Biography
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 2023)
The Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui, 2024
EDUCATION
2000 MA Program, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
1996 BFA Painting, Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui, New Zealand
TEACHING
2000 -2010 Lecturer, teaching Drawing for Designers, School of Design, Victoria University,
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2015 Artist in Residence, Kathmandu Contemporary Art Center, Nepal
2014 Artist in residence, Printroom, Whanganui, UCOL
2014 Grant recipient, Asia New Zealand Foundation
2009 Grant recipient, Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand
2006 IASK Artist in Residency, The National Artist Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2006 Grant Recipient, Creative New Zealand, Arts Council of New Zealand
2006 Martin Hughes Art Award (Winner)
2004 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
2022 Wallace Art Gallery, Life in a Box, New Zealand
2021 A Gallery, Strangely Beautiful, Whanganui, New Zealand
2020 Thermostat Gallery, Ponder, Palmerston North, New Zealand
2019 Paul Raynor Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Whanganui, New Zealand
2018 ROOM Artspace NYC, The cloud and a Rock, Brooklyn, New York
2017 ROOM Artspace NYC, Out on the Lonely Prairie, Brooklyn, New York
2016 PaulNache Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Gisborne, New Zealand
2016 ROOM Artspace NYC, Life in a Box, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal
2014 PaulNache Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Gisborne, New Zealand
2014 Milford Galleries, New Paintings, Dunedin, New Zealand
2014 James Wallace Arts Trust, PAH Homestead, Prestidigitation, Auckland, New Zealand
2013 Milford Galleries, Tafelspiele, Dunedin, New Zealand
2012 The Gallery at Gamine, Huggermugger, Brooklyn, New York
2012 Waikato Museum, Intraspace Projects, Hamilton, New Zealand
2011 Helen Gory Galerie, The Company of Fools, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Suite Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 Pataka Museum, Sleight of Hand, Porirua, New Zealand
2010 Yardmeter Editions, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Chaffers Gallery, More Eccentrickery, Wellington, New Zealand
2009 Orex Gallery, White Paintings, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 A.I.C.H Gallery, Eccentriks, Manhattan, New York
2008 Orex Gallery, Psychopompe, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 Chaffers Gallery, Sensible World, Wellington, New Zealand
2007 Orex Gallery, Degrees of Separation, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Drawing Now, Changdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Lorene Taurerewa Drawing, New Zealand
2006 Sarjeant Gallery, Journey of 1000 Miles, Whanganui, New Zealand
2005 Lopdell House Gallery, Big Drawings, Auckland, New Zealand
2004 Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Inherited Bodies, Porirua, New Zealand
2002 Neut Gallery, Body Speak, Wellington, New Zealand
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Paperworks Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand
2021 He Xiangning Art Museum, Dispersion and Convergence, Shenzhen, China
2020 Sargeant Gallery Pattillo Review, Whanganui, New Zealand
2018 Room Gallery, Passing Strange, New York
2017 City Gallery Wellington, OCCULTURE: DARK ARTS, Wellington, New Zealand
2017 Geoff Wilson Gallery, DRAW, Whangarei, New Zealand
2017 PAH Homestead, Drawings on Paper, Auckland, New Zealand
2017 Malcolm Smith Gallery, Uxbridge, Turn of the Wheel,Auckland, New Zealand
2016 National Gallery of Victoria, Art of the Pacific, Melbourne, Australia,
2016 Brooklyn Fireproof, Creative, Landscapes, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Pataka Museum, Imagine Asia, Porirua, New Zealand
2014 PIEAM (Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum), California, USA
2014 Paramatta Arts Festival, Gallery Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
2014 Tabla Rasa Gallery, Monkey See, Brooklyn, New York
2014 The Bruce High Quality, The BRUCENNIAL, Manhattan, New York
2013 The Vinyl Factory Collection Exhibition, The Royal Albert Hall, London
2013 Wallace Gallery, Collections Gallery Show, New Zealand
2013 Milford Gallery, Large Paintings Show, Dunedin,New Zealand
2012 Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 La Trobe Regional Art Gallery, Legends: Obsessions with the incomprehensible and the uncanny, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Fountain Art Fair, New York at the 69th Regiment Armory, NY
2012 NORTHSIDE Art Exhibition, Many Conversations, Brooklyn, New York
2012 The BRUCENNIAL, The High Bruce Quality, New York, New York
2012 Schick Art Gallery, Contemplations and Conjectures, Saratoga, New York
2012 Waikato Museum, Intraspace Project, Hamilton, New Zealand
2012 Kentler International Drawing Space, Influential Women, Brooklyn, New York
2012 THE END, The Sugarbread House, Brooklyn, New York
