Kate Newby

Kate Newby (born 1979) is an artist from New Zealand.

Background
Newby was born in 1979 in the Auckland region of New Zealand. She attended the Elam School of Fine Arts, receiving a BFA in 2001, an MFA in 2007, and a PhD in 2015. The title of her doctoral thesis was Casualness: it's not about what it looks like it's about what it does.

Career
Newby is a mixed materials installation artist. She creates her installations based on their site and setting, often disused urban environments. Using commonplace materials such as pebbles, nails, and rope, her work explores the details of everyday life.

Newby was a member of the Auckland artist space Gambia Castle.

Exhibitions
2008

2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
 * Show me, don’t tell me (group show), Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels
 * Thinking with your body, Gambia Castle, Auckland
 * Academy (with Ryan Moore), TCB, Melbourne
 * Many directions, as much as possible, all over the country, 1301 PE, Los Angeles
 * I'll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
 * I'm just like a pile of leaves, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
 * Let the Other Thing In, Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island
 * Maybe I won’t go to sleep at all, La Loge, Brussels
 * Portmanteaux (with Nick Austin, Bill Culbert, Pup Culbert, Mateo Tannatt), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
 * Lunch Poems (with Joanna Margaret Paul), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
 * 2016
 * Big Tree. Bird’s Eye, Michael Lett, Auckland
 * Every day I make my way (with Talia Chetrit, Moyra Davey, Barbara Kasten), Minerva, Sydney
 * Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, curated by Michelle Grabner, Artpace, San Antonio
 * Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
 * A puzzling light and moving. (Part I), lumber room, Portland, OR
 * Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
 * can't nail the days down, curated by Juliane Bischoff, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
 * Wild was the night, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
 * A puzzling light and moving. (Part II and Part III), lumber room, Portland, OR
 * Bring Everyone, Fine Arts, Sydney, Sydney
 * As far as you can, Feuilleton, Los Angeles


 * Cold Water, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia
 * YES TOMORROW, Adam Art Gallery, Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, New Zealand
 * The Flames: The Living Arts of Ceramics (group show) Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

2022


 * Kate Newby: She's Talking to the Wall, Museum of New Zealand
 * Kate Newby: So Close, come on, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
 * We are such stuff, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA
 * Try doing anything without it, Art : Concept, Paris, France
 * Feel noise, Testsite, curated by Makenzie Stevens, Austin, US
 * Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (group show), Paris, France

2023


 * miles off road, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia
 * Had us running with you, Michael Lett, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, NZ
 * Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living (group show) Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan