Mark Braunias

Brief Biography

Mark Braunias was born in Tauranga, New Zealand. He lives and works in the small coastal village of Kawhia, in the North Island's King Country. Braunias studied at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, graduating in 1987. His first solo show took place at Jonathan Smart Gallery in 1988. He was the inaugural winner of the Wallace Art Award in 1992, and from 1993 - 2013 he tutored part-time at the Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland. In 2011, Braunias was awarded a Fulbright/Wallace scholarship to take up a residency at the Headlands Centre for the Arts in San Francisco. The artist has also completed residencies at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2002), William Hodges Fellowship, Invercargill (2005), Tylee Cottage, Whanganui (2007) and the Dunedin School of Art (2019). In August 2021, he was awarded the National 2021 Parkin Drawing Award. 

His work is held in major public, corporate and private collections in New Zealand and overseas. Braunias has exhibited in various public gallery exhibitions including: A Very Peculiar Practice, City Gallery Wellington (1995); Gruesome, Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch (1999); The Cartoon Show, Auckland Art Gallery (2001); First Time Caller, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2002); Congo / Sly Grogger, Southland Museum and Art Gallery (2005); Visual Bank, The Tauranga Art Gallery (2007); London Town, The Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui (2008); Children's Charter, The Christchurch Art Gallery (2010); The Archivists, The Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui (2014); Art Central Hong Kong (2015); Field of Vision: A survey exhibition 1990-2016, Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland (2016); Vanished Delft, Pah Homestead (2017); Softly Spoken, Hastings Art Gallery, Hastings (2019); Working On A Guru, Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Dunedin(2019); Ena Snuggles, Objectspace, Auckland (2020).

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Solo Exhibitions

2021 - Lounge Muse, Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland
2019 - Working On A Guru, Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Dunedin
2019 - Fluid Mammalia, Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland
2018 - Evolutional Mongrel, McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
2018 - Son Of Mang, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2018 - Das Boot, Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland
2017 - Doofus, Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton
2016 - Field Of Vision, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland
2016 - The Dog’s Art Breakfeast, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland
2015 - Anti-Groovy, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2014 - Welcome to Gankland, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne
2013 - Old School, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University
2013 - Encyclo Dimensional, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland
2012 - SPACEDOUT, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2012 - Men on Mars/ Plan 9.5 from Outer Space, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
2011 - Open Studios, Headlands Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2011 - Pants On, Pants Off, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne
2011 - Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland
2010 - Children's Charter, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch
2009 - A Message From Planet Zonked, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2009 - The Periodic Table,  Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
2008 - Recent Work, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland
2008 - London Town, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui
2007 - No More Gurus, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2007 - Visual Bank - Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga
2006 - Congo / Sly Grogger Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Invercargill
2006 - The Shrink, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
2006 - World Gone Worly, Rm 103, Auckland
2005 - Congo, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2004 - Rats and Lemons, (Big Wall Project) Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
2004 - My New Art God, Lopdell House, Auckland
2003 - First Time Caller, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2003 - A Day in my Life, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
2002 - First Time Caller, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
2001 - Soft, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
2001 - Good Shit, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1999 - The Dibbloes, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1998 - Mumsy, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1997 - Gank, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1997 - Fagas, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1996 - New Work, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1995 - Recent Paintings, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1995 - Gank, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
1995 - Paintings, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
1994 - New Work, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1994 - Young Anzacs, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
1993 - Praha, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch.
1992 - Debutantes, Artis Gallery, Auckland.
1991 - Praha, Malostranska Bedesa, Prague.
1990 - Emblems of Identity, Last Decade Gallery, Wellington
1990 - Emblems of Identity, Star Art Gallery, Auckland
1990 - Works on Paper, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch.
1989 - Black Paintings, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
1988 - Paintings, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
1987 - Submission Works James Paul Gallery, Christchurch