1947           

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand

 

Education

 

1968-71        University of Canterbury, Department of Arts (Ilam School of Art), Christchurch, New Zealand.

 

1972-75       Royal College of Art, London.

 

Awards

 

1998            Shortlisted for the Turner Prize

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2021

Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens

 

2009

Julie Saul Gallery, Armory Show, New York

 

2007

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

 

2004

Micheal Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

 

2003

Estorick Collection, London
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense

 

2002

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes

 

2001

Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane

 

2000

Galerie Windows, Brussels

 

1999

Toi Toi Toi Museum Friedericianum, Kassel
Auckland Art Gallery, Aukland
Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens

 

1997

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London
Galerie Robert Doisneau, Nancy
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Grande Galerie, Rouen

 

1996

Villa Arson, Nice, France

 

1995

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

 

1994

British Council, VIII Indian Triennale exhibition. Travelled to: Akademi, New Delhi; Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Culcutta; Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery, Madras; Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore; Ravishankar Raval Art Gallery, Ahmedabad; The Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Orchard Gallery, Derry.)

 

1993

Encontros de Photografia, Coimbra
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica

 

1992

Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Kansas
Meyers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica

 

1991

Espace d’art Contemporain, Paris

 

1990

Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
FRAC du Limousin, Limoges
Meyers-Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

 

1989

Anthony D’Offay Gallery, Lodnon
Cornerhouse, London
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Sonnabend Gallery, New York1988
Meyers/ Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica

 

1987

Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens
Galeria Cómicos, Lisbon
Whitechapel Art Gallery, ‘Boyd Webb: photographs 1981-1987 (travelled to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.)

 

1986

Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

 

1985

Northern Illinois University, Chicago
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

 

1984

Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London

 

1983

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Galerie Crousel – Hussenot, Paris
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

 

1982

Badischer Kunstverein (travelled to Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein), Karlsruhe
Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens

 

1981

Galerie Loyse Oppenheim, Geneva
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

 

1980

Galerie ‘t Venster, Rotterdam
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld

 

1979

New Belfast: Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris

 

1978

Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Arnolfini Art Gallery, Bristol (travelled to Cardiff: Chapter Arts Centre)
Whitechapel Gallery, London

 

1977

Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Robert Self Gallery, Dusseldorf
Graeme Gallery, Edinburgh

 

1976

Robert Self Gallery, London (travelled to Newcastle: PMJ Self Gallery.)

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2012

The Spring, ‘Space for mind/ space for art’, London

 

2010

Sichuan Provincial Museum, ‘Made in Britain’, China (travelled to China, Greece Albania)

 

2001

National Museum of Art, ‘Multiplication’, Bucharest (travelled to Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Estonia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile)

 

1999

Musée des Beaux-Arts, ‘Le musée a l’heure anglaise’ Valenciennes

 

1998

Johannesburg Art Gallery, ‘A changed world’, Johannesburg (travelled to Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Cyprus, Malta)

 

1997

Artspace, ‘alt. nature’ Auckland
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, ‘Contemporary British Photography’, Berlin
Purdy Hicks Gallery, ‘A cloudburst of material possessions: Fantasy on drawing by Leonardo da Vinci’, London
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Making it real’, Connecticut

 

1996

Photographie & Art Visuels, ‘Le printemps de Cahors 96’, Cahors
Frankfurter Kunstverein, ‘Prospect 96’, Frankfurt
Hayward Gallery, ‘Spellbound: art and film’, London
Centre Municipal de la Photographie, ‘Septembre de la photo 96’, Nice

 

1995

Kunsthalle Krems, ‘ Wasser und Wein: zwei Dinge des Lebes’, Austria
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, ‘Dare’, Dallas

 

1994

Herbert Read Gallery, ‘Crossroads’, Kent
Saatchi Gallery, ‘A positive view’, London
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, ‘Sculpture’, London
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Power works: from the MCA collection’. New Plymouth
Russian Museum, ‘A changing world: fifty years of sculpture from the British Council Collection’, St. Petersburg
Seoul 600 international Art Festival, ‘Humanism and Technology: The human figure in industrial society’, Seoul

 

1993

Centre d’histoire de l’art contemporain, ‘C’est pas la fin du monde’, Caen France

 

1992

Hayward Gallery, ‘Doubletake: Collective memory & current art’, London

 

1991

Project Contemporary Art, ‘Blind navigator – the heritage of Surrealism’, Bergen
British Council, ‘De composition: constructed photography in Britain’ London (toured to Latin America)
City Art Gallery, ‘Modern Painter, a memorial exhibition for Peter Fuller’, Manchester
Museum of Architecture, ‘New Spaces of Architecture’, Wrøclaw

 

1990

Centre d’Art Contemporani Santa Monica, ‘ To be and not to be’, Barcelona
Beaux Arts, ‘Tribute to Peter Fuller’, Bath
Tate Gallery, ‘Lifelines- Four British Artists’, Liverpool
The Showroom, ‘UK to USSR’, London (travelled to Kiev, Moscow)
Art Gallery of New South Wales, ‘The readymade boomerang: certain relations in 20th century art’ (8th biennale of Sydney exhibition)’, Sydney
Seagaya Museum, ‘British art now: a subjective view’, Tokyo
Vienna Festival, ‘Von der Natur in der Kunst’, Vienna

 

