EDUCATION
2002 Master of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography), Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane, The Pavillion
2010 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Valley
2010 Starkwhite, Auckland. Bible Studies (New Testament)
2009 Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. Bible Studies (New Testament)
2009 Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown (ICAN), Sydney. The Island
2009 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Colony 2000
2008 Kaliman Gallery, Sydney. Second Empire (New World)
2008 Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales. The Menagerie
2008 Lopdell House, Auckland. Second Empire
2008 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Terrace
2008 Starkwhite, Auckland. Natural History
2007 Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The Field (Part2)
2007 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. Empire
2006 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne. The Village
2006 Starkwhite, Auckland. The Village
2005 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland. The Village
2005 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Village
2004 Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney. The Mentor
2003 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland. The Port
2003 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Host
2002 The Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland. The Colony
2002 Starkwhite, Auckland. The Ring
2001 City Gallery, Wellington; Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui; Auckland Art Gallery (2002);
2001 Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2002). The Homely
2001 Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand. The Stall
2001 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Gulf
2000 Artspace, Auckland. Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington. The Habitat
2000 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Shaft
1999 Artspace, Sydney. The Pack
1999 Dunedin Public Art Gallery. The Circuit
1999 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1999 Machine Art: Recent Work by Gavin Hipkins
1999 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Well
1999 Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland. The Drop
1998 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Coil
1998 Physics Room, Christchurch. The Trench
1997 Artspace, Auckland. The Tunnel
1997 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. The Blue Light
1997 Teststrip, Auckland. Panorama
1996 Dunedin Public Art Gallery. The Field
1996 James Smith Council Carpark, Wellington. The Concrete Deal Installation Series. Third Party
1995 Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North. The Vision
1995 Teststrip, Auckland. The Field
1995 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. Pictorial
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Austrian Museum of Applied Art and Contemporary Art (MAK), Envisioning Buildings: Reflecting Architecture in Contemporary Art Photography, Vienna, Austria
2011 Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. Collecting Contemporary
2011 Christchurch Art Gallery, Bad Hair Day
2010 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Unnerved: The New Zealand Project
2010 Auckland Art Gallery, Call Waiting
2010 Laneway Exhibitions, Brisbane, Objectophilia
2009 Christchurch Art Gallery, Blue World
2009 City Gallery Wellington, Give Us A Sign
2008 Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland. In Shifting Light
2008 Kaliman Gallery, Sydney. Kaliman Artists and Special Guests
2008 Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui. Suites
2007 San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA. Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now
2007 Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland. Moving Still
2006 International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. (Touring) Picturing Eden
2006 Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington . Smoke Signal
2006 Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington. In View: Works from the VUW Art Collection
2005 Ming Yuan Cultural Center, Shanghai, China. Vision Express
2005 City Gallery Wellington. Small World Big Town: Contemporary Art from Te Papa
2005 Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Shadow Play
2005 St Paul St, Auckland University of Technology. High Chair: New Zealand Artists on Childhood
2005 Lopdell House Galery, Auckland. Background: Landscapes
2004 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia. A Molecular History of Everything
2004 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia. Black Box
2004 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. Toi Te Papa Art of the Nation, 1940 – Today
2004 Auckland Art Gallery. Everyday Minimal
2004 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. Lights>Camera>Action
2004 McNamara Gallery, Whanganui, Fiction
2003 Arts Initiative Tokyo. Tokyo, Japan. Moving Collection
2003 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland. Bodylogue
2002 Metropolitan Iconographies: 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil.
2002 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. +64
2002 Auckland Art Gallery. The Walters Prize 2002
2002 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. How Extraordinary That the World Exists!
2002 Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia. Slow Release: Recent Photography from New Zealand
2002 Lord Mori Gallery, Los Angeles. The Tomorrow People
2002 Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Dogwood
2001 Auckland Art Gallery. Bright Paradise: The 1st Auckland Triennial
2001 Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington. Alive! Still Life into the Twenty-First Century
2001 Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand. The Tomorrow People
2000 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Flight Patterns
2000 Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’ Alba, Italy. Guarene Arte 2000
2000 Poole Arts Centre, Dorset. The Winchester Gallery, Hampshire. Bedales Gallery, Petersfield. United Kingdom. Grid Visions
2000 Auckland Art Gallery. Crystal Chain Gang: Prismatic Geometry in Recent Art
1999 Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand. Fear and Beauty: New Zealand Art at the End of the Millennium
1999 City Gallery, Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, Wellington. Hothouse Deluxe
1999 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. The Collected Works: Going Public at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 1970-2000
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. Every Day: 11th Biennale of Sydney
1998 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Leap of Faith: Contemporary New Zealand Art
1998 University of Tasmania Gallery, Hobart; Launceston University Gallery; East Gippsland Regional Gallery, Victoria; Rockhampton Regional Gallery, Queensland; The Casula Powerhouse, New South Wales, Australia. (1998-2000). F: Divergent Abstraction and the Photographic Project
1997 City Gallery, Wellington. Signs of the Times: Sampling New Directions in New Zealand Art
1997 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Currents
1996 Monash University Gallery, Clayton, Australia. Nostalgic
1996 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. A Selection of New Zealand Photography
1995 Auckland Institute and Museum. Currency – Contemporary Photographic Art
1995 Fisher Gallery, Auckland. Symbolist Photography
1994 City Gallery, Wellington. Lest We Forget: Photography, Memory and National Character
1994 Auckland City Art Gallery. Station to Station: The Way of the Cross, 14 Contemporary Artists
1994 Auckland Institute and Museum. Open the Shutter: Auckland Photographers Now
1994 Fisher Gallery, Auckland. Ten Years On, Contemporary Auckland Artists
1994 Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. Circle of Confusion: 7 Photographers
1993 Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Comfort Zone
1993 Artspace, Auckland. In Three Acts
1993 Teststrip, Auckland and Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington. Suffer
1992 Wellington City Art Gallery. Scenes - from Real and Imaginary Lives: Recent Photography
1992 Artspace, Auckland. False Horizons
1992 Auckland Society of Arts. Caterpillar Landscape
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
1998 Artspace, Auckland. Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui. Folklore: The New Zealanders
1997 National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, Wellington; Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui. (1998); Hocken Library, Dunedin. (1999). The Unhomely: Images from the Alexander Turnbull Library Photographic Archive. Selected by Gavin Hipkins
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Chartwell Collection, Auckland
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, New York
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Hocken Library, Dunedin
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
Massey University Collection, Wellington
Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Paris Family Collection, Wellington
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Saatchi Collection, Wellington
University of Auckland Collection, Auckland
Victoria University of Wellington Collection, Wellington