LORENE TAUREREWA
Brooklyn, New York

QUALIFICATIONS
2000 MA Program, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
1998 Diploma of Teaching, Secondary Fine Art, Massey University, New Zealand
1996 BFA Painting, Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui, New Zealand

AWARDS
2012 (upcoming) A.C.E Artist in Residency Program, Argentina
2009 Creative New Zealand: Arts Council of New Zealand: Grant recipient
2006 IASK Residency: The National Artists Studio: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2006 Martin Hughes, Contemporary Pacific Art Award, Winner, New Zealand
2006 Creative New Zealand: Arts Council of New Zealand: Grant recipient
2004 Creative New Zealand: Arts Council of New Zealand: Grant recipient

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 THE END Artspace, Brooklyn, NY (upcoming)
2011 Yes Gallery, Watercolors…and other things, Brooklyn, New York
2011 Helen Gory Gallery, The Company of Fools, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Suite Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 Pataka Museum, Sleight of Hand, New Zealand
2010 Yardmeter Editions, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Chaffers Gallery, More Eccentrickery, Wellington, New Zealand
2009 Oedipus Rex Gallery, White Paintings, Auckland, New Zealand
2009 Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York
2008 A.I.C.H Gallery, Eccentricks, New York
2008 Oedipus Rex Gallery, Psychopompe, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 Chaffers Gallery, Sensible World, Wellington, New Zealand
2008 NZ Consulate, Drawings, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
2007 Oedipus Rex Gallery, Degrees of Separation, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Changdong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Lorene Taurerewa Drawing, New Zealand
2006 Sarjeant Gallery, Journey of 1000 Miles, Wanganui, New Zealand
2006 Fifty2 Gallery, Lorene Taurerewa, Here and Now, Wellington, New Zealand
2005 Lopdell House Gallery, Big Drawings, Auckland, New Zealand
2004 Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Inherited Bodies, Porirua, New Zealand
2002 Neut Gallery, Body Speak, Wellington, New Zealand

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 National Gallery of Victoria, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project. Melbourne, Australia
2011 MOP Projects, Helen Gory Gallery artists, Sydney, Australia
2011 Yes Gallery, WANDERLUST, Brooklyn, New York
2011 NORTHSIDE Exhibition, THE END ARTSPACE, Brooklyn, New York
2011 A.I.R. Gallery, Wish you were here, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York
2011 In Rivers Gallery, GIMME SOME TRUTH: a return to form, Brooklyn, New York
2011 The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
2011 McLean Project for the Arts, Figuration Today: the Surrealist Influence, Washington DC,
2011 Suite Gallery, Bi-Cultural, New Zealand
2010 Gallery of Modern Art, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Brisbane, Australia
2009 Amelia Johnson Gallery, Chrysalid, Hong Kong
2009 Ann Street Gallery, INSIGHT: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, New York
2009 Gallery Korea, Soul Ideologie, Park Ave, New York
2009 Oedipus Rex Gallery, Works on Paper, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 New Zealand Embassy, 3 person show, Paris, France
2008 Sarjeant Gallery, New Zealand
2008 Pataka Museum, Samoa Contemporary, New Zealand
2008 Tauranga Public Art Gallery, Samoa Contemporary, New Zealand
2007 Asian Fusion Gallery, Essence of Asia: Eastern Influences in Western Art, New York
2006 Mark Hutchins Gallery, 3 persons show, New Zealand
2006 Martin Hughes Architecture Interiors Gallery, Awards Show, Auckland, New Zealand
2005 Sydney Art Drawing Fair, Sydney, Australia
2004 Te Wa Gallery, Wahine Pasifika, Wanganui, New Zealand
2003 Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Dolly Mix (W)rappers, Porirua, New Zealand
2002 Te Wa Gallery, Summer Show, Wanganui, New Zealand
2002 ArtsStation, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 Waikato Museum of Art and History, Dolly Mix (W)rappers, Hamilton, New Zealand
2001 XSpace Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2000 Quay School of the Arts Gallery, 3 persons, Wanganui, New Zealand
2000 Sarjeant Gallery, Pacific Blue, Wanganui, New Zealand

