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  MAX GIMBLETT | PROFILE | WORK | BIOGRAPHY
     
 

Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1935
Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand and New York, USA

   
  EDUCATION
 
1965 Studied painting, San Francisco Art Institute, California 


1983-2011 Studies Psychology, CG Jung Foundation, New York


   
   
  SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2014 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


  Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand
 
  Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand
 
  The Village Zendo, New York, NY, USA
 
  Celebration, Aesthete Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
 
2013 On A Clear Day, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand


  All That Is, Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand
 
2012 Ballad of the South Pacific, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


  Max Gimblett - The Holy Grail, Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, NY, USA
 
  Damien Hirst / Max Gimblett - The Beauty and Brutality of Fact, Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand
 
2011 The Word of God, curated by Eric Shiner, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA,
USA


   
  Oxherding - in collaboration with Lewis Hyde, Kenyon College, Kenyon, OH, USA
 
  The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
  On The Shores Of Infinity, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
2010 animal speaking - a collaboration with Lewis Hyde ICA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, USA


  Graceland, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, NY, USA
 
2009 The Night Sun, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, New Zealand


  White Stone Clear Water, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
2008 Max Gimblett – Everlastingness, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand


2007 Brush Meets Brush – in collaboration with Great Dragon San Francisco Zen Center, San
Francisco, CA, USA


 

Always In These Islands - Recent Paintings and in the New Zealand Room selected Works on
Paper 1965-2007, Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand

 
  Monotypes, Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, CA, USA
 
2006 Banquet, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


  Zen Reality, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
 
2005 All Things Wild and Innocent, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA


  Zen Beat (through 2007), Cushman & Wakefield Inc., New York, NY, USA
 
2004 Max Gimblett: The Brush ofAll Things, curated by Wystan, Auckland Art Gallery Toi Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand


  A Very Decided Bright Line, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
  The Rose of Paracelsus, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
  Max Gimblett – Home, Ngaumatau Fine Art Consultancy, Arrowtown, New Zealand
 
2003 True Mirror, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA


  The Dawn Of Beauty, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
  Myth, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
 
  Max Gimblett: A Shared Language, curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA
 
2002 Max Gimblett: The Language of Drawing, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, QL, Australia


  Beauty and Jolly Donkey Choir, collaborations on paper by Max Gimblett and John Yau, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
 
2001 Ink Painting, and Poems in Ink: A Collaboration with John Yau, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA


  The Silent Music, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
2000 The Painted Promise, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA


1999 Bridge, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA


  Night Gold, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
1998 Spirit, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


  Path, Jensen Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
1997 Face of Silence, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA


  Holy Smoke, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
  Ganesha, Jensen Gallery, Wellington. New Zealand
 
1996 Painting, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA


  Forge, Jensen Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
1995 Axis Mundi, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand   


  Crossing Full Tilt, Jensen Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
  Ancient Future, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
  Geos - Paintings, Works on Paper, Prints 1977-1982, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
1993 Oracle, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


  Threshold of Light, Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
 
  Tablets of Light, Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane, QL, Australia
 
  Radiant Path-Works from 1965-1993, curated by Diana Renker, Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga, New Zealand
 
1992 Crossing Full Tilt, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY, USA


  Templar, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
  Inside Star, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA, USA
 
1991 Gold, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Zealand


  Chrysalis, Gow Langsford Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
1990 Objects of Alchemy, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


1989 Four to the Fourth, Genovese Gallery, Boston, MA, USA


  Shapes of Change, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
  Vessel-Drawing with Color, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
1988 White Room Program, White Columns, New York, NY, USA


  Max Gimblett Paintings, LedisFlam Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
 
  Gems, Northland Society of Arts, Whangarei, New Zealand
 
1987 Silk Route: Screen Prints and Recent Paintings, Genovese Gallery, Boston, MA, USA


  New Paintings and Paper Works, New Zealand Consulate-General, New York, NY, USA
 
  Selections from the Chartwell Collection: Max Gimblett, Hamilton Art Center, Foyer Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand
 
