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JH
Sam Norton, When Love is Not Enough, 2023, two-channel video, runtime 4 min 25 sec

Split Screen Comparisons

TWO ROOMS

Sam Norton

 

When Love is Not Enough

 

13 March - 11 April 2026

Formal accentuations, despite ornithology

JH
Zac Langdon-Pole, Steer Skull (After Arthur Robinson) 2026, recombined jigsaw pictures of microscope picturing of mousebrain neurons and coloured 3D scan of a metamorphosising hawkmoth chrysalis. 1968 x 1505 x 40 mm (including frame)

Langdon-Pole’s Jigsaw Combinations

Lett Thomas

Zac Langdon-Pole

 

Caterpillar Soup

 

20 March - 18 April 2026

Startling Blended Pairings

JH
Henry Turner, In Your Eyes I See the Weight of Planets

Unusual Henry Turner Display

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Henry Turner

 

THE FEAR, THE GUILT & THE PAIN

 

14 March - 18 April 2026

Colourful Jewel-loaded Embroidery


JH
Installation shot of Colin McCahon's Safety in Numbers exhibition at AAG.

Ghostly Ethereal McCahon Numbers

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Safety in Numbers: Colin McCahon’s Dark Equations


Curated by Julia Waite

 

6 July 2025 - 10 May 2026

Painted Sheets with Different Sequencing Trajectories

JH
Seung Yul Oh, Pre, epoxy paint on PLA, 90 x 120 x 35 cm, ed. of 8.

Turning Within a Painted Stasis

STARKWHITE

Seung Yul Oh


Bod


28 February - 28 March 2026

The Freezing of Optic Consequences

JH
Jerome Ngan-Kee: four paintings on the short wall.

Using AI for ‘Drawn’ / Linear Text Paintings

CHARLES NINOW

Jerome Ngan-Kee

 

Realism

 

14 February - 7 March 2026

Unusual Selection of Textual Phrases & Images


JH
Julian Hooper, Setting Up, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 700 x 800 mm

Julian Hooper’s Ornate (But Diagramatic) Variety of Surrealism

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Julian Hooper

 

Bones


4 February - 7 March 2026

Highly Imaginative with Personal Schemata

JH
Pip Culbert, Zodiac, 1995, rubber, buckles, rope, eyelets, dimensions variable

Pip Culbert Sampler

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Pip Culbert

 

Anti-Utilitarian


February - March 2026

Reinventing Drawing So Fabric Seam Becomes Mark

JH
David Shrigley, Untitled (Contemporary Performance Art), 2024, ink on paper, 500 x 375 mm, framed

Deliriously Weird Shrigley Drawings

TWO ROOMS

David Shrigley


Works on Paper


10 February - 7 March 2026

Wry, Wobbly & Wonky Cartoons


JH
Installation view of part of Midwestern Unlike You and Me. At Michael Lett.

Exciting Dashper Survey

MICHAEL LETT

Julian Dashper

 

Midwestern Unlike You and Me

 

30 January 2026 - 07 March 2026

Amazing range of conceptual explorations

JH
Alberto Giancomett, Paris Sans Fini, published drawing

Psychologically Intense Giacometti Prints

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)

Without End

Curated by Kenneth Brummel

29 November 2025 - 11 July 2027

Drawing-based Lithographs

JH
Ammon Ngakuru, preparatory drawing/collage for installation of Three Scenes 2025 sculpture proposal at AAG.

Symbolic Ngakuru

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

North Terrace

Ammon Ngakuru: Three Scenes 2025

Curated by Natasha Conland

27 September 2025 - 18 October 2026

Seemingly Open Interpretations


JH

Sniffing Around Technology

TREADLER

The Odour of Smoke

Julian Dashper Estate, Billy Apple Archive (a Tim Garrity letter about BA), Nika Autor, David Clegg, and Christian Marclay

Curated by Christina Barton

12 December 2025 - 17 January 2026

Recalling Phones & Faxes

JH
Installation shot of Dane Mitchell's exhibition, Archive of Dust, Room 18, at Two Rooms

Microbes in Dust

TWO ROOMS

Dane Mitchell

 

Archive of Dust, Room 18

 


15 November - 20 December 2025

The Ocular Delights of Eyeing Up Bacterial Growths

JH
Peter Robinson, Figure of Fun, 2009, charcoal and oilstick on paper, 1740 x 1400 mm  (framed)

Humiliating the Art-Hungry Viewer

COASTAL SIGNS

Peter Robinson

 

Drawings

 

3 December, 2025 - 5 February, 2026.

Rascally Uber-Violent Gesturalism


JH
Two visitors admiring the Roy Lichtenstein contribution. It shows smoke trails from fired rockets.

Impressive History of American Innovation

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Pop to Present: American Art (selected from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art)

 

Curated by Alexis Assam, Regina Perry, Sarah Powers, and Kenneth Brummel

 

8 November 2025 - 15 March 2026

Lively Post-War Survey

JH
 Do Ho Suh, North Wall, 2005. Installation view at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2025. © Do Ho Suh

Evanescent Architectural Screen

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Do Ho Suh

 

North Wall, 2005

 

Curated by Natasha Conland

 

26 July, 2025 - 1 March, 2026

Super-Fine Fluro Frontage

JH
Installation shot of Jim Roche at Starkwhite.

Eviscerated ‘Tunnelling’ Surfboards?

STARKWHITE

Jim Roche


Jim Roche


4 October - 8 November 2025

Mutant Shaped Paintings


JH
Louise Bourgeois, The Couple, 2003, aluminum, on loan from a private collection. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation. VAGA at ARS/Copyright Agency, 2025 |

Brilliant Visceral Bourgeois

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Louise Bourgeois


In Private View


Curated by Natasha Conland


27 September 2025 - 17 May 2026

Delicious Sampler

JH
Nick Austin, Fear of Loneliness, 2025, mixed media, 2160 x 1800 x 200 mm overall, Detail.

The Potential Dangers of Seductive Art History, Perhaps?

COASTAL SIGNS

Nick Austin

 

Breath Spectrum

 

25 September 2025 - 25 October 2025

Ignorable Temptations

JH
Installation of Simon Denny's 'The Future' exhibition at Michael Lett.

Boom Boom: Hell on Earth

MICHAEL LETT

Simon Denny

 


The Future

 


3 September - 11 October 2025

Apocalyptic Denny