Laura Williams
Taking the Pastiche
LAURA WILLIAMS
b. 1965 Palmerston North, New Zealand
EDUCATION
2005 Masters of Sociology, First Class, University of Auckland
PUBLIC GALLERY SOLO SHOW
2024 Settle Petal, Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, NZ,
SOLO EXHIBITION
2027 Terms of Endurement, Page Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2026 Great Depictions, Martin Browne Contemporary Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2025 Withering Gaze, Page Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2025 Heavy Toad, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2024 It’s Harder Than It Looks, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, AUS
2024 Still Wives, Page Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2024 Eve, The First Witch, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2023 How Green Are My Valleys, Page Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2023 From Arsenic to Found Grace, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2022 Thinly Veiled, Page Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2022 Paradise Mound, Aotearoa Art Fair, Laree Payne Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2021 Flagrant Gardens, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2020 Of Biblical Proportions, Auckland Art Fair, Weasel Gallery, NZ
2019 Capturing Liberty, Gallery One, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
2019 Dutchess County Picnic, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2017 Arcadian Crumpet, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2016 Taking the Pastiche, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2015 Up Pompeii, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2014 Quiet Life, Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth NZ
2014 Twee Peaks, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2013 Shelf Life, Kreisler Gallery, Melbourne, AUS.
SELECTED GROUP SHOW
2024 Tall Shadows in Short Order, Wassaic Summer Exhibition, Wassaic, NY, USA
2023 Made in Paint Exhibition, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY, USA
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award Exhibition, Whakatāne Library & Exhibition Centre, Whakatāne, NZ
2020 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, Wintec House, Hamilton, NZ
2019 ChaNorth 2019 Alumni Group Show, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Craigs Aspiring Art Awards, Wanaka, NZ
2019 Indoor Voices, The Yard, Williamsburg, NY, USA
2019 Wassaic Summer Exhibition, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, USA
2019 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, Wintec House, Hamilton, NZ
2019 Three is the Magic Number, Sunset Tattoo, Auckland, NZ
2019 National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum & Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2019 Ida Soleil, Föenander Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2019 Small Works, Online Exhibition, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
PUBLIC GALLERY SELECTED GROUP SHOW
2025 A Horse Walks Into a Bar: Humour and Portraiture in Aotearoa, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2023 Love & Marriage: Images of Romantic Unions, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, NZ
2022 Paint, Morrinsville Gallery, Morrinsville, NZ
2022 Fumbles for Rhymes, Morrinsville Gallery, Morrisonville, NZ
2021 Fumbles for Rhymes, Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead, Auckland, NZ
2024 Still Life…In the Old Genre, Suter Gallery, Nelson, NZ
2023 Home: Give Me Shelter, Suter Gallery, Nelson, NZ
2014 Outsider Art Fair, Auckland, NZ
GROUP SHOW
2025 Martin Brown Summer Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, AUS
2025 Raumati, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2025 Raumati, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2024 Bunch, Page Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2023 Flora Show, Page Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2023 Martin Brown Summer Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, AUS
2021 Figure Skating, Page Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2019 Face Time, Föenander Gallery, Auckland, NZ
ART FAIRS
2026 Aotearoa Art Fair, Auckland NZ
2022 Paradise Mound, Aotearoa Art Fair, Laree Payne Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2020 Auckland Art Fair, Weasel Gallery, NZ
AWARDS
2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Finalist
2020 Brian Perry Charitable Trust Painting Merit Award
2020 Finalist New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award
2019 Finalist Craigs Aspiring Art Awards, Highly Commended
2019 Finalist New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award
2019 Finalist National Contemporary Art Award
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025 Golden Foundation Alumni Artist, New Berlin, NY, USA
2023 Wassaic Project Summer Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY, USA
2022 Golden Foundation Artist Residency, New Berlin, NY, USA
2018 ChaNorth, Chashama, Pine Plains, NY, USA
AUCTIONS & BENEFITS
2025 Christchurch Art Gallery Fundraiser Auction, Christchurch, NZ
2025 Te Uru Gallery Fundraiser Auction, Auckland, NZ
2025 The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts Auction, New Berlin, NY
2025 Eden Arts Trust, Auckland NZ
2023 The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts Auction, New Berlin, NY
COVER COMMISSION
Book Cover
2025 Emma Neale, Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit, Otago University Press,
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Gatefold Album Cover
2025 Tom Scott, Anitya
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PRINT & MEDIA
2024 Hyperallergic, 15 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This Summer, June 2024
2024 The Good Oil, @thegoodoilaotearoa, podcast
2024 Art Spiel, Laura Williams, A proponent of mixed messages
2023 Folly Journal, November 2023
2023 North and South Magazine September 2023
2023 Art Collector Magazine April 2023,
2023 Stuff, Six artists to look out for at the Aotearoa Art Fair in November
2022 New Zealand House & Garden, Meet the Maker, October 2022
2022 ArtZone, Laura Williams: In A World of Her Own,
2021 Two Hundred and Fifty Years of New Zealand Painting
2019 Art New Zealand, Blooming Late: The Painted Worlds of Laura Williams