Kate Newby
b. Aotearoa New Zealand
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Hours in wind, curated by Jane Devery, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
2025 anything, anything, curated by Juliane Bischoff, Klosterruine, Berlin
2025 SHE’S TALKING TO THE WALL, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
2024 greet strangers, Cibrián, San Sebastián
2024 Live near friends, Fine Arts, Sydney
2024 WHO IS THIS SONG?, Cooper Cole, Toronto
2024 Very active weather, KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo
2023 miles off road, Fine Arts, Sydney
2023 What a great year for music, Marfa Book Co., Marfa, TX
2023 Had us running with you, Michael Lett, 3 East St, Auckland
2022 So close, come on, The Sunday Painter, London
2022 We are such stuff, Laurel Gitlen, NY
2022 Feel Noise, curated by MacKenzie Stevens, testsite, Austin
2022 Try doing anything without it, Art : Concept, Paris
2021 COLD WATER, Fine Arts, Sydney
2021 YES TOMORROW, curated by Christina Barton, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington
2020 As far as you can, Feuilleton, Los Angeles
2019 Bring Everyone, Fine Arts, Sydney
2019 Loved like a sunbeam, Madragoa, Lisbon
2019 Nothing in my life feels big enough, Cooper Cole, Toronto
2019 Wild was the night, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
2019 A puzzling light and moving. (Part II and Part III), lumber room, Portland, OR
2018 Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
2018 A puzzling light and moving. (Part I), lumber room, Portland, OR
2018 All the stuff you already know, The Sunday Painter, London
2018 I can't nail the days down, curated by Juliane Bischoff, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2018 Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around, Michael Lett, Auckland
2017 Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, curated by Michelle Grabner, Artpace, San Antonio
2016 Big Tree. Bird's Eye., Michael Lett, Auckland
2016 Tuesday evening. Sunday afternoon. Stony Lake., Cooper Cole, Toronto
2016 Make it bigger, deeper., The Poor Farm, Wisconsin
2015 Two aspirins a vitamin C tablet and some baking soda, Laurel Doody, Los Angeles
2015 Always humming, curated by Helen Hughes and Pip Wallis, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2015 I memorized it I loved it so much, Laurel Gitlen, New York
2014 Laura, Lucy, Mark and Felix, MODELAB, Wellington
2014 I feel like a truck on a wet highway, Lulu, Mexico City
2014 Tiny-but-adventurous, Rokeby, London
2013 Maybe I won't go to sleep at all., curated by Anne-Claire Schmitz, La Loge, Brussels
2013 Let the other thing in, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Fogo Island Gallery, Newfoundland
2013 What a day., Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
2012 All parts. All the time., Olive Street Garden and Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn in association with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York
2011 I’m just like a pile of leaves, curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland (catalogue)
2011 I’ll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland
2010 Crawl out your window, curated by Janneke de Vries, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst GAK, Bremen
2009 Get off my garden, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2009 Blow wind blow, Y3K Project Space, Melbourne
2008 Thinking with your body, Gambia Castle, Auckland
2007 On the Benefits of Building, Gambia Castle, Auckland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Carrying, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
2025 pure intention, Singapore Biennale, Rail Corridor / Singapore
2025 Judy Millar & Kate Newby, Michael Lett, Auckland
2025 Elsewhen, Elsewhere, Art Intelligence Global, Hong Kong
2025 to carry, Sharjah Biennial 16, Kalba, Sharjah
2025 Pocket full of sparks, Curated by Hikotaro Kanehira, Curation Fair, kudan house, Tokyo
2025 Contour Lines, Sid Motion Gallery, London
2025 There Is No Center, ROH, Jakarta
2024 kinship, KIN, Brussels
2024 Pratiques cosmomorphes - (Ré)générer le vivant, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
2024 Reverse Archaeologies, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2024 Tessellations, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
2024 The Way We Live, Cooper Cole at Conceptual Fine Arts, Milano
2024 underfoot, curated by James Gatt, Te Uru, Auckland
2024 Gravity Model, Cooper Cole, Toronto
2024 The Fullness of the Seeming Void, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2024 Ephemeral Anchoring, curated by Reiko Setsuda, Maison Hermès, Le Forum, Tokyo
2023 Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2023 Intimate confession is a project, curated by Jennifer Teets, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
2023 HOLLOW LEG, Laurel Gitlen, New York
2023 The path guides the meaning, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco
2023 Bucket List, Madragoa, Lisbon
2023 Respiration, Cooper Cole, Toronto
