Tony Feher
American, (1956–2016)
Tony Feher was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1956, and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, with early stops in Florida and Virginia. He received a BA from The University of Texas, and resided in New York City. Feher’s work can be found in important international public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
Feher had a strong presence in the Texas art scene of the 2010s. In 2012, Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum re-opened its doors with a retrospective looking at Feher’s 20-year career, and Artpace hosted a show of his sculptures and tape drawings. In 2013, Diverseworks commissioned the unforgettable exhibition Free Fall, which consisted of numerous water bottles hung from the ceiling of the gallery to create an immersive playground-like installation that housed performances for the run of the show. Additionally, Feher is represented by and has had many shows at Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston. Feher died at age of 60 from cancer-related causes.
Feher’s work is simple in nature—he reimagined often-overlooked and discarded objects into colorful, humorous assemblages that made viewers stop and think twice about what they were seeing.
Source: Glasstire and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
American, (1956–2016)
Tony Feher was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1956, and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, with early stops in Florida and Virginia. He received a BA from The University of Texas, and resided in New York City. Feher’s work can be found in important international public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
Feher had a strong presence in the Texas art scene of the 2010s. In 2012, Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum re-opened its doors with a retrospective looking at Feher’s 20-year career, and Artpace hosted a show of his sculptures and tape drawings. In 2013, Diverseworks commissioned the unforgettable exhibition Free Fall, which consisted of numerous water bottles hung from the ceiling of the gallery to create an immersive playground-like installation that housed performances for the run of the show. Additionally, Feher is represented by and has had many shows at Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston. Feher died at age of 60 from cancer-related causes.
Feher’s work is simple in nature—he reimagined often-overlooked and discarded objects into colorful, humorous assemblages that made viewers stop and think twice about what they were seeing.
Source: Glasstire and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Artist Objects
Untitled 2002.005
Artist Images