BIOGRAPHY
As a New Zealand born, Mexico based Fiber Artist, Toni Brogan has always loved textiles, texture and all forms of fiber with the warmth of wool being one of her earliest childhood memories. Brogans art primarily concentrates on creating large scale abstract heavily textured handwoven pieces and exploring the tactile nature of how various fibers feel, react, and appear with and against each other.
Brogan was initially drawn to the woven medium by its limitless possibilities to create and the “no rules” techniques and free form style that can be applied. Through exploration and development Brogan has created some of her own techniques to make her work completely unique.
After almost 20 years of living in the Upstate New York area and drawing from the natural landscape as inspiration Toni recently permanently relocated to Merida, Mexico where the abundance of natural fibers from the Yucatan have inspired a new body of work.
All artworks are handwoven and hand dyed by Toni using as much natural, foraged, recycled and thrifted fibers where possible.
CV
2025
Arizona Art Fair
Headwaters Gallery Show with Jamie Barnes
Upstate Art Weekend Group Show
Redhook Gallery Show
Red Dot Miami
2024
Seattle Art Fair
Bushell Colletive Delhi NY Group Show
Lex Art Gallery Group Show
2023
Upstate Art Weekend at LexSci Arts
Seattle Art Fair
Kent Art Gallery Group Show
Field + Supply Art Fair
2022
Field + Supply Art Fair
Bullfarm 1896 Gallery, Upstate Art Gallery Weekend.
Hawk + Hive, Group Show, Andes NY
Union College, Fiber Art Then + Now Group Show
Xtant, Global Artisan Craft Show, Mallorca Spain
Roxbury Arts Group: Large + Small Group Show
2021
Field + Supply, Art Fair
Solo Show, CHROMATIC FAMILY, Roxbury Arts Group
Xtant, Global Artisan Craft Market, Mallorca Spain.
BullFarm 1896 Gallery, Black + White Group Show
Pinkwater Gallery, Group Show, Kingston NY
2020
Xtant, Global Curated Artisan Craft Market, Mallorca Spain.
Large Works, Group Show at Roxbury Art Group, NY
2019
Architectural Digest Design Show
NYC Textile Month
Field + Supply – Art Fair
2018
AFANY – Primary Contemporary WONDERLUST Soho, NYC
Krause Gallery, Group Show. LES NYC
Greater Denton Arts Council: Materials: HARD + SOFT International Contemporary Craft Competition and Exhibition, Juried Show.
Blink Gallery – Andes NY
THREADS: A Textile Collaboration, Hudson NY
Contemporary Landscapes, Juried Show. Roxbury NY
Peters Valley School of Craft: Act 2 Art as a Career Sequel Juried show. NJ.
Resident Alien: Immigrant Art, Juried show. Catskill NY
My Mothers Keeper, Juried show. Montclair NJ
Field + Supply – Art Fair
2014
Gallery Joint Fiber Show, Seattle WA
STATEMENT
These works were created specifically for Red Dot Miami are constructed with 100% Mexican cotton and using a basketry binding technique to sculpt colorful cascading rivers of cotton.
Bound together with vintage recycled silk, nylon, and metallic threads to cohesively construct “Ties that Bind” and “Open Wide” a narrative of the decisions, bonds and pathways we choose, either consciously or unconsciously.
