Shane Cotton Michael Lett 312 Karangahape Road Cnr K Rd & East St PO Box 68287 Newton Auckland 1145 New Zealand P+ 64 9 309 7848 [email protected] www.michaellett.com Shane Cotton Untitled 2018 acrylic on paper 700 x 505mm SC5272 Shane Cotton Untitled / Untitled 2018 acrylic on paper 297 x 210mm SC5279 / SC5280 Shane Cotton Dirt Cache Installation view Michael Lett September 2016 Shane Cotton Head with Box (Grey) 2016 two framed acrylic on paper paintings with painted shelf 570 x 480 x 200mm SC4747 Shane Cotton Three Thoughts 2016 acrylic on canvas 910 x 910mm SC4740 Shane Cotton Black Pot #1 2017 acrylic on paper 1800 x 1120mm (framed) SC4939 Shane Cotton Red Yellow 2015 etching 500 mm x 350mm edition of 20 SC4467 Shane Cotton Blank Geometry Installation view Michael Lett January 2015 Shane Cotton The Haymaker Series 1-V Installation view Michael Lett March 2014 Shane Cotton Black Blood 2015 acrylic on canvas 250 x 250mm SC3403 Shane Cotton Persona 2011 acrylic on linen 2000 x 1500mm SC2101 Shane Cotton Where Ya From Man 2010 acrylic on canvas 455 x 355mm SC1989 Shane Cotton Datta 2008 acrylic on canvas 1600 x 1800 mm SC2078 Shane Cotton Painting (Blue Circle) 2008 acrylic on canvas Shane Cotton 2017 White Hole, Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch and Arrowtown (solo) Born 1964 (Ngati Rangi, Ngati Hine, Te Uri Taniwha) in Upper Hutt, New Zealand New Heads, Parlour Projects, Hastings (solo) Lives and works in Palmerston North, New Zealand Black Hole, Kronenberg Wright, Sydney (solo) 2016 EDUCATION Dirt Cache, Michael Lett, Auckland (solo) Exploded Worlds, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (group) 1991 Recent Paintings, Hamish McKay, Wellington (solo) Diploma in Teaching, Christchurch College of Education 2015 1988 Oblique Narratives, Anna Schwartz, Sydney (solo) Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Steve Carr, Fiona Clark, Shane Cotton, Seraphine Pick, Michael Stevenson, Peter Stichbury, Michael Lett, Auckland (group) AWARDS 2014 Blank Geometry, Michael Lett, Auckland (solo) 2008 The Voyage Out, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong (solo) Arts foundation of New Zealand Laureate Baseland, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch (solo) The Haymaker Series I-V, Michael Lett, Auckland (solo) 1999 Te Tohu Mahi Hou a Te Waka Toi/Te Waka Toi Award for New Work 2013 The Hanging Sky, City Gallery, Wellington (solo) 1989 The Hanging Sky, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch (solo) Wilkins and Davies Young Artist of the Year The Hanging Sky, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (solo) 1988 2012 Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship The Hanging Sky, IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (solo) Sawtell-Turner Prize in Painting Smoking Gun, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (solo) Irwin Allen Hunt Scholarship Letter from Alice May Williams, Michael Lett, Auckland (group) Frances Hodgkins Fellowship University of Otago, Dunedin WHAKAWHITI ARIA: TRANSMISSION, Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and Seppelt Contemporary Art Award for visual arts, Museum of contemporary Art, History, Palmerston North (group) Sydney. LAND/SCAPE, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland (group) 1986 2011 Bickerton-Widdowson Memorial Scholarship Supersymmetry, Michael Lett, Auckland (solo) 2010 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Recent Painting, Michael Lett, Auckland (solo) Smashed Myth, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (solo) 2018 To and Fro, Rossi Rossi Gallery, London (solo) Black Hole, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (solo) 17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, curated by David Elliott, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (group) 2009 curator Helen Kedgley, Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Porirua, NZ Art in the Contemporary Pacifc, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (group) Taiawhio: Continuity and Change, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington 2008 Coloured Dirt, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington (solo) 2001 Blackout Movement, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland (solo) 2007 New Paintings, Brooke-Giford Gallery, Christchurch (solo) Red-Shift, Sherman Galleries, Sydney (solo) Home & Away: Chartwell Collection, City Gallery Wellington (group) Helgoland, Brooke Giford Gallery, Christchurch (solo) Taranaki Te Maunga, Gowett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (group) Turbulence 3rd Auckland Triennial 2007, curated by Victoria Lynn, Auckland Art Still Life, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington (group) Gallery Toi o Tamaki (group) Colin McCahon’s time for messages, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Four Times Painting 2007, curated by Christina Barton, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka (group) Toi, Wellington (group) Leaping Boundries, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney (group) Empathy: Beyond the Horizon, curators Marketta Seppala and Imants Tillers, Pori 2006 Art Museum and Frame, The Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Finland (group) Shane