Lorene taurerewa biography of christopher

Lorene Taurerewa has exhibited in museums as well as private and public galleries in France, London, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, China and the United States.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, NZ (August )

The Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui,

EDUCATION

MA Program, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

BFA Painting, Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui, New Zealand

TEACHING

Lecturer, teaching Drawing for Designers, School of Design, Victoria University, 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Artist in Residence, Kathmandu Contemporary Art Center, Nepal

Artist in residence, Printroom, Whanganui, UCOL

Grant recipient, Asia New Zealand Foundation

Grant recipient, Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand

IASK Artist in Residency, The National Artist Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Grant Recipient, Creative New Zealand,  Arts Council of New Zealand

Martin Hughes Art Award (Winner)

Grant Recipient, Creative New Zealand,  Arts Council of New Zealand

COLLECTIONS

Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, NZ

The Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead, Auckland, NZ

Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Changdong Art Residency, Seoul, Korea

Private Collections in Australia, Asia, USA and New Zealand

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Wallace Art Gallery, Life in a Box, New Zealand

A Gallery, Strangely Beautiful, Whanganui, New Zealand

Thermostat Gallery, Ponder, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Paul Raynor Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Whanganui, New Zealand

ROOM Artspace NYC, The cloud and a Rock, Brooklyn, New York

ROOM Artspace NYC, Out on the Lonely Prairie, Brooklyn, New York

PaulNache Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Gisborne, New Zealand

ROOM Artspace NYC, Life in a Box, Brooklyn, New York

Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal

PaulNache Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Gisborne, New Zealand

Milford Galleries, New Paintings, Dunedin, New Zealand

James Wallace Arts Trust, PAH Homestead, Prestidigitation, Auckland, New Zealand 

Milford Galleries, Tafelspiele, Dunedin, New Zealand

The Gallery at Gamine, Huggermugger, Brooklyn, New York  

Waikato Museum, Intraspace Projects, Hamilton, New Zealand 

Helen Gory Galerie, The Company of Fools, Melbourne, Australia

Suite Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Pataka Museum, Sleight of Hand, Porirua, New Zealand 

Yardmeter Editions, Brooklyn, New York

Chaffers Gallery, More Eccentrickery, Wellington, New Zealand

Orex Gallery, White Paintings, Auckland, New Zealand

A.I.C.H Gallery, Eccentriks, Manhattan, New York

Orex Gallery, Psychopompe, Auckland, New Zealand

Chaffers Gallery, Sensible World, Wellington, New Zealand

Orex Gallery, Degrees of Separation, Auckland, New Zealand

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Drawing Now, Changdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Lorene Taurerewa Drawing, New Zealand 

Sarjeant Gallery, Journey of Miles, Whanganui, New Zealand 

Lopdell House Gallery, Big Drawings, Auckland, New Zealand

Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Inherited Bodies, Porirua, New Zealand 

Neut Gallery, Body Speak, Wellington, New Zealand

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Paperworks Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand

He Xiangning Art Museum, Dispersion and Convergence, Shenzhen, China

Sargeant Gallery Pattillo Review, Whanganui, New Zealand

Room Gallery, Passing Strange, New York

City Gallery Wellington, OCCULTURE: DARK ARTS, Wellington, New Zealand

Geoff Wilson Gallery, DRAW, Whangarei, New Zealand

PAH Homestead, Drawings on Paper, Auckland, New Zealand

Malcolm Smith Gallery, Uxbridge, Turn of the Wheel,Auckland, New Zealand

National Gallery of Victoria, Art of the Pacific, Melbourne, Australia, 

Brooklyn Fireproof, Creative, Landscapes, Brooklyn, New York 

Pataka Museum, Imagine Asia, Porirua, New Zealand

PIEAM (Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum), California, USA

Paramatta Arts Festival, Gallery Exhibition, Sydney, Australia

Tabla Rasa Gallery, Monkey See, Brooklyn, New York 

The Bruce High Quality, The BRUCENNIAL, Manhattan, New York

The Vinyl Factory Collection Exhibition, The Royal Albert Hall, London

Wallace Gallery, Collections Gallery Show, New Zealand

Milford Gallery, Large Paintings Show, Dunedin,New Zealand

Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, Legends: Obsessions with the incomprehensible and the uncanny, Melbourne, Australia

Fountain Art Fair, New York at the 69th Regiment Armory, NY

NORTHSIDE Art Exhibition, Many Conversations, Brooklyn, New York

The  BRUCENNIAL, The High Bruce Quality, New York, New York

Schick Art Gallery, Contemplations and Conjectures, Saratoga, New York 

Waikato Museum, Intraspace Project, Hamilton, New Zealand

Kentler International Drawing Space, Influential Women, Brooklyn, New York

THE END, The Sugarbread House, Brooklyn, New York

SmallWorks gallery, Suit of Skin, Brisbane, Australia

Smallworks Gallery, Visceral as Hell, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Melbourne, Australia

