Selected works for sale Artist's CV
Chris Heaphy was born in New Zealand in 1965 and is of Ngai Tahu and European extraction. He attended Canterbury University's School of Fine Art, graduating in 1991 with a BFA in painting. In 1998 he graduated from the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia with an MFA in painting. Heaphy has been successful in securing a number of grants and fellowships including Te Waka Toi Grants in 1993 and 1994, the Olivia Spencer Bower Fellowship in 1995, two Creative New Zealand Grants in 1999, and a Research Grant from WINTEC which enabled him to undertake a residency at Melbourne's RMIT University. In 2000-2001 Heaphy undertook a residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, as well as the Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin Residency in Champagne in 2001. Heaphy has exhibited extensively throughout Australasia and Europe and his work is included in major public and private collections in both New Zealand and overseas.
1991 BFA, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
1998 MFA, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
1993-4 Te Waka Toi Grants
1995 Olivia Spencer Bower Fellowship
1998 Research Grant Residency, RMIT University, Melbourne
1999 Creative New Zealand Grants
2000-01 Cite Internationale des Artes, Paris, France
2000-01 Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin Residency, Champagne, France
2024 Bird Life, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2022 Everyday Life, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2021 This is Life on Earth, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2021 Arataki, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2019 Bloom, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2018 Supreme, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2017 The Floating World, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2017 The Here and Now, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2016 From Here On In, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2016 This Is The World That We Live In, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2014 Natural Selection, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2014 The Ambassadors, Bartley and Company Art, Wellington
2013 Maukatere, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2012 Maukatere, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2009 Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
2008 Daisy in my Lazy Eye, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Sea of Tranquillity, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2007 The End of Nothing, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2005 Stereo, Michael Lett, Auckland
2005 After the Big Bang, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2004 Michael Lett, Auckland
2004 Stereo, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2003 Mtereo, Michael Lett, Auckland
2002 Wonder Works, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2001 New Works, Cite Gallery, Paris
2000 Wonder Works, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1999 New Works, Peter Mc Leavey Gallery, Wellington
1999 Rites of Passage, Jonathon Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1998 Merri, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1998 Visions, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
1997 Hope, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1997 New Paintings, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1997 Walk this Way, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
1997 Walk this Way, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
1996 Into the Black, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1996 New Paintings, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1995 New Dirt, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1995 Dirt, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1993 In-between, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
2021 Waituhi, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2021 Fauna, Milford Galleries, Queenstown
2020 Waitohu, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2019 Summer Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2019 Show and Tell, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2019 Lolly Scramble, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2018 Flora, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2017 Celebrating 30 Years, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2016 Nga Mahi Whakatekateka, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2016 Aurora, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2015 Studio 18d, Part One, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2015 Camouflage: conceal/ distort/ deceive/ disguise, Gus Fisher Gallery, Akl
2014 Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Aotearoa, The Dowse, Lower Hutt, NZ
2014 Spring Catalogue exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2013 Pi-R squared, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2012 New Year, New Works, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery Stand D08
2011 What Colour Are You, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2011 Hong Kong Art Fair, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2011 Roundabout: Face to Face, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2011 Small Things, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2010 Hong Kong Art Fair, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2010 Frieze, Gow Langsford Gallery
2010 Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington
2010 Fragments, Figments and Frogs, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2009 Art Santa Fe, New Mexico, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2008 Sacred XIV, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2007 Frieze Art Fair, London (Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York)
2006 Triple Candy, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2006 Turn Off The Century, Pataka Gallery, Porirua
2005 Ka Kino To Pounamu He Pounamu Onamata, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
2005 Contexts: Being Bicultural in Contemporary Art, Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust Napier
2005 Michael Lett, Auckland
2004 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne (Michael Lett, Auckland)
2003 Changing Times in Painting, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2003 Slow Light, Curated by Wystan Curnow, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Akl
2001 Painted Spaces, Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2001 Parihaka, City Gallery, Wellington
2001 Accents Australians, Adamski Gallery, Paris
2001 Painted Spaces, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
1999 Rukutia! Rukutia!, Ngai Tahu Exhibition, Te Waipounamu House, Christchurch
1999 Home and Away, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
1998 Skywriters and Earthmovers, Robert McDougal Art Gallery, Christchurch
1998 Transaction, Parasite Gallery, Hong Kong
1998 Shades of Grey, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland
1998 Transaction, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Chartwell Exhibition, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
1997 Strata, Story Hall Gallery, Melbourne
1997 In and Out of Place, 101 Collins Street Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Coded, Waikato Museum of Art, Hamilton
1996 Visa Gold Art Award, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
1996 Pins and Needles, Bishop Suter Art Gallery, Nelson
1996 Kai Tahu Exhibition, Aigantighe Gallery, Timaru
1995 Korurangi New Maori Art, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
1995 A Very Peculiar Practice; Aspects of Recent NZ Painting, City Gallery, Wgtn
1995 Stop Making Sense. Collaboration with Gordon Walters, City Gallery, Wgtn
1994 The Face, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1994 Te Puaroa Te Waka Toi, Shed 1, Wellington
1993 Groundswell, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
1993 Tai Tokerau Contemporary Art Exhibition, Waitangi Hotel, Waitangi
1993 Te Hau A Tonga, Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand
National Library Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Sargeant Art Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
Peggy Scott and David Teplitzky Collection, Hong Kong
Renny Foundation, North America
Cross, David, 'A walk along the fault line: The art of Chris Heaphy' in Art New Zealand No. 89, 1998
Cross, David, Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection (Ed. William McAloon). Pg 50. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 1999
Cross, David, 'Manic death: Primitive pop' in Chris Heaphy. Gow Langsford Gallery in association with David Teplitsky, Auckland; Hong Kong, 2008
Heaphy, Chris, Chris Heaphy: Walk This Way, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, 1997
Herrick, Linda, ' Paring back to essentials' The New Zealand Herald, Pg.B7, Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Jahnke, Shelley, 'Mosaic means: Recent painting by Chris Heaphy' in Daisy in My Lazy Eye (Exhibition Catalogue). Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, 2008; Chris Heaphy. Gow Langsford Gallery in association with David Teplitsky: Auckland; Hong Kong, 2008
McNamara, T.J. 'Best bets for punters', The New Zealand Herald, Pg. B6, Wednesday, August 11, 2004
McNamara T.J. 'Peephole to infinity', The New Zealand Herald, PG.B6, Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Patrick, Martin, 'Chris Heaphy's Kaleidoscopic Eye', Art New Zealand No. 144, Summer 2012-13
Smith, Allan, A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, City Gallery, Wellington, 1995
Szekely, Chris (Ed.) Korurangi: New Maori Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 1996
Thomas, David, Changing Times in Painting, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, 2003
Were, Virginia, 'Exploring a new constellation', Art News, Spring 2008, pp 72-75
Wise, Kit, 'Chris Heaphy: Second read' in Chris Heaphy, Gow Langsford Gallery in association with David Teplitsky: Auckland; Hong Kong, 2008