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Marilyn Henrion is a graduate of Cooper Union and a lifelong New Yorker. Her award-winning works have been exhibited internationally and are included in in museum, corporate , and private collections worldwide. She has had fifteen solo exhibitions to date, as well as many group exhibitions. The works have also been featured in numerous publications, including Women Designers In The U.S.- 1900-2000, published in 2001 by Yale University Press. Among the grants she has received, was one awarded by The Artslink Partnership, devoted to fostering excellence in the arts between the U.S. and countries of the former Soviet Union. Henrion was honored by the Smithsonian Institution by being invited to submit her papers and sketchbooks for inclusion in the Archives of American Art. In 2005, she was awarded a Fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Internationally recognized for her textile art, Henrion also offers a series of digitally enhanced photographs of her Manhattan neighborhood, drawing upon the same urban geometry that inspires her textile works.
