Gerrit Henry (b. May 30, 1950, New York City, New York - d. May 1, 2003, New York City, New York) was an American art critic, author and poet.
Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic. His books include Janet Fish: A Monograph (Burton & Skira, Geneva, 1987), The Mirrored Clubs of Hell: Poems by Gerrit Henry (Little, Brown and Company, 1991), and Poems & Ballades (Dolphin, Baltimore, 1998) and Ian Hornak: Reverence and Reverie' (Katharina Rich Perlow, Inc. 1999). He is also published in Paris Review, Yale Review and Cover. A chapbook of his recent work is forthcoming with Groundwater Press. His last project, Climbing the Stairs, a documentary about his life and poetry (with John Ashbery), directed by Neil Grayson and produced by Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, was released in 2004. Henry has been an advisory board member and Poetry Series Director at Dactyl Foundation since 1998. Henry graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1972 with a B.A. in English. He studied poetry under Kenneth Koch. Henry has received awards from The Cornell Woolrich Fellowship, Columbia University, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Ann and Erlo Von Waveren Foundation, and NYFA artists' fund. He taught at C.W. Post College on Long Island and Manhattan's and School of Visual Arts.
"Gerrit Henry, An Art Critic Who Also Wrote Poetry, Dies at 52," Ken Johnson, New York Times, May 12, 2003.