Michael Greaves. Born 1976. Dunedin New Zealand.

Lives and works in Dunedin New Zealand

Education

MFA (Distinction) 2017. Dunedin School of Art

BA (Art History and Theory) 2005. University of Otago

BTchng(Sec) 2001. University of Otago

BFA Painting 1999. Dunedin School of Art

Selected exhibitions

2024

Falling if not Flying, 2024. Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton, New Zealand. 9 December – 7 February (2025)

If you speak for the Wolf, speak against him as well. Olga Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand. 23 August – 12 September 2024

2023

We are not strong enough for the rivers and stars. Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. 08 February – 25 February 2023

New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award. Finalist. Waikato Society of the Arts. 2023

2022

Sullivan’s Objects. Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 02 Nov – 19 Nov 2022

New Dunedin Painting (redux). Wave Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand. 01 Oct – 22 Oct 2022

The Promise . . . and the Fall. Olga Gallery, Dunedin New Zealand. 12 May – 08 June 2022

Selected. Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland New Zealand. 09 March – 02 April 2022

2021

Time Steals Some Things and Gives Us Back Others. RDS Gallery Dunedin New Zealand. 06 October – 23 October 2021

Molly Morpeth Canaday award finalist. Whakatane, New Zealand. 13 February – 04 April  2021

Art and Law XVIII – Lawyers Love and Live in Abstraction. Otago University Faculty of Law, Dunedin New Zealand. February – November 2021

The Exquisite Corpse, Olga Gallery Dunedin, curated by Nicola Hansby. 19 March – 30 March 2021

2020

I Suddenly Remembered My Grandmothers Words. RDS Gallery Dunedin New Zealand. 12 November – 12 December 2020

The Yallop & Smith Memorial Exhibition 2020. Group show OLGA Gallery Dunedin 31 October – 07 November 2020

The Complete Entanglement of Everything 28 Sept- 2 Oct, part of the Mapping the Anthropocene Symposium, Dunedin School of Art, 26 – 27 September 2020.

The Exquisite Corpse, Dunedin Fringe Festival, Olga Gallery, with Aroha Novak, Sharon Singer, Peter Clevery and Nicola Hansby, Cancelled due to COVID-19

Berlin Rock Bar, Dunedin Fringe Festival, Dowling Street Studio Gallery, with Pete Wheeler, Sam Foley, Craig Freeborn, Emily Lucas and Chris Rayner. Cancelled due to COVID-19

2019

D’Inverno. RDS Gallery. with Justin Spears, Marie Strauss, Peter Cleverly, Madeline Child, Greg Lewis, Shelley McConaughty, Kirsten Fergusson, Inge Doesburg and Phillip Jarvis. Dunedin New Zealand. 05 July – 27 July 2019

Michael Greaves and Arie Hellendoorn. New Painting. Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland New Zealand. 01 May – 25 May, 2019

2018

Migrant Objects. Inge Doesburg Gallery, Dunedin New Zealand. 20 November – 06 December, 2018

2018 Wallace Awards, Finalist, Salon De Refuse. Pah Homestead, 04 September – 24 October, 2018

The Day Brings Strange Relations. The Daily Coffee Co. Dunedin New Zealand. 06 April – 20 April, 2018

New Year. Inge Doesburg Gallery, Dunedin New Zealand. 10 January – February 14, 2018

2017

Parcel. Inge Doesburg Gallery, Dunedin New Zealand. 15 September – 07 October, 2017

Facsimile. TAKT Kunstprojektraum. Friedrichshain. Berlin. Germany. 16 – 20 July, 2017

Blush. Michael Greaves and Sinead Marsh, State Gallery, Auckland. New Zealand. 14 July – 12 August, 2017

Southern Paradigms. Curated by Craig Freeborn, with Scott Eady, Kim Peters, Cobi Taylor, Phillip Madil et al. Pah Homestead, James Wallace Arts Trust. Auckland. New Zealand. 23 May – 16 July, 2017

Excessive Memory. Dunedin School of Art Gallery. Dunedin New Zealand. 03 March – 08 March, 2017

2016

Questions for the Universe. Inge Doesburg Gallery. Dunedin. New Zealand. 01 April – 09 April, 2017

When Memory Becomes Excessive. AS Gallery. Dunedin. New Zealand. 02 September  – 14 December, 2017

2014

New Dunedin Painting. Brick Brothers Gallery. Dunedin. New Zealand. 14 June – 26 June, 2014

2013

I AM BRAVE YET I FEAR MY OWN BREATH. Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton. New Zealand. 30 March – 05 May, 2013

2012

2THEPOWEROF2 – PYRAMID SCHEME XPONENTIAL ART AVALANCHE – CREATION: CHAOS EMERGES. 24 – 29 August 2012. CREATION SHOW RUNNING 3 – 29 August, 2012 Ufferstraße 6, Wedding. Berlin Germany http://2thepowerof2.com/

Building Utopia. TAKT Kunstprojektraum. Friedrichshain, Berlin. Germany. 15 – 23 September, 2012

Speaking in Hushed Voices. Pop up Gallery (One Night Only) Dunedin. New Zealand. 13 March, 2012

Smoke and mirrors: Painting, Isolation and Tradition. With Peter Cleverley and Anya Sinclair. The Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore. New Zealand. 28 April – 16 June 2012. Forrester Gallery, Oamaru. New Zealand. January – March, 2012

Collections

The Arts House Trust collection, Auckland New Zealand

The Jan Warburton collection, Dunedin New Zealand

Stevenson Collection, Picton New Zealand

Numerous private collections New Zealand, Australia, USA, Germany, England.