B I O G R A P H Y

1969 Born Auckland, New Zealand
1997 BFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
1999 Postgraduate studies, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland (Masters/Honors Scholarship)

S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S

2024 Promethean Problems, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2022 Limited Hangout, Fine Arts Sydney, Australia

2021 Ecology of Souls, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2020 Recent Paintings, Online Viewing Room, Michael Lett Gallery

2019 Animals of God, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia

2018 Altered States, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2017 High Strangeness, Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Korea

2016-17 Peter Stichbury: Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Nevada Museum of Art, USA (Curator: JoAnne Northrup)

2014 Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, USA

2014 Sources & Methods, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2012 Superfluous Man, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, USA

2012 Eugene Y, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Tracy Williams Ltd, USA

2011 My Definitive Chief Aim, Art Brussels, Tracy Williams Ltd, Belgium

2010 The Proteus Effect, Tracy Williams Ltd. New York, USA

2009 Peter Stichbury, Starkwhite, ART LA, Los Angeles International Contemporary Art Fair

2008 The Alumni, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2008 The Alumni, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, NZ (Curator: Emma Bugden)

2007 Less Than Absolute Zero, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand

2006 Passport To Magonia, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand

2004 Piggy In The Mirror, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand

S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S

2024 Art Basel Miami Beach, Gallery Baton, Miami

2024 Frieze London, Gallery Baton, London

2024 Frieze Seoul, Gallery Baton, Seoul

2024 Sydney Contemporary, Fine Arts Sydney

2024 The Anticipation of Joy, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland

2024 Art Basel, Hong Kong, Mother’s Tankstation

2024 Art SG, Gallery Baton, Singapore

2023 Frieze London, Gallery Baton, London, United Kingdom

2023 Frieze Seoul, Gallery Baton, South Korea

2023 Sydney Contemporary, Fine Arts, Sydney

2023 Art Basel, Basel, Mother’s Tankstation, Switzerland

2023 Art SG, Gallery Baton, Singapore

2022 Frieze London, Gallery Baton, London, United Kingdom

2022 Frieze Seoul, Gallery Baton, South Korea

2022 Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection, FLAG Art Foundation, New York (Curators: Cynthia Daignault, Awol Erizku and Ewan Gibbs)

2022 Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, London, Gallery Baton

2022 The Truth Is Out There, The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand (Curator: Dr Chelsea Nichols)

2021 Frieze Los Angeles, Viewing Room, Gallery Baton

2020 Frieze New York 2020, Viewing Room, Gallery Baton, New York

2020 Art Busan, Gallery Baton, South Korea

2019 Now, Then, Next: Time and the Contemporary, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, New Zealand (Curator: Lara Strongman)

2019 ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery Baton, Shanghai, China

2019 Art Busan / Gallery Baton, Busan, South Korea

2018 Light, Non-Light, Chapter II, Seoul, South Korea

2018 Art Brussels 50th Anniversary / Gallery Baton, Brussels, Belgium

2017 Art Brussels / Gallery Baton, Brussels, Belgium

2017 KIAF, Art Seoul, Gallery Baton, Coex Hall A&B, Seoul, South Korea

2016 Human Condition, The Hospital, Los Angeles, USA (Curator: John Wolf)

2016 People, Places, Things, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, USA

2016 Bad Hair Day, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand (Curator: Ken Hall)

2016 KIAF, Art Seoul, Gallery Baton, Coex Hall A&B, Seoul, South Korea

2015 Arstronomy: Incursiones en el cosmos, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (Curator: Danielle Tilkin)

2015 Tracy Williams / UNTITLED, Miami Beach, Florida, USA

2015 Ways of Recording, Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Korea

2015 Why Can't It Be Everlasting?, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, USA

2015 Michael Lett / Art Basel Hong Kong, (HKCEC) Hong Kong

2015 Unseen: The Changing Collection, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand

2015 Tracy Williams / Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, Los Angeles

2015 Gallery Baton, KIAF / Art Seoul, Coex Hall A&B, Seoul, South Korea

2015 Unpacked – Treasures from Te Papa, Whangarei Art Museum, New Zealand

2014 Tracy Williams / Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, Los Angeles

2013 Populate! NDE, Illuminated Billboard, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand (Curator: Justin Paton)

