Kate Newby (b. 1979, New Zealand) works with installation, textile, ceramics, casting and glass. Her work explores the limits and nature of sculpture, not only in space but also where and how sculpture happens. In 2012 she was awarded the renowned Walter’s Prize. Newby graduated with a Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts. Newby has had solo shows at The Lumber Room, Portland, USA; Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway; The Sunday Painter, London, United Kingdom; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand; Artpace, San Antonio, USA; The Poor Farm, Wisconsin, USA; COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada; Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA; Laurel Doody, Los Angeles, USA; Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico; La Loge, Brussels, Belgium; Fogo Island Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada; among others. Her works have also been shown in international group exhibitions at venues such as 56 Henry, New York, USA; Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany; 21st Biennale of Sydney, Australia; Scrap Metal, Toronto, Canada; The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden; Sculpture Center, New York, USA; Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand; and Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom. In 2017 Newby undertook residencies at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa and Artpace, San Antonio, USA and Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada in 2013. Newby currently lives and works between Auckland, New Zealand and Brooklyn, USA.
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Born 1979, Auckland, New Zealand
Lives between Auckland, New Zealand and Brooklyn, USA
Education
2015
Doctorate of Fine Art, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2007
Masters of Fine Art, Elam School of Fine Arts (1st Class Honors), University of Auckland
2001
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
A puzzling light and moving., The Lumber Room, Portland, USA
2018
Nothing that’s over so soon should give you that much strength, Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
All the stuff you already know, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
I can’t nail the days down, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
2017
Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, Artspace, San Antonio, USA
2016
Big Tree. Bird’s Eye., Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
Tuesday evening. Sunday afternoon. Stony Lake, COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada
2015
Two aspirins a vitamin C tablet and some baking soda, Laurel Doody, Los Angeles, USA
Always humming, curated by Helen Hughes and Pip Wallis, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
I memorized it I loved it so much, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Laura, Lucy, Mark and Felix, MODELAB, Wellington, New Zealand
I feel like a truck on a wet highway, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico
Tiny-but-adventurous, Rokeby, London, UK
2013
Maybe I won’t go to sleep at all, curated by Anne-Claire Schmitz, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium
Let the other thing in, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Fogo Island Gallery, Newfoundland, Canada
What a day., Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand
How funny you are today, New York, Greene Acres Garden, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, USA
2012
Crawl out your window, Walters Prize exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
All parts. All the time., Olive St. Garden, in association with New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP, Brooklyn, USA
How funny you are today New York, Fort Greene Park, in association with New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP, Brooklyn, USA
2011
Do more with your feeling, Sunday Art Fair with Hopkinson Mossman, London, UK
I’m just like a pile of leaves, curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
I’ll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand
2010
Crawl out your window, curated by Janneke de Vries, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Burnt house. A little later, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
Get off my garden, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Blow wind blow, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2008
Thinking with your body, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand
2007
My Poetry, for example, Rooftop and vacant plot, Symonds Street, University of Auckland, New Zealand
On the Benefits of Building, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand
A Windy Fire, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand
2005
Very Interesting, Very International, site-specific projects; Agile, Brooklyn, Berlin, Copenhagen
2002
My Blues Song, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
The Independent, with Paul P, Cooper Cole, New York, USA
Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, USA
Elements, curated by Svea Kellner, Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop, Germany
2018
Juliette Blightman, Parbhu Makan, Kate Newby, Henrik Olesen, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials, curated by Janneke de Vries and Katja Schroeder, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Still Life, co-curated with Candice Madey, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, USA
It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems…, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, USA
Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study, curated by Chris Sharp, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
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
Belonging to a Place, An exhibition by Fogo Island Arts Embassy of Canada, Washington DC, USA
Ritual, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
2017
Frieze Art Fair, Cooper Cole, London,United Kingdom
Belonging to a Place: An Exhibition by Fogo Island Arts, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Promise, curated by Axel Wieder, Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Of everything that disappears there remain traces, curated by Lauren Ravi, The Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne, Australia
Three-person exhibition with Mark Hilton and Tove Storch, Raising Cattle, Montreal, Canada
In Practice: Material Deviance, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA
JADE BI, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal
2016
31 Women, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, Germany
A plot of land, Dutton, New York, USA
The January February March, with Jennifer Kabat, curated by Brad Killman and Michelle Grabner, The Poor Farm, Manawa, USA
Every day I make my way, Minerva, Sydney, Australia
Light switch and conduit: the Jim Barr and Mary Barr collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
White Columns Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA
2015
Natural Flavor, curated by Vivien Trommer, Ludlow 38, New York, USA
Art Basel Miami Beach, Laurel Gitlen, Miami, USA
Thought Cupboard, The Dowse, Wellington, New Zealand
Paris Internationale, Laurel Gitlen, Paris, France
The Secret and Abiding Politics of Stones, curated by Chris Sharp, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico
