Biography: Stella Brennan

Born 1974, Auckland
Lives and wonks in Auckland


Selected solo exhibitions


2008

South Pacific, Two Rooms, Auckland


2007

White Wall / Black Hole, Chnistchurch
Art Gallery, Christchurch

Second Child, Starkwhite, Auckland

No More Gaps, Starkwhite, Auckland


2006

Two Cities, Quay Gallery, School of Fine
Arts, Whanganui


2005

Wet Social Sculpture, St Pauls Street,
Auckland

Live Stock, Starkwhite, Auckland


2004

Tomorrow Never Knows, Starkwhite,
Auckland; The Physics Room,
Christchurch


2003

End User, Room 103, Auckland; The
Calder-Lawson Gallery, Waikato
University

Theme for Great Cities, Ramp, Waikato
Institute of Technology, Hamilton


2002

Another Green World, Artspace, Sydney


2001

Dell, Lightbox, Auckland


2000

The Fountain City, The Physics Room,
Christchurch

Fedex, The Blue Oyster Gallery,
Dunedin


Selected Group Exhibitions


2008

Video Ground: Recent moving image
works from Australia and Aotearoa/ New
Zealand
, a MAAP touring programme


2007

Lo<=>No Tech, Videotage, Hong Kong

2006

Walters Prize 2006, Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o
Tamaki

Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney,
Sydney, 2006

Video from New Zealand, Loop Video Art
Festival, Barcelona

Islanded, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington;
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore


2005

Breaking Ice, Adam Art Gallery,
Wellington; Southland Museum,
Invercargill

Dimensions Variable, Canberra
Contemporary Art Space, Canberra

Snake Oil, Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o
Tamaki


2004

Everday Minimal, Auckland Art Gallery -
Toi o Tamaki

Vacancy, Te Tuhi; The Mark, Manukau
City


2001

Fuse, Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
Dunedin


2000

Sister Spaces, Southern Exposure, San
Francisco

In Glorious Dreams, Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery, New Plymouth


Curatorial Projects


2008

(with Su Ballard and Zita Joyce)
Cloudland: Digital Art From Aotearoa
New Zealand
, a partner programme of
ISEA2008, The Substation, Singapore


2002/3

Dirty Pixels, Artspace Auckland;
Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of
Wellington;
Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Waikato
Museum of Art and History


1999

Nostalgia for the Future, Artspace
Auckland, Auckland


Residencies


2007

Apex Arts, New York


2006

Solar Circuit Aotearoa, Western Institute
of Technology, New Plymouth


2002 / 2003

Digital Artist in Residence, Waikato
University


2001 / 2002

Creative New Zealand Residency,
Artspace, Sydney


Further Reading


Brennan, Stella, and Su Ballard, (eds),
The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader,
Clouds, Auckland 2008

Brennan, Stella, and Sophie O'Brien,
Another Green World, Artspace, Sydney
2002

Clifford, Andrew, 'Dive into a Suburban
Fantasia', New Zealand Herald, 21
September 2005

Cubitt, Sean, 'Cities at the Edge of Time'
and Robert, Leonard, 'History Curator', 0-
70, Ondine Publishing, Auckland 2005

Laird, Tessa, 'Orchestrated Litanies',
Zones of Contact, Eds. Euan McDonald
and Luke Parker, Biennale of Sydney,
2006

Wood, Andrew Paul, 'Past, Present,
Future', Urbis Magazine, AGM
Publishing, Auckland, February 2005

Smith, Allan, 'Nostalgia for the Future',
Eyeline, May 2000

Source:International 08 Made Up, Liverpool Biennial Catalogue
Date of source:2006

Web Page: www.stella.net.nz
Gender: female
Type: person
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