Current
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Grand Illusions
Grace Wright 28 Jun - 19 Jul 2025 Onehunga In her most recent series, Grand Illusions , Grace Wright continues to push the boundaries of her distinct gestural language. Within these works, through layers of acrylic paint, passages of bare canvas, and refined, intuitive brushwork, Wright creates multi-planar compositions that give a sense of impressive depth, stretching back from... Read more -
In that stone, in that cyclone, in that leaf
Group Exhibition 2 - 26 Jul 2025 Auckland City Earlier this year, wildfires rocked the Greater Los Angeles area, destroying thousands of buildings and burning over 50,000 acres. Extreme weather events – cyclones, rainstorms and floods – are increasing with the impacts of climate change, which pose a very real threat for Pacific nations. This exhibition, In that stone, in that cyclone, in that leaf, brings together a group of artists whose practices explore and expand contemporary perspectives on place, identity and environmental concerns in Aotearoa and Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. It features the work of represented artists Shane Cotton, Brett Graham, Reuben Paterson, Patricia Piccinini, John Pule and John Walsh, with invited artists Star Gossage, Emily Karaka and Yuki Kihara, and the late influential painter Colin McCahon (1919-1987). Read more
Upcoming
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The Open Door
Max Gimblett 26 Jul - 16 Aug 2025 Onehunga A major exhibition of new work by Max Gimblett, one of Aotearoa’s most significant expatriate artists, is presented at Gow Langsford’s Onehunga gallery. Internationally renowned for his fusion of Eastern and Western artistic traditions, Gimblett returns with a vigorous suite of paintings that reaffirm his singular place in the history of contemporary abstraction. In this latest body of work, The Open Door, Max Gimblett returns to the canvas with a commanding series of vast multi-panelled works, along with his iconic quatrefoil shaped canvases—each a bold meditation on form, gesture, and the transcendent possibilities of abstraction. The artist’s signature materials, acrylic paint and precious metal leaf, are applied with a calligraphic immediacy that recalls the spontaneity of Zen brushwork, stemming from his Buddhist mushin (no mind) methodology. Read more -
How to Disappear
Steve Carr 30 Jul - 23 Aug 2025 Auckland City In How to Disappear , Steve Carr leans deeper into his enduring role as the comic outsider, part magician, part sad clown, pursuing vanishing acts that never quite succeed. Across film, sculpture, and photography, Carr stages a series of near-escapes: crouched behind lenticular plastic, lost in coloured smoke, or swallowed... Read more -
Don Binney
23 Aug - 27 Sep 2025 Onehunga -
Studio X
Graham Fletcher 27 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 Auckland City -
Sydney Contemporary 2025
11 - 14 Sep 2025 Offsite -
Philip Clairmont
24 Sep - 18 Oct 2025 Auckland City -
Dick Frizzell
4 - 25 Oct 2025 Onehunga Dick Frizzell is one of Aotearoa’s most widely known and celebrated painters. His work traverses genres with an assured confidence and skill. In this major new exhibition, Frizzell returns to the historically rich tradition of landscape painting, embedded, as ever, with his playful and idiosyncratic sensibilities. Frizzell’s landscapes bring into... Read more -
Reuben Paterson
22 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 Auckland City -
Sara Hughes
1 - 29 Nov 2025 Onehunga In her forthcoming exhibition, Sara Hughes presents a personal and reflective new body of work shaped by ideas of memory, influence, and artistic lineage. Developed over several years, the project emerged as Hughes marked a milestone birthday, prompting a deeper look at how her childhood, family, and long engagement with... Read more
Past
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Creating Space
Frances Hodgkins 21 May - 25 Jun 2025 Auckland City ‘It was in 2019, the year which marked the 150th celebration of Hodgkins’ birth, that I walked into Tate Britain while visiting London on business. There, hanging on the feature wall of this enduring institution was Frances Hodgkins’ oil Wings Over Water, c.1932, which every visitor to the museum passed... Read more -
Concepts in Form
Bernar Venet 17 May - 21 Jun 2025 Onehunga Gow Langsford is thrilled to present a solo exhibition of sculptures by internationally renowned French artist, Bernar Venet. Active since the 1960s, Venet’s decades long career has been an enduring enquiry into the conceptual possibilities of art. His fascination with the creative productivity of mathematical principles can be experienced through... Read more -
Aotearoa Art Fair 2025
Booth G23 and U44 1 - 4 May 2025 Offsite Gow Langsford is excited to return to the Aotearoa Art Fair with curated presentations of new work by leading contemporary voices across two booths. The gallery's main booth will be located on the ground floor of the Viaduct Events Centre, bringing a rich and varied body of work from New... Read more -
Present Tense
Group Exhibition 23 Apr - 14 May 2025 Auckland City Presented at Gow Langsford’s City gallery, Present Tense brings together a dynamic range of voices shaping the landscape of contemporary art in Aotearoa today. Spanning diverse practices, media, and perspectives from the gallery’s stable, the show reflects a moment of collective inquiry— into identity, memory, materiality, and the evolving nature of image and form. Read more -
Reflective Paradigm
Gregor Kregar 12 Apr - 10 May 2025 Onehunga Gregor Kregar’s Reflective Paradigm explores the shifting nature of perception, identity, and connection. Composed of mirrored surfaces, fractured geometries, and vibrant materials, his sculptures distort and multiply reflections, embodying the tensions of a world in flux. Kregar’s work invites viewers to navigate uncertainty - where individuality and collectivity coexist, and... Read more -
The Wedding Breakfast An Ode to Olly
Virginia Leonard 26 Mar - 19 Apr 2025 Auckland City Virginia Leonards’ practice is intrinsically linked to the state of her body. It hasn’t always been an easy one to live in—injuries from a serious accident in her youth have meant a lifetime of chronic pain, operations and bodily scarring, with the latest procedure being a knee replacement. It was... Read more
