Overview

b. 1987, New Zealand (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Maru) 
Lives and works in Auckland

Hugo Koha Lindsay (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Maru) has crafted a practice that engages with abstraction-based painting methodologies. Lindsay views abstraction as not separate from the realities of everyday life, but as a byproduct of the increasing abstraction of real-world processes, and the languages produced by them. Additionally, He is interested in painting as a means to interpret phenomenological experience, or the ways in which particular spaces might feel rather than appear. 

Lindsay is interested in pursuing painting as a means to interpret the intermingling of macro and micro environments in daily experience. His artistic language adopts marks from the personal surroundings of his home and studio and from the city around him. A logic of palimpsest is evident in his paintings, where systems of accrual often take place through experimental mark making and open pictorial space. His canvases can be unstretched, cut, sewn, and re-stretched as he explores some of the processes of making that are usually disguised within a finished painting. These systems of accrual frequently create contradictory visual relationships, resulting in paintings that are interdisciplinary.

Sections of Lindsay’s paintings are often left raw, invoking a transitional state. Lindsay states, “The sewn paintings act as topographies – an informational surface of which territories are divided by physical boundaries for the activity of painting to occur.” This relates to his understanding of urban spaces, natural environments, weather systems, and bodies of water as exploratory subject matter for painting. His works could be considered ambient maps through their combination of open space with accrued marks. Lindsay retains an open-ended and dynamic relationship to painting, seeking to continually evolve his practice.

Lindsay holds a Master of Fine Arts with first class honours from the University of Auckland. He has received numerous awards and notable recognition including the Kaipara Arts Trust Award (2015), the Parkin Drawing Prize (2015, 2017), the Molly Morpeth Canaday Painting and Drawing Award (2016).

Lindsay has exhibited across New Zealand and Australia. He has works held in the Tattersfeld Collection, the Arts Trust Collection, the Kunstwerk Sammlung Klein Collection, Germany and private collections throughout Australasia.

Gow Langsford Gallery has represented Hugo Koha Lindsay since 2017.

Works
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 19: with notations, additions, and subtractions, 2025
    composition 19: with notations, additions, and subtractions, 2025
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, script no 4: with repetition, rules and systems, 2025
    script no 4: with repetition, rules and systems, 2025
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Composition 18: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2024
    Composition 18: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2024
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Script no 1: with repetition, rules and systems, 2024
    Script no 1: with repetition, rules and systems, 2024
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 10: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 10: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 11: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 11: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 13: with annotations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 13: with annotations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 14: with notations, 2023
    composition 14: with notations, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Composition 17: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    Composition 17: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 1: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 1: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 2: with notations, 2023
    composition 2: with notations, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 3: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 3: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 4: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 4: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 5: with notations, 2023
    composition 5: with notations, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 7: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 7: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 8: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 8: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, composition 9: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
    composition 9: with notations, additions and subtractions, 2023
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure revised no. 13 (with index and footnotes), 2022
    Figure revised no. 13 (with index and footnotes), 2022
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure revised no. 15 (with index and footnotes), 2022
    Figure revised no. 15 (with index and footnotes), 2022
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure revised no. 16 (with index and footnotes), 2022
    Figure revised no. 16 (with index and footnotes), 2022
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure revised no. 17 (with index and footnotes), 2022
    Figure revised no. 17 (with index and footnotes), 2022
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure revised no. 2 (with index and redactions), 2022
    Figure revised no. 2 (with index and redactions), 2022
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure revised no. 4 (with index and footnotes), 2022
    Figure revised no. 4 (with index and footnotes), 2022
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure revised no. 7 (with index and footnotes), 2022
    Figure revised no. 7 (with index and footnotes), 2022
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure revised no. 8 (with index and footnotes), 2022
    Figure revised no. 8 (with index and footnotes), 2022
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Figure Revised #3, 2021
    Figure Revised #3, 2021
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Failed geometry, 2018
    Failed geometry, 2018
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Prefab with leaks, 2018
    Prefab with leaks, 2018
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, A good sky for shoeing under, 2016
    A good sky for shoeing under, 2016
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, A hub, in a city, somewhere, 2016
    A hub, in a city, somewhere, 2016
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, A patch of council profit, 2016
    A patch of council profit, 2016
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, A Slice of your corner, 2016
    A Slice of your corner, 2016
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, A standard sign, 2016
    A standard sign, 2016
  • Hugo Koha Lindsay, Corp, 2016
    Corp, 2016
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