Homeful of Hands, Josh Lilley, London, UK
Lunch Poems, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, Australia
Ordering Nature, Marianne Boesky, New York, USA
5×5, curated by John Parker, Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand
Inside Outside Upside Down, curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Parallel Oaxaca at Supplement London, Supplement, London, UK
Sculpture Centre Lucky Draw, Sculpture Centre, New York, USA
There Is Only One Catch And That Is Catch-22, curated by Blanca de la Torre, Y Gallery, New York, USA
NEW 15, curated by Matt Hinkley, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Aistralia
An Imprecise Science, Artspace Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Inside the City, curated by Janneke de Vries, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Eraser, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA
Material Art Fair, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico
2014
The Promise, curated by Axel Wieder, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Fin, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia
Spaces, Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Portmanteaux, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, New Zealand
Thin Air, Slopes, Melbourne, Australia
Slip Cast, Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Lovers, curated by Martin Basher, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
Mud and Water, Rokeby, London, UK
2013
because the world is round it turns me on, curated by Clara Meister, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
The things we know, curated by Tim Saltarelli, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Third/Fourth Artist Facilitated Biennial, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Between being and doing, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia
2012
Everyone knows this is nowhere, castillo/corrales, Paris, France
Running on Pebbles: through lines with incidents and increments, curated by Allan Smith, Snakepit, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
Prospect: New Zealand Art Now, curated by Kate Montgomery, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Melanchotopia, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Anne-Claire Schmitz, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Out of a stone, curated by Daniel Munn, Banner Repeater, London, UK
Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears, curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ), Guadalajara, Mexico
2010
Black Door Files, Black Door, Istanbul, Turkey
Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears, curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Pitzer Art Galleries and Claremont Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
post-Office, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Texticles, curated by Ron McHaffie and Lisa Radford, TCB at the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Austalia
The sky, a window and a tree, in collaboration with Fiona Connor, CalArts, Los Angeles, USA
2009
Cross Coloring, Hell Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
IN CASE IT RAINS, IT MIGHT INVOLVE WATER, curated by Marijke Appleman for ADSF, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Future is Unwritten, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Today is OK, Gallery Manuela Klerkx, Milan, Italy
2008
Brussels Biennial 1, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel, Brussels, Belgium
Break: Towards a Public Realm, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Give us a sign, Courtney Place Light Boxes, in association with City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Run!, Window, Auckland, New Zealand
Let it be now, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
4th Y2K Melbourne biennale of art and design, TCB, Melbourne, Australia
Hold Still (with Nick Austin), curated by Claire Doherty, One Day Sculpture, Auckland, New Zealand
The World (will soon turn our way) (with Fiona Connor and Marnie Slater), site-specific project, Mt. Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
Academy (with Ryan Moore), TCB, Melbourne, Australia
Many directions, as much as possible, all over the country, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
2007
Working on Talking (with Frances Stark and Ruth Buchanan), Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand
Giant Monuments (with Sanne Mestrom), Münster, Germany
Moment Making: After the Situation, ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand
How W.H. Auden spends the night in a friend’s house, Gambia Castle, Auckland, New Zealand
Omnipresents, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Twone (with Sriwhana Spong), Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
I Dig Your Voodoo, Joint Hassles, Melbourne, Australia
2006
The Silver Clouds, curated by Cuckoo, Order and Progress/Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Don’t Rain on my Parade, Special, Auckland, New Zealand
Inner City Real Estate, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2004
Remember New Zealand, curated by Tobias Berger, 26th São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
Cuckoobough, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia
2003
Money for Nothing, curated by Tobias Berger, Artspace, Auckland; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Vs, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2002
Honestly, New Artists Show, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Fertilizer, High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand
Residencies
2017
The Chinati Foundation Artist in Residencem Marfa, USA
Spring 2017 International Artist-In-Residence Program, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
2015
Gertrude Contemporary Residency, Melbourne, Australia
2013
Fogo Island Arts Residency, Newfoundland, Canada
2012
International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP, New York, USA
2010
Theatre of Erosion or I Hate Work This is not a Play (with Geoffrey Farmer), Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
Künstlerhäuser, Worpswede, Germany
SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
Selected Essays, Reviews and Articles
2019
Ross Simonini, “Kate Newby”, Art Review
2018
Chris Kraus, “Kate Newby’s Bone,” Social Practices, Semiotext(e)
Chloe Geoghegan, “Kate Newby: I can’t nail the days down”, Contemporary Hum
Chris Sharp, “Following Kate Newby down the road”, Mousse
Figgy Guyver, “Critic’s Guide to London: The Best Shows in Town”, Frieze
Alexandra-Maria Toth, “Kate Newby: I Can’t Nail The Days Down”, PW-Magazine
Jon Bywater, “The meaning of molecules”, Art News New Zealand
John Hurrell, “Newby at Marfa at Lett”, Eye Contact
Eloise Callister-Baker, “The Unmissables: Four Exhibitions to see in March”, Pantograph Punch
2017
Chris Kraus, “Splodges of Color”, Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around (artist book)
Neil Fauerso, “Artpace Spring Artist-in-Residence Exhibition”, Glasstire
Linnea West, “Phone tag: Interview with Kate Newby”, Phone Tag
2016
Anthony Byrt, “Quiet wanderer: Kiwi sculptor Kate Newby”, Paperboy
Kate Sutton, “Kate Newby; Laurel Doody”, Artforum
Jennifer Kabat, “To Write About A Hole”, VQR
Rosanna Albertini, “Kate Newby: don’t be all scared like before”, The Kite
2015
Roberta Smith, “Kate Newby and Helen Johnson” (review), The New York Times, 16 July.