1986 Pacific Paintings, 1984-86, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


  Pearls of the Pacific, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
1985 Selected Paintings from Twenty Years, R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York, NY, USA


  Transformation: Paintings on Paper, 1983-85, Modernism, San Francisco, CA, USA
 
  New Vision Gallery, Auckland
 
1984 Transformation, curated by Wystan Curnow, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


1983 Ambient Color Paintings, 1977-82, Modernism, San Francisco, CA, USA


1982 Galerie Nordenhake, Malmo, Sweden


  Galerie Engstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
 
1981 New Paintings, Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand


  Works on Paper, RKS Art, Auckland, New Zealand
 
1980 Modernism, San Francisco, CA, USA


  Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
 
1979 Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, USA


  New Zealand Embassy, Washington, DC, USA
 
1978 Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York, NY, USA


  Curated by Barbara Zabel, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, USA
 
  Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
 
  Waikatoa Museum of Art and History, Te Whare Taonga O Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
 
1977 Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand


  Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
 
1976 Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York, NY, USA


  Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
 
1971 A Clean Well Lighted Place, Austin, TX, USA


  Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
 
   
  SELECTED RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2012 Gary Snyder Gallery, Miami Project, Miami Beach, FL, USA


  Unbound: An Exhibition In Three Chapters, curated by Heide Hatry Dalhousle Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
 
  The Final Frontier, organised by Matt Jones, The Atlantic Conference, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
 
  George Exhibition, Jacks Point, Queenstown, New Zealand
 
2011 80 WSE Presents, curated by Peter Campus, Michael Cohen, Edward Holland, and Hugh O'Rourke 80 WSE, New York, NY, USA


  Permanent Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
  One Of A Kind - An Exhibition Of Unique Artist’s books, curated by Heide Hatry Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
 
  The Green Bicycle, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
2010 Drawing Gifts - 7th Annual Benefit Auction, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA


  Poems & Pictures, A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946-1981), curated by Kyle Schlesinger Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, USA
 
  Spring Catalog Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
  Zen To Kawaii: The Japanese Affect, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QL, Australia
 
2009 The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, curated by Alexandra Munroe Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA


  The New Zealand Room, Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand
 
2008 Fundamental Abstraction II - In Memory of Kim Wauson, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA


  Maui, The Suter – Te Aratoi o Whakatu, Nelson, New Zealand
 
  Drawings, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
  Edges of Darkness (black in art), Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
 
  Limited Edition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
2007 Simulasian, curated by Eric Shiner and Lily Wei Inaugural Contemporary Asian Art Fair, New York, NY, USA


  Catalog Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
  Painting, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
 
2006 Contemporary Collections, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QL, USA


  Director’s Choice – Consumption Junction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
 
  Line and Surface, John Leech Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
2005 MGM – McCahon, Gimblett, Motherwell, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


  Gulgoleth, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
 
2004 Toi Te Papa Art of the Nation: 1940 – today, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand


  Live on Paper, MCS Gallery, Easton, PA, USA
 
  35K, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
 
2003 Signs and Wonders He Tohu He Ohorere, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand


  The Invisible Thread—Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, curated by Robyn Brentano, Olivia Georgia, Roger Lipsey, and Lilly Wei Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, NY, USA
 
  Thinking in Line—A Survey of Contemporary Drawing, curated by Ron Janowich, University of Florida, The University Galleries, Gainesville, FL, USA
 
2002 15 – Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA


  Breathing Room – Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA
 
2001 Documenta USA, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI, USA


  New Paintings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
 
  Leaping Boundaries: A Century of New Zealand Artists in Australia, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
2000 Conceptual Ink, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, NY, USA


