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Born in Auckland in 1956. Reynolds received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland in 1978 and first exhibited in 1980. John Reynolds is widely considered to be one of New Zealand's finest artists. Recent highlights of his career include: one of four finalists in the inaugural Walters Prize (2002) staged by the Auckland Art Gallery along with art patrons Erika and Robin Congreve and Jenny Gibbs; Harry Human Heights at Artspace in Auckland; From K Road to Kingdom Come at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery; and HEVN at Victoria University's Adam Gallery. Recently he completed Snow Tussock, his first large-scale, site-specific work at Macraes Heritage and Art Park (East Otago) and this will be followed by a second related work titled Golden Spaniard. Reynolds has also completed a major 200m x 200m site-specific work for the Gibbs Sculpture Farm. His work is held in all major private and public collections, including the Gibbs Collection, the Congreve Collection, the Chartwell Collection and the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth and Te Papa. Reynolds paintings are rich with literary, religious, arthistorical and architectural allusions. They range in scale from works on postcards and stamps to the 2 x 12 metre painting, Hope Street. Reynolds collaborated with the painter Ralph Hotere on the multi-paneled Winter Chrysanthemums, 1995 and also with the poet Leigh Davis on his boxed set of poems The Book of Hours, 2002. He lives and works in Auckland.
Major Awards and Grants
2008 Finalist The Walters Prize 2006 New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate 2002 Finalist The Walters Prize 1993 QEII Arts Council Fellowship
1998 Montana Lindauer Art Award
1993 Visa Gold Award
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Ballet Macanique, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland 2008 John Reynolds: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, Christchurch Art Gallery
2007 Known Knowns, Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns, Sue Crockford Galley, Auckland
2006 Last Evenings On Earth and Alien Hand Paintings, Sue Crockford Gallery
2006 CLOUD, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
2005 I Gotta Us Words When I Talk To You, Sue Crockford Gallery
2004 Einstein Sings Nirvana, Sue Crockford Gallery,
2003 I'm Doing Nothing Wrong, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2002 We Are Going Nowhere, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2001 Antipodes, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2001 Harry Human Heights, Artspace, Auckland
2000 History and the making of history, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1999 Y2K, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1998 Western Springs/Bloody Angle, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1997 12 hours of daylight, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1997 John Reynolds, Center of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
1996 Neitzsche on Whites Beach, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1996 Millennium: a general theory of tears, McDougall Annex, Christchurch
1995 Karangahape Rd, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1993 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1993 Two large recent paintings, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1993 John Reynolds, recent work, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1992 Ritual flowers, Center for contemporary art, Hamilton
1992 John Reynolds, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1991 Recent paintings by John Reynolds, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1991 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1990 John Reynolds new works, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1990 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1989 An exhibition of recent paintings, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1989 The Cross, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1988 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1988 Recent work, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1987 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1987 Pyrotechnics, cibrachromes, Real Pictures, Auckland
1987 New works, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1986 Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1986 Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1986 Big drawings 1981-1986, Center for Contemporary Art, Hamilton
1986 John Reynolds, paintings, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1985 John Reynolds, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1984-85 Cibachromes, Real Pictures, Auckland
1984 Mezzanines, Space Gallery, Auckland
1981 Big paintings, 100m2, Auckland
1980 Swell drawings, 100m2, Auckland
Group Exhibitions
2007 Just Painting, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
2006 Pakeha Now, Suter Gallery, Nelson 2006 Group Show, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2005 Free NZ Art, ARTSPACE, Auckland
2004 Vacancy, Te Tuhi The Mark, Pakuranga, Auckland 2004 Remember New Zealand, New Zealand at the 26th Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil
