2024

When Mauve Does the Tango, solo exhibition, Auckland Festival of Photography, Arts House Trust, Auckland, NZ.

2023

Peaks and Troughs, group show curated by Conor Clarke, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.

Group show, The Rabbit Room, Napier, NZ.

2022

Afternoon Tea – Never Odd or Even, sculpture collaboration with Brit Bunkley, Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, Auckland, NZ

This is the Rabbit Hole, solo exhibition, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui and Aratoi, Masterton, NZ

Wonder Woman, group show, A Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

2021

Through the Looking Glass, sculpture collaboration with Brit Bunkley, Sculpture in the Gardens, Auckland Botanic Garden, Auckland, New Zealand

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling, group show, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

2021 Pattillo Whanganui Arts Review Open Award, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NZ.

The View From Here, A Gallery, Whanganui, NZ.

Artzone interview, Intuition and Play, 30 March 2021, https://www.artzone.co.nz/post/intuition-and-play?fbclid=IwAR3cMqwk20XW8SqH2B3h1RUaPild7RlZXvsM6vtS_L7WSTesMTwztRVJO1I

2020

Girls, Girls, Girls, A Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

Manners of Speaking, Geoff Wilson Gallery, Northtec, Whangarei, NZ

Peaceable Kingdom Whanganui, public art project collaboration with Brit Bunkley, Whanganui, NZ

Birds of Meaning, Waitangi Museum, Waitangi, NZ (postponed)

Sarjeant Gallery Arts Review, Merit Award, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

29th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2020, Pah Homestead, Auckland, NZ

Animals Make Us Human, sculpture collaboration with Brit Bunkley, Changing Lanes, Artweek, Auckland, NZ

Foothold on a Thin Ledge, online portfolio exhibition PhotoForum https://www.photoforum-nz.org/blog/2020/9/5/andrea-gardner-featured-portfolio

2019

Wide Open Country, The Rabbit Room, Napier, NZ

Garden Shed, video installation with Brit Bunkley, Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, Auckland, NZ

Conversations with Francisco de Zurburan, Linea de Costa Art Residency exhibition, Cadiz, Spain

Conversations with Remedios Varo, Cal Gras Art Residency exhibition, Avinyo, Catalonia, Spain

2018

Big Eyes, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

Artists' Choice, Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland, NZ

Selfie, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

Resident Artists Open Studio Exhibition, 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles, USA

2017

The River Lie, Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, NZ

An Elephant in the Room, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

Sculpture in the Garden, Auckland Botanic Garden, Auckland, NZ

2016

Once There Was a Tree, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae, NZ

Tierra y Cultura, solo exhibition, Bolivia Sostenible, Cochabamba, Bolivia

2015

The Dendromaniac, 3rd Edition Enjoy Occasional Journal, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ

Infiltrations ii, Whanganui Regional Museum, Whanganui, NZ

Under the Eyes of the Volcano, Embassy of Mexico, Wellington, NZ

The Outdoors Enthusiast, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ

Refiguring the Picturesque, Toi Gallery, Pataka, Porirua, NZ

Flora and Fauna, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

Mostly Clay, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

2014

Picnic, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson, Auckland, NZ

Quotidiaen, La Porte Peinte Centre Pour Les Arts, Noyers, France and CelerySpace Gallery, Berkeley, California, USA

Studio WHM Sounds - BYE BYE COVER, WHMilbank Gallery, Wanganui

Under the Eyes of the Volcano, RAT, Puerto Turin, Mexico City,  Mexico

‘Scape, Whakatane Museum and Gallery, Whakatane, NZ

The Outdoor Room, Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, NZ

Double Vision, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

2013

After You, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

Venus Envy, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, NZ

RD NZ, Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, NZ

Grottos, Shrines and Sacred Spaces, The Boardroom, Palmerston North, NZ

22nd Annual James Wallace Arts Award, The Pah Homestead, Auckland, N.Z.

2012

Show IX, Nina Van Der Voorn Gallery, Motueka, N.Z.

Deep Green Heart, Auckland Festival of Photography, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.

Second Lives: Reinventing the Ordinary, Lysaught Watt Gallery, Hawera, N.Z.

Not Just a Pretty Picture, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North, N.Z.

Un Litro de Agua, Casa Tres Patios, Medellin, Colombia

Her Painted Words, Katherine Mansfield Birthplace, Wellington, N.Z.

2011

Wild, Snowwhite Gallery, UNITEC, Auckland, and The Green Bench, Whanganui, N.Z.

Summer Cool, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

Song of the Woods, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

The Doll Show, Mount Marua Gallery, Expressions, Upper Hutt, N.Z.

