Reference: MICHEL TUFFERY MNZM
BIOGRAPHY
Born Wellington, Aotearoa | New Zealand (NZ), 1966
Heritage Polynesian—Samoan, Rarotongan (Cook Islands) and Tahitian Award Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, 2008
Lives Wellington, NZ
EDUCATION
1990 Manoa School of Fine Arts, University of Hawaii, USA
1986–89 Bachelor of Fine Arts—Printmaking (Hons), School of Fine Arts, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, NZ 1980–85 ‘A’ Bursary, Newlands College, Wellington, NZ
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Siamani Samoa, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
First Contact, BCA Gallery @ Volta NY, New York, NY, USA
2011 Povi VaSa, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Siamani Samoa (Stage 2), Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua, NZ
Lakapi (Fifteen Aside), Solander Gallery, Wellington, NZ; New Zealand High Commission, Apia, Samoa
Siamani Samoa (Stage 1), Apia, Samoa
2009 Sampling Tahi, Staple Furniture Design, Wellington, NZ
New Works, Solander Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2008 New and Recent Works, Milbank Gallery, Whanganui, NZ
New Works, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
Whanganui Print Series, Williams Gallery, Petone, NZ
2007 Ngaro/Blowfly the Urban Botanist, Lane Gallery, Auckland, NZ
First Contact, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua, NZ; Salamander Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2006 Tangaroa Sanctuary, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2005 E Taingauru Ma Rima Etu, Beachcomber Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
O le Povi Pusa Ma’ataua, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, NZ; Salamander Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
Cookie’s Portraits, The Artist’s Room, Dunedin, NZ 2004 New Works, Williams Gallery, Petone, Wellington, NZ
Riria. Lili. Riri, The Lane Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2003 Tui, Tui, Tui, Williams Gallery, Petone, Wellington, NZ
Animated Effigy, Artspace Mackay, Queensland
2002 Mata Mata, Auckland Art Gallery | Toi o Tamaki, NZ Asiasi Telei, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
UMA, Milford Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Kawhai, Gallery 482, Brisbane, Queensland 2001 Asiasi, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1998 Recent Works, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
Upeti Block Installation, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
New Works on Paper, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland, NZ 1997 New Works, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, NZ
Experiments/Lithographs, Muka Studio, Grey Lynn, NZ
New Works, MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
New Works, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Pacific Diary, Hogarth Gallery, Sydney
1996 Povi Tau Vaga (The Challenge), City Gallery Wellington | Te Whare Toi, NZ 1994 Woodcuts on Tapa, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland, NZ
New Works, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, NZ
New Works, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, NZ
1992–93 Vaka Tama, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland, NZ; 331/3 Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1991 Fauna, Banana Court, Avarua, Cook Islands; Reva Reva Gallery, Papaette, Tahiti
1990 Anti Drift Net Series, ASA Gallery, Auckland, NZ; Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1989 Fa’a Papalagi, Fa’a Samoa, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ; Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington, NZ; Marshall Syford Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
JOINT EXHIBITIONS
2010 New Zealand Landscapes (with Dick Frizzell), Williams Gallery, Petone, NZ
2006 Catherine McDonald, Carmel McSherry, Michel Tuffery—New Works, Salamander Gallery,
Christchurch, NZ
1993 Pallawah Pasifika (with Brett Graham and Jim Viveaere), University of Tasmania, Launceston 1988 What is my Identity? (with Johnny Penisula), Tautai Gallery, Maota Samoa House, Auckland, NZ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Art Gallery, Sydney Oceania, City Gallery Wellington | Te Whare Toi, NZ
This is not a vitrine, this is an ocean, Waikato Museum | Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton, NZ
Niu Warrior, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2010 Manuia, The American Indian Community House/BCA, New York, NY, USA
Tiaho—Contemporary Photography from Oceania, Instituto Latino de Mexico, Coyacoan, Mexico City, Mexico; Centro Cultural Multidisciplinario, El Caseton, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico; Palacio Municipal de Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico State, Mexico
Niu Pasifik—Urban Art from the Pacific Rim, Gorman University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Indigenous Forum, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY, USA
2009 Art in the Contemporary Pacific—The Great Journey: In Pursuit of the Ancestral Realm,
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, R.O.C.
20th Anniversary, Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia
2008–09 Le Folauga—The past coming forward: Contemporary Pacific art from Aotearoa New Zealand,
Auckland Museum | Tamaki Paenga Hira, NZ; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2007–17 Tangata o le Moana: The story of Pacific people in New Zealand, Museum of New Zealand | Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ
2007 Across Oceans and Time: Art in the Contemporary Pacific, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2007–08 Date Line: Contemporary art from the Pacific, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Lütze Museum City Gallery, Sindelfingen, Germany; Stadgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
2006–08 Pasifika Styles, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
2004 Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Asia Society, New York, NY, USA
2001–05 Islands in the Sun: Prints by Indigenous artists of Australia and the Australasian region, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Te Puna o Waiwhetu Christchurch Art Gallery, NZ; Adam Art Gallery | Te Pataka Toi, Wellington, NZ; Papua New Guinea Museum and Art Gallery, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland; Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia
2001 Fourth Australian Print Exhibition and Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2000–01 Te Ao Tawhito/Te Ao Hou, Maui Arts and Cultural Centre, Hawaii, USA; Art Museum of Missoula,
MT, USA
1999 Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1998 Wakè Nâimâ’ (Creating Together), Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia
Paringa Ou, Cook Islands Library and Museum, Rarotonga, Cook Islands; Fiji Museum | Vale ni Yaya Maroroi, Suva, Fiji; Fishers Gallery, Auckland, NZ; Museum of Culture, Avarua, Cook Islands
1993 International Print Exhibition, Machida City Museum of Graphic Art, Tokyo, Japan
First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT1), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane International Print Exhibition, University of Hawai’i, Hilo, Hawaii, USA
1990 Pacific Rim Bookworks, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; (travelling to New Zealand, Canada, Australia and Japan)
1986 Youth Exhibition, YMCA, Dunedin, NZ
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brown, Warwick. 100 New Zealand Artists, Godwit Publishing, Auckland, 1996
Caughey, Elizabeth and Gow, John. Contemporary New Zealand Art 3, Bateman Publishing,
Auckland, 2000
Finlayson, Claire. This Thing in the Mirror: Self Portraits by New Zealand Artists, Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson, 2004
Gnecchi, Dr Elisabetta. Oceania, Ruscone, Mondadori Electa Spa Ufficio Iconografico Publishers, Milano, 2009
Keith, Hamish, OBE. The Big Picture a history of New Zealand art since 1642, Random House, Auckland, 2007
McAloon, William. Art at Te Papa, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2009
Mallon, Sean. Samoan Art & Artists: O Measina a Samoa, Craig Potton Publishers, Nelson;
University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2002
Mallon, Sean; and Pereira, Pandora Fulimalo (editors). Pacific art niu sila: the Pacific dimension
of contemporary New Zealand arts, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2002
Mallon, Sean; and Pereira, Pandora Fulimalo (editors). Speaking in Colour: Conversations with
artists of Pacific Island heritage, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 1997
Newell, Dr Jenny, Pacific Art in Detail, The British Museum Press, London, United Kingdom, 2011
Stead, Oliver. Art Icons of New Zealand ‘Lines in the Sand’, David Bateman Publishers, Auckland, 2008
Stevenson, Dr Karen. The Frangipani Is Dead: Contemporary Pacific Art in New Zealand, 1985– 2000, Huia Publishers, Wellington, 2008
Thomas, Nicholas. Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1999
Tolnay, Alexander; Devenport, Rhana. Date Line: zeitgenössische Kunst des Pazifik (contemporary art from the Pacific), Ostfildern/NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2007
Vivieare, Jim. ‘About the Artist: Michel Tuffery’, The Contemporary Pacific, 22:2, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2010
AOTEAROA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of New Zealand | Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ Auckland Art Gallery | Toi o Tamaki, NZ
Auckland Museum | Tamaki Paenga Hira, NZ
Christchurch Art Gallery | Te Puna o Waiwhetu, NZ Christchurch City Council, NZ
Museum of Wellington City & Sea, NZ
National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, Wellington, NZ Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures | Te Marae O Te Umu Kai O Hau, Porirua, NZ Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, NZ
Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North, NZ
The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, NZ
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wellington, NZ
Ministry of Internal Affairs, Wellington, NZ
Porirua City Council, Porirua, NZ
Royal New Zealand Police College, Porirua, NZ
The University of Auckland | Te Whare Wananga o Tamakimakaurau, NZ University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha, Christchurch, NZ University of Otago | Te Whare Wananga o Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Wellington City Council, NZ
Air New Zealand, Wellington, NZ
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Maritime Museum, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland
British Museum, London, UK
Museum für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt, Germany
Agence de Développement de la Culture Kanak, Nouméa, New Caledonia Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia
National Museum of the Cook Islands, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the United Nations, New York, NY, USA
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