2013 Tracy Williams / Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, Los Angeles

2013 Warhol Aotearoa, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

2011 Tracy Williams / Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, Los Angeles

2010 ART HK 10 – Hong Kong International Art Fair, Wanchai, Hong Kong

2010 Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood

2007 Art of The Nation/ Contemporary Focus, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2005 Small World, Big Town: Contemporary Art From Te Papa, City Gallery, Wellington

2004 Sticky, Randolph Street Gallery, Auckland New Zealand (Curator: Anthony Byrt)

2003 Portraiture: the Art of Social Commentary, Te Tuhi, Auckland

2000 Measure of Strangeness, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand (Curator: Robert Leonard)

S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y

Ingrid Cincala Gilbert, Musings in the Studio, Peter Stichbury has Suspended Disbelief, CincalaArt, 2022

Erin Griffey, Peter Stichbury: Between Matter and Spirit, Art News New Zealand, Summer 2022

John Hurrell, Peter Stichbury's 'Outer Body' Portraits, EyeContact, 2018

Michael Wilson, Peter Stichbury, Artforum, January 2015

Danielle Tilkin, Borys Groys and Chris Aubeck, Arstronomy: Incursiones en el cosmos, 2015

Zach Sokol, The Paranormal Portraitist- Peter Stichbury Paints Alien Abductees for a Living, VICE, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2015

Julia Luzan, De ovnis y fenómenos paranormales: Arte del ‘más allá’, El Asombrario & Co, 2015

Caro Buermann, Attractive and Awkward Portraits, Hi-Fructose, 2015

Felicity Milburn, 101 Works of Art, Christchurch Art Gallery, 2015

Kim Knight, Painting Perfect, Stuff/Sunday Star Times, August 2014

Lindsey Rae Gjording, Beautiful/Decay, Peter Stichbury's Unsettling Clone-Like Portraits, 2014

Georgina Wells, Peter Stichbury, Modern Painters, February 2013

Justin Paton, NDE, Bulletin:172, Christchurch Art Gallery Magazine, 2013

John Yau, Superfluous Men Can’t Get No Satisfaction, Hyperallergic, November 2012

Marisa Pascucci, Peter Stichbury: Artist to Watch, The Art Economist, Volume 1, Issue 4, 2011

Justin Paton, Skin-Deep: Peter Stichbury and the Art of Appearances, Art & Australia, 2011

Is A Bird’s Song Banal? Peter Stichbury interviewed by Zach Klein, Pilot Magazine, 2011

Genevieve Allison, Stichbury in NYC, EyeContact, December 9, 2010

Peter Schjeldahl, Peter Stichbury The Proteus Effect, The New Yorker, September 28, 2010

Emma Bugden, Peter Stichbury: The Alumni, Catalogue, Te Tuhi Centre For The Arts, 2010

Steve Penhollow, Stars Aligned for Portrait's Journey, The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne Indiana, 2009

David Eggleton, Living Dolls, NZ Listener, 24-30 January 2009

John Hurrell, Canvases to be (Nervously) Adored: the Portraiture of Peter Stichbury,

Art World Australia/NZ, issue no. 5, 2008 (includes cover)

Artnews New Zealand, cover image, Spring 2008

Adam Gifford, Beyond the Perfect, New Zealand Herald, 26 July 2008

John Hurrell, Flickers of Comic Anxiety, eyeCONTACT, July 2008

Sue Gardiner, Where to Draw the Line, Artnews New Zealand, Spring 2006

Justin Paton, How to Look at a Painting, AWA Press, 2005

Natasha Conland, Little People: Small World, Big Town: exhibition catalog, City Gallery, Wellington

Andrew Clifford, Beautifying the Outsiders, New Zealand Herald, 1 December 2004

Grayson Cooke, Portraiture: the art of social commentary, (Alien Faciality, 2001 excerpt), catalog, 2003

Natasha Conland, Measure of Strangeness, Eyeline Magazine, no. 44, Summer 2000/2001

Jon Bywater, Art New Zealand, no.97 Summer 2000/2001

Dylan Rainforth, Log Illustrated, no.12, Summer 2001

Megan Dunn, Architecture and Design, Monument, Australia, no. 42, 2001

C O L L E C T I O N S

Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

Private collections: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, Australia