2014
Francisco Goldman, “Mexico City Mix,” National Geographic Traveller, December.
Hamish Coney, “Breakfast in America,” Content Magazine, November.
Jennifer Kabat, “In Focus: Kate Newby,” Frieze, March.
Leslie Moody Castro, “Kate Newby, Lulu, Mexico City” (review), Artforum.com Critic’s Picks.
Jennifer Kabat, “The Small Often Vague Things—Kate Newby’s Radically Slight Art,” The Weeklings, June.
2013
Miami Kataoka, “I like works when their condition as art is unclear” in Kate Newby: Let the other thing in, Sternberg Press, 2013 (essay)
Kay Burns, Kate Newby: Let the Other Thing in, C Magazine, Issue 120, 2013 (review)
Sarah Hopkinson, Kate Newby’s Outside, in Kate Newby: Incredible Feeling, Clouds Publishing, 2013 (essay)
Jennifer Kabat, It’s The Small Often Vague Things, in Kate Newby: Let the other thing in, Sternberg Press, 2013 (catalogue essay)
Chris Kraus, Kate Newby’s Bones, in Kate Newby: Incredible Feeling, Clouds Publishing, 2013 (essay)
2012
Julia Waite, If not concrete then what? Kate Newby’s I’m just like a pile of leaves Archive, Reading Room 5, 2012
2011
Sam Eichblatt, “Kate Newby: Occupying Brooklyn,” Metro Magazine n. 363, May.
Sue Gardiner, “Aspiring to the condition of architecture,” Artnews, Spring.
2010
Jon Bywater, Discreet Poetry: Kate Newby’s ‘Get off my garden’, 2010 (exhibition essay)
Allan Smith, Know how can do: E, F, G, K – busy with the elephant; or, Calculate, evaluate, improvise: Eve Armstrong; Fiona Connor; Gaelen MacDonald; Kate Newby, in Natural Selection, Issue 7, Winter 2010
2009
Sue Gardiner, You really had to be there!, Artnews, Autumn 2009
2008
Louise Menzies, Kate Newby & Nick Austin, Frieze online, 2008 (review)
Ruth Buchanan, Poems about nature documentaries, in Kate Newby: Holding onto it only makes you sick, Gambia Castle Press, Auckland, 2008
Artist Books and Exhibition Catalogues
2018
Nothing that’s over so soon should give you that much strength, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway (artist book)
2017
Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around, Marfa (artist book)
Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, (edition of 150), San Antonio (artist book)
Belonging to a Place, An exhibition by Fogo Island Arts, Scrap Metal, Toronto (catalogue)
In Practice: Material Deviance, SculptureCenter, New York (catalogue)
2016
Light switch and conduit: the Jim Barr and Mary Barr collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (catalogue)
2015
Laura, Lucy, Mark and Felix, MODELAB, Wellington (online catalogue)
Our first-second-third-fourth selves write our messages, ACCA, Melbourne (catalogue)
Casa del Lago, Unam, Mexico City (catalogue)
2013
Incredible feeling, Clouds Publishing, Auckland (monograph)
Let the other thing in, Fogo Island Arts and Sternberg Press, Berlin (catalogue)
2012
I went from a 5 to a 7, (with Fiona Connor), self-published artist, Los Angeles, Banff, Auckland (artist book)
I’m just like a pile of leaves, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (catalogue)
2011
The sky, the wall and a tree, self-published with Fiona Connor and Gambia Castle Press, Los Angeles (artist book)
Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears, Claremont Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
2009
Discreet and Popular, a monthly reader, Gambia Castle Press, Auckland
2008
Holding onto it only makes you sick, Gambia Castle Press, Auckland (artist book)
2007
My Poetry, for example, self-published, Auckland (artist book)
Architecture for Specific People, Gambia Castle Press, Auckland (artist book)
2004
A Creative and Artist Masterpiece, self-published, Aigle (artist book)
2003
Money for Nothing, Artspace, Auckland (artist book)
2001
My Blues Song, Starkwhite, Auckland (artist book)
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library Collection, New York, USA