Fountain Art Fair, Miami, USA

MOP Projects, Sydney, Australia

NORTHSIDE Exhibition, THE END ARTSPACE, Brooklyn, New York

The Invisible Dog Art Center, Group Show, Brooklyn, New York

McLean Project for the Arts, Figuration Today: the Surrealist Influence, Washington DC,

Suite Gallery, Bi-Cultural, Wellington, New Zealand

Gallery of Modern Art, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Brisbane, Australia

Amelia Johnson Gallery, Chrysalid, Hong Kong

Ann Street Gallery, INSIGHT: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, New York

Gallery Korea, Soul Ideologie, Manhattan, New York

Oedipus Rex Gallery, Works on Paper, Auckland, New Zealand

Pataka Museum, Samoa Contemporary, New Zealand 

Tauranga Public Art Gallery, Samoa Contemporary, New Zealand

Asian Fusion Gallery, Essence of Asia: Eastern Influences in Western Art, New York

Mark Hutchins Gallery, Drawings, New Zealand

Martin Hughes Architecture Gallery, Awards Show, Auckland, New Zealand

Sydney Art Drawing Fair, Sydney, Australia

Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Dolly Mix (W)rappers, Porirua, New Zealand

ArtsStation, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand

Waikato Museum of Art and History, Dolly Mix (W)rappers, Hamilton, New Zealand

Sarjeant Gallery, Pacific Blue, Wanganui, New Zealand

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Salt and Greyboy Press, Auckland, Nine Artists, by Danae Ripley,

The Art Paper, Issue 03, Hide and Seek, by Danae Ripley July,

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1, Publisher: Conveyor Studio, New Jersey, USA

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Next Magazine, NEW YORK STORY, pp , New Zealand,

Washington Post, preview, Figuration Today, the Surrealist Influence, Washington, November 26

Ashley Crawford for Australian Art Collector, Lorene Taurerewa, pp, , October-December,

Australian Art Review, Impressive Kiwi Gothic, Louise Martin-Chew, August

VOGUE LIVING AUSTRALIA, WET PAINT, pp, , Sept/Oct,

Catalogue, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art,

Catalogue, Soul Ideologie, Gallery Korea,

Mark Amery, The Otherworldliness of Lorene Taurerewa, Dominion Post, ARTS, April

Warwick Brown, 'Seen this Century', Random House, New Zealand

ArtNews, New Zealand, Lorene Taurerewa, Editorial news, March/April,

Mark Amery, Galleries and the Visual Arts: For Richer and for poorer, galleries and the economic climate, citation, Dominion Post, Pg

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Spasifik Magazine 'Connecting with the Past', January\February, PP 90,

Rebecca Rice, 'Julian Dashper, Te huringa/Turning Points, Lorene Taurerewa', Art New Zealand: pp.

Spring Issue

Catalogue, Journey of Miles, Sarjeant Gallery, Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington,

Catalogue, 'IASK' Curated by The National Arts Studio: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea,

Robyn McLean, “Making Marks on a Grand Scale”, Dominion Post, ARTS, Section B10, 21/4/

Mary Bryan, 'Results of amazing Journey on display at Sarjeant Gallery' Wanganui Chronicle, p3, August

'Lorene takes off' B4 Arts section New Zealand Herald, November,

Korea Herald, Article, December

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'Lorene Taurerewa' Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Newsletter, June

Frontseat: TV ONE, Mark Hutchins Gallery, 30/4/

Owen Davidson, 'Spirit and Form, The Art of Lorene Taurerewa' Art New Zealand, pp , November

Gail Bailey, 'Refusing to sit still' The Arts Guide, The New Zealand Herald 18/2/

T.J.

McNamara, 'Painting goes back to its pure roots' The New Zealand Herald 18/2/

Linda Chalmers, 'The Arrival of Contemporary Pacific' New Zealand Investor Monthly, p.3, March

'Contemporary Art by Women of Samoa' The Waikato Times, p.1, March

'Dolly Mix (W)rappers',Catalogue: Curated by Leafa Wilson, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton,

MEDIA

Lorene Taurerewa in New York, a short documentary for Kete Aronui Arts Program for KIWA FILMS, NZ

ABC Radio Australia, Interview with Lorene Taurerewa, The Pacific Wave in New York, May