Upcoming
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My brush cannot begin to paint you a picture of my feelings
Aiko Robinson 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Auckland City Intimate, erotic and exquisitely detailed, Gow Langsford is delighted to present Aiko Robinson's latest body of work My brush cannot begin to paint you a picture of my feelings. Over the past decade, Robinson has developed an image-making practice that delicately balances historic influences with a contemporary aesthetic. Her work... Read more -
to be oneself
Raymond McIntyre 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Auckland City Few artists occupy a more enigmatic place within New Zealand art history than Raymond McIntyre (1879–1933). A painter of subtle perception and refined sensibility, McIntyre belonged to a generation of artists who looked beyond the geographical and cultural horizons of a colonial outpost towards the cultural ferment of modern Europe.... Read more -
House Style
James Cousins 16 Sep - 10 Oct 2026 Auckland City -
Shane Cotton
14 Oct - 14 Nov 2026 Auckland City Coinciding with the release of Shane Cotton: Moerewa | Liquid Sleep , published by Auckland University Press, this exhibition presents a new body of paintings by one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most significant contemporary artists. For more than three decades, Shane Cotton has developed a distinctive and continually evolving painting...
Past
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The Seasons
Michael Hight 8 Jul - 8 Aug 2026 Auckland City Michael Hight’s new body of work The Seasons traverses Aotearoa with a focus on the shifting seasons, from summer in The Maniototo to spring in the Waitaki Valley. In Hight’s articulate landscapes, everything is in focus. The found intricacies of a landscape—sheep’s wool caught on a barbed wire fence—reflect an... Read more -
Minor infractions
Hugo Koha Lindsay 10 Jun - 4 Jul 2026 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present a new body of work by Hugo Koha Lindsay (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Maru). With a practice that is based in abstraction, Lindsay is interested in how everyday life and its systems are increasingly mediated and structured through abstract processes and language. His paintings... Read more -
Something in the Air
Yafeng Duan 13 May - 6 Jun 2026 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present a new body of work by Yafeng Duan, bringing together recent and newly developed paintings created between 2022 and 2025. This series emerges in the wake of a transformative 20-day visit to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024, when Duan celebrated her inaugural exhibition with... Read more -
New Works by Gallery Artists
15 Apr - 9 May 2026 Auckland City Presented at Gow Langsford Gallery’s City gallery, this exhibition brings together a considered selection of recent works from the gallery’s stable of represented artists. Spanning a diverse range of mediums, approaches and conceptual frameworks, the exhibition reflects the depth and dynamism of contemporary practice across Aotearoa. The exhibition coincides with... Read more -
Views of a City
Robert Ellis 11 Mar - 11 Apr 2026 Auckland City Robert Ellis (1929–2021) occupies a pivotal place in the development of modern art in Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in England and trained at the prestigious Royal College of Art in London, Ellis arrived in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 1957 to take up a lecturing position at Elam School of Fine... Read more -
Photographs
Alan Miller 6 - 7 Mar 2026 Auckland City Photographs brings together a focused selection of works by Alan Miller, presented to coincide with the launch of his new publication photographs . On view for only two days following the book’s release, the exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter the prints firsthand — foregrounding the material and tonal qualities... Read more
