Blue Mountain Gallery Winter Juried Art Exhibition, juror Don Kimes

2024 North River Art Association Poster Contest, two works selected

2023 South Shore Art Center, National Juried Exhibition, Points of Departure, juror

Dina Dietsch, Director & Curator, Tufts University Art Galleries, two works selected

2023 Scituate Librarians Choice Award, Scituate Arts Association Members Show

2023 North River Art Association Festival of the Arts Juried Exhibition, Jane Collins Landscape Award

2023 Scituate Arts Association Annual Juried Spring Exhibition, Second Place for oils and acrylics

2023 North River Arts Society Juried Poster Competition, two works selected

2023 Arts Center East Juried Still Life Exhibition, three works selected

2023 Teravarna 7th Open International Juried Exhibition Talent Award & Honorable Mention

2023 Teravarna 5th Still LifeJuried International Exhibition, Honorable Mention

2023 Gallery Omata, Under the Sky Juried Exhibition Finalist

2023 James Library 4th Annual Spring Juried Art Exhibition

1990 MONY Scholastic Art Award

My Story,

by Brenda M. White Henriquez

I’ve been painting my entire life. When I was four years old my secret, private canvas was the wall space behind the curtains in my bedroom. I have a distinct memory of my father, on moving day when the curtains came down revealing my hidden murals, telling me that the walls in the new home were definitely off limits. 

I took every art class that would fit into my rigorous academic schedule throughout my education. I was extremely driven academically, graduated valedictorian from high school, and then received my BS in Biological Sciences from Cornell University. 

I’ve been a published scientist, a designer featured on HGTV, a muralist, a volunteer on every board imaginable in my town and local school district, a wife, and a mom to three beautiful daughters and one snaggle-toothed, black shih tzu. 

Now that my daughters are all out of college and graduate programs, I have the time to come back to my easel. I love focusing on the details when I paint. I love the texture and drying time of oil paint. I have probably worked at the easel at every hour of the day. Being a night owl, I have been in the studio until sunrise if the mood hits. I love painting with great music blaring- anything from 80s music, to Doris Day, to classical pieces. I always start a studio session by lighting an amazing scented candle. It quietly flickers away as my music fills the studio. My studio was always my favorite room in the house and is filled with three walls of windows and many of my favorite things. I use family mementos in my studio; I store my paints in my mom’s cherished milk glass pieces. The capiz shell chandelier I made hangs in one corner, reminds me of the one my great aunt once owned, and adds its own melody if a breeze sneaks in. I happily share my studio with my shih tzu who ccasionally he gives me a pretty judgey look, but he doesn’t paint. 

I enjoy using oil paints made all over the world. I also like using a variety of surfaces for them; different canvases and panels. And although I have been commissioned to paint a many murals, I try to give my own bedroom walls a break nowadays.