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
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
STAFF. Aigantighe Gallery. Timaru. New Zealand. 29 August – 12 October, 2014
STAFF. Forrester Gallery. Oamaru. New Zealand. 28 June – 24 August, 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
2011
Smoke and mirrors: Painting, Isolation and Tradition. With Peter Cleverley and Anya Sinclair. Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton. New Zealand. 01 October – 04 November, 2011
2010
Smoke and mirrors: Painting, Isolation and Tradition. With Peter Cleverley and Anya Sinclair. Dunedin School of Art Gallery, September 15 – October 1, 2010
Will You Miss Me When I Burn. Dunedin School of Art Gallery at Otago Polytechnic. Dunedin. New Zealand, May 06 – 14, 2010
Smoke and mirrors: Painting, Isolation and Tradition: Europe 2010. Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art), Issue 5&6, November, 2010
2008
Painting after Painting: Losing Faith in the History of Painting. Scope: Contemporary Research Topics (Art), Issue 03, November, 2008
2006
WO WARST DO ADAM?. Group Show with Pete Wheeler, Greg Lewis and Philip James Frost. Whitespace Gallery, 13 November – 02 December, 2006
Common Memory. with Isaac Leuchs. The Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin, September, 2006
2005
Urban Life Year of the Built Environment 2005. Group Show, Shed 11, Queens Wharf, Jervois Quay, Wellington, 06 –14 December, 2005
Tacit. The Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 02nd July – 20 July, 2005
2004
New Small Works. Group Show. The Peter Rae Gallery. Dunedin New Zealand, 26 November – 15 December, 2004
New Paintings. The Peter Rae Gallery. Dunedin, 10 – 28 July, 2004
Departures. The Morgan Street Gallery. Newmarket Auckland, 28 May – 16 June, 2004
2003
New Work. The Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin New Zealand, December, 2003
X4. With Simon Kaan, Claire Beynon and David Shennan. The Peter Rae Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, August, 2003
2001
Eight is Enough – Emerging Dunedin Artist’s. With Pete Wheeler, Sam Foley, Greg Lewis, Philip James Frost, Angus Collins, CITE Gallery 4b Brown Street Ponsonby Auckland PO BOX 47-571 (no longer operating), 30 November – 13 December, 2001
Collections
Wallace Arts 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.
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