SRIWHANA SPONG

Spong graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland in 2001. She received a Masters of Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2015. Her work has been included in significant group presentations including: 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022); trust & confusion, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022); Honestly Speaking: The Word, The Body, and The Internet, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland (2020); Sights and Sounds, The Jewish Museum, New York City (2015) Taking Form, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2013) and 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012). Significant solo exhibitions include: Luzpomphia, Michael Lett, Auckland (2023); Ida-Ida, Spike Island, Bristol (2019); A hook but no fish, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2018) and Im Wintergarten, DAAD Gallery, Berlin (2016). Spong has been the recipient of multiple residencies including with the ISCP, New York City (2008); and Gasworks, London (2016). She was nominated for New Zealand’s premiere contemporary art award, the Walter’s Prize, for Fanta Silver and Song in 2012. Spong was nominated a second time for her work castle-crystal, presented as a part of Now Spectral, Now Animal at the 2019 Edinburgh Arts Festival and included in Honestly Speaking in 2020.

Courtesy Lett Thomas