Ruth Buchanan

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Ruth Buchanan (born 1980) is a contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand artist of Te Āti Awa , Taranaki and Pakeha decent. Buchanan was born in Ngamotu New Plymouth and grew up in Poneke Wellington. She lives and works in Berlin. [1][2]

Education[]

Buchanan graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, in 2002. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2007. From 2008-2009 she was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.[3]

In 2012 she was Artist in Residence at Colin McCahon House in Auckland, and in 2015 and 2016 she was the Govett-Brewster Aotearoa New Zealand Artist in Residence.[1][4]


Career[]

Buchanan has exhibited extensively in Europe and in New Zealand. Buchanan was represented by Hopkinson Mossman, a contemporary art gallery in New Zealand from 20011-2020.[5] In 2018 she was awarded Aotearoa's prestigious Walters Prize for her groundbreaking project BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS first shown at Adam Art Gallery working closely with Judith Hopf and Marianne Wex. She works across exhibition making, writing, design, publishing, and teaching. Her work draws out the contested and dynamic relationship between the body, power, language and the archive. This process of contesting often relates closely to the types of relationships that standardised infrastructures, such as archives, libraries, and museums create between our bodies and society at large and actively asks how these relationships could be otherwise. .[6] Her work is documented at Studio Ruth Buchanan


Official Website[]

Studio Ruth Buchanan

Evacuation Tapes

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Ruth Buchanan: The actual and its document | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre". www.govettbrewster.com. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  2. ^ Wellington, Victoria University of (2016-09-20). "Exhibition a "homecoming" for ambitious contemporary artist". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  3. ^ "Ruth Buchanan | Never Not a Body | artists alliance". artistsalliance.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  4. ^ House, McCahon. "Ruth Buchanan McCahon House Artists Residency". www.mccahonhouse.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  5. ^ "Ruth Buchanan | HOPKINSON MOSSMAN". Hopkinson Mossman. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  6. ^ "Ruth Buchanan | HOPKINSON MOSSMAN". Hopkinson Mossman. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-08-03.

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