Cotton, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington (solo) Techno Maori: Maori in the Digital Age, curators Deidre Brown and Jonathan Nuclear Reactions, curated by Paco Barragan, Caja de Burgos Art Centre, Burgos, Mane-Wheoki, City Gallery Wellington and Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture, Spain (group) Porirua (group) Purangiaho: Seeing Clearly, curators Ngarino Ellis and Ngahiraka Mason, Auckland 2005 Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (group) Pararaiha, Sherman Galleries, Sydney (solo) Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, curator Justin Paton, Dunedin Public Art Gallery; City Gallery Wellington (group) 2004 Te Maunga Taranaki: Views of a Mountain, curators Gregory Burke, William Shane Cotton Survey 1993-2003, curator Lara Strongman, Auckland Art Gallery Toi McAloon, Hanna Scott and Darcy Nicholas, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New o Tamaki (solo) Plymouth (group) Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacifc, Asia Society Museum, New York Alive!:Still Life into the 21st Century, curator Zara Stanhope, Adam Art Gallery, (group) Victoria University of Wellington (group) 2003 2000 Shane Cotton Survey 1993-2003, curator Lara Strongman, City Gallery Wellington Te Timatanga: From Eden to Ohaeawai, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (solo) (solo) Eloquent Polarities: The Chartwell Collection - Recent Acquisitions, Auckland City Shane Cotton: Paintings, curator Ewen McDonald, SOFA Gallery, School of Fine Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (group) Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch (solo) Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance, curators Te Miringa Hohaia, Gregory Shane Cotton: New Paintings, Brooke-Giford Gallery, Christchurch (solo) O’Brien, Paula Savage and Lara Strongman, City Gallery Wellington (group) Empathy: Beyond the Horizon, curators Marketta Seppala and Imants Tillers (Pori Te Ao Tawhito/Te Ao Hou – Old Worlds/New Worlds: Contemporary Art from Art Museum and Frame, The Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Finland), Artspace, Aotearoa New Zealand, Art Museum of Missoula, Montana, US; Maui Arts and Sydney (group) Cultural Centre, Hawaii (group) Emerging Artists of the Nineties, 10 Works from the Fletcher Trust Collection, Canterbury Painting in the 1990s, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch Tauanga Art Gallery, NZ (group) (group) 2002 Darkness and Light: Looking at the Landscape, touring Victorian regional galleries Powder Garden, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington (solo) to McClelland Art Gallery and Sculpture Park; Benalla Art Gallery; Ballarat Fine Art Birds Eyes Views, Mori Gallery, Sydney (solo) Gallery; Geelong Art Gallery; and to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (group) Koru and Kowhaiwhai: The Contemporary Renaissance of Kowhaiwhai Painting, Text and Image, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland (group) 1999 The Film Centre, Wellington (group) New Painting, Brooke Giford Gallery, Christchurch (solo) Shane Cotton, Hocken Library Gallery, University of Otago, Dunedin (solo) 1996 New Paintings, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington (solo) New Painting, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland (solo) New Paintings, Mori Gallery, Sydney (solo) New Painting, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington (solo) Group Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney (group) Patua, City Gallery, Wellington (group) Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, US (group) Seven New Zealand Artists, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne Wonderlands: Views on life at the end of the century, at the end of the world, (group) curators Gregory Burke and Hanna Scott, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Into the Light, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North (group) Plymouth (group) The Raising of the Noxious, curator Gregory Burke, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, 1995 New Plymouth (group) Shane Cotton: Recent Paintings, curator Penny Swann, Govett-Brewster Art Word: Artists explore the power of the single word, curator Linda Michael with Peter Gallery, New Plymouth (solo) Tyndall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (group) Te Ta Pahara, Brooke-Giford Gallery, Christchurch (solo) Manufacturing Meaning: The Victoria University Art collection in Context, curator Shane Cotton: Recent Paintings, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne (solo) Stuart McKenzie, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria, University of Wellington (group) Ta Te Whenua, Manawatu Art Gallery Palmerston North; Fisher Gallery, Auckland Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell (solo) Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Stop Making Sense, curator George Hubbard, City Gallery, Wellington (group) Plymouth; Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton; City Gallery Wellington; Korurangi: New Maori Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (group) Dunedin Public Art Gallery (group) A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, curator Allan Smith, City Gallery Wellington