Kate Newby (born 1979) is an artist from New Zealand.

Background

Newby was born in 1979 in the

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of New Zealand. She attended the

Elam School of Fine Arts The Elam School of Fine Arts, founded by John Edward Elam, is part of the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland. Students study degrees in fine art with an emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach. The schoo ...

, receiving a BFA in 2001, an MFA in 2007, and a PhD in 2015. The title of her doctoral thesis was ''Casualness: it's not about what it looks like it's about what it does''. Newby lives and works in

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, New York and Auckland.

Career

Newby is a mixed materials

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ist. She creates her installations based on their site and setting, often disused urban environments. Using commonplace materials such as pebbles, nails, and rope, her work explores the details of everyday life. Newby was a member of the Auckland artist space Gambia Castle. She is represented in New York by the Laurel Gitlen gallery and in Auckland by

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. Newby's work was exhibited at the 21st Sydney Biennale (2018), at the Brussels Biennal (2008), among other important arts festivals. Work by Newby is held by the

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the principal public gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. It has the most extensive collection of national and international art in New Zealand and frequently hosts travelling international exhibitions. Set be ...

Exhibitions

2008 * ''Show me, don’t tell me'' (group show), Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels * ''Thinking with your body'', Gambia Castle, Auckland * ''Academy'' (with Ryan Moore), TCB, Melbourne * ''Many directions, as much as possible, all over the country'', 1301 PE, Los Angeles 2011 * ''I'll follow you down the road'', Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland * ''I'm just like a pile of leaves'',

, Auckland 2013 * ''Let the Other Thing In'', Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island * ''Maybe I won’t go to sleep at all'', La Loge, Brussels 2014 * ''Portmanteaux'' (with

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, Pup Culbert, Mateo Tannatt), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland 2015 * ''Lunch Poems'' (with

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), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland * 2016 * ''Big Tree. Bird’s Eye'', Michael Lett, Auckland 2016 * ''Every day I make my way'' (with

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), Minerva, Sydney 2017 * ''Let me be the wind that pulls your hair'', curated by Michelle Grabner, Artpace, San Antonio 2018 * ''Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength'', curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen * ''A puzzling light and moving.'' (Part I), lumber room, Portland, OR * ''Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength'', curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen * ''can't nail the days down'', curated by Juliane Bischoff, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2019 * ''Wild was the night'', Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France * ''A puzzling light and moving.'' (Part II and Part III), lumber room, Portland, OR * ''Bring Everyone'', Fine Arts, Sydney, Sydney 2020 * ''As far as you can'', Feuilleton, Los Angeles 2021 * ''Cold Water,'' Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia * ''YES TOMORROW,'' Adam Art Gallery, Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, New Zealand * ''The Flames: The Living Arts of Ceramics (group show)'' Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 2022 * ''Kate Newby: She's Talking to the Wall,'' Museum of New Zealand * ''Kate Newby: So Close, come on,'' The Sunday Painter, London, UK * ''We are such stuff,'' Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA * ''Try doing anything without it'', Art : Concept, Paris, France * ''Feel noise'', Testsite, curated by Makenzie Stevens, Austin, US * ''Reclaim the Earth'', Palais de Tokyo (group show), Paris, France 2023 * ''miles off road,'' Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia * ''Had us running with you,'' Michael Lett, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, NZ * ''Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living (group show)'' Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

In 2012, Newby won the

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with her work ''Crawl out your window'' (first shown at Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst,

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). The juror of the prize was the curator and writer

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. Also in 2012, Newby held a residency at the

International Studio & Curatorial Program International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) is a contemporary art institution that runs an international residency program and related exhibitions and events based in Brooklyn, New York. ISCP's exhibitions, talks, screenings and lectures gene ...

in New York, funded by

Creative New Zealand The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets ...

. She has also been an artist-in-residence at Fogo Island Arts in 2013;

Artpace Artpace is a non-profit contemporary art gallery located in San Antonio, Texas, United States, founded by Linda Pace. Artpace opened its doors in 1995, and focuses on the artistic process. Occupying the space of a former Hudson automobile dealers ...

San Antonio in 2017;

Chinati Foundation The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is a contemporary art museum located in Marfa, Texas, and based upon the ideas of its founder, artist Donald Judd. Mission The specific intention of Chinati is to preserve and present to the public perm ...

in Marfa, Texas, in 2017;

Joan Mitchell Foundation Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis ...

, New York, in 2019.

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