Julian Dashper

Biography

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Victory Over Death Part 3), 2007, acrylic primed jute, 2760 x 5000 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (2007–2008), 2007–2008, acrylic on canvas with pink wall, 600 x 600 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Interviews), 2001-02, with Hamish Kilgour, Steffen Böddeker, Wendy Katz and Simone Horrocks, Double DVD

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Neon piece), 2008, neon light, electrical wire with transformer

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue), 1993, plastic chain, 930 x 30 x 30 mm, 100 x 30 x 30 mm, 1240 x 30 x 30 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (The Warriors), 1998, vinyl on drumheads, drum kit, dimensions variable

Julian Dashper, The Twist, 1998
Installation view, Waikato Art Museum of Art and History Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton

Julian Dashper, Untitled,
1996, 
Installation view,
‘Midwestern Unlike You and Me,’ Sioux City Art Center, Iowa

Julian Dashper, Midwestern Unlike You and Me, 2005 Installation view, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa

Julian Dashper, Room 203, Hotel Winston, Amsterdam, 1997

Julian Dashper,Untitled (1994), 1994, black & white slides

Julian Dashper, Future Call, 1994, performance, Topolo, Italy

Recording of ‘Thin Ice’ in front of Julian Dashper, Untitled (O), 1990-92, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2000

Julian Dashper,What I am reading at the moment, 1993, every issue of Artforum magazine to 1993, library chair, National Library Gallery of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa

Julian Dashper,Artfrom, 1992, Advertisement published by the artist in Artforum International (January 1992), 265 x 265 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Slides 46-65), 1990, photographic slides, presentation sleeves, dimensions variable

Julian Dashper, Nut Dust, 1988, indian ink, acrylic on paper, 565 x 780 mm paper, 765 x 985 mm frame

Julian Dashper, The Nude Staircase,1989, acrylic on canvas, with plastic wrapping, 600 x 800 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (2007–2008), 2007–2008, acrylic on canvas with pink wall, 600 x 600 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Neon piece), 2008, neon light, electrical wire with transformer

Julian Dashper, Untitled (The Warriors), 1998, vinyl on drumheads, drum kit, dimensions variable

Julian Dashper, Untitled,
1996, 
Installation view,
‘Midwestern Unlike You and Me,’ Sioux City Art Center, Iowa

Julian Dashper, Room 203, Hotel Winston, Amsterdam, 1997

Julian Dashper, Future Call, 1994, performance, Topolo, Italy

Julian Dashper,What I am reading at the moment, 1993, every issue of Artforum magazine to 1993, library chair, National Library Gallery of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Slides 46-65), 1990, photographic slides, presentation sleeves, dimensions variable

Julian Dashper, The Nude Staircase,1989, acrylic on canvas, with plastic wrapping, 600 x 800 mm

Julian Dashper

Born 1960, Auckland (NZ). Died 2009, Auckland (NZ)

Curator Robert Leonard has described Julian Dashper as a “self-consciously art-historical artist” whose works were “always in dialogue with other artists and art history.” This was true across Dashper’s entire career, spanning the expressionist canvas paintings that drew attention to him in the 1980s, to the myriad interventions in print and physical spaces that pit the artist in conversation with New Zealand’s art history—and both with the rest of the world.

Dashper graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland in 1982 and has exhibited widely at a domestic and international level. His work was included in After McCahon: Some Configurations in Recent Art, Auckland City Art Gallery (1989); Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, Sydney (1992); and Stop Making Sense, City Gallery, Wellington (1995). Significant solo exhibitions include The Big Bang Theory, Artspace, Auckland (1993); The Twist, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (1999); and Midwestern Unlike You and Me: New Zealand’s Julian Dashper, Sioux City Art Centre (2005) His work has been the subject of a number of major New Zealand retrospectives, including Julian Dashper & Friends, City Gallery, Wellington (2015); and Julian Dashper: Professional Practice,Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland (2010). In 2001 he was awarded a Senior Fulbright Scholarship to visit the University of Nebraska and Chinati Foundation in Marfa as an artist-in-residence. Julian Dashper died in Auckland on 30 July 2009.

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Julian Dashper, Untitled (Victory Over Death Part 3), 2007, acrylic primed jute, 2760 x 5000 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (2007–2008), 2007–2008, acrylic on canvas with pink wall, 600 x 600 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Interviews), 2001-02, with Hamish Kilgour, Steffen Böddeker, Wendy Katz and Simone Horrocks, Double DVD

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Neon piece), 2008, neon light, electrical wire with transformer

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue), 1993, plastic chain, 930 x 30 x 30 mm, 100 x 30 x 30 mm, 1240 x 30 x 30 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (The Warriors), 1998, vinyl on drumheads, drum kit, dimensions variable

Julian Dashper, The Twist, 1998 Installation view, Waikato Art Museum of Art and History Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton

Julian Dashper, Untitled, 1996, Installation view, ‘Midwestern Unlike You and Me,’ Sioux City Art Center, Iowa

Julian Dashper, Midwestern Unlike You and Me, 2005 Installation view, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa

Julian Dashper, Room 203, Hotel Winston, Amsterdam, 1997

Julian Dashper,Untitled (1994), 1994, black & white slides

Julian Dashper, Future Call, 1994, performance, Topolo, Italy

Recording of ‘Thin Ice’ in front of Julian Dashper, Untitled (O), 1990-92, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2000

Julian Dashper,What I am reading at the moment, 1993, every issue of Artforum magazine to 1993, library chair, National Library Gallery of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa

Julian Dashper,Artfrom, 1992, Advertisement published by the artist in Artforum International (January 1992), 265 x 265 mm

Julian Dashper, Untitled (Slides 46-65), 1990, photographic slides, presentation sleeves, dimensions variable

Julian Dashper, Nut Dust, 1988, indian ink, acrylic on paper, 565 x 780 mm paper, 765 x 985 mm frame

Julian Dashper, The Nude Staircase,1989, acrylic on canvas, with plastic wrapping, 600 x 800 mm