CV
Education
2018-2022
PhD – Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
2014-2016
MA, Distinction – Museum and Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
2004
PGDip – Museum and Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
2000-2003
BFA, First Class Honours – College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
Selected Employment History
2023
Network Engagement Coordinator Art & Diversity — Sustrans Scotland, UK
2022
Freelance Curator & Writer
2021
Acting Head of Programme and Project Curator – South London Gallery, UK
Curatorial Advisory (2018-2021) – Te Tuhi Contemporary Art Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2009-2020
Curator-at-large (2017)
Senior Curator (2011-2016)
Exhibition Manager (2009-2010) – Te Tuhi Contemporary Art Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2017-2019
Deputy Chair – Enjoy Public Art Gallery Trust, Wellington, New Zealand
Freelance Writer – Art Asia Pacific, ArtLink Australia, Art News New Zealand
2018-2019
Senior Tutor – Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
2017-2018
Advisory Curator – Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki, Christchurch, New Zealand
Guest Curator – Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand
2017
Guest Curator – Edinburgh Art Festival, Scotland
2007-2010
International Curator in Residence – Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, US
2008-2009
Acting Project Manager, One Day Sculpture – Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
2008
Collections Assistant, Exhibition Preparator – The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
2004–2008
Curatorial Internship, Information Officer, Exhibition Preparator – Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2004–2005
Curatorial Internship – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Awards
2018
Finalist, Exhibition Excellence Award, for the exhibition Yona Lee: In Transit (Arrival) – Museums Aotearoa Awards (New Zealand’s national museum and gallery award)
2017
Winner, Exhibition Excellence Award, for the exhibition Share/Cheat/Unite – Museums Aotearoa Awards
Finalist, Exhibition Excellence Award, for the exhibition THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS – Museums Aotearoa Awards
2016
Winner, Best Major Exhibition Catalogue, for the publication Unstuck in Time – Museums Australasia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards (International museum award)
2012
Harmonious Race Relations Award, for the exhibition What do you mean, we? – New Zealand Human Rights Commission
Collectives, Committees, Residencies and Research Fellowships
2022-2023
Member: Neuk Collective (neurodivergent artist collective)
2018-
Member: The chronicle of <_______> (curator and artist collective).
2018-
Te Tuhi Curatorial Advisory Committee
2016-2017
Curatorial Programme Committee – Headlands Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
2016
Momentum Programme, Edinburgh Art Festival – Selected by the British Council and Creative New Zealand
2014
Curators' Tour of Asia – Asia New Zealand Foundation and Creative New Zealand
2014
Research Meeting – International Award for Public Art, Shanghai University, China
2007-10
International Curator in Residence – Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, US
Selected Public Presentations
2021 & 2022
Guest Lecture: MFA Contemporary Art Theory, Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki.
2018
Opening Speech: Fieldwork by Peter Robinson – Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki, Christchurch, New Zealand
Symposium Paper: Considering Love – co-presented with Jordana Bragg, KO AU TE AU/I AM THE OCEAN: 2018 ST PAUL St Symposium, Auckland New Zealand
2017
Opening Speech: Geophagy by Ruth Watson – Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki, Christchurch, New Zealand
Exhibition Tour: Dark Matter: a library to scale by Ann Shelton – Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
2016
Conference Paper: Co-producing and Collaborating with Community – Best, next and radical practice in participatory arts, The Third International Teaching Artist Conference, The University of Edinburgh
Conference Paper: Strategies for the socially relevant art museum – Museums Aotearoa Conference, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
2015
Panel Discussion Chair: Strategies for Inclusion, Alex Monteith and Sepake Angiama – Curating Under Pressure, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Conference Paper: Between Memory and Trace: an Unresolved Tension – Cities in a Climate of Change: Public Art and Environmental & Social Ecologies, International Award for Public Art, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Guest Lecture: Exhibition as Form: its potential and its problems – Curatorial Strategies Public Lecture series, ST Paul St Gallery, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
2014
Exhibition Talk: Kalisolaite ’Uhila’s Mo’ui Tukuhausia – The Walters Prize 2014: Curator's response, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand