Ruth Buchanan

Ruth Buchanan (born 1980) is a contemporary New Zealand artist of Te Āti Awa and Taranaki. In 2012 she was Artist in Residence at Colin McCahon House in Auckland, and in 2015 and 2016 she was the Govett-Brewster Aotearoa New Zealand Artist in Residence.[1][2] Buchanan is represented by Hopkinson Mossman in New Zealand.[3]

Buchanan was born in New Plymouth and grew up in Wellington.[1][4] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, in 2002 and completed a master's degree in fine art at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2007. From 2008-2009 she was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands.[5]

Buchanan has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany for many years, and her work has been exhibited extensively in Europe and in New Zealand. In 2016 Buchanan presented Bad Visual Systems at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington, wherein she "blurred the roles of artist, curator, and designer"[6] by including German artists Judith Höpf and Marianne Wex in the exhibition. The exhibition won Buchanan a nomination for the 2018 Walters Prize, the leading modern art award in New Zealand.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ruth Buchanan: The actual and its document | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre". www.govettbrewster.com. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  2. ↑ House, McCahon. "Ruth Buchanan McCahon House Artists Residency". www.mccahonhouse.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  3. ↑ "Ruth Buchanan | HOPKINSON MOSSMAN". Hopkinson Mossman. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  4. ↑ Wellington, Victoria University of (2016-09-20). "Exhibition a "homecoming" for ambitious contemporary artist". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  5. ↑ "Ruth Buchanan | Never Not a Body | artists alliance". artistsalliance.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  6. ↑ "Bad Visual Systems: Ruth Buchanan, Judith Hopf, Marianne Wex | Adam Art Gallery". www.adamartgallery.org.nz. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  7. ↑ "Walters Prize nominees announced". NZ Herald. 2018-03-22. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
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