INFO@DARRENKNIGHTGALLERY.COM
1949
Born Nelson, New Zealand
1986
Artist in residence, Tylee Cottage, Wanganui, New Zealand
1988
Travels to the United States
1993
Travels to France, Wales and Spain
1997
Travels to Hong Kong and Australia
1999
Artist in residence, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
2000
Travels to Australia, Hong Kong, Macau
2001
Travels to Japan, Macau
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Monumental: Ice. America. Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2010
Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008
Northland Maori Churches, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Laurence Aberhart, Faculty Gallery, Monash Art & Design, Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melbourne
Laurence Aberhart, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2007-2009
Aberhart, City Gallery Wellington, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery and touring
2006
Sun Pictures & Museology, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Domestic Architecture: Laurence Aberhart, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
2005
Selected Works, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Laurence Aberhart – The Invisible Edge, 8” x 10” polaroids 1979/80, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2004
Last Lights, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Sue Crockford, Auckland, New Zealand
2003
Serial Works - Last Light and Domestic Architecture, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Mission Heliographique-Extract s: 1999-2003, McNamara Gallery Photography, Wanganui, New Zealand
2002
Laurence Aberhart, The Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Interior - 44 Photographs 1981-2001, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
2001
Macau, China, Japan, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Asia, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
GHOSTWRITING: Photographs of Macau, Macau Museum of Art, Macau
John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
Laurence Aberhart in Japan, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2000
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Twenty-five recent photographs, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1999-2000
All Gates Open, photographs by Laurence Aberhart, touring exhibition, New Zealand
1999
Dark Stuff, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Where Shadows Dream of Light, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1998
Sampling - Australia and elsewhere. Luddite Travelogue, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1997
John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
1996
Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne, Australia
1995
Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Mission Heliographique, Aberhart North Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1994
Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne, Australia
Platinum Print Photographs, Aberhart North Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1993
Danceland, Rotorua Museum and Art Gallery, Rotorua, New Zealand
Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
The Contact Print 1993, Aberhart North Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1992
Aberhart North Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1990
Nature Morte, 105 Photographs, 1971-1989, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Vestiges From The Last Colonial Culture, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA
1989
Aberhart North Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1987
Aberhart North Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1986
Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1985
Aberhart North Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1983
Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1981
Twenty-three photographs, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1978
Nineteen photographs, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Double Exposure, Blackfriars off Broadway, Sydney
2008
The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Background: landscapes, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Sea, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Selected Works, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2004
Old Town, New City, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
2003
Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, touring National Gallery of Australia; Unpacked, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Sydney, Australia
The Caravan, Photographs of a New Zealand icon, Pataka Porirua, Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua, New Zealand
2001
Photo Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Sydney, Australia
Black/White & Grey, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000
Flight Patterns, MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Drive, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Re/brand?, Wollongong City Gallery & University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
1999-2000
Wonderlands, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1999
Exploring Culture and Community for the 21st Century, Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Australia
Mapping Our Countries, Djamu Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998
Dream Collectors, Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
1996
Darren Knight DKW at Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane, Australia
Seven New Zealand Artists, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Mornington, Australia
1995
Currencies, Photoforum, Auckland Museum, New Zealand
Sight/Seeing: Views, Tourists, Souvenirs, Postmasters Gallery, National Philatelic Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Waikato Te Awa: The People and the River, Waikato Museum of Art & History, Hamilton, New Zealand
Symbolist Photography, Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1995
Australia Felix, Benalla Easter Arts Festival, Benalla, Australia
1994
Masons of the Grand Lodge, Page 90 Artspace, Wellington, New Zealand
Station to Station: The Way of the Cross, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Letters from Ronald’s Room, Gallery Seventy Nine, Hawera, New Zealand
1992
Peebles: Peers and Contemporaries, Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand
Whatu Aho Rua, Australian touring exhibition organized by Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
Contemporary Update, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art, MCA, Sydney, Australia
1989
Montana Lindauer: The Art Award, Auckland Society of Arts, New Zealand
From today painting is dead, Shed 11, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
The Photography Show, Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1988
Rear Vision, Wellington City Art Gallery, New Zealand
Exhibits, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1987
The trained eye, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
A portrait of law, Wellington City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1984
Pairs, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
GRANTS
1994
Moet & Chandon Fellowship
1988
QE II Arts Council Grant
1987
Fullbright Cultural Grant
1986
QE II Arts Council Grant
1984
QE II Arts Council Grant
1982
QE II Arts Council Grant
1981
QE II Arts Council Grant
COLLECTIONS
All major New Zealand public collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
Readers Digest Collection, Pleasantville, USA
Hallmark Photography Collection, Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art,Kansas City, USA
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Barrie, Lita, Laurence Aberhart – Signs of mortality, Art New Zealand, #50, Autumn 1989
Barrie, Lita, Photos of colonialism, National Business Review, 22 July 1988
Batten, John, Laurence Aberhart, Macau and China, ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 33, Jan/Feb/March 2002
Beecher, E, ed. Last Light, The Reader, no. 16, 12 September 2003
Bloem, Marja, Laurence Aberhart, Bulletin Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2002
Burke, Greg, An Indeterminate Surface, catalogue essay, Imposing Narratives: Beyond the Documentary in Recent New Zealand Photography, Wellington City Art Gallery, 1989
Eggleton, David, Wings of desire, and other films, Listener, New Zealand, September 2003
Fox, P. Laurence Aberhart, Flash, CCP members magazine, June-September 2005.
Fox, Paul, Laurence Aberhart, exhibition essay, Darren Knight Gallery, 1996
French, Blair, Laurence Aberhart, review, art/text #67 1999
Hart, Deborah, Home Sweet Home: an artist-collector’s passion, Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay collection, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Hipkins, Gavin, Delayed Action, catalogue essay, Where Shadows Dream of Light, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand 1999.
Hutchins, Tom, review, Art New Zealand, no.14 1979
Ireland, Peter, review, PhotoForum, no.43 March 1979
Ireland, Peter, The Holy Incarnate, National Art Gallery Newsletter, no.3 1984
Johnston, Alexa, Christianity in New Zealand Art, catalogue essay, Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
McAloon, W. History that is still happening, Sunday Star Times, 2 May 1999
McAloon, W. Twenty-five recent photographs, review, Sunday Star Times, 18 June 2000
McNamara, Paul, Domestic Architecture: Laurence Aberhart, catalogue raisonné accompanying exhibition at McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand 2005- 06
Meng, U. V. & Batten, J. GHOSTWRITING: Photographs of Macau, exhibition catalogue, The & Batten, J. Macau Museum of Art, 2001
O'Brien, Greg and Paton, Justin, Aberhart, catalogue, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 2008
Paton, Justin, Traces of time, The Listener, 12 September 1998
Paton, Justin, Black Box, catalogue essay, The Interior, 44 Photographs 1981-2001, McNamara Gallery Photography, 2002
Perkins, Margaret, Celebrating the obscure, , 29 August 1999
Pitts, Priscilla, Laurence Aberhart, catalogue essay, Exhibits, Artspace 1988
Sheriden, Keith, Art New Zealand, no.34, Autumn 1985
Smee, Sebastian, Lawrence of Ipswich, review, Sydney Morning Herald, April 1998
Smee, Sebastian, Death becalms him, review, Sydney Morning Herald, July 1999
Whibley, Margaret, Laurence Aberhart, Montana Lindauer: the art award 1989, exhibition catalogue, Auckland Society of Arts 1989