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. Artists and Works Print friendly version