  Simple Statements, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
 
  Collector’s Choice, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
 
   
  SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES
 
2011 Appointed Benefactor of Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand


  Inaugural Special Artist Patron. Christchuch Art Gallery, Christchuch, New Zealand
 
  Old Boy of the Year Award. King’s School, Auckland, New Zealand
 
2009 Augusta Award, Auckland Grammar, Auckland, New Zealand


2008 Laila Foundation Artist in Residence at HuiPress, HuiPress, Maui, HI, USA


2005 Artist in Residence, Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand


2004 Artist in Residence, Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand


2003

Best In Category (editorial and books), with Arch MacDonnell, Designers Institute of New Zealand, “Max Gimblett”



2002 Artist in Residence, with Lewis Hyde. Oxherding. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO, USA


1993 Inaugural Artist in Residence, Queensland University of Technology, Academy of the Arts Visual Arts, Brisbane, QL, Australia


1991/92 The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica. J. Paul Getty Associate


1991 The Rockefeller Foundation, Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy
Residency Projects: Ink Paint the Ten Oxherding Pictures and "Sage," a unique artist's book


1989 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.  Painting Fellowship


1986 Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, Grant


1980 Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand, Grant


   
   
  SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
 
  Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USQ
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland City Library, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Te Papa Whakihiku, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland University Library, Auckland, New Zealand
Bank of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
British Library, London, UK
Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Electricorp, Wellington, New Zealand
Fletcher/Challenge Corporation, Auckland, New Zealand
Future Group, Auckland, New Zealand
Galatea, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art & the Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, New York, NY, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Harris Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Herbert H. Lehman College, New York, NY, USA
Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan
Karl Ernst Ostahaus-Museum der Stradt Hagen, Hagen, Germany
Marquette University, The Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, USA
Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, USA
Library of Congress, Dept. of Special Collections, Washington, DC, USA
Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, KY, USA
Marion Koogler McNay Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
Millennium Partners Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA
Ministry of External Relations, Wellington, New Zealand
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, CT, Australia
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
National Westminster Bank, New York, NY, USA
New Arts Program, Lehigh Valley and Berks, PA, USA
New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
New Zealand Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia
New Zealand Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
New Zealand Embassy, Washington, DC, USA
Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland. Dieter Koepplin Donation, 1999.
Ohio State University Library, Dept. of Special Collections, Columbus, OH, USA
Oracle Collection, CA, USA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA
Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ, USA
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QL, Australia.
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QL, Australia
San Francisco Art Institute, Anne Bremer Memorial Library, San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
Schyls Collection, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Scripps Medical Clinic, La Jolla, CA, USA
Smith College Library, Mortimer Rare Book Room, Northampton, MA, USA
Stanford University, Green Library, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford, CA, USA
State University of New York-Buffalo, Poetry/Rare Books, Buffalo, NY, USA
Suter Museum, Nelson, New Zealand
Turnbull Collections Library, Wellington, New Zealand
University of Alberta Library, Dept. of Special Collections, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
University of Arizona, Dept. of Special Collections, Tucson, AZ, USA
University of California Los Angeles Library, Dept. of Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA, USA
University of California San Diego, Mandeville Library, Dept. of Special Collections, La Jolla, CA, USA
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Special Collections, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
University of Connecticut, Dodd Research Center, Storrs, CT, USA
University of Delaware, Morris Library, Dept. of Special Collections, Newark, DE, USA
University of Georgia Library, Dept. of Special Collections, Athens, GA, USA
University of Iowa, Dept. of Special Collections, Iowa City, IA, USA
University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
University of Minnesota, Dept. of Special Collections, Elmer L. Anderson Library, Minneapolis, MN, USA
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
University of Santa Clara, de Saisett Museum, Santa Clara, CA, USA
University of Wisconsin, Kohler Art Library, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA
Victoria University Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Waikato Art Museum, Te Whare Taonga O Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book Library, New Haven, CT, USA
   



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