2003 Nine Lives: The 2003 Chartwell Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki,
2002 White, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2001 After Killeen, ARTSPACE, Auckland
2001 Tall poppies, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2001 It will be ok, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
2001 Black and White, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2000 New Work, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2000 Home and away Auckland Art Gallery and touring to Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, City Gallery, Wellington
1999 What I photographed this summer, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1998 New Zealand on paper, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1995 A very peculiar practice: aspects of recent New Zealand painting, City Gallery, Wellington
1994 Sugar lift, Canterbury School of Fine Arts Gallery, Christchurch
1994 Station to station: the way of the cross, Auckland City Art Gallery
1994 Two major works, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1993 The right stuff, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1993 Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga Arts Society,
1992 Distance looks our way: 10 artists from New Zealand, Seville Expo
1992 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1992 New Works 1992, five New Zealand artists, National Art Gallery
1992 Headlands: thinking through New Zealand art Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992 The selective eye, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1991 Cross Pollination, Artspace, Auckland
1989 After McCahon: some recent configurations in art, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
1989 The photography show, Fisher gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland
1989 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1988 Demolition exhibition, Artspace, Auckland
1987 Lindauer Art Award, Auckland Society of the Arts Gallery, Auckland (winner)
1987-88 Drawing analogies: recent dimensions in New Zealand drawing,
Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington
1987 John Reynolds, A rough geography, The North Gallery, Whangarei
1987 Albrecht/Reynolds, Sue Crockford Gallery (with Gretchen Albrecht)
1987 The folding image, An exhibition of screens by contemporary New Zealand artists, Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland
1986 Someone's scheming, Real Pictures, Auckland
1986 Group show, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1986 Omaha Beach, Peter McLeavey Gallery, (with Julian Dashper)
1986 Drawings, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1985 Opening Show, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
1985 Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington (with Julian Dashper)
1985 Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1985 Chartwell Collection, Center for Contemporary Art, Hamilton
1984 Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington (with Julian Dashper)
1983 Durham House, Auckland (with Julian Dashper)
Selected bibliography
Art New Zealand, Cloud, 2006
Barr, Mary (ed.) Headlands: thinking through New Zealand art 1992, Sydney:
Museum of Contemporary Art.
Barrie, Lita. "Beyond aesthetics: readings in cultural intervention" in Art New
Zealand no. 46 Autumn 1998, pp. 98-102
Burke, Greg. Drawing Analogies, 1988 Wellington: Wellington City Art Gallery
Barton, Tina. After McCahon, some recent configurations in art 1989 Auckland:
Auckland City Art Gallery
Brown, Warwick. 100 New Zealand Paintings 1995 Auckland: Godwit Publishing
Clement, Shelley. "Offbeat artistry" in Onfilm no 5, Aug/Sep 1988, pp. 57-58
Foster, Hugh. "John Reynolds" in Art New Zealand no 19 Autumn 1981, p. 17
Houlahan, Mike. "Artist hopes 'cave' will draw in crowd" in Evening Post 1992 Auckland, p. 29
Matthews, Philip. "John will be your guide, searching for the whereabouts of
John Reynolds" in NZ Listener, 14 July 2001
McLeod, Rosemary. "The state of New Zealand art" in North and South November 1986, pp. 46-57
Pitts, Priscilla. "John Reynolds, Derek Cowie, Photography in Auckland" in Art New Zealand no 49 Summer 1988/89, pp. 32-33
Reynolds, John. "Pare down, build up" in NZ Listener, 3 September 1988, p. 89
Reynolds, P. and K. Stewart. The Art Award 15: The Montana Lindauer Art Award 1988 Greengage, Auckland
Smith, Allan. "To sketch the echo: the art of John Reynolds" in Art New Zealand no 59 Winter 1991, pp. 64-67, 106-107
Smith, Allan. A very peculiar practice 1995 Wellington: City Gallery
Smith, Allan, "John Reynolds, A multitude of dreams" in Distance looks our way: 10 artists from New Zealand 1992 Auckland: Distance Looks Our Way Trust
Smith, Allan. "John Reynolds" in Home and away, contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection 1999 Auckland: David Bateman Limited and Auckland Art Gallery
Stewart, Keith. "Picking at the edge of art" in Quote Unquote no 44 1997, pp. 20-23
Taylor, Rob. "John Reynold's 'swipings' with Spanish art leave one guessing" in Dominion 3 May 1989, p. 12
Were, Virginia. "John Reynolds/Julian Dashper" in Art New Zealand no 34 Autumn 1985, pp. 16-17
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