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Ella Sutherland (b. 1987, Auckland) works
across the fields of visual art and publishing. Sutherland
utilizes printing, painting, and installation to analyse and activate complex
reading systems across built and digital environments. Her most recent work has
drawn on extensive research periods spent in specialist archives, through which
she continues to explore the relationship between language and
social history
and
the evolving role of technology in disseminating thought.
Ella Sutherland graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Ilam School of Fine
Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch (2012). Since graduating her work
has been shown widely throughout New Zealand and international venues. Recent exhibition
highlights include Letters, Auckland Art Fair 2020 Virtual Fair (2020); Friendship as a Way of Life (curated by José Da Silva), UNSW Galleries, Sydney
(2020); Bookworks (curated by Warren Taylor), Monash Museum of Art,
Melbourne (2020); Returns (curated by David Teh), 12th Gwangju Biennale-Imagined
Borders, Gwangju (2019) and Recto Verso (curated by Kim Paton),
Objectspace, Auckland (2019). Sutherland
has been awarded residencies with Enjoy Contemporary Art Gallery, Wellington;
Banff Centre for Arts, Banff; International Art Space, Perth; and Art Gallery
of New South Wales Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. In October 2021, Sutherland will be an artist-in-residence for 12 months
at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Represented by Sumer Contemporary Art
info@sumer.co.nz
Selected Solo Projects
2020 Sumer, Tauranga : FOLDS
Selected Group Projects
Selected Publication Projects
Selected Writing Projects
Education
Awards
Residencies
2020 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris : Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Moya Dyring Memorial Studio (upcoming)
2018 Banff Centre, Banff : The Evolving Book Residency
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
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 Publication Projects
2018 Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington : Margins & Satellites
2017 Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington : Look Out, Fred!
2016 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney : with a body always but but still drying
2016 North Projects, Christchurch : Pale Like a Fish
2015 Ramp Gallery, Hamilton : Speaking Places: Hamilton 2015
2013 split/fountain, Auckland : SF Leisure Time Volcano
2012 Artspace, Auckland : Popular Brands to Steal
Selected Writing Projects
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
2017 Finalist, John Fries Award, Sydney
2017 Finalist, Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, Sydney
2016 Merit Award, National Contemporary Art Award, Hamilton
Residencies
2021–22 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin : Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Arts Residency (upcoming)
2020 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris : Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Moya Dyring Memorial Studio (upcoming)
2020-21 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
Bibliography