I make paintings (mostly).
New Zealand/German
Born in 1981
Currently based in Vienna, Austria
Education
2011-2015
PhD (Painting), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2006
MFA (Distinction) University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Royal College of Art Postgraduate Painting Residency, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2003
BFA (1st class Honours), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Selected Awards / Residencies
2020
The Studios at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
2016
Paramount Winner Wallace Art Awards— ISCP NYC Studio, Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Award Finalist, Sydney College of the Arts, Australia
2015
Moya Dyring Paris Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, France, awarded by the Art Gallery of NSW, Australia
Arts Grant, Creative New Zealand
2014
Selected ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames and Hudson, London, UK
2011
Rita Angus Residency, Wellington, New Zealand, Supported by Weltec/Thorndon Trust / CNZ
Winner- Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, New Zealand
Nanji Art Studio Residency (short-term), Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
2009
Seoul Artspace Geumcheon Residency, Seoul Council for Cultural Affairs, Korea
Berlin Work Grant- Künstlerhaus GlogauAIR- CNZ (Arts Council of NZ) Grant, Berlin, Germany
2008
Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Residency, DAAD Grant, Germany
IASK Changdong Art Studio Residency, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Selected Publications
2019
Rose Vickers, ‘Day Paintings & Images Cast by the Sun’, published by Painting Diary, Vienna
2018
Aide Launay, Will Greeson, André Hemer, ‘The Imagist & the Materialist’, published by Painting Diary, Vienna
2016
‘Painting Regarding the Present’, published by Painting Diary, Vienna
2014
Kurt Beers, in ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’, Published by Thames and Hudson, London, UK
2013
Joanne McNeil & Domenico Quaranta, in ‘Art and the Internet’, Published by Blackdog, London, UK
2009
Andre Hemer & Heejung Ryu, ‘Things to do with Pink, in a Building Built for Strength’, Published by Alternative Space Loop/National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Warwick Brown, in ‘Seen This Century’, Published by Random House, New Zealand
Work Held in Public Collections
Taiwan Museum of Art, ROC / Taipei, Taiwan
NTNU Gallery, Institute of Fine Arts / Taipei, Taiwan
Seoul Artspace Geumcheon / Seoul, Korea
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection / Florida, US
Sammlung Reydan Weiss / Düsseldorf, DE
Fletcher Trust Collection / Auckland, New Zealand
Massey University Collection / Auckland, New Zealand
Wallace Art Collection / Auckland, New Zealand
Te Manawa Museum / Palmerston North, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery / Christchurch, New Zealand
University of Canterbury / Christchurch, New Zealand
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Troposphere (solo), Hollis Taggart Contemporary, NY
Absence (curated by Felicity Milburn), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, NZ
Where the Wild Roses Grow, Schloss Görne, Germany
Birch Maple Oak Post Rococo (solo), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Off the Past and Present, Hollis Taggart Contemporary, NY
The Grand Finale, Bartley & Comnpany Art, NZ
Group presentation (Yavuz Gallery), Art Basel Hong Kong
Group presentation (Yavuz Gallery), Art SG, Singapore, SG
2022
Hyper-Abandonment (solo), Gow Langsford Gallery, NZ
Phenomena (solo), LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES
Group presentation with Yavuz Gallery, Westbund Art Fair, Shanghai, CN
Serotonin!, Futures Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Scenes from a Voyage (solo), Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, AU
Scenes from an Infinite Sky (solo), Melbourne Art Fair w/ Yavuz Gallery, AU
Skyscapes & Portals (solo), Bartley & Company Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2021
NFTism (curated by Kenny Schachter), Institut, London
< soft glow > (with Anne Vieux), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
Look Again, Hollis Taggart, Southport, CT
Facing the Sun, Schloss Görne, DE
Group presentation with Yavuz Gallery, Art Basel Hong Kong
CADAF Paris (curated by Studio As We Are), Digtial Art Month, Paris France
2020
These Days (solo), Hollis Taggart Contemporary, NY
The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
First Light, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney
Sunset/Sunrise (solo), LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES
Closer than they appear, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney
WestFarbe (curated by Christoph Dahlhausen), Center for Contemporary Art (CoCA), NZ
From this place things glimmer, Bartley & Company Art, Wellington
2019
Images Cast by the Sun (solo), Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
UNTITLED MIAMI with Hollis Taggart Contemporary, New York
Asia Now Paris, with Yavuz Gallery, Singapore/Sydney
Woven and Illuminated, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin
Containment Field, COMA Gallery, Sydney
Group presentation with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Art Brussels
Highlight (curated by Paul Efstathiou & Eleanor Flatow), National Arts Club, New York
Group presentation with Yavuz Gallery Singapore, Art Basel Hong Kong
2018
‘The Imagist & the Materialist’ (solo forthcoming), COMA Gallery, Sydney
‘MAKING-IMAGE’ (solo), Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Day Paintings (solo), Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
The Cobra Effect (solo), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
Highlight (curated by Paul Efstathiou), Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
