Michael Parekowhai
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MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI
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1968
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Born, Porirua, New Zealand Nga-Ariki, Ngati Whakarongo |
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EDUCATION |
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1987-90 |
BFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
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1991 |
Teaching Diploma, Auckland College of Education |
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1998-00 |
MFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland |
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2001 |
Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award |
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2009 |
Seldom is Herd, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
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2008 |
Jim McMurty, Maori Hall, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2007 |
My Sister My Self, Michael Lett, Auckland New Zealand Solo Presentation, Michael Lett, Basel, Liste |
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2006 |
Eerst me fiets (First my bicycle), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Beaufort Inside, PMMK, Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium |
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2005 |
Driving Mr. Albert, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand Rainbow Servant Dreaming, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
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2004
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Consolation of Philosophy - Piko nei te matenga, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Selected Works 1989 - 1994, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand Michael Parekowhai: Consolation of philosophy Piko nei te matenga, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Michael Parekowhai/Hany Armanious, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2003 |
Kapa Haka, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2002 |
Michael Parekowhai, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia All there is / The Consolation of Philosophy, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand |
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2001-02 |
All there is, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2001 |
Patriot: Ten Guitars, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA Consolation of philosophy - Piko nei te matenga, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2000 |
The Beverly Hills Gun Club, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand The Beverly Hills Gun Club / True Action Adventures of the Twentieth Century, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand |
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1999-00 |
Patriot: Ten Guitars, touring exhibition (Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, Beyond the Future, The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand) |
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1999 |
Kitset Cultures, Djamu Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
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1998 |
Recent Paintings, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand |
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1997 |
Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Recent Paintings, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand |
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1994 |
Kiss the Baby Goodbye, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Kiss the Baby Goodbye, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand A capella, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2008 |
Evolution, Max Lang, New York, curated by Marc Wellmann Dateline, City Gallery Kiel; City Gallery Sindelfingen, Germany |
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2007 |
Dateline, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany SURREALITES - Traces du surreel dans l'art contemporain, Centre PasquArt, Switzerland, 19 August - 21 October Love Chief, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Hei konei mai: We'll meet again, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2006 |
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia High Tide: currents in contemporary New Zealand & Australian Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 13th February 2006 - 9th April 2006 High Tide: currents in contemporary New Zealand & Australian Art, Contemporary Art Centre, 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2nd June 2006 - 13th August 2006 Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, New York, USA, January 28 - June 18, 2006 Random Access, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria |
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2005 |
High Chair, St. Paul Street Gallery, Aut, Auckland, New Zealand Remember New Zealand, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2004 |
Melbourne Art Fair, Michael Lett, Melbourne, Australia Earthly Delights, George Perry Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand Art Showcase, Grace Joel, Auckland, New Zealand The Suter, Nelson, New Zealand IKI and thanks for all the IKA, Artspace, Auckland State of Art, George Perry Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand In Flower, Pataka, Poriua, Wellington, New Zealand Animals in Art, North Art, Auckland, New Zealand
Remember New Zealand, Sao Paulo Biennale, San Paulo, Brazil A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, Korea 35K, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand Urban Legends, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Paradise Now?, Asia Pacific Society, New York, USA |
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2003 |
Judy Darragh & Michael Parekowhai, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand Traffic, Crossing Currents in Indigenous Photomedia, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia Pacific Harbours, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Opening Exhibition, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand 9 Lives, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Indians and Cowboys, (touring Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia, Canberra Artspace, Canberra, Australia) Thompson, Frank, Paterson, Gimblett, Parekowhai, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
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2002 |
Chartwell Collection: Recent Acquisitions, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Pataka Art Museum, Pataka, New Zealand (The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, 2002, Sydney, Australia Katharina Grosse, Melinda Harper, Michael Parekowhai, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2001 |
Good Work, the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection (touring Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand) Purangiaho: Seeing Clearly, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Techno Maori, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Multistylus Programme, Recent Chartwell Acquisitions, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Bright Paradise: the 1st Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Prospect 2001,City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Let There Be Light, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Catalogue Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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2000 |
