Red Shift
2006-7
acrylic on canvas
courtesy of the artist, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
and Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington

SHANE COTTON Nga Puhi / New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery - NEW Gallery

Born in Upper Hutt, New Zealand in 1964, Shane Cotton currently lives in Palmerston North. He has tribal affiliations to Ngati Rangi, Ngati Hine, Te Uri Taniwha and Nga Puhi. In 2003, his work received critical attention in the major exhibition, Shane Cotton: Survey 1993-2003, accompanied by a significant catalogue edited by curator Lara Strongman. Shown at City Gallery, Wellington, the exhibition toured to Auckland Art Gallery in 2004. Other recent solo exhibitions include Recent Paintings, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, 2004; Pararaiha, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 2005; Maori Gothic, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, 2006; and Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, 2006. Group shows include Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Asia Society, New York, 2004; nEUclear Reactions, a project within A Second Sight: International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague, 2005, which travelled to Caja de Burgos Art Centre, Spain in 2006; and Contemporary Commonwealth, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2006. Cotton has been the recipient of a number of awards and grants, including the prestigious Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Dunedin, which he held in 1998. Until recently, Cotton taught on the Maori Visual Arts programme at Massey University.