About
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Gregor Kregar
b. 1972 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Lives in Auckland, New Zealand
Gregor Kregar is a true multi-media artist. He employs glass, stainless steel and plastic as well as familiar found objects such as glass bottles and recycled cardboard among other materials to create work. These he uses to mould and shape forms in all shapes and sizes that literally and symbolically reflect the world in which they are placed. He is well known for his sculpture - usually large scale, site specific work - which makes the audience question their role as the viewer.
Kregar uses multiple objects (such as in his 2008 work Vanish) and multiple views (as in Piercing The Clouds, 2008) to heighten the depth and meaning within his art. Piercing The Clouds, used stainless steel, video and lambda print photographs to create angular cloud formations that looks at the idea of multiple points of view. The clouds are site specific pieces anchored to the walls and floor of the space they inhabit. Their surfaces are reflective and the viewer can see the ceiling, ground and themselves in the one formation. He also works in video and photography which both inform and are informed by his sculptural work.
Kregar gained his BFA at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and his MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland. He has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows and has engaged in many public commissions since the early 1990’s.
Education
1991-1996 Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, BFA
1997 Art History Department, Maori Studies Department, University of Auckland, NZ
1998-1999 Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand, MFA
2012 Reflective Synthesis, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2010 Cultural Nature, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland NZ
2008 Garden of Liquid Geometry, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ
Immersive Echoes, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Piercing the Clouds, Tinsheds Gallery, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2007 Reflective Lullaby, Michael Reid Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
2006 In Flux, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Ridiculous Sublime, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ
Shelter, McColl Centre for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, USA
2005 Pygg/Piggy Bank Project, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Pygg/Piggy Bank Project, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Australia
I disappear, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ
2004 Between ridiculous and sublime, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland
I appear and disappear, Dunedin Public Art gallery, Dunedin, Te Tuhi Gallery, Auckland,NZ
Steel Life in the Window, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZ 2003 Mathew 12/12
Live, Sculpture On The Gulf, Waiheke Island, Auckland, NZ Steel Life, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ
Steel Life, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2000 Mathew 12/12, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
Roke 2, Auckland city Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1996 White Kangaroo , collaboration with Scott Eady, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1995 Bule, Cirkulane, Slovenia
Constructions and forms, National Arboretum, Slovenia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery, Stand D08
2009 John Leech and Gow Langsford Galleries Spring Catalogue Exhibition 2009, Gow Langsford Gallery
2008 White on White, Christchurch Public Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2007 Red Badge of Courage, The National Newark Building, Newark, NJ, USA
Art Omi 2007, Omi, New York, NY, USA
Sculpture Court, Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, NZ
Prospect 2007, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZ
The Tylee Show, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ
Existence: Life according to art, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
Pakeha Now, Sutter Art Gallery, Nelson, NZ
2006 A&P Show, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
Woollahra Sculpture Prize Finalists Exhibition, Woollahra City Council Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Animal Show, Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ
Artists in Residence Show, McColl Centre for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, USA
2005 Spirit of Sculpture, St Mathews in the City, Auckland, NZ
Backgrounds of Landscapes, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, Auckland, NZ
2004 Political Landscapes, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
Left in the members Lounge, Object Space, Auckland, NZ
Waikato Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
NorseweART Award, Hawke’s Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings, NZ Shapeshifter, Frederic Wallis House, Lower Hutt, NZ
Henry Sarjeant’s Department Store, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ
2002 Portraiture-The Art of Social Commentary Te Tuhi-The Mark, Auckland, NZ
Birds Departures Arrivals, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Bron, Equrna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, AA Gallery, Venice, Italy
2001 Tutors Show, Art Station, Auckland, NZ
2000 James Wallace Art Award Touring Show, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, COCA, Christchurch. Premier House, Wellington, NZ
Group Exhibition, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Artists on Broadway, Mercedes Building, Auckland, NZ
Let Them Eat Cake, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Crystal Chain Gang, Auckland city Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1999 Exhibition of Drawing, Rhode Island, New York, USA
Wallace Art Award Touring Show, James Wallace Art gallery, Auckland. City Art Gallery, Wellington, COCA, Christchurch, NZ
Sculpture Exhibition, Sunday School Theater, Auckland, NZ
Group Exhibition, Nathan Homestead, Auckland, NZ
Slide show, Karangahape road, Auckland, NZ James Wallace Art Award, Auckland, NZ
Pacific show, Southern Markets gallery, Auckland, NZ
1993 Group Exhibition, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Public Commissions
2008 Vanish, Connells Bay Sculpture park, Waiheke Island, NZ
2007 Brick Bay Polyhedron, Brick Bay Sculpture Park, Matakana, NZ
2003 Steel Life Planet, Charlene and Paul Scotty Collection, Auckland, NZ
2002 OKO 3, Price Waterhouse Coopers Tower, Auckland, NZ
2001 Changing Spaces, Wellington Arts Festival, Wellington, NZ
OKO 3, Sculpture terrace, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ
1996 Kriz, Lecse, Slovenia
1992 Figure, National Arboretum, Slovenia
Awards
2007 Art Residency, Art Omni, New York, USA 2006 Art Residency, McColl Art Centre, Charlotte, USA
2005 Monash University/Shepparton Art Gallery, South Project Residency, Melbourne, Australia
2004 Merit Award, NorseART Award, Hastings
2003 Art Residency, Otago polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand
2002 Tylee Cottage Residency, Sarjent Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand
2000 Paramount Winner, James Wallace Art Award Auckland City Council Grant
1992-1996 France Mund scholarship
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