APS Editions: Kushana Bush

Biography

b. 1983
Dunedin, New Zealand
Lives and works in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Kushana Bush was born in 1983 in Ōtepoti, New Zealand where she lives and works. Her residencies and awards include the University of Otago Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in 2011 and New Zealand Arts Foundation New Generation Award in 2013. Her major solo exhibition and publication The Burning Hours was toured by Dunedin Public Art Gallery throughout New Zealand from 2016-17.

Her work is held in public collections throughout New Zealand and Australia, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Monash University Museum of Art Collection, Buxton Contemporary Melbourne, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.

Group Exhibitions

2022-2023
Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetū

2022
Darren Knight Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair 2022

Darren Knight Gallery at Sydney Contemporary 2022, Carriageworks, NSW

wHole, Heide Museum of Modern Art

Ivan Anthony Gallery at Art Fair Aotearoa 2022

APS Editions, Aotearoa Art Fair 2022

2020-21
Fine Lines, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

2020
Additions and Alterations, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2019
Providence, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Here we are, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Sydney Art Fair, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Contemporary Art from Asia and the Pacific: Selected works from QAGOMA's Asia Pacific Triennial, Fundacion Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile

Under the Spell of the Image - Kushana Bush, David Kettner, Susan Te Kahurangi King - curated by John Stezaker, The Approach, London, UK

2018
APT9, The 9^th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Out of the ordinary: works from the ARTAND Emerging Artist Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Sisters Communing, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2017
Freefall, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2015
Grayson Perry/Kushana Bush, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

Lucie Rie: A New Zealand Connection, The New Dowse, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Imagine Asia, Pataka Art and Museum, Porirua City, New Zealand

Undreamed of…50 years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Dunedin, New Zealand

2014
Melbourne Art Fair, Darren Knight Gallery Stand E117, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Where do I end and you begin, Edinburgh Festival, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Object Shift, Objectspace, Auckland

2013
Octopus 13, curated by Glenn Barkley, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia

Art & Australia Collection 2003 – 2013, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney

A Different View, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (Curated by Linda Tyler and Virginia Braun)

Picture This: Recently Acquired Art, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

2012
Melbourne Art Fair, Brett McDowell Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia

Art & Australia Collection 2004-2012, MOP Projects, Sydney, Australia & Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW, Australia

2011
Agamemnon, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Tender is the Night, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Auckland Art Fair, Brett McDowell Gallery, Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland

Game On, Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand

2010
The Beyond, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Liquid Dreams, The New Dowse, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Ready to Roll, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2009
Auckland Art Fair, Brett McDowell Gallery, Marine Events Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

2008
Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award 2008, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand

2007
Untitled Group Show, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

16th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2007, Aotea Centre, Auckland

Preview: 40 Contemporary New Zealand Artists, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand

2006
15th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2006, Aotea Centre, Auckland & Pataka, Wellington

2005
Body, Space, Ritual- Text. Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

Class of 2004 Graduate Show, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

Solo Exhibitions

2022
Woolgathering, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2020
Glukupikron, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2019
Antique Electric, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2018
The Burning Hours, Whangarei Art Museum, Te Manawa Toi, Northland, New Zealand

2017
The Burning Hours, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Bird, Wind, Box, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

The Burning Hours, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

2016
The Burning Hours, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2015
Maybe the People, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2014
Nais Tambu Pepa Piksas, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2013
Gander Moon, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New
Zealand

Last song in silence, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2012
Omens, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

All Things to All Men, Frances Hodgkin Fellowship exhibition, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, Dunedin, Pah Homestead TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

2011
Tender is the Night, City Gallery, Wellington

2010
Kushana Bush (Power Men), Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

Pimp Squeaks, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2009
Modern Semaphore, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

Hungry Ghosts, Observatory Building, Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand

2008
The Revival, Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2007
Slump Series, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand

2005
Lurking Tensions, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand