Select Exhibitions
“When I Think About a Minotaur”, 2023, SomoS, Berlin, Germany
Strand Gallery, 2021, Galveston, Texas
Read MoreSacred Order of Eternal Wounds
Strand Gallery, 2021, Galveston, Texas
Read MoreColor! Pattern! Propaganda!
Conduit Gallery, 2021, Dallas, Texas
Read MoreCivil Lies
Fort Worth Community Arts Center, 2021, Ft. Worth, Texas
Read MoreHomosexuals Are Ruining My Life
Conduit Gallery, 2012, Dallas, Texas
Read MoreHugs & Kisses
Mountainview College, 2014, Dallas, Texas
Read MoreKult Klassic
Conduit Gallery, 2016, Dallas, Texas
Read MoreUnnatural Urges
ArtPace, 2017, San Antonio, Texas
Read MoreThe Temptation of Saint Reborlaro
Living Arts, 2018, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Read MoreAbout
Multimedia artist, Heyd Fontenot, is attracted to subjects possessed of discomforting or undefinable qualities. His drawn and painted portraits of unclothed subjects reveal the nuances of idiosyncratic expression and the delicacies of our humanness. Fontenot’s film and video work tends to narcotize and disorient. The artist renounces commonplace narrative conventions in an effort to destabilize, making way for individual epiphany and revelation.
Borrowing themes and images from fraternal secret societies, rodeos, brothels, places of worship and interior design showrooms, Fontenot works with a rotating cast of actors and models to fabricate ceremonial dramas and consumer indoctrinations. The artist slyly undermines all that is good and holy about middle-class respectability to reveal mythical America as both oppressive and alluring. His on-going video project Flaming Critters follows the adventures of a fictitious social club who dabble in Luciferianism.
Fontenot’s mid-career survey exhibition “The Very Queer Portraits of Heyd Fontenot,” traveled to the University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland), Rollins College (Winter Park, Florida), and Allegheny College (Meadville, Pennsylvania). He is represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas; and is currently an artist-fellow at Tulsa Artists Fellowship in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Conduit Gallery
1626 C Hi Line Dr.,
Dallas, TX 75207
Tel: 214.939.0064
Fax: 214.939.2353
Hours:
Tue-Sat 10-5
Owner and Director
Nancy Whitenack
Director and Project Room Curator
Danette Dufilho
Associate & Special Projects
Carron Batt