2023 Danse Céleste, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2022 wiggling together, falling apart, Michael Lett, Auckland
2022 Millefleurs, curated by Joël Riff, Moly-Sabata, Sablons, France
2022 Carbonate of Copper, curated by Jennifer Teets, Artpace, San Antonio
2022 Réclamer la Terre, curated by Daria de Beauvais, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2021 Take your chances with me, curated by Jamie Hanton, SCAPE Public Art, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2021 Swallowing Geography, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2021 The Flames: The Living Arts of Ceramics, curated by Anne Dressen, Musée d'art moderne de Paris
2021 L'oeil du serpent, curated by Sébastien Faucon, Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart
2021 La mer imaginaire, curated by Chris Sharp, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles
2021 A Grain of Sand, The Sunday Painter, London
2021 washed up, curated by Christine Nyce, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2020 As long as you want, two-person exhibition with Paul P., Michael Lett, Auckland
2020 Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, Shimmer, Rotterdam
2020 Patterns 11, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Gallerie, curated by Michelle Grabner, Basel
2020 Tiny Things, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, New York
2019 There Are Exactly Four of Them, CIBRIÁN, San Sebastian
2019 Motion & Motive, organized by Pamela Meredith, Susan Hobbs, Toronto
2019 City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2019 The Garden of Cyrus, Fortnight Institute, New York
2019 Indus2, Art : Concept, Paris
2019 Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
2019 Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York
2018 Juliette Blightman, Parbhu Makan, Kate Newby, Henrik Olesen, Michael Lett, Auckland
2018 Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials, curated by Janneke de Vries and Katja Schroeder, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
2018 Still Life, co-curated with Candice Madey, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, New York
2018 It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems..., Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York
2018 Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study, curated by Chris Sharp, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (catalogue)
2018 Superposition: Equilibrium & Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney, curated by Mami Kataoka, Cockatoo Island and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (catalogue)
2018 Ritual, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2017 Appendix Toss, SORT, Vienna
2017 Leotta/Newby, Madragoa, Lisbon
2017 Belonging to a Place, An exhibition by Fogo Island Arts, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Scrap Metal, Toronto (catalogue)
2017 The Promise, curated by Axel Wieder, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
2017 In Practice: Material Deviance, curated by Alexis Wilkinson, SculptureCenter, New York (catalogue)
2017 JADE BI, curated by Sara De Chiara, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon
2016 Exhibition by 31 Women, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt
2016 A plot of land, Dutton, New York
2016 Every day I make my way, Minerva, Sydney
2015 Natural Flavor, curated by Vivien Trommer, Ludlow 38, New York
2015 The Secret and Abiding Politics of Stones, curated by Chris Sharp, Casa del Lago, Mexico City (catalogue)
2015 Homeful of Hands, Josh Lilley, London
2015 Ordering Nature, Marianne Boesky, New York
2015 Inside Outside Upside Down, curated by Natasha Conland, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland
2015 Parallel Oaxaca at Supplement London, Supplement, London
2015 Lunch Poems, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
2015 Where the trees line the water that falls asleep in the afternoon, curated by Chris Sharp, P420, Bologna
2015 Inside the City, curated by Janneke de Vries, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
2015 NEW 15, curated by Matt Hinkley, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (catalogue)
2015 An Imprecise Science, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Artspace, Sydney
2015 Eraser, Laurel Gitlen, New York
2014 The Promise, curated by Axel Wieder, Arnolfini, Bristol
2014 On The Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams Gallery, New York
2014 Portmanteaux, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
2014 Thin Air, Slopes, Melbourne
2014 Lovers, curated by Martin Basher, Starkwhite, Auckland
2014 Slip Cast, Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt
2013 because the world is round it turns me on, curated by Clara Meister, Arratia Beer, Berlin
2013 Mud and Water, Rokeby, London
2013 The things we know, curated by Tim Saltarelli, Henningsen Gallery, Copenhagen
2013 Between being and doing, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2012 Crawl out your window, Walters Prize exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (catalogue)