La+nguage Matters, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand The Numbers Game, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Noumea Biennial, Tibaou Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia Old Worlds/New Worlds, Art Museum of Missoula, U.S.A Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia Flight patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A Simpson Grierson Season - works from the collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Wonderlands, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
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1999-2000 |
Beyond the Future: The Third Asia - Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
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1999 |
Home and Away, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Taonga Mauri, Artstation, Auckland, New Zealand The Promoter, Auckland, New Zealand Who Do I Think I Am, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand Wonderlands: views on life at the end of the century, at the end of the world, Govett - Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand |
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1998 |
Dream Collectors, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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1996 |
The World Over / de wereld bollen: art in the age of globalisation, City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Here I give thanks, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand |
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1995 |
Cultural Safety, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton City Gallery, Wellington, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Frankfurter, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany The Nervous System, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Korurangi, New Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand |
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1994 |
Art Now, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand Changing Signs, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand |
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1993 |
After McCahon, Cubism, Wellington, New Zealand Shared Pleasures, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, New Zealand Stop Making Sense, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand |
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1992 |
Homemade Home, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Vogue/Vague, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand Hit Parade: contemporary art from the Paris Family Collection, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand W.A.R Whatu Aho Rua, Tandanya Gallery, Adelaide, Australia Headlands: thinking through New Zealand art, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Headlands: thinking through New Zealand art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia |
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1991 |
Light Sensitive, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand Cross-pollination, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand |
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1990 |
Kohia Ko Taikaka Anake, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Choice!, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand Light'arted, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand |
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PUBLIC COMMISSIONS |
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2008 |
Ghost of Gondwanda Land, W Hotel, Hong Kong |
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2006 |
The Big O.E., Museum of New Zealand, Wellington Song of the Frog, Beaufort Inside, Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium |
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2005 |
Currency of Colour, Deutsche Bank, Sydney |
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2004 |
Britomart Transport Centre, Auckland New Zealand |
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AWARDS |
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2001 |
Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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2009 |
Sarah Hopkins, “Michael Parekowhai”, Art World Magazine, pp 94 - 101. |
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2008 |
Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia (eds.), Sydney, p248 |
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2007 |
Michael Lett and Ryan Moore (eds), Michael Parekowhai, Michael Lett Publishing: Auckland, 2007 Adam Jasper, `The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial', Frieze, Issue 105 March 2007, p. 195 Reuben Keehan, `Michael Parekowhai, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Australia, October 5 - 28, 2006', Art US, January-February, 2007, p. 6 |
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2006 |
Barrett Newkirk, `One sneeze and the seal…', The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday, 10 October 2006, p. 14 High Tide: new currents in art from Australia and New Zealand, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius and Poland, Warsaw Gillian Serisier, `Deutsche Bank', (inside) australian design review, Issue 41, 2006 pp. 92 - 97 Timothy Morrell, `Michael Parekowhai, 50 Most Collectable Artists', Australian Art Collector, Issue 35, January - March 2006 p119 |
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2005 |
Richard Kalina, `Report from New Zealand: A Change of Empires', Art in America, October 2005, pp. 83 - 89 Jarrod Rawlins,” Michael Parekowhai” Flash Art July/September 2005 . Review p. 132. |
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Lenny Ann Low, Open Gallery, Michael Parekowhai-Rainbow Servant Dreaming, Sydney Morning Herald, pg 33, May 14-15, 2005. Craig Judd, “Gwangju Biennale 2004: A Vienna-Participant Memoir,” eyeline, No. 56, Summer 04/05, pg 18-20. |
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2004 |
`A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water', Gwangju Biennale 2004, http://www.gwangju-biennale.org/eng/gb2004/index.asp A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, exh. cat., Korea, 2004, pp. 310-312 Roberta Smith, `The Beauty of the Pacific, Enshrined and Exploited', The New York Times, 5 March, New York Melissa Chiu, Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, cat. essay, http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/paradise/essay.html |
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2003
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Nine Lives, The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Exhibition catalogue, pp. 37-42 Sue Gardiner, `Tuning in', LOOK!, Winter 2003, pg. 51 Watson, Ruth, `Indians and Cowboys: Now and Here,' Indian and Cowboys, exh. cat., Gallery 4A, Asia Australia, Arts Centre, Sydney 2003 Alexa Moses, “Exhibitions: Walk the blanks,” Sydney Morning Herald, 20 September, p. 10 (48 Hours) |
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2002
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Big Bang Theory: Recent Chartwell Acquisitions, `Michael Parekowhai', exh. Cat., Auckland Art Gallery, May-Aug 2002 Benedict Reid, `Michael Parekowhai', cat., 2002 Biennale of Sydney, pp. 149-152 Paul Panckhurst, `Don't Fence Me In', The New Zealand Herald, 29 April 2002 Paton, Justin, `Special Agent, Michael Parekowhai's Generous Duplicity,' Art New Zealand 103, Winter Michael Parekowhai. exh. cat., The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh USA Paton, Justin, `Michael Parekowhai' In Frieze, #67, May, p. 95 |
