Shane Fero
b. 1953 Chicgo, IL
Lives and works in Penland, NC
Selected Works
Shane Fero was born in Chicago, IL in 1953 and has been a flameworker for 46 years and maintains a studio next to Penland School in North Carolina. He participates in international symposia and conferences by lecturing and demonstrating. Fero is also an educator and has taught at institutions such at Penland School, Urban Glass, the Pratt Fine Arts Center, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, the University of Michigan, Eugene Glass School, Espace Verre, Montreal, Quebec, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pilchuck Glass School, Bild-Werk, Frauenau, Germany, the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge, UK, Scuola Bubacco, Murano, Italy, Chameleon Studio, Tasmania, Taiwan, Australia and in Seto, Osaka, and the Niijima Glass Art Center in Japan. His work can be found in collections both private and public institutions worldwide.
Biography
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
“Harbinger”, Neusole Glassworks/Marta Hewett Gallery, Forest Park, OH
Shane Fero & Shane Fero Collaborations with Elizabeth Brim, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
Spotlight Gallery, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2014
"Birds from A to Z", Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Neusole Glassworks, Cincinnati, OH
2013
Red Sky Gallery, Charlotte, NC
“Shorebirds”, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2012
Pismo Fine Art Glass, Denver, CO
2011
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
2010
The Ross Gallery, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN
2009
Red Sky Gallery, Charlotte, NC
The Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2008
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL (July-Sept)
Georgia State College & University, Milledgeville, GA
2007
Marta Hewett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2005
Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Philabaum Glass Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2004
Featured Artist, Vetri, Seattle, WA
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
2002
R. Duane Reed, St. Louis, MO
2001
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
erl originals, Winston-Salem, NC
1999
“A Shane Fero 30th Anniversary Retrospective”, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI
Kane Marie Fine Arts Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA
1997
Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Ariodante Gallery, New Orleans, LA