Ralph HOTERE

RALPH HOTERE
Born 1931
Taikarawa, Aotearoa New Zealand
Live and works in Port Chalmers, Otage, Aotearoa New Zealand

Selected solo exhibitions*
2000 'Ralph Hotere: Black Light: Major Works Including Collaborations with Bill
Culbert', Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1999 ‘Hotere: Black Paintings’, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1997 ‘Painting On a Hot Tin Roof’, Harriete Cotton Gallery, Dunedin
‘Black Paintings 1968–69’, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
‘Hotere: Out the Black Window’, City Gallery, Wellington
‘Ralph Hotere: Works on Paper 1972–91’, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1996 ‘Ralph Hotere: Aramoana and a Dawn/Water Poem’, Auckland Art Gallery Toi
o Tamaki
1993 ‘Lo Negro Sobre Lo Oro (The Black over the Gold)’, Brooke/Gifford Gallery,
Christchurch
‘Ralph Hotere’, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1991 ‘Winter Solstice: Small Works on Paper’, Port Chalmers Aero Club
1990 ‘Oputae: Painting and Lithographs’, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin
1986, '94
City Art Gallery, Wellington
1984 ‘Hotere’s Hoteres 1961–84’, Centre Gallery, Hamilton
‘Ralph Hotere: A Survey’, Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
1983 ‘Baby Iron’, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
1982, '85, '86, '88, '90, '96
Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
1981, '83, '84, '85
Bosshard Galleries, Dunedin
1981, '82, '83, '85, '87, '90
RKS Art, Auckland
1980 ‘Song Cycle Banners’, New Zealand Embassy, Washington DC, USA
‘Banners, Hocken Commission’, Hocken Library, Dunedin
1979 ‘Ralph Hotere: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper’, Robert McDougall Art
Gallery, Christchurch
1979, '80
Galerie Legard, Wellington
1975, '76, '77, '78, '79, '82, '83, '90
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1974, '85, 2000
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1973 ‘Ralph Hotere 1970–73’, Waikato Art Gallery, Hamilton
‘Te Whiti’, Dawsons Gallery, Dunedin
1972 ‘Hotere: Sangro Panels 1962 and 1964’, Dawsons Gallery, Dunedin
‘Port Chalmers Paintings 72’, Canterbury Society of Arts, Christchurch
1970 ‘Black Paintings 1970: Malady Series’, Dawsons Gallery, Dunedin
‘Black Paintings’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1965, '67, '68, '69, '70, '72, '74, '75, '76, '77, '78, '79, '80
Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
1964 ‘Ralph Hotere: Recent Work’, Municipal Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
1962 Galérie Chandor, Tourettes-sur-Loup, France
1958, '59, '60
Northland Art Society, Whangarei
1952 ‘Ralph Hotere’, Dunedin Public Library

