TONY FEHER

Biography

1956  Born Albuquerque, NM

Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

1978  

Bachelor of Arts, The University of Texas

Selected Awards

2006

Aspen Award for Art, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

Solo Exhibitions

2012

ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2011

Next On Line, Pace Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX

Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX

2009

Blossom, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Wall Show, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2008

Re:Place, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY

D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2007

Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY

D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Some Time Soon, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2006

The Suburban, Oak Park, IL

2005

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX

2004

The Wart on the Bosom of Mother Nature, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Transport to Summer, Foundaci—n La Caixa, Lleida, Spain

2002

I'm Tired of Toast, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Cheryl Numark Gallery, Washington, D. C.

Maybe/Enjoy, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

2001

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Maybe, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2000

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

ACME, Los Angeles, CA

ASISWAS, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY

1999

D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Probably best seen in the dark with the T.V. on, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1998

Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

1997

Siempre Contigo, Ezra and Cecile Zikha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

1996

Project Room: Tony Feher, Boesky and Callery Fine Arts, New York, NY

Broadway Window Project, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1995

Passing Through, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY

ACME, Santa Monica, CA

1994

Installation for Poetry and Performance, organized by

Simon Watson, The Contemporary, New York, NY

Tony Feher at Wooster Gardens, The Gramercy International, New York, NY

1993

Tony Feher Sculpture, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2010

50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY

At Home – Not At Home: The Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College CCS, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

On The Square, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY

Look Again, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Don't Perish, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York, NY

Selections – Carl Andre, Massimo Bartolini, Tony Feher, Christian Holstad, Cornelia Parker, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Slough, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY

ACME, Los Angeles, CA

Material Intelligence, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK

Paper Trail v. 5: Intimate Gestures, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

A Work in Progress, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

2008

Intimacy, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY

Re: Place, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

Waste Not, Want Not, Socrates Social Park, Long Island City, NY

Styrofoam, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI

2007

Everyday Eden, a Public Art Fund Project, Brooklyn, NY

Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object In American Art, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

Salvaged, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY

Like color in pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

2006

New York, Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China

Aisle Five, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Water, Water, Everywhere, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

The Last Picture Show, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC

181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

Transitional Objects, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY

Contemporary Masterworks: St. Louis Collects, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

2005

Atomica: making the invisible visible, Esso Gallery and Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY,

Spectrum, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY

Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Decelerate, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

Material Matters, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Water, Water Everywhere…, Marilu Knode, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

One-Armed Bandit, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2004

Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

How Sculptors See, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Vis Vitalis, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

The Making of Things, Triple Candle, New York, NY

Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York, NY

Atomica: Making the Invisible Visible, Esso Gallery and Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY

2003

Tony Feher, Arturo Herrera, Nancy Shaver, and Richard Tuttle, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

Beside, ACME, Los Angeles, CA

Paper Chase, müller dechiara, Berlin, Germany

Poetic Justice: 8th International Istanbul Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, various venues, Istanbul, Turkey

Plastic, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

Today's Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY, travels to Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Transparent, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC

Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Vessels: Fragments from the Lexicon, Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY

Stacked, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2002

Miami Device 2002, Art Basel Miami Beach, curated by James Rondeau

Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association / The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX

Aspects of Color, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

Provisional Worlds, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada

New York, New Work, Now, The Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH

Systems Order Nature, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

Strolling Through an Ancient Shrine and Garden, ACME, Los Angeles

Theory of Leisure, Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

5 Sculptures, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2001

Group Show, ACME, Los Angeles, CA

Plant Life, curated by Patrick Callery, K.S. Art, New York, NY

Waterworks: U.S.Akvarell 2001, curated by Kim Levin, Nordiska Akvarellmeseet, Skarhamm, Sweden

New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Re-Hacer: Selected Works from the Jumex Collection, Ex Teresa Art Actual, Mexico City, Mexico

Locating Drawing, curated by Maureen Mahoney, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX

Highlights from the Permanent Collection: Pollock to today, (on continuous view) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2000

Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY

Balls, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Group Show, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Summer Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

Vanitas in Contemporary Art: Meditation on Life and Death, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Déjà vu, curated by Amada Cruz, Art Miami 2000, Miami, FL

1999

1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY

Hubcap Star Solo, curated by Christopher Miles, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

Works on Paper, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Neither/Nor, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

Hindsight, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1998

Polly Apfelbaum & Tony Feher, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Simple Matter, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Humble County, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Aids Worlds: Between Resignation and Hope, curated by Frank Wagner, Center for Contemporary Art, Geneva, Austria

After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT

Alternative Measures, curated by Susan Canning, Castle Gallery College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY

1997

Sculpture, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY

Summer Exhibition, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Summer Exhibition, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

1996

Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

Thin Air: Examining the Ethereal, curated by Jane Dickson, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, New York, NY

no show, St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, New York, NY

Water, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY

Arts' Communities - AIDS Communities: Realizing the Archive Project, Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

1995

Thresholds, 10 American Sculptors, curated by Dan Cameron, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal

Fresh Air/Tony Feher - Reading Room, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY

In a Different Light, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

1994

Tony Feher and Michael Jenkins, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

Exhibition of Invited Artists, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

Spring 1994 Exhibitions: with Thomas Busch, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

The Gramercy International, New York, with Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

A Garden, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

Polly Apfelbaum, Tony Feher, and Claudia Matzko, Patrick Callery, New York, NY

1993

The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Guest Room with Andrew Ong, Akim Kubinski, New York, NY

Futura Book Collection, Air de Paris, Nice, France

Wilhelmi-Holland Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX

Outside Possibilities '93, curated by Bill Arning, The Rushmore Festival, Woodbury, NY

Art Around the Park, Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY

The Art of Self-Defense and Revenge ... It's Really Hard, Momenta Art, New York, NY

Blur, curated by d.d. Chapin, 15 Renwick Street, New York, NY

Yours, organized by Michael Jenkins, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

1992

The Anti-Masculine (Overlapping, but not corresponding to the feminine), curated by Bill Arning, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Auto-Erotic Object, curated by Julie Carson, Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY

1991

Queer Show, Minor Injury, Brooklyn, NY

New Era Space, New York, NY

Tony Feher, Paula Hayes, Curtis Mitchell, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

Gulliver's Travels, Sopgia Ungers, Koln, Germany

1990

AIDS/SIDA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

Looking at a Revolution: Documenting the AIDS Activist Movement, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

Tony Feher - Nancy Brooks Brody, 134 Charles Street, New York, NY

1989

Atomic Art, organized by Uli Rimkas, Max Fish, New York, NY

1987

179 Ludlow, New York, NY

1985

New Work, Tower Gallery, New York, NY

1984

Group Show, 148 Church, New York, NY

1981

Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX

First Time Out, Ceramics Invitational South Texas Art Mobile, Corpus Christi, TX

1980

Foundation Show, curated by Linda Cathcart, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

Underground Artists of the City, Gaslight Theater, Austin, TX

Selected Collections

The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

La Colécion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Selected Bibliography