Idaho-born artist Harper Henry paints a fresh perspective, merging the heritage of Western art with immersive abstraction. After earning a BFA in Illustration, she built a successful 30-year career as a designer and art director in commercial advertising. Harper began painting professionally in 2016. Through a fusion of realism and abstraction, she forges a distinctive vision of contemporary Western art. Her work captures the authenticity of her subjects while interweaving light, color, and form into abstractions that evoke movement and emotion.EXHIBITIONS2025 20th Annual Cowgirl Up!, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, AZ2024 Beaux Arts, Scottsdale Artists' School, Scottsdale, AZ2024 4th Annual AWAE Show, The Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ2024 Miniature Masterpiece Art Show & Sale, Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ2024 19th Annual Cowgirl Up!, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, AZ2024 Scottsdale Artwalk, The Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ2023 3rd Annual AWAE Show, The Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ2023 Westward, Harper Henry Solo Show, Victory Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM2023 18th Annual Cowgirl Up!, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, AZ2022 53rd Annual Mountain Oyster Club Art Show, Tucson, AZ2022 2nd Annual AWAE Show, The Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ2022 Scottsdale Artwalk, The Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ2022 Miniature Masterpiece Art Show & Sale, Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ2022 17th Annual Cowgirl Up!, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, AZ2021 AWAE Show, The Marshall Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ2021 235 Smaller Works Show, FOR Fine Art, Whitefish, MT2021 Redefining Traditions - Abstract Realism, FOR Fine Art, Bigfork, MT2021 16th Annual Cowgirl Up!, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, AZ2020 235 Smaller Works Show, Frame Of Reference Fine Art, Whitefish, MT2020 Small Works Great Wonders, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, OK2020 51st Annual Mountain Oyster Club Art Show, Tucson, AZ2020 15th Annual Cowgirl Up!, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, AZ2020 March In Montana Auction, Great Falls, MT2020 Yellowstone Art Auction 52, Billings, MT2019 50th Annual Mountain Oyster Club Art Show, Tucson, AZ2019 12 Squared Holiday Art Show, Terakedis Fine Art, Billings, MT2019 235 Smaller Works Show, Frame Of Reference Fine Art, Whitefish, MT2019 Space And Species, Terakedis Fine Art, Billings, MT2019 Miniatures By The Lake, Coeur d'Alene Galleries, Coeur d'Alene, ID2019 Hold Your Horses, Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ2019 The West In Her Eyes, Terakedis Fine Art, Billings, MT2019 North By Northwest, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT2019 14th Annual Cowgirl Up!, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, AZ2018 Yellowstone Art Museum, 51st Annual Art Auction, Billings, MT2018 12 Squared Holiday Show, Terakedis Fine Art, Billings, MT2018 The West In Her Eyes, Terakedis Fine Art, Billings, MTPUBLICATIONSWestern Art Collector, "Collector's Focus - Women Artists" Jun. 2025Art Of The West, "Harper Henry - Striking Gold" Nov/Dec. 2023Plough, "The Return of the Bison" Spring 2023Southwest Art, "Harper Henry - Going Home" Oct/Nov. 2022Western Art Collector, "Art of the Horse" May 2022Fine Art Connoisseur, "The Timeless Appeal of Horses" Apr. 2022Southwest Art, "Cowgirl Up!" Feb/Mar. 2022Sidelines, "Harper Henry - Bringing Abstract and Realism Together" Dec. 2021Fine Art Connoisseur, "Go Wild" Oct. 2021Southwest Art, "Cowgirl Up!" Mar. 2021Fine Art Connoisseur, Mar. 2021Western Art Collector, "Hold Your Horse" Aug. 2019Forbes, "Women Of Western Art" Mar. 2019Art Of The West, Guidebook, Jan. 2019Western Art Collector, "Cowgirl Up!" Mar. 2019AWARDS2024 Art of the West Magazine Artists Choice Award, Desert Caballeros Western Museum2024 Cowgirl Up! Artist's Choice Award, Desert Caballeros Western Museum2021 Cowgirl Up! Artist's Choice Award, Desert Caballeros Western Museum2021 Cowgirl Up! First Place, 2-D on Canvas Award, Desert Caballeros Western Museum2020 Cowgirl Up! Artist's Choice Award, Desert Caballeros Western MuseumEDUCATIONBFA Paier College of Art