Biography
b. 1951 Te Aroha, New Zealand
Susan Te Kahurangi King‘s interest in drawing began during her childhood in the 1950s, and over the subsequent decades has developed into a visually rich, idiosyncratic and evocative practice. During her early years, much of King’s work included a strong focus on the deconstruction, recontextualisation and interpretation of pop culture iconography, ranging from Disney and Warner Bros. cartoon and comic strip characters to motifs drawn from advertising signage and illustrations. Amongst other sources, the fluid, energetic linework and rounded volumes of imported American comics provided King a wealth of motifs; Donald Duck’s blue sailor suit and hat feature in an extended series of 1960s and ‘70s works, while the sleek contours of various Disney characters’ hands, beaks and limbs gradually fold and coalesce into a novel, biomorphic visual discourse that is both culturally resonant and intensely personal.
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Group Exhibitions
2020 Outsider Art Fair Paris (w/ Robert Heald Gallery) Duro Olowu, Seeing Chicago – MCA Chicago Dream Baby Dream – Haus Modrath, Belgium Brittle Star – Robert Heald Gallery Collectouples – New York Academy of Art
2019 Happy, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale One Hundred Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Prix Art Absolument, Espace Art Absolument, Paris Flight Plan, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland Under the Spell of the Image, The Approach Gallery, London The Doors of Perception, Frieze New York. Drawn Together Again, The Flag Art Foundation, New York Felix Art Fair, Marlborough Gallery
2018 Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, American Folk Art Museum, New York The Armory Show New York, (w/ Marlborough Gallery)
2017 Margins Beyond, Kirk Hopper Fine Art Gallery, Dallas Outsider Art Fair New York ( w/ Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York) Outsider Art Fair Paris (w/ Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York) Looking Back / The 11th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York All Lines Converge, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
2016 Spring 1883 (w/ Robert Heald Gallery) The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne Outsider Art Fair Paris (w/ Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York)
2015 Word Builders, The Dowse, Lower Hutt We will begin by drawing, we shall continue to draw and then we shall draw some more, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp dRAW , Intuit, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago Moving Pictures: Early Animation and it's Influence, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum Out of Order, Calder & Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato Interfaces: Outsider Art and the Mainstream, Philadelphia Museum of Art Art Basel Miami Beach (w/ Andrew Edlin)
2014 Outsider Art Fair, Auckland Shit Like Hair, White Flag Projects, Missouri Promenades, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington Purple States, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2012 Secret Garden, Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings Local Knowledge, Madmusee, Liege, Belgium Look, Know, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
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Solo Exhibitions
2019 In Colour, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington Little, Little, Big, Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville Susan Te Kahurangi King: 1958-2018, Intuit, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago
2018 Little, Little, Big, The Pah Homestead, TBS Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland Drawings 2008-2018, Marlborough Contemporary, London Paperdwellers, Artspace, Auckland Auckland Art Fair (w/ Brent Harris) (w/ Robert Heald Gallery) Outsider Art Fair New York (w/ C Byrne + Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York)
2017 Drawings 1960-70, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington Susan Te Kahurangi King, Marlborough Contemporary, London
2016 Drawings 1975-1989, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, USA. Susan Te Kahurangi King, ICA Miami
2015 From The One I Call My Own (w/ Shannon Te Ao), City Gallery, Wellington Drawings 1975-1980, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington Outsider Art Fair New York (w/ Peter Saul) (w/ C Byrne + Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York)
2014 Susan Te Kahurangi King: Drawings from Many Worlds, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York Outsider Art Fair New York (w C Byrne + Marquand Books)
2013 Outsider Art Fair Paris (w/ C Byrne + Marquand Books)
2010 Introducing Susan Te Kahurangi King, The High Seas, Auckland
2009 Susan Te Kahurangi King, Callan Park Gallery, University of Sydney
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