Rohan Wealleans - Artist Profile - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Rohan Wealleans

Artist profile

New work, 2012

Concentration Farm, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2010

17th Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 2010

My Own Private Idealogue, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, 2009

Slave of the Cannibal God, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2008

Best of Discovery, SH Contemporary, Shanghai, 2008

Ceramics, 2008

Tatunka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2007

Miscellaneous Works

	ROHAN WEALLEANS
	Born 1977 in Invercargill, New Zealand
2000	Graduated BFA (Painting) Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2003	MFA (Painting) awarded in 2003

	SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012	Independent Presitge, PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, Netherlands Apocalyptic Intuition; Rohan Wealleans, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington Situation White Hole: Sarah Lucas and Rohan Wealleans, Sadie Coles, London.
2010	Concentration Farm, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2009	Rogue, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2008	Slave of the Cannibal God, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Mains, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland A Moveable Feast, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland Deep Heat, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington
2007	Terror Firmer, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland Tatunka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006	Where is Blitzen Baby?, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington Tatunka, Dunedin public Art Gallery, Dunedin In The Shadow of the Beast, Hocken Library, Dunedin I Got Urges, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2005	PEGD [Planet Earth Geology Department], Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington Rocococococo, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland Fluoro Rider, Blue Oyster gallery, Dunedin
2004	Albino, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland Different Strokes, Hamish McKay Gallery Wellington
2003	In the Bush, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington The Paint Whisperer, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2002	Residual Love, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2001	Beneath the surface, ASA Gallery, Auckland

	GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012	*Situation,* *Sadie Coles Gallery, London, UK* *The Obstinate Object: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture,* *City Gallery, Wellingto*n
2011	New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2010	True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 17^th Biennale of Sydney, Beauty of Distance, songs of survival in a precarious age. Directed by David Elliot.
2009	Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane My Own Private Idealogue: Joanna Langford, Peter Madden and Rohan Wealleans, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2008	The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane Best of Discovery, Sh Contemporary 08, Shanghai, China Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial, curated by Charlotte Day, Healesville, Victoria Upside Group Show, Summer 2008, Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand
2007	Summer '07 '08, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney The End of Year Exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, 1 December - 22 December Telecom Prospect, City Gallery, Wellington, 11 February - 29 April A Winter Exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, 25 July - 21 August Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 7 December 2006 - 25 January 2007 Just Painting, Curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery, 02 Sep 2006 - 4 February 2007
2006	Metaphysics of youth, Fuoriso, Pascara, Italy 4, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2005	Hotbed, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin. Snake Oil, Recent Acquisitions Chartwell Collection, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery
2004	Remember New Zealand, 26^th Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil Frieze Art Fair, London, England Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia Pressing Flesh, Auckland City Gallery, Auckland SCAPE, Art & Industry, Christchurch
2003	Coffee and Cream, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland IKI Thanks for all the IKA, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania Liste, Basel, Switzerland Waikato Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton 10^th Anniversary Exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington Auckland Festival Exhibition, Atrium on Elliott, Auckland
2002	Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Bits, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
2001	Flesh and Fruity, Artspace, Auckland

	AWARDS
2006	Paramount Winner, 15^th Annual Wallace Art Award, Auckland
2005	Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Otago University
2002	Winner, Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Hamilton

	RESIDENCIES
2008	ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Programme), New York
	McCahon Arts Residency, Titirangi, New Zealand

	COLLECTIONS
	Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin The James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand, Wellington

	CATALOGUES
2009/10	Nicholas Chambers, “Rohan Wealleans: Ritual and Excess”, The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Exh Catologue, pp186-189
2008	Sh Contemporary 08, ex cat., Shanghai Lost and Found, ex cat., Tarrawarra Biennale, Victoria
2007	Rohan Wealleans, Lets Make the Fire Turn Green, monograph with essays by Linda Tyler and Justin Paton, published by Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Hocken Collections, 2007 (72 pages)
2004	Anthony Byrt, Sticky: A publication produced on the occasion of Sticky 13-31 July 2004 at the Randolph Street Gallery, Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland and Ramp Gallery, Wintec, Hamilton, (Ramp Press/Whitecliffe), 2004, 50p. Melissa Gronlund [ed.], Frieze Art Fair: Yearbook 2004-5, (Frieze Art Fair, London), 2004
2001	Anna Miles, Flesh and Fruity: new artists 2001, (Artspace, Auckland), 2001, 21p

	BOOKS
2008	Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia (eds.), Sydney, p340
2005	Justin Paton, `An appointment with the thing' in How to look at a painting, Awa Press, pp. 23 - 31

	ARTICLES
2012	John Hurrell, Tribal Colours, Australian Art Collector, Issue 62, October-December, 2012, pp.144-148
2009	Emma Bugden, “I got urges; the bad boy tribalism of Rohan Wealleans', Art & Australia, Vol. 47, No. 2, Summer 2009, p. 320 - 327.
2008	Gillian Serisier, `Rohan Wealleans,' Artist Profile, Issue 3, pp. 26-27 Stella Brennan, `Disciple of the Pearl: Rohan Wealleans,' Eyeline, No. 65, pp. 29-31 Rudolph Hudsucker, `Rohan Wealleans,' White Fungus, number 8, pp. 22-23
2007	David Eggleton, "Up from the Swamp: The Creation Myths of Rohan Wealleans", Art New Zealand 122, Autumn 2007, pp. 69-71, 84. Tracey Clement, `Lord of the Dyes,' The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 February 2007, p. 23 (Metro)
2005	Ralph Body, `Rohan Wealleans,' Critic, 29 March 2005, pp. 15-16 Justin Paton, `An appointment with the thing' in How to look at a painting, Awa Press, 2005, pp. 23 - 31
2004	Tobias Berger and Tessa Giblin, `Rohan Wealleans: Planet Spore,' eSCAPE, The eZine of The New Zealand Community Trust Art & Industry Urban Arts Biennial 04 http://www.artandindustry.org.nz/SCAPE%2004/04Frameset.html Anthony Byrt, `Sticky,' Whitecliffe College Catalogue Jon Bywater, `Exhibitions: Auckland,' Art New Zealand 111, Winter, 2004, pp.46-47 Olivia Kember, `Young Guns,' New Zealand Listener, 15-21 May, 2004, Vol.193, no.3340 Tessa Laird, `The Best Art of 2004,' New Zealand Listener, 25-31 December, 2004, Vol.196, no.3372 Tessa Laird, `Pink Eye: Is this Whitefella Dreaming? A review of ALBINO, Francis Upritchard and Rohan Wealleans,' Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, April, 2004, Substance Books, Sweet #1, 2004 Deborah Orum, `Remember New Zealand,' Natural Selection, Issue 4, 2005. Virginia Were, `Anything Can Happen,' Summer Studio, Art News, Vol. 24, no.4, December 2004.
2002	Sue Gardiner, `Rohan Wealleans: Winner of National Contemporary Art Award,' Art Monthly, December