See where our exhibitions are showing around the country
Image: Jo Torr, Grace, 2024, Linen bedsheet, cotton bedsheet, vintage lace tablecloth, Photography by Catherine Adam
Presenting previously unseen or rarely seen works, this exhibition brings together a selection of Ian Scott’s work from the last three decades of his life.
Image: Rita Angus in Taradale, 1987, Collection Art House Trust
The Adam Portraiture Award is Aotearoa’s premier prize for painted portraiture. Te Atamira is the first of six venues on the 2026 nationwide tour.
Image: Jasmine Middlebrook, Right Here and Now, 2026, oil on canvas
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages young Maaori artists to create portraits of their tupuna (ancestors) in any medium. The 2025 finalists’ exhibition will be touring to multiple venues around the motu.
Image: Ashley Tutaki, Back to the Source, Photography (finalist)
Robyn Kahukiwa’s artworks have made a difference to Māori. They have provided not only beauty and strength but inroads into our mātauranga, and the multi-layered, inter-generational and ever-evolving stories that are part of our cultural landscape. Her work has become an alternate visual rendering of Aotearoa’s history, through the lens of a Māori woman.
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Portrait of a Woman, 1986, Private collection, Wellington
Presenting previously unseen or rarely seen works, this exhibition brings together a selection of Ian Scott’s work from the last three decades of his life.
Image: Rita Angus in Taradale, 1987, Collection Art House Trust
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages young Maaori artists to create portraits of their tupuna (ancestors) in any medium. The 2025 finalists’ exhibition will be touring to multiple venues around the motu.
Image: Ashley Tutaki, Back to the Source, Photography (finalist)
Presenting previously unseen or rarely seen works, this exhibition brings together a selection of Ian Scott’s work from the last three decades of his life.
Image: Rita Angus in Taradale, 1987, Collection Art House Trust
Robyn Kahukiwa’s artworks have made a difference to Māori. They have provided not only beauty and strength but inroads into our mātauranga, and the multi-layered, inter-generational and ever-evolving stories that are part of our cultural landscape. Her work has become an alternate visual rendering of Aotearoa’s history, through the lens of a Māori woman.
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Portrait of a Woman, 1986, Private collection, Wellington
Robyn Kahukiwa’s artworks have made a difference to Māori. They have provided not only beauty and strength but inroads into our mātauranga, and the multi-layered, inter-generational and ever-evolving stories that are part of our cultural landscape. Her work has become an alternate visual rendering of Aotearoa’s history, through the lens of a Māori woman.
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Portrait of a Woman, 1986, Private collection, Wellington
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages young Maaori artists to create portraits of their tupuna (ancestors) in any medium. The 2025 finalists’ exhibition will be touring to multiple venues around the motu.
Image: Ashley Tutaki, Back to the Source, Photography (finalist)
Robyn Kahukiwa’s artworks have made a difference to Māori. They have provided not only beauty and strength but inroads into our mātauranga, and the multi-layered, inter-generational and ever-evolving stories that are part of our cultural landscape. Her work has become an alternate visual rendering of Aotearoa’s history, through the lens of a Māori woman.
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Portrait of a Woman, 1986, Private collection, Wellington
A fresh take on stories of Ngā Pākanga o Aotearoa, the New Zealand Wars, as portrayed in film. This exhibition shows the making and remaking of our history as interpreted through various films, television series, and digital storytelling formats.
Image: Anzac Wallace stars in the 1983 film Utu.
The Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
Image: David Jones, Study of Esther by the fig tree, 2024, oil on linen (Highly Commended)
A picture is a whole world unto itself.
Step beyond the frame and see what you find. Background Matters asks what can be revealed when we view the sitter of a portrait in the expanded field of their surroundings. In bringing the background to the fore, this exhibition subverts the hierarchy of subject and setting to consider the portraiture of Aotearoa New Zealand from a fresh vantage point.
Image: Nicolette Page, Carmen, Oil on board, 2012. Collection New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Gift of the artist
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a biennial competition that provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna and their stories.
Image: Marie Kyle, Between Worlds, acrylic on linen (finalist)
The Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
Image: Tessa Meyer, Sunshine, oil on board (finalist)
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a biennial competition that provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna and their stories.
Image: Tia Barrett, A Time Capsule of Aroha, photography (finalist)
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a biennial competition that provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna and their stories.
Image: Mohi Toko, Aunty Lucy, photography (finalist)
The Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
Image: Duncan Pepe Long, Snake Eyes, oil paint (finalist)
This monumental series of works by Hariata Ropata-Tangahoe traces her matriarchal whakapapa (genealogy) and honours her female tūpuna (ancestors).
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a biennial competition that provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna and their stories.
Image: Ani Ligaliga, Lines of whakapapa (People’s Choice Award winner)
Image: Rita Angus in Taradale, 1987, Collection Art House Trust
Love and marriage may be universal, but their mutual inclusivity is not. What can a wedding photograph tell us about the love shared between two people? How can portraiture better inform us about the experience of being in love?
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Fletcher Trust Collection, one of the most prestigious private art collections in Aotearoa
Image: Imogen Taylor (born 1985, Pākehā) Limb Report 2022
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Fletcher Trust Collection, one of the most prestigious private art collections in Aotearoa
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Aroha, 1971. Courtesy of the artist and Fletcher Trust Collection, Tāmaki Makaurau.
This exhibition affirms the pioneering legacy and leadership of senior Māori artist, broadcaster, playwright, orator, teacher, musician, and repository of tribal knowledge - Selwyn Muru.
Ian Scott, Red Mrkusich, 2008, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 723 x 622mm, courtesy of the artist’s estate and Micheal Lett Gallery
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a biennial competition that provides emerging Māori artists with the opportunity to showcase their talents on the national stage, while also playing an important role in recording and celebrating tūpuna and their stories.
Image: Lines of whakapapa, Ani Ligaliga (People’s Choice Award winner)
When photographer David Cook moved into Hamilton East, he was drawn to the colorful, creative and chaotic lives of his neighbours. With camera in hand, he explored back-yard mechanics to Sunday roasts, inventing an intimate documentary of a State Housing suburb in the 90s, moments before gentrification set in.
2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the Fletcher Trust Collection, one of the most prestigious private art collections in Aotearoa
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Aroha, 1971. Courtesy of the artist and Fletcher Trust Collection, Tāmaki Makaurau.
The biennial Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
This is the final touring destination of the 2022 Award.
Image: Lady Day, Jessica Gurnsey (Winner of the 2022 Adam Portraiture Award)