2012 SmallWorks gallery, Suit of Skin, Brisbane, Australia
2012 Smallworks Gallery, Visceral as Hell, Australia
2011 National Gallery of Victoria, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Fountain Art Fair, Miami, USA
2011 MOP Projects, Sydney, Australia
2011 NORTHSIDE Exhibition, THE END ARTSPACE, Brooklyn, New York
2011 The Invisible Dog Art Center, Group Show, Brooklyn, New York
2011 McLean Project for the Arts, Figuration Today: the Surrealist Influence, Washington DC,
2011 Suite Gallery, Bi-Cultural, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 Gallery of Modern Art, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Brisbane, Australia
2009 Amelia Johnson Gallery, Chrysalid, Hong Kong
2009 Ann Street Gallery, INSIGHT: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, New York
2009 Gallery Korea, Soul Ideologie, Manhattan, New York
2009 Oedipus Rex Gallery, Works on Paper, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 Pataka Museum, Samoa Contemporary, New Zealand
2008 Tauranga Public Art Gallery, Samoa Contemporary, New Zealand
2007 Asian Fusion Gallery, Essence of Asia: Eastern Influences in Western Art, New York
2006 Mark Hutchins Gallery, Drawings, New Zealand
2006 Martin Hughes Architecture Gallery, Awards Show, Auckland, New Zealand
2005 Sydney Art Drawing Fair, Sydney, Australia
2003 Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Dolly Mix (W)rappers, Porirua, New Zealand
2002 ArtsStation, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 Waikato Museum of Art and History, Dolly Mix (W)rappers, Hamilton, New Zealand
2000 Sarjeant Gallery, Pacific Blue, Wanganui, New Zealand
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Salt and Greyboy Press, Auckland, Nine Artists, by Danae Ripley, 2023
The Art Paper, Issue 03, Hide and Seek, by Danae Ripley July, 2022
The Drawing Stall, vol. 1, Publisher: Conveyor Studio, New Jersey, USA 2022
Catalogue, He Xiangning Art Museum, China 2021
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NZ Listener, Article, The Dark Arts come to City Gallery, September 2017
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Next Magazine, NEW YORK STORY, pp 40-41, New Zealand, 2011
Washington Post, preview, Figuration Today, the Surrealist Influence, Washington, November 26 2010
Ashley Crawford for Australian Art Collector, Lorene Taurerewa, pp, 108 -109, October-December, 2010
Australian Art Review, Impressive Kiwi Gothic, Louise Martin-Chew, August 2010
VOGUE LIVING AUSTRALIA, WET PAINT, pp, 99-100, Sept/Oct, 2010
Catalogue, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, 2010
Catalogue, Soul Ideologie, Gallery Korea, 2010
Mark Amery, The Otherworldliness of Lorene Taurerewa, Dominion Post, ARTS, April 2009
Warwick Brown, 'Seen this Century', Random House, New Zealand 2009
ArtNews, New Zealand, Lorene Taurerewa, Editorial news, March/April, 2009
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TJ McNamara, 'Painted canvas reflects better than a mirror', NZ Herald, May 1, 2008
Mark Amery, 'Samoan Shadow Play' Dominion Post, May 2008
Abbey Cunnane, 'Samoan. Sort of', NZ Listener, May 3 2008
Spasifik Mag.com, Lorene Taurerewa, October, 2008
Diana Dekker, 'From the heart', The Dominion Post, February, 25, 2008
ArtAsiaPacific, Almanac, New York, pg 251 2007
T.J. McNamara, 'City and Suburbs', Auckland Herald, 2007
Wolgan Misool, Korean Arts Monthly Magazine, February issue pp. 55, Korea 2007
'No Made' Catalogue: The National Arts Studio: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 2007
Spasifik Magazine 'Connecting with the Past', January\February, PP 90, 2007
Rebecca Rice, 'Julian Dashper, Te huringa/Turning Points, Lorene Taurerewa', Art New Zealand: pp. 44-45 Spring Issue 2006
Catalogue, Journey of 1000 Miles, Sarjeant Gallery, Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006
Catalogue, 'IASK' Curated by The National Arts Studio: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 2006
Robyn McLean, “Making Marks on a Grand Scale”, Dominion Post, ARTS, Section B10, 21/4/2006
Mary Bryan, 'Results of amazing Journey on display at Sarjeant Gallery' Wanganui Chronicle, p3, August 2006
'Lorene takes off' B4 Arts section New Zealand Herald, November, 2006
Korea Herald, Article, December 2006
Asia New Zealand Foundation Magazine, Article, 2006
'Lorene Taurerewa' Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Newsletter, June 2006
Frontseat: TV ONE, Mark Hutchins Gallery, 30/4/2006
Owen Davidson, 'Spirit and Form, The Art of Lorene Taurerewa' Art New Zealand, pp 58-61, November 2005
Gail Bailey, 'Refusing to sit still' The Arts Guide, The New Zealand Herald 18/2/2005
T.J. McNamara, 'Painting goes back to its pure roots' The New Zealand Herald 18/2/2005
Linda Chalmers, 'The Arrival of Contemporary Pacific' New Zealand Investor Monthly, p.3, March 2005
'Contemporary Art by Women of Samoa' The Waikato Times, p.1, March 2002
'Dolly Mix (W)rappers',Catalogue: Curated by Leafa Wilson, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, 2002
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 2009
