Born 1969, Auckland, New Zealand
Lives and works in Auckland
Education
1999 Postgraduate Studies, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
1997 BFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Limited Hangout, Fine Arts, Sydney, Sydney
2021
Ecology of Souls, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
2020
Recent Paintings, Online Viewing Room, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
2019
Animals of God, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney
2018
Altered States, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
2017
High strangeness, Gallery Baton, Seoul
2016
Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
2014
Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York
Sources & Methods, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
2012
Superfluous Man, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York
2010
The Proteus Effect, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York
2008
The Alumni, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
The Alumni, curated by Emma Bugden, Te Tuhi, Auckland
2007
Less Than Absolute Zero, Starkwhite, Auckland
2006
Passport To Magonia, Starkwhite, Auckland
2004
Piggy In The Mirror, Starkwhite, Auckland
2003
Addicted To Love, recent drawings, Starkwhite, Auckland
2001
The Young Pleasure Seekers, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
2000
Swoon, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
1999
Super Natural, University of Auckland, Auckland
1998
Peter Stichbury, Drawing Gallery, Auckland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
The Truth is Out There, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Indexing the Nature: From Near and Far Away, No.9 Cork Street, London
2019
Now, Then, Next: Time and the Contemporary, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetü, Christchurch
2018
Light, Non-Light, Chapter II, Seoul
2016 Human Condition, The Hospital, Los Angeles
People, Place, Things, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York
Bad Hair Day, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch
2015
Arstronomy: Incursiones en el cosmos, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Ways of Recording, Gallery Baton, Seoul
Why Can’t It Be Everlasting?, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York
Unseen: The Changing Collection, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch
Unpacked – Treasures from Te Papa, Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei
2013
Populate!, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch
Warhol Aotearoa, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
2007
Art of The Nation/Contemporary Focus, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
2005
Small World, Big Town: Contemporary Art From Te Papa, City Gallery, Wellington
2004
Sticky, Randolph Street Gallery, Auckland
2003
Portraiture: the Art of Social Commentary, Te Tuhi, Auckland
2000
Measure of Strangeness, Artspace, Auckland
Selected Bibliography
2022
Gilbert, Ingrid Cincala, ‘Peter Stichbury has Suspended Disbelief’, CincalaArt
Griffey, Erin, ‘Peter Stichbury: Between Matter and Spirit’, Art News New Zealand
2018
Hurrell, John, ‘Peter Stichbury’s ‘Outer Body Portraits’, EyeContact
2015
Wilson, Michael, ‘Peter Stichbury’, Artforum, January
Tilkin, Danielle; Groys, Borys; Aubeck, Chris, ‘Arstronomy: Incursiones en el cosmos’, La Casa Encendida
Sokol, Zach, ‘The Paranormal Portraitist – Peter Stichbury Paints Alien Abductees for a Living’, VICE, Volume 22, Issue 2
Luzan, Julia, ‘De ovnis y fenómenos paranormales’, Arte del ‘más allá’, El Esombrario & Co.
Buermann, Caro, ‘Attractive and Awkward Portraits,’ Hi-Fructose
Milburn, Felicity, ‘101 Works of Art’, Christchurch Art Gallery
2014
Knight, Kim, ‘Painting Perfect’, Stuff/Sunday Star Times, August
Gjording, Lindsey Rae, ‘Peter Stichbury’s Unsettling Clone-Like Portraits’, Beautiful/Decay
2013
Wells, Georgina, ‘Peter Stichbury’, Modern Painters, February
Paton, Justin, ‘NDE’, Bulletin:172, Christchurch Art Gallery Magazine
2012
Yau, John, ‘Superfluous Men Can’t Get No Satisfaction’, Hyperallergic, November
2011
Pascucci, Marisa, ‘Peter Stichbury: Artist to Watch’, The Art Economist, Volume 1 Issue 4
Paton, Justin, ‘Skin-Deep: Peter Stichbury and the Art of Appearances’, Art & Australia
Publications
2008
Stichbury, Peter, ‘Peter Stichbury: The Alumni’ (catalog), Te Tuhi Center for the Arts
Collections
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand
Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand