Gavin Hipkins

BIOGRAPHIE

Gavin Hipkins (born 1968, Auckland) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is currently Associate Professor in Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. His photographs and moving image works interrogate how images create meaning through modernist technologies. His work explores the nation state, particularly in colonised countries in an era of re-imagined communities and ideas of social and political utopia. His recent moving image works engage film as a cinematic art that blurs conventional genres of essay film, documentary and experimental narrative structures. Hipkins has exhibited extensively in international exhibitions and film festivals including: 25FPS Festival, Zagreb (2020); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2020); Stuttgarter Filmwinter (2020); Videoex, Zurich (2019); The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2018, 2015); International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2017, 2016); The Jewish Museum, New York (2015); Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York (2014); Edinburgh Art Festival (2014); Armory Film, New York (2012); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011); Austrian Museum of Applied Art and Contemporary Art (MAK), Vienna, (2011); Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2010); San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (2007); International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York (2006); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2004); CCA Watts Institute for Contemporary Arts, California (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2000); Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guanine d’ Alba, Italy, (2000). Hipkins' solo exhibition The Homely (1997-2017), comprising 160 photographs, will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney in 2020. His video installation The Precinct (2018) was commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) for the 2018 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 9) in Brisbane, Australia. He represented New Zealand at the 1998 Sydney Biennale and the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennale. He was the recipient of the inaugural residency for New Zealand artists at Artspace Sydney, in 1998. In 2006 he completed an artist’s residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. His work is included in major public and private collections including the Queensland Art Gallery, the Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, and George Eastman Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York.

FILMOGRAPHIE