New Zealand/German b.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 EXHIBITIONS
2018
‘The Imagist & the Materialist’ (solo forthcoming), COMA Gallery, Sydney
‘MAKING-IMAGE’ (solo), Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles
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
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SELECTED AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
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
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
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
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