Nathan Pohio

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Selected works for sale Artist's CV

 

Iwi: Kati Mamoe, Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha
Hapu: Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Ngāti Wheke, Arowhenua

Nathan is a conceptual artist working in video and other photo media producing minimal cinematic installation.

Education

2010
Masters of Fine Arts with Merit: Film, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts

Curatorial Experience

2016: Max Hailstone: Te Ara Takahaka Tapuae / Points of Reference.
2015: Te Rua o Te Moko.

Commissions

2015: Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an ever setting sun! SCAPE 8: New Intimacies, Christchurch.
2013: Public Art Commission - Naive Melody, Wellington International Airport Arrival Terminal

Artist Residencies

2012: Santa Fe Arts Institute, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, I.A.I.A, New Mexico
2008: James Wallace Trust Residency, La Rongere, France
2004: Jam Factory Adelaide

Exhibitions

2018
Spyglass field recordings Vol 4: Sfakia - day for night, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

2017
Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an ever setting sun! (2017), Documenta14, EMST - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an ever setting sun! (2015), Documenta14, Weinberg-Terrassen, Kassel

2016
In a Dream of 200,000,000 Horses, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
Walters Prize Finalist, Auckland Art Gallery

2015
Raise the anchor, unfurl the sails, set course to the centre of an ever setting sun! SCAPE 8: New Intimacies, Christchurch
Language is a Virus, Taipei / U.C. SOFA Gallery

2014
A portrait of a Dutch Artist by an Artist of Maori Descent. The Bureau, Melbourne

2013
Spyglass Field Recordings: Santa Fe - M.O.C.N.A. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Somewhere Among the Machines, D.P.A.G. Dunedin
Spyglass Field Recordings: Ghost Ranch, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

2012
Is That Canon Fire or My Heart Beating, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington

2010
Unnerved - G.O.M.A. Brisbane, & N.G.V. Melbourne 

2009
Spyglass Field Recordings, Vol. 1, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

2006
Phantasmagoria , Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
Asleightofhandmanoveringofastillimageintosomethingmoving 04/05, Wednesday Gallery, Christchurch
Single Currency, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
Learning From The Knee ,Baringa Gallery, Melbourne
from the edge, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 2006

2005/06
from the edge: An exhibition curated by Jonathan Jones and Haema Sivanesan Presented by Museums & Galleries NSW in conjunction with Leading from the Edge: 2005 Public Galleries Summit. Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 9 November 2005 -19 January 2006

2005
Aotearoa Digital Arts Symposium, Opening Exhibition, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

2004
Bullrider, A Flag design for Ahoy! Project, Waikato, Christchurch

2003
Traffic: Crossing Currents In Indigenous Photomedia, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
Curiosity Killed The Gap, Artspace, Auckland
A Town Called Lawrence, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
Te Puawai O Ngai Tahu. Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch Art Gallery.

2002
The Heimlich Unheimlich, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, Melbourne.   
Scape (2 works included), Art and Industry Biennialle, Christchurch.
Techno Maori, City Gallery, Wellington

2001
Thrash, The Experimental Arts Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
Departure Lounge, Kiosk, Oblique Project, Christchurch
Cineary, Physics room, Christchurch

2000
Somewhere in the space between, High St Gallery, Christchurch
Rumble in the Bronx, Wizards Video Arcade, Christchurch

1999
Metafour, Manawatu City Gallery, Palmerston North

Film Projects

2004
George D Valentine, A 19th Century Photographer in New Zealand Director.
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Wai Whetu Production.
Video to accompany a touring exhibition on George Valentine.

2000
Departure Lounge 8mins
Researcher, Writer, Director.
Independently funded experimental film project.

The Bleeding Road Diaries 57 secounds
Writer, Director.
R.A.D. screened on Sky TV Sundance Channel.

1998
The Ballad of Ritchie Venus 63mins
Researcher, Writer, Director.
Screen innovation Production Funded Feature length documentary
Screened at M.I.C. Auckland,
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival, Nationwide.