HENRY CATENACCI was born in New Jersey and lived and worked in New York City for many years.

Although blind in his left eye since the age of two, Henry has devoted much of his life to reinterpreting what he sees around him through his paintings and drawings. He started at the age of three, just months after losing half his sight, and he has created thousands of drawings and paintings since that time, all laboriously detailed and technically precise in composition.

Over the years, Henry has worked in graphite pencil, charcoal, ink, marker, chalk, pastels, watercolors and, most recently, layered wax pencil and gouache. He now paints in oil using the Flemish Method (the old High Renaissance technique of elegant hyperrealism) to create images that are fantastical and hauntingly surreal.

Henry's artwork has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, New Jersey, San Antonio and Santa Fe. In addition to his artistic work, he has written many short stories and one full-length novel. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.