From Scratch, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

2010

First Test, Suite Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.

Border Crossing, Lysaught Watt Gallery, Hawera, N.Z.

Floriferous, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

The Good Earth, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

Bottom of the Garden, Te Manawa, Palmerston North, N.Z.

Encore, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North, N.Z.

Putiputi: The Flower in Contemporary Art, Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, N.Z.

A Warm Afternoon Between Fact and Fiction, Bath St. Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.

Constructed Realities, Bartley and Company Art, Wellington, N.Z.

Waikato Contemporary Art Award 2010 exhibition, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, N.Z.

Sheep– N.Z. Icons in Art, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua, N.Z.

Calendar Girls, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

Garden Safari, Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, N.Z.

Ucross: Twenty-seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper, Wyoming, USA

Wild Swans, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

Glad Tidings of Great Joy, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.

2009

Blue, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North, N.Z.

Heartland, Suite Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.

The E.T. Experience, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

Animal Farm, Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

2008

Revisions of the Picturesque, Suite Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.

The Taranaki Gate, Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, N.Z.

Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, N.Z.

17th Annual James Wallace Arts Award, Salon des Refuses, Auckland, N.Z.

Where's Jiminy?, Edith Gallery, UCOL, Whanganui, N.Z.

Wanganui Art Review, Merit Award, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

Urban Screens 08 Exhibition, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia (along with Brit Bunkley)

2007

Coca Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, N.Z.

Six Weeks to Christmas, WHMilbank Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

100x100x100/200x200x250 Exhibition, Mcpherson Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.

16th Annual James Wallace Arts Award, Aotea Centre and the Dowse, N.Z.

Norsewearart Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hawke's Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings, N.Z.

Different Views, Blue Pacific Gallery, Pataka, Porirua, N.Z.

Coexistence, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North, N.Z.

2006

Lopsided Into Paradise, Solo show, Rotorua Museum of Art and History; in 2004 at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, Waikato Museum, Hamilton N.Z.

Shapeshifters, New Zealand International Arts Festival, Frederick Wallis House, Lower Hutt, N.Z.

The Ecopoetics of Peep, Solo show (with poetry by Evelyn Reilly), te tuhi, Manukau City, Auckland, N.Z.

Wanganui Exposed, Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, N.Z.

2005

Return of the Hand, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z

2004

Prime, Cameo Project, te tuhi the mark, Manukau City, N.Z.

The New Alchemists, Centre of Contemporary Art Christchurch; The Dowse Art Museum, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria, Australia and other venues.

Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award Exhibition,  Waikato Museum, Hamilton N.Z.

200x200, McPherson Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.

Shapeshifters, New Zealand International Arts Festival, Frederick Wallis House, Lower Hutt, N.Z. 

Woof Woof, Stories about dogs, Te Manawa, Palmerston North, N.Z.

2003

Infiltrations, group show, Whanganui Regional Museum, Whanganui, N.Z.

Intersculpt: 2003, Snowwhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland, also Paris, France and Manchester UK in collaboration with Brit Bunkley

2002

Heavy Dove, Solo show, Milford Gallery,  Auckland, N.Z.

Small Bodied Tales, Gallery VC, Queenstown, N.Z.

Lost Paradise, Group show, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island, N.Z.

Lions Among Ladies, Solo show, Hawke's Bay Museum, Napier, N.Z.

Cloak, Group show, Milford Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.

Recent Sculpture, Group Show, Milford Gallery, Dunedin, N.Z.

MADE, Group Show, Milford Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.

2001

Everyone In Me Is a Bird, Solo show, Lopdell House, Auckland, N.Z.

Dans le jardin des beaux arts, Art project curated by Jacqueline Wassen, Sen McGlinn and Sonja van Kerkhoff. In the ARS AEMULA NATURAE courtyard, Pieterkerkgracht 9a, Leiden, Netherlands.

Hushhush…, Point Zero Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z.

All Fired Up, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island, N.Z.

Whanganui Art Review, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, N.Z., joint open award, curated by John Hurrell Janne Land Gallery, Group show, Wellington, N.Z.

Large Work, Te Wa Gallery, Wanganui, N.Z.

2000

Émigrés 2, Te Wa, Whanganui, N.Z.

Small Stories, (part of the exhibition series Start, Five Women Artists), The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, N.Z.

Collections

Sarjeant Art Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand

Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand

Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

James Wallace Trust, Auckland, New Zealand

Education

1981 M.F.A., M.A. in Painting, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

1975 B.A. in Studio Art, University of California at Santa Cruz


© 2015 Andrea Gardner