Kate Newby
Born 1979, New Zealand.
Lives and works in New York, USA
Education
2015 PhD Fine Art, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2007 MA Fine Art, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2001 BA Fine Art, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
Selected solo exhibitions
miles off road, Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia 2023
What a great year for music, Marfa Book Co, Marfa, TX, USA 2023
Had us running with you, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand 2023
So close, come on, The Sunday Painter, London, UK, 2022
We are such stuff, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY, USA 2022
Feel Noise curated by MacKenzie Stevens, testsite, Austin, TX, USA 2022
Try doing anything without it, Art:Concept, Paris, France 2022
Yes Tomorrow, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara, New Zealand, 2021
Cold Water, Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia 2021
Swallowing Geography, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 2021
L'oeil du serpent, Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France 2021
SCAPE Public Art, Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand 2021
The Future is Unwritten, curated by Laura Preston, The Adam Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 2021
Wild was the night, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France 2019
A puzzling light and moving (Part II+III), lumber room, Portland, OR, USA 2019
Bring Everyone, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2019
Nothing in my life feels big enough, Cooper Cole, Toronto, 2019
Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway 2018
Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand 2018
I can't nail the days down, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 2018
A puzzling light and moving (Part I), lumber room, Portland, OR, USA 2018
All the stuff you already know, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2018
Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway 2018
Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA 2017
Big Tree. Bird's Eye, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand 2016
Tuesday evening. Sunday afternoon. Stony Lake., Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada 2016
Make it bigger, Deeper., Te Poor Farm, Wisconsin, MS, USA 2016
Two aspirins a vitamin C tablet and some baking soda, Laurel Doody, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2015
Always humming curated by Helen Hughes and Pip Wallis, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia 2015
I memorized it I loved it so much, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY, USA 2015
Laura, Lucy, Mark and Felix, MODELAB, Wellington, New Zealand 2014
I feel like a truck on a wet highway, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico 2014
Tiny-but-adventurous, Rokeby, London, UK 2014
Maybe I won't go to sleep at all curated by Anne-Claire Schmitz, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium 2013
Let the other thing in curated by Nicolaus Schafausen, Fogo Island Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada 2013
What a day, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand, 2013
All parts. All the time, Olive St. Garden, Brooklyn (in association with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP), New York, NY, USA 2012
How funny you are today, New York, Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn (in association with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP, New York), 2012
I'm just like a pile of leaves curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand 2011
I'll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand2011
Crawl out your window curated by Janneke de Vries, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst GAK, Bremen, Germany 2010
Get off my garden, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2009
Blow wind blow, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2009
Thinking with your body, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand 2008
Run!, Window, Auckland, New Zealand 2008
Selected group exhibitions
Ephemeral Anchoring, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Tokyo, Japan 2024
Bucket List, Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal 2023
Respiration, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada, 2023
Danse Céleste, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France 2023
wiggling together, falling apart, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand 2022
Millefleurs curated by Joël Riff, Moly-Sabata, Sablons, France 2022
Carbonate of Copper curated by Jennifer Teets, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA 2022
Réclamer la Terre curated by Daria de Beauvais, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2022
Take your chances with me curated by Jamie Hanton, SCAPE Public Art, Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand 2021
Swallowing Geography curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 2021
The Flames: The Living Arts of Ceramics curated by Anne Dressen, Musée d'art moderne de Paris, France 2021
L'oeil du serpent curated by Sébastien Faucon, Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France 2021
La mer imaginaire curated by Chris Sharp, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France 2021
A Grain of Sand, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2021
washed up curated by Christine Nyce, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA 2021
As long as you want, two-person exhibition with Paul P., Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand 2020
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer!, Shimmer, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2020
Patterns 11, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Gallerie curated by Michelle Grabner, Basel, Swizerland, 2020
Tiny Things, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, New York, NY, USA 2020
City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2019
The Garden of Cyrus, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY, USA 2019
Indus2, Art : Concept, Paris, France 2019
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada 2019
Notebook curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, NY, USA 2019
Elements curated by Svea Kellner, Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop, Germany 2019
Juliette Blightman, Parbhu Makan, Kate Newby, Henrik Olesen, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand 2018
Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials, curated by Janneke de Vries and Katja Schroeder, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 2018
Still Life, co-curated with Candice Madey, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, New York, NY, USA 2018
It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems..., Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, USA 2018
Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study curated by Chris Sharp, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia 2018
Superposition: Equilibrium & Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney, curated by Artistic Director Mami Kataoka, Cockatoo Island and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2018
Ritual, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA 2018
Belonging to a Place, An exhibition by Fogo Island Arts, Embassy of Canada, Washington DC, USA 2018
Appendix Toss, SORT, Vienna, Austria 2017
Leotta/Newby, Madragoa Embora, Lisbon, Portugul 2017
Belonging to a Place, Fogo Island Arts curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Scrap Metal, Toronto, Canada 2017
The Promise curated by Axel Wieder, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden 2017
In Practice: Material Deviance curated by Alexis Wilkinson, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA; Raising Cattle, Montreal, Canada 2017
JADE BI curated by Sara De Chiara, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugul 2017
Exhibition by 31 Women, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, Germany 2016
A plot of land, Dutton, New York, NY, USA 2016
Every day I make my way, Minerva, Sydney, Australia 2016
Light switch and conduit: the Jim Barr and Mary Barr collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand 2016
Natural Flavor, curated by Vivien Trommer, Ludlow 38, New York, NY, USA 2015
The Secret and Abiding Politics of Stones, curated by Chris Sharp, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico 2015
Homeful of Hands, Josh Lilley, London, UK 2015
Thought Cupboard, The Dowse, Wellington, USA 2015
Ordering Nature, Marianne Boesky, New York, USA 2015
Inside Outside, Upside Down curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckand, New Zealand 2015
Parallel Oaxaca at Supplement London, Supplement, London, UK 2015
Lunch Poems, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand 2015
Where the trees line the water that falls asleep in the afternoon curated by Chris Sharp, P420, Bologna, Italy 2015
Inside the City curated by Janneke de Vries, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany 2015
NEW 15 curated by Matt Hinkley, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia 2015
An Imprecise Science, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Artspace, Sydney Eraser, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY USA 2015
The January February March, The Western Catskills, New York, NY, USA 2015
The Promise curated by Axel Wieder, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK 2014
On The Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams Gallery, New York NY, USA 2014
Portmanteaux, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand 2014
Thin Air, Slopes, Melbourne, Australia 2014
Lovers curated by Martin Basher, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand 2014
Slip Cast, Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand 2014
because the world is round it turns me on curated by Clara Meister, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany 2013
Mud and Water, Rokeby, London, UK 2013
The things we know curated by Tim Saltarelli, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2013
Between being and doing, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia 2013
Crawl out your window, Walters Prize exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand 2012
Everyone knows this is nowhere curated by Louise Menzies and Jon Bywater, castillo/corrales, Paris, France 2012
Prospect: New Zealand Art Now curated by Kate Montgomery, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 2011
Melanchotopia curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Anne-Claire Schmitz, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2011
Out of a stone curated by Daniel Munn, Banner Repeater, London, UK 2011
Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Muso de Arte Zapopan (MAZ) Guadalajara, Mexico 2011
Burnt house. A little later, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand 2010
Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Pitzer ArtGalleries and Claremont Museum of Art, Los Angeles post-Office, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand 2010
The Future is Unwritten curated by Laura Preston, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 2009
Brussels Biennial 1 curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel, Brussels, Belgium 2008
Break: Towards a Public Realm curated by Melanie Oliver, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 2008
Let it be now, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand 2008
Hold Still curated by Claire Doherty, One Day Sculpture, Auckland, New Zealand 2008
The World (will soon turn our way), Charlton Avenue / Gambia Castle, Auckland Academy, New Zealand, TCB, Melbourne, Australia 2008
Many directions, as much as possible, all over the country, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2008
Working on Talking, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007
Moment Making: After the Situation curated by Laura Preston, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand 2007
How W.H. Auden spends the night in a friend's house, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand 2007
Awards & Residencies
The Chinati Foundation Artist in Residence, Marfa, TZX, USA 2017
Spring International Artist in Residence Program, curated by Michelle Grabner, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA 2017
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Artist in Residence, Melbourne, Australia 2015
Fogo Island Arts, Artist in Residence, Newfoundland, Canada 2012
The Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand 2012
International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP, Artist in Residence, New York, USA 2012
SOMA, Artist in Residence, Mexico City, Mexico 2010
Theatre of Erosion or I Hate Work This is not a Play (with Geoffrey Farmer), Artist in Residence Banff Centre, Banff, Canada 2010
Künstlerhäuser, Artist in Residence, Worpswede, Germany 2010