May is a gallery-led art fair taking place in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland from 2 – 4 May 2025. The fair will host a small number of contemporary galleries from Aotearoa and abroad. Our presentation at May includes a new body of work by Dan Arps.

Dan Arps was born 1976 in Christchurch (NZ), and lives and works in Auckland (NZ).

Dan Arps’ installations, sculptures, and paintings respond to urban psycho-geography of cities. His work reflects on the way we inhabit places and the influence of architecture on the formation and regulation of subjectivities.

Arps gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) from the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch in 2000. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 2006 followed by a Doctor of Fine Arts in 2014. In 2010 he was awarded Aotearoa New Zealand’s premier contemporary art award, the Walter’s Prize, for his exhibition Explaining Things by international judge Vicente Todolí. Arps has exhibited extensively in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, as well as taking part in multiple international projects.