Shane Cotton

Born in Upper Hutt, New Zealand 1964; lives and works in New Zealand

Education

1993–2005

Lecturer, Te Putahi-a-Toi, Maori Visual Arts, Massey University, New Zealand

1991

Diploma in Teaching, Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand

1988

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Solo Exhibitions

2010

To and Fro, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK

2008

Coloured Dirt, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2007

Red-Shift, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

Helgoland, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

2006

Shane Cotton, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2005

Pararaiha, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

2004

Shane Cotton Survey 1993-2003, curator Lara Strongman, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand

2003

Shane Cotton Survey 1993-2003, curator Lara Strongman, City Gallery Wellington, New

Zealand

Shane Cotton: Paintings, curator Ewen McDonald, SOFA Gallery, School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Shane Cotton: New Paintings, Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

2002

Powder Garden, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Birds Eyes Views, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2001

Blackout Movement, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

New Paintings, Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

2000

Te Timatanga: From Eden to Ohaeawai, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1999

New Painting, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Shane Cotton, Hocken Library Gallery, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

New Paintings, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 

New Paintings, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1998

Local, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Shane Cotton, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1997

New Painting, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Square Style, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1996

New Painting, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

New Painting, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1995

Shane Cotton: Recent Paintings, curator Penny Swann, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Te Ta Pahara, Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Shane Cotton: Recent Paintings, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Ta Te Whenua, Manawatu Art Gallery Palmerston North; Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1994

New Works, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

New Painting, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1993

Collections: New Work by Shane Cotton, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New

Zealand

1992

Strata, Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

1990

Nature Forms Myth, Last Decade Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?, Rossi and Rossi, London, UK

Roundabout, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2010

Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Boys and Girls Come out to Play, Summer exhibition, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK

17^th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, curated by David Elliott, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

2009

Art in the Contemporary Pacific, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

2007

Turbulence 3rd Auckland Triennial 2007, curated by Victoria Lynn, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand

Four Times Painting 2007, curated by Christina Barton, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

2006

Nuclear Reactions, curated by Paco Barragan, Caja de Burgos Art Centre, Burgos, Spain

2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, curated by Charles Green, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2004

Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA

2003

Empathy: Beyond the Horizon, curators Marketta Seppala and Imants Tillers (Pori Art Museum and Frame, The Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Finland), Artspace, Sydney, Australia

Emerging Artists of the Nineties, 10 Works from the Fletcher Trust Collection, Tauanga Art Gallery, New Zealand

2002

Koru and Kowhaiwhai: The Contemporary Renaissance of Kowhaiwhai Painting, curator Helen Kedgley, Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua, , New Zealand

Taiawhio: Continuity and Change, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

2001

Home & Away: Chartwell Collection, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

Taranaki Te Maunga, Gowett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Still Life, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

Colin McCahon’s Time for Messages, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Leaping Boundaries, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Empathy: Beyond the Horizon, curators Marketta Seppala and Imants Tillers, Pori Art Museum and Frame, The Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Finland

Techno Maori: Maori in the Digital Age, curators Deidre Brown and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, City Gallery Wellington and Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua, New Zealand

Purangiaho: Seeing Clearly, curators Ngarino Ellis and Ngahiraka Mason, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand

Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, curator Justin Paton, Dunedin Public Art Gallery; City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

Te Maunga Taranaki: Views of a Mountain, curators Gregory Burke, William McAloon, Hanna Scott and Darcy Nicholas, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Alive!: Still Life into the 21st Century, curator Zara Stanhope, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

2000

Eloquent Polarities: The Chartwell Collection - Recent Acquisitions, Auckland City Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand

Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance, curators Te Miringa Hohaia, Gregory O’Brien, Paula Savage and Lara Strongman, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

Te Ao Tawhito/Te Ao Hou – Old Worlds/New Worlds: Contemporary Art from Aotearoa New Zealand, Art Museum of Missoula, Montana, US; Maui Arts and Cultural Centre, Hawaii

Canterbury Painting in the 1990s, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Darkness and Light: Looking at the Landscape, touring Victorian regional galleries to McClelland Art Gallery and Sculpture Park; Benalla Art Gallery; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery; Geelong Art Gallery; and to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand

Text and Image, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1999

Group Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA

Wonderlands: Views on Life at the End of the Century, at the End of the World, curators Gregory Burke and Hanna Scott, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

The Raising of the Noxious, curator Gregory Burke, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Word: Artists Explore the Power of the Single Word, curator Linda Michael with Peter Tyndall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Manufacturing Meaning: The Victoria University Art Collection in Context, curator Stuart McKenzie, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton; City Gallery Wellington; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand

1998

Wake Naima, Centre Culturel Tjibaou, New Caledonia, New Zealand

Takeaway Symbols, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Skywriters and Earthmovers, Robert McDougall Art Annex, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Seppelt Contemporary Art Awards 1998, curator Linda Michael, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

FISI, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Fundraising Exhibition, High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand

Black & White, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Leap of Faith: Contemporary New Zealand Art, curator Gregory Burke, Govett Brewster Art Gallery New Plymouth, New Zealand

Dream Collectors: One Hundred Years of New Zealand Art, curators Ian Wedde, John Walsh and Alexa Johnston, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand

1997           

Now Showing: Artists go to the Movies, curators Robin Neate and Stuart McKenzie, The Film Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

1996           

Patua, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Seven New Zealand Artists, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Into the Light, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand

1995           

Stop Making Sense, curator George Hubbard, City Gallery, Wellington

Korurangi: New Maori Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, curator Allan Smith, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

The Nervous System: Twelve Artists Explore Images and Identities in Crisis, curator Allan Smith, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery New Plymouth; City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

Korurangi: New Maori Art, curators George Hubbard and William McAloon, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand

1994           

Five New Zealand Artists, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Te Puaroa, Shed 1, Wellington, New Zealand

Gallery, New Zealand

Taking Stock of the 90s, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand

Taiawhio: The Coming Together, Page 90, Porirua, New Zealand

Localities of Desire: Contemporary Art in an International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

1993           

Opening Exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Te Hau A Tonga, Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Groundswell, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Christmas Show, Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Christmas Show, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1992           

Tracts, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Te Kupenga, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Latent Realities, McDougall Art Annex, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Canvassing South, Gow Langsford Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Motif/Motive, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Shadow of Style: Eight New Artists, curated by Gregory Burke and Robert Leonard, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Prospect Canterbury ’92, curators Neil Roberts and Lara Strongman, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

He Toi Tutanga Na Ngaa Toa o Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha: An Exhibition of Work by Past and Present Students of Maori Descent from the School of Fine Arts, curator Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

1991           

Kohia Ko Taiakaka Anake, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Preparations: 25 Canterbury Artists, Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch

Recognitions, curator Lara Strongman, McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch

He Toi Tutanga Na Ngaa Toa o Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha: An Exhibition of Work by Past and Present Students of Maori Descent from the School of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Shane Cotton, Barnard McIntyre, Peter Robinson, Gow Langsford Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

1990

New Works (with Peter Robinson), Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Christmas Show, Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

1989

Wilkins & Davies Young Artist of the Year Award, CSA Gallery, Christchurch; Auckland

Society of Arts Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1987

Young Contemporaries, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Awards

1986

Bickerton-Widdowson Memorial Scholarship

1998       

Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship

Sawtell-Turner Prize in Painting

Irwin Allen Hunt Scholarship

Frances Hodgkins Fellowship University of Otago, Dunedin

Seppelt Contemporary Art Award for visual arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

1989

Wilkins and Davies Young Artist of the Year

1991

Te Waka Toi Projects Grant

1999            

Te Tohu Mahi Hou a Te Waka Toi/Te Waka Toi Award for New Work

2008

Arts foundation of New Zealand Laureate

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Chartwell Collection, New Zealand

College House, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Christchurch City Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington City Council, New Zealand

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Oriwa Soliomon, Huhana Smith (ed), Taiawhio II Contemporary Maori Artists, Te Papa Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 2007

Blair French, ‘Painting Presence’ Four Times Painting, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Victoria University, New Zealand, 2007

William McAloorn, ‘Meet me by the Rabbit: Jim Barr & Mary Barr Collection’, Art & Australia, vol. 44, no. 2, summer 2006, pp. 267–271

Paco Barragan, Nuclear Reactions, Centro De Arte Caja De Burgos, 2006 

Sue Gardiner, ‘New Cotton Works’, Artnotes, Art Monthly Australia, no. 194, October 2006, p. 44

Laura Murray Cree (ed.), Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986–2006, Craftsman House, Melbourne, Australia, 2006

‘Shane Cotton: Pararaiha’, Nichigo Press, August 2005, p. 40

Tracey Clement, ‘Shane Cotton’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 12–18 August 2005, p. 27

‘Shane Cotton’, What’s On, The Art Newspaper, July–August 2005

Lara Strongman (ed.), Shane Cotton, City Gallery Wellington and Victoria University Press, 2004

Susette Goldsmith (ed), Te Maunga Taranaki: Views of a Mountain, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2001

Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2001

Te Miringa Hohaia, Gregory O’Brien and Lara Strongman (eds), Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance, City Gallery, Wellington, Victoria University Press and Parihaka Pa Trustees, Wellington, New Zealand 2001

