Ruth Buchanan
b. 1980, Ngāmotu New Plymouth (Pakehā/Te Ati Awa/Taranaki)
Lives and works in Berlin

Ruth Buchanan gained her BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, in 2002; her MA (Fine Art) from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, in 2007; and from 2008-2009 she was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.

News

Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Recent Solo Exhibitions

Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Group Exhibitions

Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Ruth Buchanan
Cut Ups, 2019
hand latch-hooked rug
1250 x 1050mm

Ruth Buchanan
Feminist histories: artists after 2000, 2019
installation detail: Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Readings

Ruth Buchanan

Columns, Curtains, Columns, 2018
hand latch-hooked rug,
custom perforated steel frame

870 x 680mm

Publications

  • Where does my body belong? Form institutional critique to infrastructural transformation, BEACON, CA (artist book) (year)
  • Uneven Bodies (reader), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ, 2021 (co-ed.)
  • Evacuation Tapes, online publication, self-published, 2020 (ed.)
  • Bad Visual Systems, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ, 2017 (cat.)
  • A-Z Die Sammlung Marzona, Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, DE, 2017 (cat.)

Ruth Buchanan
The actual and its document, 2016
installation view: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth