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Luise Fong

Biography 

1964   
Born Sandakan, Malaysia. Arrived in New Zealand

1983   
Attended Textile Design Course, Wellington Polytechnic, Wellington

1986   
Four months travel to France and United Kingdom

1986-1989
Attended Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland
Received QEII Grant to assist first solo show
Received QEII Project Grant for Pandora’s Box

1991  
Graduated BFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland

1991-1992
Member of Artspace Board, Auckland

1993
Junior Lecturer, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland
Ida Else Painting Award, Auckland Society of Arts, Auckland
Merit Award Winner, Visa Gold Art Award
Two months travel to New York and United Kingdom

1994
Artist in Residence, six months, Victoria College of Arts, Melbourne
Premier Award Winner, Visa Gold Art Award
Junior Lecturer, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland
Relocated to Melbourne on a permanent basis

1995
Travel to New York, Frankfurt, London and New Zealand
Artist in Residence, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

1996
Travel to Hong Kong for Transfusion exhibition
Travel to New Zealand, two months, to work on Fathom exhibition

1997
Travel to Hong Kong and New Zealand for Sonar exhibition
Residency, three months, Ilam Painting Department, Otago University, Dunedin

1998
Residency, six months, ‘Nilja’, Parks Victoria, Melbourne

1999 July
Return to New Zealand

1999-2000
Part-time Lecturer, Painting, RMIT, Melbourne

2001-2005
Lecturer, Painting, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 - Remix, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
2006 - Judith Anderson Gallery, Hastings

2005 - sync, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington

2004 - Elemental, Starkwhite, Auckland
2004 - Recent Paintings, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington

2002 - Turbo, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2002 - Metaphor, Snowwhite Gallery, Unitec, Auckland

2000 - Luminescence, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2000 - Trans, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

1999 - Transit, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

1998 - Recent Paintings, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
1998 - Nova, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1998 - Sonar, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong

1997 - Echo, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1997 - Chamber, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1997 - Fathom, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland

1996 - Scent, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1996 - Nostalgia, Basement Gallery, Melbourne

1995 - More Human, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Fisher Gallery, Auckland
1995 - UFO, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland
1995 - Small Orbits, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

1994 - Recent Paintings, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland

1993 - Chen, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland
1993 - Pathology, Brooker Gallery, Wellington
1993 - Meniscus, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch

1992 - Speak (window installation), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland

1991 - Half Light Paintings, Brooker Gallery, Wellington
1991 - Artbeat, The Bathhouse, Rotorua
1991 - Recent works, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland

1990 - Recent works, Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1989 - Past Presence, Fish Shop Gallery, Auckland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 - Winter, Ngaumatau Gallery, Queenstown

2004 - HOME/GROUND - SCAPE Biennial 04, Christchurch
2004 - Sticky, Randolph Street Gallery, Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland

2003-04 - Flaunt: Art/Fashion/Culture, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
2003-04 - Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

1999 - Contemporary Melbourne Abstraction, Heide Art Gallery, Melbourne

1996 - Skirting Abstraction, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1996 - referencing, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1996 - Transfusion, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong; New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

1995 - Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; City Gallery, Wellington
1995 - A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, City Gallery, Wellington
1995 - The Nervous System, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; City Gallery, Wellington

1994 -  Station to Station: the Way of the Cross, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
1994 - Ten Years On, Fisher Gallery, Auckland
1994 - Taking Stock of the Nineties, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui

1993 - Small Works, ASA Gallery, Auckland
1993 - Studio Ceramics: Dinner Service Show, Fisher Gallery, Auckland

1992 - Light Sensitive, Artspace, Auckland
1992 - After Dark, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1992 - Shadow of Style: Eight New Artists, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
1992 - Surface Tension: Ten Artists in the Nineties, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
1992 - The Carnivelesque Body, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland

1991 - exuberant, floating, dancing, mocking, childish and blissful art, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
1991 - Catholic Taste, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
1991 - Speaking Through The Crack in the Mirror, Artspace, Auckland

1990 Pandora’s Box (installation with Deborah Smith), George Fraser Gallery, Auckland

1989 - Artistic Collusions, Pembridge, Auckland
1989 - Fascination, Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1988 - 20,000 Leagues, Fish Shop Gallery, Auckland

1985 - Decoration As Camouflage (installation with Diana Lee Gobbitt), Last and First Café, Auckland

Selected Bibliography

Anderson, C. ‘Luise Fong’ (exhibition essay), Tinakori Gallery, Wellington, 2004
Barton, C. ‘At the surface’, Surface Tension: Ten Artists in the 90s, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 1992
Brown, W. 100 New Zealand Paintings, Godwit Publishing Ltd., Auckland, 1995
Burke, G. Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand (catalogue essay), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; City Gallery, Wellington, 1995
Byrt, A. ‘I am Luise’s Body’, New Zealand Listener, February 28 – March 5 2004
Cheng, S. ‘Sonar’ (review), Art Asia Pacific, Issue 21, 1999
Dale, R. ‘This Floating Life’, Fusion (Hong Kong / Auckland Artist’s exchange), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1996
Dunn, M. Contemporary Painting in New Zealand, Craftsman House, 1996
Dunn, M. New Zealand Painting: A Concise History, Auckland University Press, 2003
Kember, P. Asian Art News, Volume 8, Number 3, May / June 1998
Kent, R. ‘An Ambiguous Abstraction: Recent Paintings by Luise Fong’, Art New Zealand, Number 86, Autumn 1998
Kent, R. ‘Nostalgia’ (exhibition essay), Basement Gallery, Melbourne, 1996
Lancashire, R. ‘Total Recall’, Vogue Australia, June 1998
McAloon, W. ‘Ways of the Cross’, Station to Station: The Way of the Cross, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1994
McKenzie, S. ‘Turn Out the Light’, Midwest 2, 1992
McNamara, T. J. ‘Seeing Beyond Red’, The New Zealand Herald, February 18 2004
Milburn, F. ‘Girl Interrupted: The Art of Luise Fong’, Art New Zealand, Number 119, Winter 2006
Milburn, F. ‘Happy-Joyful-Home’, Home-Ground, Art & Industry Biennial Trust, Christchurch, 2004
Milburn, F. ‘Luise Fong Universe’, B.118: Bulletin of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery and Annex, Spring 1999
Miles, A. ‘Essential Viewing’, Planet, Issue 14, Spring 1994
Nealie, T. ‘Beyond the Surface’, New Zealand Home and Building, April / May 1995
Nelson, R. ‘Nostalgia Shows the Way Forward’, The Melbourne Age, February 14 1996
Rhodes, C. ‘Luise Fong – sync’ (exhibition essay), Tinakori Gallery, Wellington, May 2005
Smith, A. ‘A Very Peculiar Practice: A User’s Guide’, A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, City Gallery, Wellington, 1995
Smith, A. ‘Toxic & Tenebrous: Urban Beauty in the Art of Luise Fong’, Midwest 6, 1994
Vaigro, W. ‘Cosmographies: A Pathologist’s Diary’, Art Asia Pacific, Volume 2, Number 2, 1995
Weir, V. ‘Happy-Joyful-Home’, Art News, Winter 2004
Wood, A. P. ‘Escape from the Garden City’, Urbis, Autumn 2005

Collections

Auckland Art Gallery
The Bathhouse, Rotorua
Jim and Mary Barr Collection, Wellington
Chartwell Collection, Auckland
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Fletcher Collection, Auckland
Jenny Gibbs Collection, Auckland
Paris Collection, Wellington
Robert McDougall Collection, Christchurch
Te Papa: Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
University of Auckland
Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
Private collections in New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong