Henrietta Harris (b. 1984, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand) is a painter and draughtsperson whose work spans portraiture and landscape, marked by precise technique, psychological nuance and a reflective engagement with how people understand themselves and the world around them. She lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) and is represented by Melanie Roger Gallery in New Zealand and Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami. 

Since graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Auckland University of Technology in 2006, Harris has built an international practice recognised for its sensitive yet surprising treatment of the human face and figure. Her portraits—often rendered in watercolour, gouache and oil—combine immaculate observation with subtle distortions, doubled or fragmented features, and painterly gestures that evoke introspection, vulnerability and emotional complexity. 

In recent years Harris has extended her focus to include landscape as a site of emotional and ecological resonance. A pivotal moment came during a 2018 residency in Iceland, where she responded to dramatic natural light, cloud, mountains and water with paintings that shift away from figuration toward atmospheric landscapes with a distinct presence. 

Her 2024 exhibition Dipped in Time at Melanie Roger Gallery continued this trajectory, emphasising the interplay between humanity and environment. In these new landscapes and portrait pieces Harris delves into how unpredictable weather patterns and climate change evoke feelings of awe, fear and longing, and how the natural world’s enduring beauty remains entangled with uncertainty about the future. 

Harris’s work has been shown widely in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, and she has developed imagery for commercial publications and collaborations. While she remains best known for her evocative, psychologically charged portraits, her expanding landscape practice reflects a growing engagement with how place and climate shape emotional experience and visual memory.