COLLECTIONS
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
James Wallace Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Pataka Museum, New Zealand
Private and public collections in New Zealand, USA, Australia, Europe and Asia

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art Monthly Australia, The dealer’s hand: traditions of representation in drawings by Lorene Taurerewa 2008 – 2011, Eoghan MacDaibhead, December, 2011
Next Magazine, NEW YORK STORY, pp 40-41, New Zealand, February, 2011
Quantas Magazine, Australia, May 2011
Washington Post, preview, Figuration Today, the Surrealist Influence, Washington, November 26 2010
Ashley Crawford for Australian Art Collector, Lorene Taurerewa, pp, 108 -109, October-December, 2010
Australian Art Review, Impressive Kiwi Gothic , Louise Martin-Chew, August 2010
VOGUE LIVING AUSTRALIA, WET PAINT, pp, 99-100, Sept/Oct, 2010
Catalogue, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, 2010
Catalogue, Soul Ideologie, Gallery Korea, 2010
Mark Amery, The Otherworldliness of Lorene Taurerewa, Dominion Post, ARTS, April 2009
Warwick Brown, ‘Seen this Century’, Random House, New Zealand 2009
ArtNews, New Zealand, Lorene Taurerewa, Editorial news, March/April, 2009
Mark Amery, Galleries and the Visual Arts: For Richer and for poorer, galleries and the economic climate, citation, Dominion Post, Pg 2009
TJ McNamara, ‘Painted canvas reflects better than a mirror’, NZ Herald, May 1, 2008
Mark Amery, ‘Samoan Shadow Play’ Dominion Post, May 2008
Abbey Cunnane, ‘Samoan. Sort of’, NZ Listener, May 3 2008
Spasifik Mag.com, Lorene Taurerewa, October, 2008
Diana Dekker, ‘From the heart’, The Dominion Post, February, 25, 2008
ArtAsiaPacific, Almanac, New York, pg 251 2007
T.J. McNamara, ‘City and Suburbs’, Auckland Herald, 21\4\2007
Wolgan Misool, Korean Arts Monthly Magazine, February issue pp. 55, Korea 2007
‘No Made’ Catalogue: The National Arts Studio: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 2007
Spasifik Magazine ‘Connecting with the Past’, January\February, PP 90, 2007
Rebecca Rice, ‘Julian Dashper, Te huringa/Turning Points, Lorene Taurerewa’, Art New Zealand: pp. 44-45 Spring Issue 2006
Catalogue, Journey of 1000 Miles, Sarjeant Gallery, Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006
Catalogue, ‘IASK’ Curated by The National Arts Studio: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 2006
Robyn McLean, “Making Marks on a Grand Scale”, Dominion Post, ARTS, Section B10, 21/4/2006
Mary Bryan, ‘Results of amazing Journey on display at Sarjeant Gallery’ Wanganui Chronicle, p3, August 2006
‘Lorene takes off’ B4 Arts section New Zealand Herald, November, 2006
Korea Herald, Article, December 2006
Asia New Zealand Foundation Magazine, Article, 2006
‘Lorene Taurerewa’ Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Newsletter, June 2006
Frontseat: TV ONE, Mark Hutchins Gallery, 30/4/2006
Owen Davidson, ‘Spirit and Form, The Art of Lorene Taurerewa’ Art New Zealand, pp 58-61, November 2005
Gail Bailey, ‘Refusing to sit still’ The Arts Guide, The New Zealand Herald 18/2/2005
T.J. McNamara, ‘Painting goes back to its pure roots’ The New Zealand Herald 18/2/2005
Linda Chalmers, ‘The Arrival of Contemporary Pacific’ New Zealand Investor Monthly, p.3, March 2005
‘Contemporary Art by Women of Samoa’ The Waikato Times, p.1, March 2002
‘Dolly Mix (W)rappers’,Catalogue: Curated by Leafa Wilson, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, 2002

MEDIA
Lorene Taurerewa in New York, a short documentary for Kete Aronui Arts Program for KIWA FILMS, NZ
ABC Radio Australia, Interview with Lorene Taurerewa, The Pacific Wave in New York, May 2009

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2001-09 Lecturer for Drawing, School of Design, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand