The Gallery is open daily 10.00am - 4.30pm. Entry is free.
Exhibitions in our two gallery spaces change three or four times a year and feature artworks on loan and from our collection.
This new exhibition showcases portraits from one of Wellington’s best-known private collections of contemporary New Zealand art. Curated by Anna Rigg.
Image: Rita Angus, Portrait of a Friend, Kate Coolahan, Oil on Canvas. Image courtesy of Art+Object.
Bringing together painting and sculpture, this exhibition curated by Linda Tyler showcases how Lois White and Terry Stringer used the human form to explore universal human experiences.
Image: Terry Stringer, Lois White at her studio, 2025. Bronze. Collection of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenmga Whakaata. Photo credit: Haru Sameshima.
Life in forms is a focused survey of the work of trailblazing Ngāpuhi artist Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury (1928-1977). It charts the artist’s practice over four decades, from her early works in the 1940s to her final pieces in the 1970s.
Developed and toured by Te Uru Contemporary Gallery.
The Adam Portraiture Award is Aotearoa’s premier prize for painted portraiture.
Image: Duncan Pepe Long, Solomon Tāmehana, 2026, oil on wood (winner)
A new exhibition curated by Helen Kedgley of portrait paintings and drawings by Joanna Margaret Paul and her mother Dame Janet Elaine Paul.
Image: Joanna Margaret Paul ‘Self-Portrait’ circa 1970, pencil on paper, 2001/38/2. Collection of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery. Gift of the artist, 2002.
This new exhibition follows New Zealand artist Yuki Kihara’s exploration of Pacific history through her alter ego Salome.
Image: Yuki Kihara, After Tsunami Galu Afi, Lalomanu, 2013. Courtesy University of Auckland.
