Zina Swanson

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Born Christchurch, New Zealand, 1981

Education

2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch

Awards and Residencies

2018    Inagaural Recipient of the Grace Butler Art Award at Ara
2014    Apexart New York Inbound Resident (Recommended by Justin Paton)
2013    Frances Hodgkins Fellow
2004    The CoCA/Anthony Harper Award for Contemporary Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020 Any plant thought of too much will not thrive, Sumer Contemporary Art, Tauranga
2019 Tiny Additions, Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
2019    For Vivian, The Dowse Art museum, Lower Hutt
2019 For Vivian, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2017    My hand is a season, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2015    For Luck, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
2015    Concrete Dirt Parfait, State of Princes, Dunedin
2014    No Need for Water, The Hocken Library, Dunedin
2014    Zina Swanson, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012    Breathing Space (with Georgie Hill), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
2011    Blue, ABC Gallery, Christchurch
2011    Zina Swanson (with Dane Taylor), Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
2010    Symptoms of Incompatibility, SoFA Gallery, Christchurch
2010    Zina Swanson, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
2009    The risk of it all falling apart, The Physics Room, Christchurch
2008    Zina Swanson, 64zero3, Christchurch
2008    Things that won't leave me alone, The Physics Room Kiosk, Christchurch
2007    Zina Swanson, The Physics Room, Christchurch
2006    Zina Swanson, High St Project, Christchurch
2005    Attachments, City Art, Christchurch
2003    Homunculus, High St Project, Christchurch

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016 Group Show #54, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

2016 Precarious Balance, CoCA, Christchurch

2016 Bella Vista, North Projects, Christchurch

2013 SCAPE7 Public Art, Christchurch Biennial

2012 5 (Christchurch) Artists, The Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2011 New Romantics, University of Waikato, Hamilton

2010 Swallows and Amazons, Robert Heald

2010 Ready to Roll, City Gallery, Wellington

2009 Wunderbox, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

2008 64, 64zero3, Christchurch

2008 Group Show, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington

2007 Forestaurant, High St Project, Christchurch

2007 Another Destination, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

2005 Come as you are, High St Project, Christchurch

2004 Drawing, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington

2004 Ampersand, Celebrating 12 yrs of HSP, Old Govt Life building, Christchurch

2004 Mr and Mrs Pink's, HSP/Blue Oyster exchange show, Dunedin/Christchurch

2003 Follow the White Rabbit (New Artists Show), Artspace, Auckland

Public Collections

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
University of Canterbury
Hocken Collections
Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Selected Bibliography

2014    Natalie Poland, The Social Life of Plants: recent work by Zina Swanson.
2014    No Need For Water exhibition catalogue
2014    Gilbert May, Can Anybody Hear Me?
2014    Barbara Garrie, Talking with Plants: Zina Swanson's Can Anybody Hear Me?.
2014    SCAPE7 Publication
2014    David Eggleton, Review of No Need For Water, Art New Zealand #150, Winter
2014    Natalie Poland, Lessons in how to train your houseplants, Art News, Spring
2011 Lily Hacking, Organic Matters, Artzone Issue 41
2011    Warren Feeney, Estranged Experimental Hydroponics, eyecontact website
2010    Warren Feeney, Swanson at SoFA, eyecontact website
2010    Mark Amery, Ready to Roll continued, eyecontact website

2010    Sue Gardiner, Ministering to a fragile planet, artnews New Zealand, Spring 2010
2010    Corner, Katy, Wellington postcard (review of Swallows & Amazons), Art News
2009    Christopher Moore, A dry, delicate line of thought, The Christchurch Press, May 9

2009 John Hurrell, Barely tangible horizontal & vertical vectors: the physics of daisy chains