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Selected Solo Projects
2024 Sumer, Auckland : Still Life with Argot
2023 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin : Argot
2022 FUTURES, Melbourne : Speaker of the House
2022 Sumer, Tauranga : At Once Bridge and Chasm
2021 ANKLES at Carriageworks, Sydney : Whether the Weather
2021 Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki, Christchurch : Housepainting I + II
2020 Sumer, Tauranga : FOLDS
2020 Te Tuhi, Auckland : Keys to The Book of the City of Ladies
2020 Sumer, Auckland Art Fair Virtual Fair: Letters
2019 Objectspace, Auckland : Recto Verso
2019 Ilam Campus Gallery, Christchurch : Carte Blanche
2018 Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington : Margins & Satellites
2016 The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington : Slow seeing and attention to make
2015 North Projects, Christchurch : Boring month start to finish
2014 ST Paul St Gallery, Auckland : The Right Here and the Moving
2014 Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin : The Comedy Loop
2013 The Physics Room, Christchurch : An Unbearded Athletic Youth
2013 SoFA Gallery, Christchurch : Madness in the Crowd
Selected Group Projects
2025 Sumer at May Fair, Auckland
2024 UTS Gallery, Sydney : Image, Interrupted
2023 PS Project Space at GLUE, Berlin : RHINESTONES
2023 Sumer, Auckland : NOVA
2023 Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch : Die Cuts and Derivations
2021 Sumer + Laree Payne Gallery : Pīpīwharauroa Shining Cuckoo
2021 Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch : Things That Shape Us
2021 City Gallery Wellington, Wellington : Every Artist
2020 UNSW Galleries, Sydney : Friendship as a Way of Life
2019 Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne : Bookworks
2019 Ramp Gallery, Hamilton :
Present Tense : Wāhine Toi Aotearoa
2018 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju: Imagined Borders
2016 Objectspace, Auckland : Beauty is in the Street
2015 Rockies, Auckland : DEKA (with Imogen Taylor)
2015 Ramp Gallery, Hamilton : Speaking Places: How to work (with Matthew Galloway)
2015 RM, Auckland : International Artist Initiated
2015 TCB, Melbourne : Princess x sleeping muse (with Dawn Marble)
2014 Fuzzyvibes, Auckland : One hot line spinning through time (with Dawn Marble)
2014 Window, Auckland : Doghaus (with Dog Park)
2013 Slopes, Melbourne : The Knock-off Show
2013 Split/fountain, Auckland : Seeing Which Way The Wind Blows (with Matthew Galloway)
2012 Artspace, Auckland : New Artists Show
2012 The Physics Room, Christchurch : Happiness Sprinkle
2012 Dog Park, Christchurch : This That (with Dave Marshall)
2011 ABC, Christchurch : Feeding Time
Selected Writing Projects
2023 LEFTOVERS : Non Profit (with Chloe Geoghegan)
2020 Dwelling in the Margins : Bliss (with Sophie Davis)
2019 Embodied Knowledge/Can Tame Anything : Signature Piece
2016 Assay / Essay : Feel Good Success in the Transitional City
2015 Speaking Places: Hamilton 2015 : In a Riot of Bubbles
2014 UN magazine 8.2 : Bomber Jacket for Marilyn Waring: Glossary terms A and C
2013 Work Book : Building with the ghost bitch
2012 Points of Departure : For Christchurch, with love
Education
2013 Master of Fine Arts with Distinction, University of Canterbury
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts with First Class Honours, University of Canterbury
2010 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury
Awards & Residencies
2024 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris : Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Moya Dyring Memorial Studio
2022–23 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin : Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Arts Residency
2020 International Art Space, Western Australia : spaced 4: rural utopias
2018 Banff Centre, Banff : The Evolving Book Residency
2018 Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington : Summer Resident
2017 Finalist, John Fries Award, Sydney
2017 Finalist, Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, Sydney
2016 Merit Award, National Contemporary Art Award, Hamilton
Bibliography
2024 John Hurrell, ‘Inventive and Complex Sutherland Paintings’, EyeContact, Review
2023 daniel ward, ‘Dear Ella’, Contemporary HUM, Essay
2023 Melanie Oliver, ‘Lines that aren’t straight’, Art News, Essay
2022 Cameron Hurst, ‘Ella Sutherland, Speaker of the House’, MeMO Review, Review
2022 Claire Koron Elat, ‘Queer Archive Fragments’, Be Magazine #29, Essay
2022 Connie Brown, ‘Backwardness (Disambiguation)’, The Art Paper, Issue 03, Essay
2021
Dr Veronica Tello, ‘Archives of Love and Shame’,
Friendship as a Way of Life, Essay
2021 Michael Do, ‘Ella Sutherland’, Art Collector, Issue 95, Article
2021 Chloe Lane, ‘Writer Chloe Lane interviews artist Ella Sutherland’, The Art Paper, Interview
2020 John Hurrell, ‘Layered ‘Abstraction’, Eyecontact, Review
2019 Sophie Davis, ‘Collating language: typographic fragments and Ella Sutherland’s Carte Blanche,‘ Ilam Campus Gallery, Exhibition Essay
2018 Owen Connors, ‘the life of az,‘ Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Exhibition Essay
2018 Kirsty Baker, ‘Shaped by hands and words: queer publishing, a visual gesture,‘ Art and Australia, Review
2018 Jane Wallace, ‘Words Cut Loose,’ Sailent, Review
2015 Kim Paton, ‘Speaking Places,’ Speaking Places: How to Work, Exhibition Essay
2015 Keir Leslie, ‘Pondering the Puzzles Page,’ EyeContact, Review
2013 Keir Leslie, ‘Thinking about the Ancient Greeks,’ EyeContact, Review
2012 Mark Harvey, ‘Part 1 of Artspace’s Survey,’ EyeContact, Review
2012 Ashlin Raymond, ‘Dark Auckland Streets,’ The New Artists Show pt.1., Exhibition Essay