Fergus Feehily was born in Dublin in 1968 and lives in Berlin with his family, surrounded by books, drawings, found photographs, and records.
Feehily’s solo exhibitions include Fortune House, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2024, Half Doors, Lulu, Mexico City, Cameos Calls Dust, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, 2022; Early Lonesome, La Maison de Rendez- vous, Brussels, 2020; Everything is Here, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo, 2018; Impossible Things, Institute for New Connective Action, Seattle, 2017; Invincibles, Capital, San Francisco, The Suburban, Milwaukee, 2015; Disappearance, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, 2013; The Paradise [37], 2012 and Pavilion, 2009, both at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, and Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London, 2011; Makeshifts and Endpapers, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, and Strange Mountain (Makeshift), Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2008.
Feehily’s work has been included in numerous group shows such as: Coalescence: Happenstance With All Due Intent , Shimmer, Rotterdam, 2025; Quietly Dispelling the Dark, Colm Tóibín selects from the Arts Council Collection, Visual, Carlow, 2024; Riga Confidential, 2023; Equation: Günther Förg and Fergus Feehily, June, Berlin, Particularities, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, and Yugen, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, 2022; Particularities, X Museum, Beijing and After Daan van Golden, Parts Project, The Hague, 2021; Scenarios of Desire II, Emergent, Veurne, Belgium, 2019; Okey Dokey, Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, and Materialised, Two Rooms, Auckland, 2017; Out There, Thataway, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry, 2015; Dukkha, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2014; Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Why not live for Art? II: Nine collectors reveal their treasures, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art & Francis Bacon’s Studio, Bozar: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2013; and Time out of Mind, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2012. Feehily’s work is included in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and
An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council of Ireland.
Feehily has edited books and curated exhibitions including many other artists, such as Constellations at Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, 2017, which consisted of an exhibition, book, and Conversations in Light and Dark —a series of talks, discussions, and performances using the 1980s’ television programme After Dark as a touchstone; Tauchgang, curated with Daniel Lergon, at Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne; and the publication You & i are Earth, Paper Visual Art, 2021.
Despite a growing reticence to explain his work, Feehily has delivered several notable public talks, at venues such as A.I.T, Tokyo; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; and The Modern, Fort Worth. His work has also been written about in publications including Artforum, Frieze, Tripper, -normal, and Suzanne Hudson’s Contemporary Painting, as well as the subject of notable essays by Martin Herbert, Sarah Braman, Chris Sharp, David Toop, Declan Long, Rebecca O’Dwyer, and Jeffrey Grove. The artist’s own writing has appeared in a myriad of publications, including: The Horse and The Rider, 2024, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin; Rethinking the Crit, 2022, Routledge; Constellations, 2017, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki; Pavilion, 2009, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and You & i are Earth, 2021, Paper Visual Art, Berlin/Dublin.
2023 saw the publication of a major monograph on the artist published by Zolo Pres, Mexico City/Brussels.
Represented by MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo
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