Gavin Hipkins
Biography
Gavin Hipkins, The Deep, 2022, installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Gavin Hipkins, Texas Highway (detail), 2022, Suite of 20 inkjet prints on newsprint 390 x 545mm each
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Domain featuring The Habitat, 2000, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017 (image credit: John Lake)
Gavin Hipkins, The Trench, 1997–1998 (detail), 1 of 80 projected slides, dimensions variable
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Homely II, 2001–2017, City Gallery Wellington, 2018
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Crystal Palace (Park), 2015, archival pigment print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Te Wairoa (Falls), 1999, c-type print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Homely, 1997–2000, in Unnerved, GoMA, Brisbane, 2010 (image credit: Natasha Harth, Queensland Art Gallery), Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, City of Tomorrow, 2017 (production still), looped digital video, 11 minutes
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Port, 2014, in Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017 (looped digital video, 20 minutes). Auckland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, The Port, 2014 (production still), looped digital video, 20 minutes
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Crib, 2000, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Colony, 2000–2002, in Metropolitan Iconographies: 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2002, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collection
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of Zerfall, 1997-98, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, The Shaman (Grey), 2006, unique archival pigment print, 1200 x 1200mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Sanctuary: Auckland (Path), 2004, unique silver-gelatin print, 375 x 375mm
Gavin Hipkins, Texas Highway (detail), 2022, Suite of 20 inkjet prints on newsprint 390 x 545mm each
Gavin Hipkins, The Trench, 1997–1998 (detail), 1 of 80 projected slides, dimensions variable
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Crystal Palace (Park), 2015, archival pigment print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Homely, 1997–2000, in Unnerved, GoMA, Brisbane, 2010 (image credit: Natasha Harth, Queensland Art Gallery), Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Port, 2014, in Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017 (looped digital video, 20 minutes). Auckland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Crib, 2000, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of Zerfall, 1997-98, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, The Sanctuary: Auckland (Path), 2004, unique silver-gelatin print, 375 x 375mm
Gavin Hipkins
Born 1968, Auckland (NZ). Lives and works in Auckland (NZ)
Over the past three decades, Gavin Hipkins has developed a practice in photography and moving image that frequently returns to the intersections of modernism and the post/colonial nation-state by repurposing images and texts. His work addresses the histories of his chosen media as well as the ways in which images have shaped the contemporary world as transmitters and visual manifestations of ideology.
Hipkins received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 1992 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in 2002. An extensive survey of his practice, Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, was exhibited at the Dowse Art Museum in 2017. He has exhibited extensively both internationally and in Aotearoa. Hipkins represented New Zealand at the 2018 Asia Pacific Triennial, the 2002 Sao Paolo Biennale and the 1998 Biennale of Sydney. In 2006 he undertook a residency at the ISCP in New York and in 1998 he was selected as the inaugural New Zealand resident at Artspace Sydney. Hipkins’ first feature film Erewhon—based on Samuel Butler’s 1872 novel Erewhon, Or Over the Range—premiered in 2014 at the New Zealand International Film Festival and Edinburgh Art Festival.
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Gavin Hipkins, The Deep, 2022, installation view, Michael Lett, Auckland
Gavin Hipkins, Texas Highway (detail), 2022, Suite of 20 inkjet prints on newsprint 390 x 545mm each
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Domain featuring The Habitat, 2000, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017 (image credit: John Lake)
Gavin Hipkins, The Trench, 1997–1998 (detail), 1 of 80 projected slides, dimensions variable
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Homely II, 2001–2017, City Gallery Wellington, 2018
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Crystal Palace (Park), 2015, archival pigment print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Homely, Te Wairoa (Falls), 1999, c-type print, 610 x 407mm
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Homely, 1997–2000, in Unnerved, GoMA, Brisbane, 2010 (image credit: Natasha Harth, Queensland Art Gallery), Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, City of Tomorrow, 2017 (production still), looped digital video, 11 minutes
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Port, 2014, in Gavin Hipkins: The Domain, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017 (looped digital video, 20 minutes). Auckland Art Gallery Collection
Gavin Hipkins, The Port, 2014 (production still), looped digital video, 20 minutes
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Crib, 2000, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of The Colony, 2000–2002, in Metropolitan Iconographies: 25th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 2002, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collection
Gavin Hipkins, Installation view of Zerfall, 1997-98, The Dowse Art Museum, 2017
Gavin Hipkins, The Shaman (Grey), 2006, unique archival pigment print, 1200 x 1200mm
Gavin Hipkins, The Sanctuary: Auckland (Path), 2004, unique silver-gelatin print, 375 x 375mm