hello@andrewbarber.net

Born 1978, Auckland, New Zealand

Selected Exhibitions

2017

• Folly (Stone Carpet)
  Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (solo)
• The small work is to the Painter, as costly as the large
  Goya Curtain, Tokyo

2016

• Movement
  Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt (with Jeena Shin)
• Painting
  Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (solo)

2015

• Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show
  Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
• Ngā Toi | Arts Te Papa
  Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

2014

• A world undone: Works from the Chartwell Collection
  Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
• When I paint my masterpiece
  Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
• From under the house
  Peter McLeavey, Wellington (solo)

2013

• Flags
  Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (solo)
• New Revised Edition
  City Gallery Wellington
• Earth, Wind and Fire, Knock on Wood
  Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington

2012

• Hedge
  Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (solo)
• The New Fair, Melbourne (with Hopkinson Cundy)
• The Imperial Project, 44 Queen St, Auckland

2011

• Black and Blue
  Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington (solo)
• Monochromes
  30 Customs St East, Auckland (solo)
• Studs
  Y3K, Melbourne (solo)
• Big Refrigerator
  Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland

2010

• Studies
  Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (solo)
• The Department Store, Auckland (solo)
• Zodiac
  Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington (curated by Erica van Zon)
• Two Man Shoe
  Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington (with Nick Austin)

2009

• Dreamhome/Shithouse
  Gambia Castle, Auckland (solo)
• PICNIC
  Customs St studio, Auckland (solo)
• Cross Colouring
  Hell Gallery, Melbourne (curated by Harriet Morgan and Sarah Hopkinson)
• We Go Far, and Way Back
  Show Gallery, New York

2008

• Six Man Stand-up Tent: Real Men Were Homos
  Gambia Castle, Auckland (solo)
• Lean
  Starkwhite, Auckland (solo)
• The Leisure Suite
  LeRoy Neiman Gallery, University of Columbia, New York

2007

• Country Painting
  Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
• 90% & Untitled
  LEDGE gallery, Hamilton (with John Reynolds)
• Andrew Barber Andrew Barber
  Gambia Castle, Auckland (solo)
• …from the directors collection
  SNO gallery, Sydney

2006

• Andrew Barber
  N.O.T. Toowoomba, Queensland (solo)
• Danish Designs, gone bust, lost forever…
  Dep_art_ment, Auckland (solo)
• CARRY ON
  NEXT WAVE Festival, Melbourne (with Nicholas Spratt, Kylie Duncan and Kirsten Dryburgh)
• Month of April: An exhibition in four parts
  Canary Gallery, Auckland (curated by Julian Dashper and Simon Ingram)
• Painting of the Future
  Canary Gallery, Auckland (with Stephen Bram, curated by Ben Curnow)
• HEADWAY: New Artists Show 2006
  ARTSPACE, Auckland (curated by Brian Butler and Laura Preston)
• Famous Artworks
  Canary Galley, Auckland
• One God, No Masters
  Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

2005

• Andrew Barber
  rm 103, Auckland
• PARTY
  Dep_art_ment, Auckland
• Duets II
  rm 103, Auckland (with Sriwhana Spong and Lisa Benson)
• Fifty-nine Metres Squared
  Canary Gallery, Auckland (with Ben Buchanan, Bjorn Houtman, Steve Kay and Jeena Shin)

2004

• Andrew Barber Breaks A Leg
  Canary Gallery, Auckland
• you can take the boy out of the _____ but you can’t take the _____ out of the boy
  rm 103, Auckland
• #2:04/06/04-04/07/04
  Parade, Auckland
• Ship of Fools
  Canary Gallery, Auckland (with Paula Booker)
• Waterworks
  rm 103, Auckland
• Rm Service
  Enjoy Gallery, Wellington
• Duets
  Ramp Gallery, Hamilton
• Snowball
  rm 103, Auckland
• Quite Conclusively the Best End of Year Show Ever
  rm 103, Auckland

2003

• Cheap L.P.
  rm 103, Auckland (with Clinton Watkins and Bjorn Houtman)
• Images of Desire
  Winston Hotel, Amsterdam (curated by Jan van de Ploeg)

2002

• Opposite the Studio of Contemporary Art
  Level 2, 6 Kingdon St, Auckland (with John Appleton, Paula Booker and James A. Wallace)
• Zip
  Level 2, 6 Kingdon St, Auckland (with John Appleton, Paula Booker, CXD, Scott Everson and James A. Wallace)

1999

• Only the Lonely
  Artspace, Auckland (performance for Hadleigh Averill)
• Relocation
  Artstation, Auckland (performance for Hadleigh Averill)

Selected Texts

Mark Stocker, New Zealand Art at Te Papa
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, 2018

John Hurrell, ‘Andrew Barber’
Australian Art Collector, Issue 57, July–September 2011

John Hurrell, ‘New Barber works’
Eyecontact site, 15 December 2010

David Levinson, ‘Andrew Barber’
The Delivery: Gambia Castle exhibitions 2007, Gambia Castle Press, Auckland, 2008

John Hurrell, ‘A Good Team: Andrew Barber and John Reynolds at Ledge Gallery’
Artbash weblog, 3 March 2007

David Levinson, ‘Andrew Barber: Washroom’
Lumiere Reader, August 2006

Simon Ingram, ‘The Value of Andrew Barber’s No Collar Abstraction’
Headway catalogue, Artspace, Auckland, 2006

‘Fresh Paint’
Urbis 33, 2006

Tessa Laird (ed.), Nights of our Lives
rm103, Auckland, 2005

Ben Curnow (ed.), New New Zealand Art
Canary Gallery, Auckland and MOP, Sydney, 2003