Veronica Herber- CV
Veronica Herber is a full time artist living in Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland with an art studio next to Toi Tu - Studio One in Ponsonby.
She is represented by Melanie Roger Gallery Auckland and the Central Gallery Christchurch.
EDUCATION
2011 AUT Auckland University of Technology
BVA Bachelor of Visual Arts (Distinction)
1979 Diploma Visual Arts
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Selected Exhibitions.
2024 Making My way Home, (Solo) Melanie Roger Gallery. Tamaki Makaurau. Auckland
Lyrics and Lines, Chartwell 50th Celebration, Te Atamira Gallery, Tahuna, Queenstown
Awareness: The Key to it all, The Central Art Gallery
Christchurch. NZ (Solo)
Abstraxt New Zealand Women Artists. Northart Gallery. Auckland.
Finalist Show, Parkin Prize, NZAFA, Poneke, Wellington. NZ
2023 Summer, Melanie Roger Gallery Auckland. NZ
Disruptive Order, Suter Gallery Nelson. NZ
2022 Dreaming House, Two Rooms Gallery Auckland (Solo)
Yesternight, Curated by Jonathan Smart. (Solo)
The Central Art Gallery Christchurch.
Abstraction in NZ – Suter Gallery Nelson
Evolving, The Central Art Gallery Christchurch. NZ
2021 Hine Auaha, The Central Art Gallery Christchurch.
Te Whare Taonga o Waiheke Island Gallery.
All the Jewels You Seek, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton (Solo)
Groundwork/Contemporary Sculpture, Curated by Kate Darrow,
Cambridge.
2020 The Whispering, curated by Jonathan Smart, (Solo)
The Central Art Gallery Christchurch.
2019 Studio Show, Auckland Art Week, 1B Ponsonby Rd, Auckland
New Work, The Central Art Gallery Christchurch.
2018 Time + Grid + Now, Curated by Jonathan Smart. (Solo)
The Central Art Gallery Christchurch.
Works on Paper – Malcolm Smith Gallery. Uxbridge
Arts Centre, Auckland,
Grid - Waiheke Gallery, Auckland,
Tape Trail - Auckland Art Fair Galleries - K Rd
2017 Swathe – Arts House Trust Pah Homestead, Auckland, (Solo)
Keep your Eyes Up -Headland Sculpture on the Gulf
Waiheke Island, Auckland,
Reductive – Non/Objective/The Kiosk Studio, Blue Mountains,
Sydney, Australia
Organised Form, Mossgreen Webb's, Auckland,
Studio Show/Auckland Art Week, 1B Ponsonby Rd, Auckland,
2016 Continuum, Tauranga City Art Gallery, Curated by Karl Chitham
Main Atrium Installation (Solo)
Fold, Curated by Sabrina Roesner, Blue Mountains City Art
Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Resonance - NZ Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre,
Auckland,
Serigrafia Studio, Rene Portocarrero, Installation, Havana, Cuba
2015 Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
Tidelines, Installation, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland. (Solo)
Landform Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island,
2014 Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
Sculpture on the Shore, Auckland,
Conversando Con Puebla-, Puebla, Mexico
Site Unseen - Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, (Solo)
2013 In Line With. Group Show, Antionette Godkin
Gallery, Auckland,
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe, Perth, Australia
Slowness Shifting, Headland, Sculpture on the Gulf,
Waiheke Island,
2012 Sculpture on the Shore, Devonport, Auckland,
Call and Response, Curated by Kim Paton, The Sculpture Park
Waitakaruru Arboretum, Hamilton,
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Merit Prize – Parkin Award, Wellington. (Justin Paton, Judge)
2022 Merit Prize – Parkin Award, Wellington.
2021 Finalist Parkin Prize, Wellington
St Peter’s art Residency, Cambridge
2019 Finalist Wallace Awards, Travelling Show, Auckland
2017 Finalist Wallace Awards, Travelling Show, Auckland
Finalist Parkin Prize, Wellington
2016 Finalist Wallace Awards, Travelling Show, Auckland
2015 Winner Arts House Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award –
Sculpture by the Sea Sydney 2015
2014 Finalist Wallace Awards, Auckland
2013 Finalist Parkin Prize, Wellington
2012 Winner Titirangi Community Arts Council Emerging Artist award.
Titirangi, Auckland
Finalist Walker and Hall Award, Waiheke Island
Winner Ebbett Prestige Environmental Award, Hamilton
COLLECTIONS
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
http://www.chartwell.org.nz/Acquisitions/RecentAcquisitions/id/282/title/veronica-herber-small-adjustments.aspx
The Arts House Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
SELECTED MEDIA
2022 Dr Julia Teale – Essay – Dreaming House, Two Rooms Gallery
2022 Dorothea Pauli – Solo Show review ‘Yesternight’ Christchurch
The Central Art Gallery. Art New Zealand pp56
2018 Nansi Thompson - On the Grid - Art News New Zealand - Profile
p65-67, Winter 2018
2017 Cynthia Smith - Resonance - Exhibition Catalogue, 'Resonance',
Franklin Arts Centre, Auckland.
2015 Eleanor Black - Sunday Star Times “Sticking to her convictions” –
pp16/17 04 10
2015 Don Abbott – Art New Zealand – p.56, Vol 135
2015 Virginia Were - Art News New Zealand – p. 61, Vol 35, 2015
2014 Sasha Grishin - Sydney Morning Herald mention – Oct 23, 2014
2014 Deborah Rundle - Site Unseen - Exhibition Essay - Lopdell House
Links:
https://thebigidea.nz/stories/mundane-things-kill-your-soul-how-to-give-yourself-permission-to-create
https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2021/03/herber-in-hamilton
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/72369120/tape-artist-veronica-herber-uses-masking-tape-to-turn-rubble-into-art
http://www.teuru.org.nz/teuru/assets/File/Veronica%20Herber%20Catalogue.pdf
Social Media
https://www.instagram.com/veronicaherber
