Ruth Buchanan
b. 1980, Ngāmotu New Plymouth (Pakehā/Te Ati Awa/Taranaki)
Lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Ruth Buchanan
BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS, 2018
installation view: Walters Prize Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
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. In 2018 she was awarded the Walters Prize by international judge Adriano Pedrosa. She works across exhibition making, writing, design, and teaching. Ruth is currently Kaitohu Director at Artspace Aotearoa. Her work is included in the collections of Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Toi o Tamaki Auckland Art Gallery, MASP, Christchurch Art Gallery, Victoria University, and others.
News
Ruth Buchanan
Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history - Future, 2022
installation view: Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Recent Solo Exhibitions
- T h e A r r a n g e m e n t : o f H o u s e s & B u i l d i n g s , B i r t h , D e a t h , M o n e y , S c h o o l s , D e n t i s t s , B i r t h C o n t r o l , W o r k , A i r , R e m e d i e s , a n d s o o n . . . , C o a s t a l S i g n s , T ā m a k i M a k a u r a u A u c k l a n d ( 2 0 2 4 )
- Heute Nacht getrāumt: Pre-history – Future, Kunstmuseum, Basel (2022)
- Uneven Bodies; international symposium, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth (2020)
- A garden with bridges (spine, stomach, throat, ear), The New Commissioners in collaboration with Museum Abteiberg, Möchengladback (2019)
- The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth (2019)
- My I,I,I be broke, Hopkinson Mossman, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2019)
- Dead Marble, Artspeak, Vancouver (2018)
- BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS; in The Walters Prize, Auckland Art Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, (2018)
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
- How not to be seen, Remai Modern, Saskatoon (2024)
- W i n t e r S k i e s C o a s t a l S i g n s , T ā m a k i M a k a u r a u A u c k l a n d ( 2 0 2 3 )
- Skin in the game, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2023)
- The Polyphonic Sea Bundanon, Nowra (2023)
- Walls to Live Beside, Rooms To Own, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2022.
- Celebration? Real Life, Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)
- Transition Exhibition, Brucke Museum, Berlin (2021)
- Feminist histories: artists after 2000, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (2019)
- Lexicon of Infinite Movement, Kröller Möller Museum, Otterlo (2019)
- Kathy Acker: GET RID OF MEANING, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2018)
- TOUCH, ngbk, Berlin (2018)
- Tilt, Hopkinson Mossman, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018)
- Can Tame Anything, The Dowse Art Museum, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018)
- Moment I: EVER, Shimmer, Rotterdam (2018)
- ITS INTERIOR / AND A FACADE. On the Architecture of Badischer Kunstverein , Architekturschaufenster e.V., Karlsruhe (2018)
- Working for the Commons, Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, NL (2017)
- Rest in the Furrows of My Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, DE (2017)
- Through the things we make, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, SE (2017)
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
- Clementine Deliss, PURPLE RAIN on "Heute Nacht getrāumt. An exhibition by Ruth Buchanan, (Review), Contemporary HUM, June 2022.
- Alex Greenberger, Artist Ruth Buchanan on How She Made Basel’s Biggest Museum Come ‘Totally Alive’, (Response) Art News, June 2022.
- Christina Barton, Mother Lode; On the Phenomenon of the 'Older Women Artists', (Response), ArtNow, October 2021
- Lucinda Bennet, Review: The Friction in the Collection / Or, Ruth Buchanan Rubs up Against Govett-Brewster, (Review), 2020
- Tara McDowell, The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong, (Review), Art-Agenda, January 2020
- Tim Riley Walsh, Ruth Buchanan; Where does my body belong, (Review) 2018
- Jan Verwoert, In Focus; Ruth Buchanan. Meaning, Memory and Mockery, (Response), Frieze, 1 January 2013
- Anthony Byrt, Ruth Buchanan; Hopkinson Cundy, (Review), Artforum, May 2013
- Martin Herbert, Ruth Buchanan; Put a Curve, an Arch Right Through It, (Review), ArtReview, December 2012
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