Ngahiraka Mason and Ellis, Ngarino, Purangiaho: Seeing Clearly, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2001

Techno Maori: Maori Art in the Digital Age, City Gallery Wellington and Pataka Museum, Porirua, New Zealand, 2001

Blair French, ‘Crossing the Tasman: The work of Gordon Bennett and Shane Cotton’, Postwest, no. 16, 2000

Simeon Kronenberg and Ngahiraka Mason, Darkness and Light: Looking at the Landscape, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia, 2000

Justin Paton, ‘Homing in’, Shane Cotton: Te Timatanga: From Eden to Ohaeawai, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2000

Sandy Adsett and Cliff Whiting (eds), Mataora/The Living Face: Contemporary Maori Art, David Bateman Ltd, Auckland, in association with Te Waka Toi, New Zealand, 1999

Jim Barr and Mary Barr, ‘Shane Cotton’, Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery and David Bateman Ltd, New Zealand, 1999

William McAloon, ‘Stirring the pot: Recent paintings by Shane Cotton’,  Art New Zealand,  no. 90, 1999

Nicholas Thomas, Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1999

Imants Tillers, ‘Locating Shane Cotton’ Art AsiaPacific, no. 23, 1999

Linda Tyler (ed.), ‘Shane Cotton’, Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1999

Elizabeth Caldwell (ed.), Skywriters and Earthmovers, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1998

David Eggleton, ‘History under Canvas’, New Zealand Listener, 12 December 1998

Blair French, ‘Shane Cotton: Painting at the Heart of the Matter’, Seppelt Contemporary Art Awards, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1998

Robert Leonard, ‘Shane Cotton’, Art/text, no. 63, 1998

Ian Wedde et al., Dream Collectors: One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand, Te Papa Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 1998

Jim Barr and Mary Barr, ‘Shane Cotton: Mana from History’, World Art, no. 15, 1997

Louise Garrett, ‘Exhibitions: Wellington’, Art New Zealand, no. 83, 1997

Charles Green, ‘Shane Cotton’, Artforum, November 1997

Ewen McDonald, Shane Cotton: Square Style, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 1997

Robin Neate and Stuart McKenzie, Now Showing: Artists Go to the Movies, Exhibitour, Wellington, New Zealand, 1997

Sian Daly, ‘Show Champion’, Monica, October–November, 1996

Michael Dunn, Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, Craftsman House, Sydney, Australia, 1996

Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, ‘Korurangi/Toihoukura: Brown Art in White Spaces’, Art New Zealand, no. 78, 1996

William McAloon, ‘Amidst Seas and Skies: Casino Art in Auckland’ Art AsiaPacific, vol. 3, no. 4, Sydney, 1996

Gregory O’Brien, Lands and Deeds: Profiles of Contemporary New Zealand Painters, Godwit Press, Auckland, 1996

Warwick Brown, 100 New Zealand Paintings by 100 New Zealand Artists, Godwit Press, Auckland, Australia,1995

Richards Dale, ‘Insider/outsider: A Report from the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’, Art New Zealand, no. 77, 1995

Bernice Murphy, Localities of Desire: Contemporary Art in an International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1995

Justin Paton, ‘Exhibitions: Christchurch’, Art New Zealand, no. 76, 1995

Justtin Paton, ‘For Tangled Times’, New Zealand Listener, 8 July, 1995

Peter Shand, ‘Time Spent in Four Chambers: A Very Peculiar Practice’, Art New Zealand, no. 77, 1995

Allan Smith et al., A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 1995

Allan Smith, The Nervous System: Twelve Artists Explore Images and Identities in Crisis, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1995

Susan Smith, Ta te whenua: Shane Cotton & Robert Jahnke, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 1995

Penny Swan, Shane Cotton: Recent Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1995

John Daly-Peoples, ‘Exhibitions: Auckland’, Art New Zealand, no. 72, 1994

George Hubbard, ‘Buy Culture’, Planet, no. 13, 1994

Allan Smith, ‘Shane Cotton’, Art & Text, no. 49, 1994

Luke Strongman, ‘Something in the Pot: Luke Strongman talks to artist Shane Cotton’ Midwest, no. 5, 1994

Jane Sayle, ‘Exhibitions: Wellington’, Art New Zealand, no. 68, 1993

Allan Smith, ‘The Surfaces of Style’, Art New Zealand, no. 66, 1993

Gregory Burke and Robert Leonard, Shadow of Style: Eight New Artists, City Gallery Wellington and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1992

Blair French, ‘A Choreography of Form: The Paintings of Shane Cotton’, Art New Zealand, no. 60, 1991