Gavin Hipkins is an Auckland-based artist who works with photography and film. He has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Australia and his works have been included in major curated exhibitions in the USA, UK, Germany, Brazil, and Italy.
Read MoreHe represented New Zealand at the 1998 Sydney Biennale and the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennale. Hipkins has undertaken residencies in Sydney, New York and Titirangi. His work is included in major public and private collections including the Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Queensland Art Gallery. In 2010 his 80-part photography work The Homely featured in the exhibition Unnerved: The New Zealand Project at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
He lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand where he is Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of School at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
Text courtesy Hamish McKay.