2012 Everyone knows this is nowhere, curated by Louise Menzies and Jon Bywater, castillo/corrales, Paris
2011 Prospect: New Zealand Art Now, curated by Kate Montgomery, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
2011 Melanchotopia, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Anne-Claire Schmitz, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2010 Burnt house. A little later, Gambia Castle, Auckland
2010 Bas Jan Ader: Suspended between Laughter and Tears, curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Pitzer Art Galleries and Claremont Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2010 post-Office, Artspace, Auckland
2010 The sky a tree and a wall, collaboration with Fiona Connor, California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles
2009 The Future is Unwritten, curated by Laura Preston, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington
2008 Brussels Biennial 1, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel, Brussels (catalogue)
2008 Break: Towards a Public Realm, curated by Melanie Oliver, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2008 Let it be now, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch
2008 Hold Still, curated by Claire Doherty, One Day Sculpture, Auckland
2008 Academy, TCB, Melbourne
2008 Many directions, as much as possible, all over the country, 1301PE, Los Angeles
EDUCATION
2015 Doctorate of Fine Art (DocFA), University of Auckland
2007 Masters of Fine Art (MFA), University of Auckland
2001 Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA), University of Auckland
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2025 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate
2022 Ettore e Ines Fico Prize, Artissima, Milan
2021 Te Whare Hēra, Artist in Residence, Wellington
2019 The Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2019 Painters & Sculptors Grant
2017 The Chinati Foundation Artist in Residence, Marfa, TX
2017 Artpace, San Antonio, TX, curated by Michelle Grabner
2015 Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Artist in Residence, Melbourne
2012–13 Fogo Island Arts, Artist in Residence, Newfoundland
2012 The Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
2012 International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP, Artist in Residence, New York
2010 SOMA, Artist in Residence, Mexico City
2010 Banff Centre, Artist in Residence, Banff
2010 Künstlerhäuser, Artist in Residence, Worpswede, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
2021 “YES TOMORROW”, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, with text by Christina Barton
2019 “Kate Newby, Pocket Works”, published by the lumber room with texts by Sara Jaffe, Jennifer Kabat, Sarah Miller Meigs, Eileen Myles, Sarah Sentilles, Stephanie Snyder and Kyle Dancewicz
2019 “I can’t nail the days down”, edited by Kunsthalle Wien and published by Sternberg Press, Berlin with texts by Christina Barton, Juliane Bischoff, Chris Kraus, and Nicolaus Schafhausen
2013 “Incredible feeling”, Clouds Publishing, Auckland with texts by Sarah Hopkinson, Chris Kraus, and Tahi Moore
2013 “Let the other thing in”, Fogo Island Arts and Sternberg Press, Berlin texts by Mami Kataoka, Jennifer Kabat, and Paul Dean
ARTIST BOOKS
2018 “Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength”, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
2017 “Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around”, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa
2017 “Let me be the wind that pulls your hair”, Artpace, San Antonio
2012 “I went from a 5 to a 7”, Fiona Connor and Kate Newby, Los Angeles
2011 “The sky, the wall and a tree”, Fiona Connor and Kate Newby, Gambia Castle Press, Auckland
2008 “Holding onto it only makes you sick”, Gambia Castle Press, Auckland
2007 “My Poetry”, for example, Auckland
2007 “Architecture for Specific People”, Gambia Castle Press, Auckland
2003 “Money for Nothing”, Artspace, Auckland
SELECTED REVIEWS & ARTICLES
2023 Rachel Weinburg, "Beyond Site: An Interview with Kate Newby, " Union, Issue 3.
2023 Connie Brown, "Kate Newby: So close, come on" Art News Aotearoa.
2023 Lucinda Bennett, “Kate Newby, Michael Lett,” Artforum, May.
2022 Alex Bacon, “Kate Newby’s Phenomena,” published on the occasion of So close, come on, The Sunday Painter, London
2022 Jennifer Kabat “KATE NEWBY: We are such stuff,” published on the occasion of We are such stuff, Laurel Gitlen, New York City
2022 Jennifer Teets, “Try doing anything without it,” published on the occasion of Try doing anything without it, Art: Concept, Paris
2022 John Vincler, “Art That Rose Through the Cracks,” New York Times, October 9.
2022 Jennifer Teets, “Moonlight Over Texas,” Terremoto, CDMX 27.01.2022
2022 Jennifer Teets, “Try doing anything without it,” Art: Concept. April 25.
2021 Andrea Bell, “Don't do too much,” Ceramics New Zealand , Spring / Summer, volume 4 issue 2.
2021 Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua, “And Do I Care,” ArtNow, May 7.
