RICHARD LEWER
Education
2000 Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Master
of Visual Arts
1989-1992 Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University, Bachelor of
Fine Art
Solo Exhibitons
2007
National Art School (NAS) Gallery, It's starts as an idlethought and
grows into an obsession, Wall Drawing and drawings, Sydney
2006
Get Well, Orex, Auckland
2005
It Used to be So Good, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington
2004
Impending Doom, Oedipus Rex, Auckland
God is Everywhere, Legge Gallery, Sydney
2003
Hits and Memories II, Legge Gallery, Sydney
Hits and Memories, Oedipus Rex, Auckland
2002
Knives, Guns and Bombs, LeggeGallery, Sydney
Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
2001
Legge Gallery, Sydney
2000
Pavement & Penthouse, Melbourne
Milford House, Dunedin
Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
Group Exhibitions
2008
Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne
2007
Conical Inc Upstairs, Bracket Creep - A Projected Committee, Melbourne
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Gallery, Zonal Marx Group Drawing
Exhibition, Wall Drawing - Don't Look at Me Bitch, Melbourne
2006
Westspace, Reunion - A4 Art 2006, Group Exhibition, Melbourne
Te Tuhi Public Art Gallery, Keep your friends close and your enemies
closer, Wall Drawing, Auckland
Canberra Contemporary Art Centre, Someone shows something to someone,
Canberra
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Game on! Sport and contemporary art, Melbourne
Boutwell Draper Gallery Group Show, Who Care's, Sydney
Sarjeant Gallery, Commodity and Delight - Views of Home, Wanganui
2005
Ocular Lab Exhibition, Untitled Situation, Melbourne
The Inaugural Auckland Art Fair, Auckland
Animation Screening, In Between, Wellington International Film Festival,
Wellington
Ponies, Expressions Gallery, Wellington
Final Product, Physics Room, Christchurch
2004
Merit Award, Inaugural National Drawing Exhibition, New Zealand
In Between, Enjoy Project Space, Wellington
Melbourne International Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Rear Window, The Physics Room, Christchurch
2003
Practice, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
Break, Govett Brewster Public Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2002
Legge Gallery, Sydney
Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
Melbourne International Art Fair, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Crossley Scott, Melbourne
2001
Messy Boys, ASA Gallery, Auckland
Curator & Artist, Adrift - Nomadic New Zealand Art, Conical Gallery,
Melbourne
2000
Linden Gallery, Melbourne
Residencies
Artist in Residence Drawing Department (Feb-March 2007), VCA, Melbourne
Artist in Residence (Feb-Dec 2006), St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
Victorian Institute of Sports (VIS) Artist in Residence 2005, Melbourne
Artist in Residence (March-June 2004), UCOL, Wanganui
Awards
Joint Winner 2D, Norsewear Art Award, Hastings
Winner, National Painting and Printmaking Award, WSA, Hamilton
Published work
2001 Cover, Winter issue of Art News New Zealand
2000 Loaded Magazine, New Zealand
Collections
(Auckland)Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young
The James Wallace Trust
University of Auckland
Coopers & Lybrand
The ASA Collection
Broke Art Collection
Art & Text Collection
(National)The Drawings Syndicate
Victoria University
University of Waikato
Waikato Art Society
Waikato Museum
Private collections in Australia, USA and throughout NZ
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