Ronnie Van Hout

Biography

Born 1962, Christchurch, New Zealand, Lives and works Melbourne, Australia 

Education

1999

• MFA, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

1980 - 1982

• Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, NZ.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

• BED/SIT, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
• A Loss, Again, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
• Hold That Thought, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2007

• Ersatz, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
• End Doll, Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand

2006

• Sleep Less, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia
• Jingle Bowels, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2005

• Ersatz, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
• Now + Then = Nothing, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
• The Disappearance, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2004

• I've Abandoned Me, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington & touring New Zealand: Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin;  Manawatu Public Art Gallery, Palmeston North; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.

2003

• No Exit Part 2, Physics Room, Christchurch & Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
• Selected Photographs 1992-2002, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney,  Australia.

2002

• House of the Rising Sun, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
• The Fall and the Fall, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand.

2001

• Only the Only, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia,.
• Lo-Tones (with Mikala Dwyer), Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
• In the Road, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

1999

• Am I Talking To Me? International Studio Programme, New York, NY, USA.
• I Need a Doctor, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
• Mephitis, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.

1998

• Nobody Knows, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Symptom City, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
• Island of Complaint, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.

1997

• Pre-Millennial: Signs of the Soon Coming Storm (with Michael Stevenson) South Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Adeleide, Australia; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia; Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
• The Nutty Professor, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia 
• Alien Pictures, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
• Invisible Man, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand.

1996

• Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
• I'm Not Well, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
• I'm OK, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.

1995

• Mephitis, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch &  Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Skin Problems, Teststrip, Auckland, New Zealand.
• I Forget, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
• New Photographs, Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

1994

• Detour (All Roads Lead To The Same Place), ELBA Art Foundation,  Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• Room to Let: The Deathland Panels, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. 
• Sad Sketches, (with Kirsty Cameron), Teststrip, Auckland, New Zealand.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

• Lost and Found: An Archeology of the Present, curated by Charlotte Day, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia
• Primary Views, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

2007

• K, Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown, Sydney, Australia
• The Visitors, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia, curated by Anne Loxley and Regina Walter A Room Inside, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Eye to I, Ballarat Fine art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
• Relentless Optimism, curated by Mark Feary, Carlton Hotel, Melbourne, Australia

2006

• Don't Misbehave, SCAPE Biennial of Public Art, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• High Tide: New Currents in Art from Australia and New Zealand, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland and Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania.
• Toi Te Papa Art of the Nation, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.
• ReBoot: The Jim and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
• Masquerade: Representation & the Self in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
• Recovered Memory: The Fourth Goodman-Suter Contemporary Art Project, The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu, Nelson, New Zealand.
• Tribute, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Tomorow Again, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

2005

• Das Unfassbare,  2YK Gallerie, Berlin, Germany.
• Play: Portraiture + Performance in Video Art in Australia + New Zealand, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington and  Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia.

2004

• Prospect 2004, Wellington City Art Gallery, New Zealand.
• Planet B, Magazin4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein & Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria.
• Coming Home in the Dark, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand.
• Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia & touring.

2003

• Still Life, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Extended Play, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.
• Spaced Out, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia.

2002

• The Big Bang Theory, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Elvis Has Left the Building, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia.
• If Nothing but Human, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia.

2001

• ART/MUSIC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
• Bright Paradise: The 1st Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Feature: Art, Life and Cinema, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. 
• Tomorrow People, Lord Mori Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand.

2000

• Inheriting the Netherlands: A Century of Dutch Art in New Zealand, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, & touring New Zealand: Lopdell House House, Auckland; Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui; Hawke's Bay Exhibiton Centre, Hastings; CoCA, Christchurch; Eastern Southland Art Gallery, Gore; Waikato Museum of Art, Hamilton; Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei.
• Telling Tales: The Child in Contemporary Photography, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia.

1999

• Toi Toi Toi: Three Generations of Artists from New Zealand, Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Word,  Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
• Who Do I Think I Am, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand.

1998

• Dream Collectors, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, & touring New Zealand: Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin.
• Folklore: The New Zealanders, Artspace, Auckland &Sergeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand.
• Leap of Faith: Contemporary New Zealand Art 1998, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.

1997

• The Karaokes, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin & touring New Zealand: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; The Film Centre, Wellington; Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland; The Physics Room, Christchurch; Suter Gallery, Nelson.

