Steve Carr was born in New Zealand and completed a masters in fine arts at the University of Auckland, (Elam), School of Fine Arts. Since then his work has been in many major New Zealand and international exhibitions including Videos of New Zealand, a touring exhibition through New Zealand, Germany and Denmark.
Read MoreIn 2011 Carr’s participated in the Rencontres Internationales, at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. He also represented New Zealand at the Busan Biennale, Metropolitan Art Museum, South Korea in 2006. In 2010 he was the recipient of the Sapporo Artist in Residence in Japan. Carr’s work is held in a number of significant public and private collections throughout Australasia and further abroad.
Steve Carr is represented in New Zealand by Michael Lett, Auckland and in Australia by Station, Melbourne. He has been a lecturer in fine arts and photography at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland, New Zealand since 2006. In 2016 he was appointed lecturer in film at the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Ocula Feature 'Freedom Farmers' At The Auckland Art Gallery By Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers, Auckland Occupying the lion’s share of exhibition space at the Auckland Art Gallery, Freedom Farmers is said to be the museum’s largest survey of contemporary art in the last twenty-five years. Curated by the gallery’s own Natasha Conland, the exhibition looks at how the utopian energy of the 1970s is being artistically deployed in...
Ocula Conversation Natasha Conland By Laura Thomson, Auckland Natasha Conland is Curator, Contemporary Art at the Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. She has curated numerous exhibitions including A Puppet A Pauper A Pirate A Poet A Pawn & A King: From the Naomi Milgrom Art Collection (2013); Made Active: The Chartwell Show (2012); the 4th Auckland Triennial, Last Ride in a Hot Air...
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