rohan wealleans

 ROHAN WEALLEANS
Born 1977 in Invercargill, New Zealand
Lives and works in New Zealand
EDUCATION
2000 Graduated BFA (Painting) Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2003 MFA (Painting) awarded in 2003
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Independent Presitge, PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Apocalyptic Intuition; Rohan Wealleans, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington
Knuckle Fasser, Ivan Anthony, Auckland
2011 Origins, Ivan Anthony, Auckland
Star Scream, Hamish Mckay gallery, Wellington
2010 Concentration Farm, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Finishing Move, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington
Physical education, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2009 Rogue, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
NOWON, Hamish Mckay Gallery, wellington
2008 Slave of the Cannibal God, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Mains, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
A Moveable Feast, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland
Deep Heat, Hamish Mckay Gallery, Wellington
2007 Terror Firmer, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
Tatunka, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006 Where is Blitzen Baby?, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
Tatunka, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
In The Shadow of the Beast, Hocken Library, Dunedin
I Got Urges, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2005 PEGD [Planet Earth Geology Department], Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
Rocococococo, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
Fluoro Rider, Blue Oyster gallery, Dunedin
2004 Albino, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
Different Strokes, Hamish McKay Gallery Wellington
2003 In the Bush, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
The Paint Whisperer, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2002 Residual Love, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2001 Beneath the surface, ASA Gallery, Auckland
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2013 Other Voices, C24 Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Extravagant Features, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, C24 Gallery, New York, NY,
USA
2012 Situation, Sadie Coles Gallery, London, UK
The Obstinate Object: Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture, City Gallery,
Wellington
2011 New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2010 True Story, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
17th Biennale of Sydney, Beauty of Distance, songs of survival in a precarious age.
Directed by David Elliot.
2009 Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
My Own Private Idealogue: Joanna Langford, Peter Madden and Rohan Wealleans,
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2008 The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by
Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane
Best of Discovery, Sh Contemporary 08, Shanghai, China
Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial, curated by
Charlotte Day, Healesville, Victoria
Upside Group Show, Summer 2008, Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New
Zealand
2007 Summer '07 '08, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
The End of Year Exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, 1 December - 22
December
Telecom Prospect, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
A Winter Exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Stolen Ritual, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 7 New Zealand
Just Painting, Curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
2006 Metaphysics of youth, Fuoriso, Pascara, Italy
4, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
2005 Hotbed, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin.
Snake Oil, Recent Acquisitions Chartwell Collection, New Gallery, Auckland Art
Gallery
2004 Remember New Zealand, 26th Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
Frieze Art Fair, London, England
Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
Pressing Flesh, Auckland City Gallery, Auckland
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2003 Coffee and Cream, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland
IKI Thanks for all the IKA, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Liste, Basel, Switzerland
Waikato Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
Auckland Festival Exhibition, Atrium on Elliott, Auckland
2002 Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Bits, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
2001 Flesh and Fruity, Artspace, Auckland
AWARDS
2006 Paramount Winner, 15th Annual Wallace Art Award, Auckland
2002 Winner, Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Hamilton
COLLECTIONS
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
The James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
RESIDENCIES
2011 Asia New Zealand Taiwan Residencey
2008 ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Programme), New York
McCahon Arts Residency, Titirangi, New Zealand
2005 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Otago University
CATALOGUES
2009 Chambers, Nicholas. “Rohan Wealleans: Ritual and Excess,” The 6th Asia Pacific
Triennial of Contemporary Art (Exhibition Catologue), pp186-189.
2008 Sh Contemporary 08 (Exhibition Catalogue), Shanghai
“Lost and Found” (Exhibition Catalogue), Tarrawarra Biennale, Victoria
2007 “Rohan Wealleans, Lets Make the Fire Turn Green,” monograph with essays by
Linda Tyler and Justin Paton, published by Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Hocken
Collections, 2007
2004 Byrt, Anthony. “Sticky: A publication produced on the occasion of Sticky 13-31 July
2004 at the Randolph Street Gallery,” Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design,
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c24gallery.com 2001
Auckland and Ramp Gallery, Wintec, Hamilton, (Ramp Press/Whitecliffe), 2004,
50p.
Gronlund, Melissa [ed.], Frieze Art Fair: Yearbook 2004-5, (Frieze Art Fair, London),
2004
Miles, Anna. “Flesh and Fruity: new artists 2001,” (Artspace, Auckland), 2001, 21p
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Apocalyptic Intuition, Wellington City Gallery
2008 Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia
(eds.), Sydney, p340
2005 Justin Paton, “An appointment with the thing” in How to look at a painting, Awa
Press, pp. 23 - 31
SELECTED PRESS
2012 John Hurrell, “Tribal Colours,” Australian Art Collector, Issue 62, OctoberDecember, 2012, pp.144-148
2009 Emma Bugden, “I got urges; the bad boy tribalism of Rohan Wealleans,” Art &
Australia, Vol. 47, No. 2, Summer 2009, p. 320 - 327.
2008 Gillian Serisier, “Rohan Wealleans,” Artist Profile, Issue 3, pp. 26-27
Stella Brennan, “Disciple of the Pearl: Rohan Wealleans,” Eyeline, No. 65, pp. 29-31
Rudolph Hudsucker, “Rohan Wealleans,” White Fungus, number 8, pp. 22-23
2007 Gillian Serisier, “Rohan Wealleans” Artist Profile, Issue 3, pp. 26-27
Stella Brennan, “Disciple of the Pearl: Rohan Wealleans,” Eyeline, No. 65, pp. 29-31
Rudolph Hudsucker, “Rohan Wealleans,” White Fungus, number 8, pp. 22-23
2005 Ralph Body, “Rohan Wealleans,” Critic, 29 March 2005, pp. 15-16
Justin Paton, “An appointment with the thing” in How to look at a painting, Awa
Press, 2005, pp. 23 – 31.
2004 Tobias Berger and Tessa Giblin, “Rohan Wealleans: Planet Spore,” eSCAPE, The
eZine of The New Zealand Community Trust Art & Industry Urban Arts Biennial 04
Anthony Byrt, “Sticky,” Whitecliffe College Catalogue
Jon Bywater, “Exhibitions: Auckland,” Art New Zealand 111, Winter, 2004, pp.46-47
Olivia Kember, “Young Guns,” New Zealand Listener, 15-21 May, 2004, Vol.193,
no.3340
Tessa Laird, “The Best Art of 2004,” New Zealand Listener, 25-31 December, 2004,
Vol.196, no.3372
Tessa Laird, “Pink Eye: Is this Whitefella Dreaming? A review of ALBINO, Francis
Upritchard and Rohan Wealleans,” Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, April, 2004,
Substance Books, Sweet #1, 2004
Deborah Orum, “Remember New Zealand,” Natural Selection, Issue 4, 2005.
514 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
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c24gallery.com Virginia Were, “Anything Can Happen,” Summer Studio, Art News, Vol. 24, no.4,
December 2004.
2002 Sue Gardiner, “Rohan Wealleans: Winner of National Contemporary Art Award,”
Art Monthly, December
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