APS Editions: Andrew Beck

Biography

b. 1987
Winnipeg, Canada
Lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand.

Andrew Beck graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington in 2011. Since graduating his work has been shown in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France, China and Japan. Exhibition highlights include major exhibitions such as Emanations: The Art of Cameraless Photography (curated by Geoffrey Batchen), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, The Devil’s Blind Spot, Christchurch Art Gallery and The Specious Present (curated by Tina Barton), Adam Art Gallery, Wellington. Beck continues to exhibit widely in New Zealand and overseas and his works are held in major public and private collections both nationally and internationally. In November 2019 he was awarded an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Miami, Florida.

Group Exhibitions

2024
Chrysalis (with Suji Park), Envy6011, Wellington

2023
The Polyphonic Sea (curated by Sophie O’Brien), Bundanon Art Museum, Sydney

2019
New Photography, Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch

2017
An Elegy to Apertures, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

2016
Eminations, (curated by Geoff Batchen), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

The Devil’s Blind Spot, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch

Trace of Existence (curated by Philip Tinari), Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Three Artists, Luis Campaña Gallery, Berlin

2015
The Specious Present (curated by Tina Barton), Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington

2013
Shifting Lines, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu

Summer Group Show, Luis Campaña Gallery, Berlin

2012 
Black Out Solid, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

Ménage à Trois, XYZ Collective, Tokyo

2010
Further Convictions Pending, City Gallery, Wellington

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Spirit Level, Aotearoa Art Fair (APS editions booth), Auckland

2023
Ultra, Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown

2022
Quiet Earth (in Collaboration with Séraphine Pick), Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch

Soft Filter, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga

Pages of Mercury (in Collaboration with Séraphine Pick), City Gallery Wellington

2021
Iris, Visions, Auckland

2019
Iris, Visions, Auckland

Distortions, Sumer Contemporary Art, Tauranga

2018
Unison, Melbourne Art Fair (Bowerbank Ninow Booth), Melbourne

Open Surface, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland

2017
Petrichor, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

2016
Pressure Angle (curated by Sophie O’Brien), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

Diagrams, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

2015
Redux, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

2014
Platforms, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

New Positions, Art Cologne (Luis Campaña booth)

Shadow, Subset, Open window, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

2013 
Invariances, Luis Campaña Gallery, Berlin

Resistance & Relief, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

1/1, ParisCONCRET, Paris

2010 
Framework, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington