• 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

    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 rght 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/esquisite 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, Christchruch, New Zealand
    Artschool 125 -Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
    Fast Forwad -Vavasour Godkin, Auckland, NZ
    Hot -64zero3, Christchurch, NZ
    In Limbo -Vavasour Godkin, Auckland, NZ
    2006
    Pleasure Yourself -Royal College of Art, London, UK

    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