2021 Jessica - Belle Greer, “Coming full circle,” Haven, issue June.
2021 Lachlan Taylor, “Shaper,” Art News, Autumn 2021.
2021 Sophie Davies, “Letting the Weather In,” Art New Zealand, Issue 178.
2021 Rosanna Albertini, “Kate Newby: As far as you can,” The Kite, July 19.
2020 Anna Gaissert, “Kate Newby at Feuilleton,” Artillery Magazine, July 16.
2020 Rosanna Albertini, “Kate Newby: As far as you can,“ The Kite, July
2020 Neha Kale, “Kate Newby: Small Gestures,” Vault, February, Issue 29 p52-57.
2019 Claudia Arozqueta, “Kate Newby’s “Bring Everyone,”” Art-Agenda, December
2019 Jon Raymond, “Kate Newby; lumber room,” Artforum, May.
2019 Chris Kraus, “Chris Kraus on learning to cope after the Brett Kavanaugh debacle,” Sleek Magazine, Berlin, March 20.
2019 Ross Simonini, “Kate Newby,” Art Review, January & February, p36–41.
2018 Chris Kraus, “Kate Newby’s Bones,” Social Practices, Semiotext(e)
2018 Sam Korman, “How to distribute your bricks and virtue,” published on the occasion of All the stuff you already know, The Sunday Painter, London
2018 Chloe Geoghegan, “Kate Newby: I can’t nail the days down,” Contemporary Hum, August 8.
2018 Chris Sharp, “Following Kate Newby down the road,” Mousse, 64, Summer
2018 Figgy Guyver, “Critic’s Guide to London: The Best Shows in Town,” Frieze, May 30.
2018 Vivien Trommer, “Highlight 5/12 - Kunsthalle Wien,” Cuba Paris
2018 Alexandra-Maria Toth, “Kate Newby: I Can’t Nail the Days Down,” PW-Magazine, September 4.
2018 Eloise Callister-Baker, “The Unmissables: Four Exhibitions to see in March,” Pantograph Punch
2018 Sue Gardiner, “The meaning of molecules,” Art News New Zealand, vol.38, no.2, Winter, p.92–94.
2018 Jon Bywater, “Evangelism & clay : The 21st Biennale of Sydney,” Art New Zealand, no.166, Winter 2018, p.72–75.
2017 Chris Kraus, “Splodges of Color,” Swift little verbs pushing the big nouns around (artist book essay)
2017 Neil Fauerso, “Artpace Spring Artist-in-Residence Exhibition,” Glasstire, April 3.
2017 Linnea West, “Phone tag: Interview with Kate Newby,” Phone Tag, April 23.
2016 Anthony Byrt, “Quiet wanderer: Kiwi sculptor Kate Newby,” Paperboy, November 30.
2016 Jennifer Kabat, “To Write About A Hole,” VQR, Fall, Volume 92, #4, October 3.
2016 Rosanna Albertini, “Kate Newby: don’t be all scared like before,” The Kite, March 25.
2015 Roberta Smith, “Kate Newby and Helen Johnson at Laurel Gitlen,” New York Times, July 17.
2015 Chris Sharp, “Kate Newby,” NEW15 (catalogue essay)
2015 Maura Edmond, “Kate Newby ‘Always humming,” Primer, August 13.
2015 Rosanna Albertini, Kate Newby: Silent Bricks,” The Kite, November
2015 Daniel Munn, “Life Lived Outside,” Le Roy 3
2015 Chris Sharp, “Eye of the Beholder,” Osmos, Issue 06, Summer.
2015 Kate Sutton, “Kate Newby; Laurel Doody,” Artforum, February, 246.
2014 Jennifer Kabat, “In Focus: Kate Newby,” Frieze, Issue 161, March 12.
2014 Francisco Goldman, “Mexico City Mix,” National Geographic Traveller, December/January, p14.
2014 Leslie Moody Castro, “Lulu, Mexico City,” Artforum online
2014 Matt Hanson, “Newby in Mexico City,” Eye Contact, September 12.
2014 Jennifer Kabat, “The Small Often Vague Things – Kate Newby’s Radically Slight Art,” The Weeklings, June 12.
2014 Hamish Coney, “Breakfast in America,” Content Magazine, November 5, 2014, p5–6.
2013 Mami Kataoka, “I like works when their condition as art is unclear,” in Kate Newby: Let the other thing in, Sternberg Press
2013 Jennifer Kabat, “It’s The Small Often Vague Things,” in Kate Newby: Let the other thing in, Sternberg Press
2013 Kay Burns, “Kate Newby: Let the Other Thing in,” C Magazine, Issue 120, Winter, p67–68.
2012 Julia Waite, “If not concrete then what? Kate Newby’s I’m just like a pile of leaves Archive,” Reading Room, Issue 5, July, p196–197.
2012 Sam Eichblatt, “Occupy Brooklyn,” Metro Magazine, Issue 363.
2012 Sue Gardiner, “Aspiring to the condition of architecture,” Artnews, Spring 2011.
2010 Jon Bywater, “Discreet Poetry: Kate Newby’s ‘Get off my garden’” (exhibition essay)
2009 Sue Gardiner, “You really had to be there!,” Artnews, Autumn
2008 Louise Menzies, “Kate Newby & Nick Austin,” Frieze online