bio
Texas native Anthony Suber is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in South-East Texas.
He received a BFA from the University of Houston and completed his MFA at Houston Christian
University. His work is the product of his love for historical reference, and derived from his
personal experiences of religion, mysticism, multi-generational familial relationships, and the
stories shared with him as a child about his kin. Throughout his career, Suber has exhibited
work and produced multi-tiered activations both nationally and abroad. Ranging from sculpture
and site-specific installation to mixed-media painting, Suber describes himself as a southern
polymath and a visual griot.
Suber is an artist-in-residence with Project Row Houses in Houston’s historic Third
Ward community and a professor of art at the Katherine McGovern School of Art at the University of Houston.
Texas native Anthony Suber is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in South-East Texas.
He received a BFA from the University of Houston and completed his MFA at Houston Christian
University. His work is the product of his love for historical reference, and derived from his
personal experiences of religion, mysticism, multi-generational familial relationships, and the
stories shared with him as a child about his kin. Throughout his career, Suber has exhibited
work and produced multi-tiered activations both nationally and abroad. Ranging from sculpture
and site-specific installation to mixed-media painting, Suber describes himself as a southern
polymath and a visual griot.
Suber is an artist-in-residence with Project Row Houses in Houston’s historic Third
Ward community and a professor of art at the Katherine McGovern School of Art at the University of Houston.
statement
Narrative and ritual are essential pillars in connecting the past, present and future. With an intentional pronunciation of history, my practice blends social sculpture, mental wellness, and exploring the echoes of our perceived reality, utilizing those pillars to give structure to the work. This is a punctuation in self interrogation that intersects my place in the African Diaspora my connection to the multitude of ancestors who shared the same conditions of existence. At the core of this exercise, is the foundation of the personal exploration of the tension between joy, grief and loss as expressed and experienced across the tapestry of communities of color. Essentially, I am looking to discover that the collective voice of our ancestors is not so different from our own.
Narrative and ritual are essential pillars in connecting the past, present and future. With an intentional pronunciation of history, my practice blends social sculpture, mental wellness, and exploring the echoes of our perceived reality, utilizing those pillars to give structure to the work. This is a punctuation in self interrogation that intersects my place in the African Diaspora my connection to the multitude of ancestors who shared the same conditions of existence. At the core of this exercise, is the foundation of the personal exploration of the tension between joy, grief and loss as expressed and experienced across the tapestry of communities of color. Essentially, I am looking to discover that the collective voice of our ancestors is not so different from our own.