1989

Museum of Fine Arts, ‘The art of photography 1839-1989’, Houston
Barbican Art Centre, ‘Through the looking glass’, London
BASF Feierabendhaus, ‘Lebenslinien: vier Künstler aus Großbritannien’, Ludwigshafen
Kunstverein, ‘Das konstruierte Bild’, Munich
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘L’invention d’un art’, Paris
INFAS, ‘Seven artists 89’, Tokyo
Impressions Gallery, , ‘The globe’, York

 

1988

Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘NZXI’, Auckland
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, ‘ViewpointL British art of the 1980s’, Brussels
Musées des Beaux-Arts,’ Matter of facts, Photographie: art contemporain en Grand-Bretagne’, Nantes
Nottingham Castle Museum, ‘Inside/Outside’, Nottingham
City Museum and Art Gallery, “Object and image, aspects of British art in the 1980s’, Stoke-on-Tent
Museum für Gestaltung, ‘Britische Sicht! Fotografie aus England’, Zürich

 

1987

British Council, ‘Inscriptions and inventions: British Photography in the 1980’s’ (travelled to Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy)
Arts Centre, ‘Conversations’, Darlington
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, ‘About sculpture’, London
Photographers’ Gallery and Cardiff Ffotogallery, ‘Mysterious coincidences’ London
Walker Art Center, ‘Cross references: sculpture into photography’ Minneapolis
Württembergischher Kunstverein, ‘Zeitgeschichte’, Stuttgart

 

1986

Fotogallery, ‘True stories and photofictions’, Cardiff
Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schrin Kunsthalle, ‘Prospect 86’, Frankfurt
Photographers’ Gallery, ‘Photography as performance’, London
Walker Art Center, Sculpture into photography’, Minneapolis
Musée d’Art Contemporain, ‘La magie de l’image’, Montreal
White columns, ‘Signs of the real’, New York
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, ‘Contrariwise: surrealism and Britain 1930-1986’, Swansea

 

1985

Kunsthalle, ‘Alles und noch viel mehr: das poetische ABC’, Bern
Louisiana Museum, ‘Sculpture: 9 artists from England’, Denmark
Leeds City Art Gallery, ‘The irresistible object: still life 1600-1985’, Leeds
Tate Gallery, ‘Forty years of modern art 1945-1985’, London
Le Nouveau Muée, ‘Collection souvenir’, Lyon
Queens Museum, ‘The real big picture’ New York
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Atelier Polaroid’, Paris
Grande Halle de la Gillette, ‘Nouvelle Biennale de Paris’, Paris
John HansardGallery, University of Southampton, ‘L’indifférent’, Southampton
Venice Biennale, ‘Aperto’, Venice

 

1984

Château des ducs d’Epernon, ‘Histoire de sculpture’, Cadillac-Gironde
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, ‘Anxious Interiors’, California
Arts Council of Great Britain, ‘The British art show: old allegiances and new directions, 1979-1984’, London

 

1983

Anthony d’Offay Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, London
Hayward Gallery, ‘The sculpture show: fifty sculptors at the Serpentine and the South Bank’, London
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Images fabriquées’, Paris

 

1982

Lijnbaan Centrum, ‘Staged photo events’, Rotterdam
Art Gallery of New South Wales, ‘Vision in disbelief’ (4th biennale of Sydney exhibition), Sydney
Documenta 7, Kassel

 

1981

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, ‘Das Porträt in der Fotografie’, Bonn
Wright State University, ‘Fabricated to be photographed’, Dayton Ohio
Fruitmarket Gallery, ‘New works of contemporary art and music’, Edinburgh
Third Eye Centre, ‘Art and the sea’, Glasgow
Sidney Janis Gallery, ‘New directions’, New York
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Everson Museum of Art and International Center for Photography, ‘The new Color’, Syracuse, New York
Neue Sezession, ‘Erweitere Fotografie’ Vienna

 

1980

Arts Council of Great Britain, ‘About 70 photographs’, (touring exhibition)
British Council, ‘Photography and the medium’, (travelled to Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia, The Netherlands, Denmark, Spain)
Lisson Gallery, London
University of California Santa Barbara, ‘Invented images’, Santa Barbara
Mappin Art Gallery, ‘Artist and camera’, (travelled to Liverpool, Llandudno, Southampton, Bristol, London)

 

1979

‘Europa 79’, Stuttgart
InK, Halle für internationale neue Kunst, ‘With a certain smile’, Zürich

 

1977

Künstlerhaus, ‘Time, words and the camera: photo works by British Artists, Graz

 

1976

Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘Pan Pacific Biennale’, Auckland

 

1975

Robert Self Gallery, London

 

1973

Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘Six New Zealand Artists’, Auckland City Art Gallery, Haymarket London

 

1971

CSA ‘4 artists’, Christchurch
‘Sculpture on the Avon river’, Christchurch
Robert McDougall Art Gallery, ’30 Plus’, Christchurch
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘New Zealand young contemporaries’, Auckland

 

1970

CSA ‘4 artists’, Christchurch

 

Works in Public Collections

 

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (Chartwell Trust)
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Aquitane, Bordeaux
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbaine
The European Parliament, Brussels
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Pays de la Loire, Clisson
Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Stedelijk van Abbesmuseum, Eindhoven
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Musée de la Roche-sur-Yon
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Contemporary Arts Society, London
Chase Manhattan Bank, London
British Council, London
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Limousin, Limoges
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Rhône-Alpes
National gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Musée D’Art Contemporain, Montreal
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Southampton
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Atlantis Museum, Tenerife
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
William College of Art, Williamstown
Kunsthalle, Zürich