Nicola Farquhar

Born 1972, Hamilton, New Zealand. Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand.

EDUCATION

2009 Master of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The University of Canterbury

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020
Listening, twitching, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland (solo)

2019
Superstimulus, Auckland (group)

2018
A Holotype Heart, Hopkinson Mossman, Wellington (solo)

2017
Folded Eyes, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (solo)

2016
Nicola Farquhar & Renee So, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (two-person)

2015
Rustles, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (solo)
Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show (curated by Natasha Conland), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (group)

2014
Art Basel Hong Kong Discoveries, Hong Kong (solo presentation Hopkinson Mossman)
Method and Gesture, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (group)

2013
Daylight’s Feeling Forms, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (solo)
Method and Gesture, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne (group)
Porous Moonlight, Papakura Art Gallery (group)
New Revised Edition, City Gallery, Wellington (group)

2012
Dugout, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (group)

2011
New Paintings, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (solo)

2010
Magic, Upholstery, Puzzles and Speech Contests, Parlour, Auckland (group)

2009
It can be said that art is what remains after a course of rejection of ideas, Window, Auckland (group)
Picnic on a Frozen River, projectspace B431, Auckland (group)
Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Watercolour Award, George Fraser, Auckland (group)
100 Clams, High Seas Gallery, Auckland (group)

2008
Portal in a Storm, rm103, Auckland (group)

RESIDENCIES

2018 Parehuia Artists’ Residency (McCahon House)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bryn Roberts, Le Roy 2: Life and Death, 2014, pp 34-39
Victoria Wynne-Jones, Daylight’s Feeling Forms, Matters, Issue 5, February 2014
Anthony Byrt, Dilated Sense, New Revised Edition, City Gallery Wellington (exhibition catalogue), 2013
Anthony Byrt, Just Breathe: Introducing Nicola Farquhar, Art New Zealand, Issue 144,
2012-2013 (article)
Faces to Watch, Urbis magazine, Issue 68, 2012, p90 (short feature)
Natural Selection, Issue 7, 2010, pp26.1 – 26.4 (artist pages)
Graduation Showcase, Art World, Feb/March, 2009, p146 (article)