Selected group exhibitions*
2001 'Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance', Wellington City Art Gallery
'Capital! Locating Tradition: Placing Ourselves — Art From the Victoria
University of Wellington Collection', Whangarei Art Museum
2000 ‘Mirror Paintings’, Temple Gallery, Dunedin
1999 ‘Toi Toi Toi: Three Generations of Artists from New Zealand’, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Germany; Aotearoa New Zealand
Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
‘Binisafua by Mary McFarlane and Ralph Hotere’, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
‘Black Stump’ (with Bill Culbert), Royal & SunAlliance House, Auckland (public
commission)
1998 ‘Whalebone 1997’ (with Bill Culbert), Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
‘Dream Collectors: One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand’, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
‘Southern Lights: 150 Years of Otago Landscape Art’, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
1996 ‘Tovey & The Tovey Generation’, Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures
‘Ko Te Hapai O Ko Te Amorangi Ki Mua’, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
‘Ruaumoko’ (with Mary McFarlane), Te Puni Kokiri House, Wellington (public commission)
1995 ‘He Taonga Te Reo’, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
‘New Zealand Light’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
‘Works from the Past’, RKS Art, Auckland
‘Stop Making Sense’, City Art Gallery, Wellington
‘Korurangi: New Maori Art’, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
1994 'Fault' (with Bill Culbert), Wellington City Gallery (public commission)
1993 ‘Sight Unseen: A Look At Looking’, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1992 ‘Post Black Series 1992’ (with Bill Culbert), Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
‘Te Waka Toi: Contemporary Maori Art’, Auckland City Art Gallery; USA
‘Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Aotearoa New Zealand
‘After Dark’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1991 ‘P.R.O.P.' (with Bill Culbert), RKS Art, Auckland
‘Two Installations by Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert’, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
‘Ralph Hotere/John Reynolds’, No. 5 Gallery, Dunedin
‘Temporary/Contemporary’, The Bath House, Rotorua
‘Anei He Taonga: Works by Contemporary Maori Artists’, Auckland City Art Gallery
‘Lithographs’ (with Bill Culbert) and ‘Song of Solomon’ (with Cilla McQueen), McDougall Art Annex, Christchurch
‘Signatures of Place’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
‘Cross-Pollination’, Artspace, Auckland
1990 ‘Three from New Zealand: Philippa Blair, Christine Hellyar, Ralph Hotere’, Long Beach Museum, Los Angeles, USA
‘Ralph Hotere: Paintings/Adair Bruce: Sculpture’, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
‘Paintings by Michael Morley, Frank Dickinson and Ralph Hotere’, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin
National Art Gallery, Wellington
1989 'Whatu Aho Rua: Weaving Two Threads’, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
1988 ‘Taki Toru’, Shed 11, National Art Gallery, Wellington
1987 ‘I Te Whenua: Of The Land’, Hawera Community Centre
‘The Folding Image’, Fisher Gallery, Auckland
‘Cooke, Hotere, Maguire: New Graphics’, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1986 ‘Haongia Te Taonga: Our Gifts Together’, Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton
‘5’, Carnegie Centre, Dunedin
‘New Zealand Art Today’, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, USA
1985 ‘Artists in Glass’, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
‘Sue Cooke/ Ralph Hotere/ Marian Maguire’, RKS Art, Auckland
‘Black Drop Mural’, Conservatory of Music, University of Auckland (public
commission)
1984 ‘Paperchase: Exhibition of Works on Paper’, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
‘Private Symbol: Social Metaphor: The 5th Biennale of Sydney’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
1983 ‘Hansell Sculpture Exhibition’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1982 ‘New Zealand Drawing Exhibition’, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
‘Works on Paper’, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
’10 Maori Artists’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1981 ‘Aramoana’, Hocken Library, Dunedin
‘Stations Of The Cross: An Exhibition Based On The Passion of Christ’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
‘Parihaka Centennial Exhibition’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1980 ‘Aramoana: Artists Against the Smelter’, Bosshard Galleries, Dunedin
‘Ralph Hotere and Russell Moses’, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1978 ‘International of Drawings’, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
1979 ‘Three Contemporary Maori Artists’, National Art Gallery, Wellington
‘Maori Art Exhibition’, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
1977 ‘Ralph Hotere, Barry Brickell, Michael Trumic’, Bosshard Galleries, Dunedin
1976 ‘Contemporary New Zealand Painting’, Auckland City Art Gallery
1972 ‘Taranaki Saw It All: Colin McCahon & Ralph Hotere’, Waikato Art Gallery, Hamilton
1971 ‘Ten Big Paintings’, Auckland City Art Gallery
‘11th Sao Paulo Biennale’, Brazil
‘Bosshard Hotere Hansen’, Dawsons Gallery, Dunedin
1970 ‘Expo ‘70’, Tokyo, Japan
‘The Print Show of New Zealand Second Biennale’, Auckland City Art Gallery; Australia; Japan; USA
‘Art of the Sixties’, Auckland City Art Gallery
1969 ‘International Biennale’, Tokyo, Japan
‘International Exhibition of Graphic Art’, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
‘Contemporary Painting in New Zealand: Twelve Painters’, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA; Canada
‘Five Guest Artists’, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts’, Wellington
‘The Print Council of New Zealand: Exhibition’, Auckland City Art Gallery
1968, '70, '72
‘Benson and Hedges Art Award’ touring exhibition
'68, '69, '70, '71, '72, '73, '74, '75, '76, '77
‘The Group Show’, Canterbury Society of Arts, Christchurch
1967 ‘New Zealand Prints: The Print Council of New Zealand’, Auckland City Art Gallery
‘A Decade of New Zealand Painting: 1958–67’, Auckland City Art Gallery
1966 ‘New Zealand Painting 1966’, Auckland City Art Gallery
1966, '67, '68, '70, '72
‘Manawatu Prize Exhibition’, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
1965 ‘New Zealand Painting 1965’, Auckland City Art Gallery
Quixote Gallery, Sydney
1965, '66
‘New Zealand Graphics’, New Vision Gallery, Auckland
1964 ‘Young Commonwealth Artists’, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
‘London Group’, Royal Society of British Artists Galleries, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK
1963, '64
‘Summer Exhibition’, Redfern Gallery, London, UK
1961 Ikon Gallery, Auckland
‘Contemporary New Zealand Painting 1961’, Auckland City Art Gallery

Qualifications, grants & awards*
1994 LLD (Hon.) University of Otago, Dunedin
1985 Transfield Award (for Aramoana, 1982)
1978 Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Grant
1973 National Bank Art Award
1970 Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Grant
1969 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, University of Otago
1962 Karolyi International Fellowship
1961 New Zealand Art Societies Fellowship (studied painting and
graphic design at The Central School of Art, London, UK)
1952 Dunedin School of Art
1950 Auckland Teachers’ College

Collections*
The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Hamish Morrison & Mattias Seidenstücker Collection
Hocken Library Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago, Dunedin
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington

* All New Zealand unless otherwise stated

Selected bibliography
Ballard, Susan. ‘Black light: Ralph Hotere’. Art AsiaPacific, no.30, 2001, pp.23–4.

Brown, G.H. ‘Ralph Hotere’. Art New Zealand, No.34, Autumn 1985, pp.28–31, 63.

Darriow, Kate, ‘No 8: Ralph Hotere at RKS Art’. Art New Zealand, no.63, Winter 1992, pp.46–7.

Eggleton, David. ‘Ralph Hotere: shadowing the sublime’. Art New Zealand, no.81, Summer 1996–97, pp.68–73.

Mane-Wheoki, Jonathan. ‘The black light paradox: the sumptuous austerity of Ralph Hotere's art’. Art New Zealand, no.98, Autumn 2001, pp.72–7, 91.

Manhire, Bill. Fault by Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere. Wellington City Council, New Zealand, 1994.

Milburn, Felicity. ‘Building sites: Hotere's sculpitecture’. Landfall, May 2001, no.201, pp.89–97.

O’Brien, Gregory. ‘Ink-black, gold & grey matter: a sculpture by Ralph Hotere & Mary McFarlane’. Art New Zealand, no.91, Winter 1999, pp.52–5.


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