1996

• Road to Love, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
• Nostalgia,  Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
• Exactly,  200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia.

1995

• Hangover, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton & touring New Zealand: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Robert McDougall Art Gallery,Christchurch.
• A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.

Bibliography

• Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand', Ed. Art and Australia 2008
• Natalie King, 'New Work', Art World Magazine. September 2008
• Ewen McDonald, 'BED/Sit - a play in two parts', Column 2. Pub. Artspace, 2008
• ARTLAND, Episode 1, TVNZ Channel 6, directed by Summer Agnew (aired April 2008)
• Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia, Sydney, Australia
• Elizabeth Caughey & John Gow, ' Contemporary New Zealand Art', volumes 1-4, Pub. David Bateman Ltd, 2005
• Jim and Mary Barr, '2004 Walters Prize', Art & Australia, Volume 42, Number 4, Winter 2005
• Rachel Kent, 'Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art', Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia 2006
• Justin Paton,  'Planet B',  Magazin4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria, 2004.
• Andrew Taylor-Wood, 'I've Abandoned Me' , Urbis, July 2004.
• Anthony Byrt, 'Who's There? Ronnie van Hout & the Anti-Hero Aesthetic',  Art New Zealand, Issue 108, Spring 2003
• Robin Neate, 'Physics Room Annual', Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2003
• Justin Paton, 'I've Abandoned Me', Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2003
• Wayne Tunnicliffe, 'Still Life', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2003
• Simon Rees, 'Only the Only', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2002
• Simon Rees, 'Art>Music: Rock, Pop, Techno', Art and Australia, Volume 39, No. 1, 2001, pp. 66-67
• Matthew Hyland, 'Toi Toi Toi: Three Generations of Artists from New Zealand', Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2000
• Jim Barr , Mary Barr & Robert Leonard, 'Who Do I Think I Am', Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, 2000
• Gregory Burke & Hanna Scott, eds, 'Drive: power/progress/desire',  Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2000
• Sebastian Smee, 'Animal Magnetism', Sydney Morning Herald, 15 June 1999, p. 12
• Justin Paton, 'Frequent Flyers: Toi Toi Toi in Auckland', Art New Zealand 92, Spring 1999, pp. 46-50
• Robert Leonard, 'Leap of Faith',  Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 1999
• Helen Beaglehole & Mary Trewby, eds, 'Dream Collectors: One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand', Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand 1998
• Priscilla Pitts, 'Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture: Themes and Issues', David Bateman, Auckland 1998
• Robert Leonard, 'Over-Impressed', art/text 57 May/July1997, pp. 32-34
• Rex Butler & Giovanni Intra, 'Pre-Millennial: Signs of the Soon Coming Storm', Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 1997
• Phillip Mathews, 'Eye of the Storm', New Zealand Listener, December 1997 pp.40-42
• Linda Schofield, 'Surviving the Millenium', Broadsheet, No. 3, Volume 26, Spring 1997, p.23
• Justin Clemins, 'Don't Worry, Be Someone Else', LIKE Magazine 3, 1997 pp. 23-26
• Stuart McKenzie & Robin Neate, 'Now Showing:Artists Go to the Movies', Exhibitour, Wellington 1997
• Warwick Brown, 'Another 100 New Zealand Artists', Godwit 1996
• Ronnie van Hout, 'Mephitis', Self published catalogue 1995
• John Hurrell, 'In Search of Intelligent Life (within or without Ronnie)', in 'I'm OK', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 1996
• Stuart McKenzie, 'Junk Joint', Artforum, March 1995, pp. 39-40 

Collections

• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
• Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
• Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
• Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
• Manuwatu Art Gallery, Palmeston North, New Zealand
• Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
• Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
• Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
• The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatu, Nelson, New Zealand
• Waikato Museum and Art Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
• Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. 

Awards and Prizes

2007

• Antarctic Arts Fellowship, Antarctic New Zealand

2005

• Laureate Award, New Zealand Arts Foundation

2004/05

• Artist in Residence, International Studio Program, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2004

• Finalist, Walters Prize, New Zealand

2003/04

• Artist in Residence, Massey University, Wellington, NZ

1999/00

• Artist in Residence, International Studio Programme, New York, NY, USA

1996

• Artist in Residence Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ

1994

• Artist in Residence, Foundation Elba, Nijmegen, Netherlands