Looking for U, Unit London, London
Group presentation with Yavuz Gallery Singapore, Art Basel Hong Kong
Solo presentation with Neon Parc Melbourne, Material Fair, Mexico City
2017
‘Group presentation’ with Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Untitled Miami
‘Open Studios’, International Studio & Curatorial Program, NY
‘IRL’ (solo), Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
‘Watching Windows’ (curated by Andrew Clifford), Te Uru Contemporary Museum, Auckland
‘Small Paintings IRL’ (solo), Bartley and Company, Wellington
‘Yavuz Gallery Group Presentation’, Art Basel HK, Hong Kong
2016
‘Deep Surfacing’ (solo), Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles
‘Fauvette Loureiro Finalist Exhibition’, SCA Galleries, Sydney
‘Group Presentation’ (w/Tristian Koenig Gallery), CODE Art Fair, Copenhagen
‘Picturesque’ (curated by Tristian Koenig), Palmer Art Projects, Sydney
‘New Representation Part III’ (solo), Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
‘Antipodean Inquiry’ (curated by Owen Craven), Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
2015
‘Flatbed Plein Air’ (solo), Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
‘Asemic’ (with James Alec Hardy & Hiroshi Tachibana), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London
‘Paintings 2005-2015’, Pataka Museum, New Zealand
‘A Hot Mess’, Galerie Fatiha Selam, Paris, France
‘Group Exhibition’, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
‘ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS’ (with Darcey Bella Arnold & Ry David Bradley), Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
‘Metarealism’ (including Ryan McGinley, Scott Gardiner, Michael Staniak), Palmer Art Projects, Sydney, Australia
‘New Representation Part II’ (solo), Bartley and Company Art, Wellington, Australia
‘New Representation’ (solo), Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2014
‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’, Beers Contemporary, London, UK
‘Utopian Days’ curated by Martin Schulze and Hailey Grenet, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
‘Television’ curated by Matthys Gerber, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia
‘Levels of Abstraction’ Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
‘Critical Intent’ (curated by Gary Sangster and Fan Lin), Guangzhou Art Center, Guangzhou, China
2013
‘LATM’ (solo screening), Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
‘Stack Overflow’ (solo), Bartley and Company, Wellington, New Zealand
‘New Smart Objects’ (Solo), Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney, Australia
‘Unsettled’, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
‘CASS’ (Solo), The Christchurch Art Gallery (Outer Spaces Series curated by Felicity Milburn and Justin Paton, New Zealand
‘Hot Wallpapers’ (Solo), Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
‘hyper/links’ (solo), The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, New Zealand
TEAF Public Art 2011- Curated by Ryu Hee Jung, Ulsan Public Terrace, Ulsan, Korea
2010
Frieze- Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
You can’t kill me, I’m notorious (solo), Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
This time it’s official, this time it’s serious, this time it’s personal, this time it’s different’ (solo), Peloton Gallery (P25), Sydney, Australia
Choice! -CW3 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
A’ Kiosk- Takeout Drawing 3, Seoul, Korea
YOUR WAR IS OLD, YOUR GAME IS OVER (solo), SoFA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Painting in 3-D (solo), Bartley and Company Art, Wellington, New Zealand
2009
Less was More -Plus Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Open Studios -Kunstlerhaus GloguAIR, Berlin, Germany
Collectively Speaking -Te Manawa Museum, New Zealand
Plan B, Project B -Seoul Artspace Geumcheon, Korea
1.44mb Seongbuk Blue -Takeout Drawing, Seoul, Korea
The Real Bad Painter and the Story of Everything in Real-time (solo) -Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Leisure/Pleasure/Sex/Power/Beauty/Danger-Danger! (solo)-Sofitel Melbourne(GAP Projects) Australia
The BANG-BANG Painting Collective (solo)-Bartley+Company, Wellington, NZ
Lying Beyond What is Obvious (solo)-Doosan Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
1.44mb Archive Machine -Takeout Drawing, Seoul, Korea
This is Not Miami- Paintlust Project Space, Christchurch, New Zealand
Paint Wall Paper Wine -SFA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2008
Project Standing by 000 -Loop Alternative Space/Xii Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Are you right to not like modern art? Te Manawa, New Zealand
’64’ -64zero3, Christchurch, New Zealand
Red Carpet -Changdong Art Studio, Seoul, Korea
Appearance and Reality -Grimson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
IASK Public Art Project -Changdong Art Studio, Seoul, Korea
Taking a Line, Vavasour Godkin, Auckland, NZ
‘My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble’ curated by Tilman, Physics Room, NZ
Things to do with paint that won’t dry… (solo) – HSP Offsite Project, Christchurch, New Zealand
I read… -Bartley and Company, Wellington, NZ
Aspects of the Gallery -Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland, NZ
STOP GAP/exquisite corpse -SOFA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
Associated spin-off’s of the weekday painter (solo)-Physics Room Kiosk, Christchurch, NZ
2007
Paint Lust at Full Thrust (solo)-Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Accumulated Strategies of the Weekday Painter (solo)-64zero3, Christchurch, New Zealand
Artschool 125 -Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
Fast Forward -Vavasour Godkin, Auckland, NZ
Hot -64zero3, Christchurch, NZ
In Limbo -Vavasour Godkin, Auckland, NZ
2006
Pleasure Yourself -Royal College of Art, London, UK