05/06/2026
Artist Spotlight:
Tony Vazquez-Figueroa resides and works between Mexico City, Mexico, and Miami, Florida. He received his BFA in Film from Emerson College (Boston, MA) in 1992 and continued his art studies at the San Alejandro Academy (Havana, Cuba) and then at the New York Studio School under an awarded scholarship. In 2002, he received formal training at Slade School of Painting at the University College London, under the tutelage of Jenny Saville. His work is featured in public and private collections worldwide such as: The Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL), The Museum of Latin American Art California (Long Beach, CA), the UNIS Museum Guatemala (Fraijanes, Guatemala), the Black Gold Museum (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) among others.
Vazquez-Figueroa has explored the substance of crude oil and its many manifestations with the intention of using his artistic skills and vision to analyze its effects on one of the richest global powers of the late 20th century – Venezuela. Using bitumen as a key material in the creation of works, Vazquez-Figueroa has developed a personal archive of paintings, sculptures, objects, and installations, that form the collective memory and heritage for himself and others experiencing this shared history.
His deeply personal research into how oil-rich countries create unique physical, socio-economic, and cultural environments informs his artistic practice to create a body of work that distills the dystopic reality of over-industrialization.
Artworks Featured:
Feedback / St. Petersburg A, 2023,
14 ½ × 21 ¾ in (36.8 × 54 cm),
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Resin on archival print
Feedback / Refinery II A, 2023,
14 ½ × 21 ¾ in (36.8 × 54 cm), Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Resin on archival print
Feedback / St. Petersburg II B, 2023,
14 ½ × 21 ¾ in (36.8 × 54 cm),
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Resin on archival print
Feedback / Destin II A, 2023,
14 ½ × 21 ¾ in (36.8 × 54 cm), Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Resin on archival print
Feedback / Emerald Coast A, 2023,
14 ½ × 21 ¾ in (36.8 × 54 cm),
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Resin on archival print
Feedback / St. Petersburg II A Feedback, 2023,
14 ½ × 21 ¾ in (36.8 × 54 cm),
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Resin on archival print