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2001
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Jordan Weeks, `Popular CultureS: Installations by Michael Parekowhai, Ravinder Reddy, and Yinka Shonibare', Carnegie Magazine http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/2001/mayjun/awm.htm `Pop Goes the World,Pop CultureS events', http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/2001/julaug/awm.htm Bright Paradise, The 1st Auckland Triennial 2001, Mar-Apr, www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz/brightparadise/artists/michael_parekowhai.asp Nigel Clark and Giovanni Intra, `Bright Paradise', The 1st Auckland Triennial 2001 Michael Parekowhai, Cushla Parekowhai, `The Gypsy Lover', cat., June-Sept 2001 Margery King, `Michael Parekowhai', exh. Cat., June-Sept 2001 Amanda Linnell, `Star Bright', Vogue, August 2001 Mason, Ngahiraka, `Purangiaho Toku Mata,' Purangiaho (Seeing Clearly), exh. cat., Auckland Art Gallery, 2001 |
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2000
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Amery, Mark, `Know Just Where You Are', Review, Listener, 24 June 2000 Barr, Jim & Mary, `The Indefinite Article', Art Asia Pacific 23, p72-76 Barton, Christina, Art Now, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand,1994, p9, 11, 66-67, 90 Butler, Connie, `West of everything' Parkett 57, p189-194 Burke, Gregory, `Michael Parekowhai', Review, Art & Text, No. 69, May - July 2000 French, Blair, `Michael Parekowhai', Reviews, Art Asia Pacific, issue 26, p92 Gibson, Jeff,' Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art', Artforum International, January 2000 Hewitson, Michele, `On the Wild Side', NZ Herald, 19 June 2000 McAloon, William, `Sixty Strings Slowly Strummed', Sunday Star Times, 21 May 2000 McNamara, T.J., `Plenty of fire power and a lot of serious questions', NZ Herald, 12 June 2000 Pound, Francis, `Topographies', Flight Patterns, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, p. 130 Stoney, Robin, `Taonga Maori,' Circa, vol. 91, Spring 2000, cover and p. 63 |
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1999
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William McAloon, home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, 1999, p. 58-9, 140 Parekowhai, Michael, `pagework', Pavement (NZ), Oct/Nov, Issue 37, p. 190-191 Dale, Richard, `Reviews Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art', Eyeline 41, Summer 1999 / 2000 Jim Barr, Mary Barr, `The Indefinite Article: Michael Parekowhai's Riff on Representation', Art Asia Pacific, 1999 Gregory Burke, `Michael Parekowhai', Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, 1999 Leonard, Robert, Patriot, exh. cat., published by Gow Langsford Gallery and Artspace, Auckland, 1999 `Michael Parekowhai, Ten Guitars', exh. cat., Artspace, Auckland, 1999 Leonard, Robert, ` Michael Parekowhai: Ten Guitars', Beyond the future: The Third Asia Art Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1999, p100-101 Mane-Wheoki, Jonathan, `States of Flux: The Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art', Art New Zealand 93, Summer 1999-2000 Mason, Ngahiraka, `The Bosom of Abraham, A recent Gallery acquisition', Gallery News 04, Dec - Feb 1999-2000 Page, Maud, Kitset Cultures, exh. cat., Djamu Gallery, Sydney,1999 |
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1998
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Dream Collectors, Te Papa Tongarewa, exh. cat., Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, Auckland Art Gallery,1998 |
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1996
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The world over / de wereld bollen: art in the age of globalisation, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; City Gallery, Wellington; 1996 |
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1995
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Burke, Gregory, Cultural Safety, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; City Gallery, Wellington, 1995 Jahnke, Robert, Korurangi, New Gallery, Auckland, 1995 Smith, Alan, The Nervous System, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 1995 |
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1994
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Leonard, Robert, `Perverse Homage's', Planet #13, Auckland, New Zealand, 1994 Leonard, Robert and Strongman, Lara, Kiss the Baby Goodbye, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth & Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1994 Localities of Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1994 Smith, Allan, “Michael Parekowhai: Kiss the Baby Goodbye”, Art New Zealand 72, Spring 1994, p. 64-67 |
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1993
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Speden, Graeme, `Accent on Child's Play', New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 September 1993 Strongman, Lara, Shared Pleasures: The Chartwell Collecton, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1993 |
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1992
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Burke, Gregory, `Michael Parekowhai', Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art From the Chartwell Collection (ed. William McAloon) Cochrane-Simons, Susan, `Maori Custom is Worth Remembering', Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia, 18 April 1992 Mary Barr (ed), Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art, exh. cat., Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Art Gallery, Wellington Hit parade: contemporary art from the Paris Family Collection, Wellington, City Art Gallery, 1992 McAloon, William, Vogue/Vague, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1992 Mendelssohn, Joanna, `New Views of New Zealand: two versions of isolation', The Bulletin, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 April 1992 Panaho, Rangi, W.A.R.. Whatu Aho Rua, Tandanya Gallery, Adelaide, 1992 Zepke, Stephen, `Difference without Binary oppositions. A chance for a Choice!' Antic, #8, Auckland, New Zealand, 1992 |
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1991
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Leonard, Robert, `Against Purity: three word sculptures by Michael Parekowhai', Art New Zealand, #59, Auckland, New Zealand, 1991, p52-54 |
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1990
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Intra, Giovanni, `Being Brown, Making flutes and Dying', Stamp #12, Auckland, New Zealand, 1990 |
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SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS |
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Musee Du Quai Branly, Paris, France Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand National Library Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Wellington, New Zealand Les and Milly Paris Collection, Wellington, New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand Saatchi & Saatchi Collection, Wellington, New Zealand Sweeney and Vesty Collection, Wellington, New Zealand Thanksgiving Trust, Auckland, New Zealand Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Deutsche Bank, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Austcorp, Sydney, Australia Arario Gallery, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea |