Judy Millar

Penelope Judith "Judy" Millar (born 1957) is a New Zealand artist, who lives in Auckland, New Zealand and Berlin, Germany.

Education

Millar received a BFA in 1980 and an MFA from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 1983. As recipient of a Scholarship from the Italian Government in 1990, she spent a year in Turin, Italy, where she studied Italian arts of the 1960s and 1970s.

Awards and honours

2011 Arts Board Arts Grant, Creative New Zealand
2002 Paramount Award, Wallace Art Awards, New Zealand^[1]
1994 Moet & Chandon Fellowship, Avize
1990 Italian Government Post-Graduate Scholarship, Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy

Residencies

2009 Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Residency in New York, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York City
2006 Inaugural winner of the McCahon House Residency, New Zealand^[2]

Exhibitions

Millar has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in both New Zealand and Europe and found critical acclaim in the international press.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005 I ~~Will, Should, Can, Must, May,~~ Would Like to Express, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
2006 Something, Nothing, 64zero3, Christchurch
2007 Keeping You You, Keeping Me Me, Lopdell House Gallery, Waitakere City
2008 Matt Black, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland ^[3]
2009 Giraffe-Bottle-Gun, New Zealand Pavilion, Venice Biennale,^[3] Venice, Italy
2015 The Model World, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery^[4]

Her painterly style was described as "energetic and overwhelming",^[5] and Andrea Hilgenstock calls her paintings "spectacular".^[6] Further references can be found in recent publications on New Zealand art. ^[7]^[8]^[9] ^[10]

Her works can be found in the collections of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Dunedin Public Art Gallery the Auckland Art Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery, and numerous private collections throughout Europe.

She represented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009.^[11] This project is recreated in miniature in the 2014 pop-up book Swell, created in collaboration with paper engineer Phillip Fickling and writer Trish Gribben - this book in turn inspired full-scale pop-up style works for her solo exhibition The Model World and large sculptures for SCAPE and the Auckland Art Gallery.^[12]^[13]

In 2011 she was again part of the Venice Biennale in the collateral event Personal Structures in Palazzo Bembo.^[14]

Current

Millar is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland, Gallery Mark Müller in Zurich, Hamish Morrison Gallery in Berlin, and Sullivan Strumpf, Sydney.

References

^ Wallace Arts Trust
^ McCahon - McCahon Arts Residency
^ ^a ^b Emmerling, Leonhard (2010). Judy Millar: You You, Me Me. Kerber Art. p. 180. ISBN 9783866782358.
^ "Judy Millar: The Model World". Te Uru. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
^ Angelika Affentrager-Krichrath in: Neue Zuericher Zeitung, September 14, 2005.
^ Andrea Hilgenstock, "Jeder Künstler abstrahiert." In: Die Welt, August 4, 2006, [1]
^ Cf. Brian Butler (ed.), Speculation, Auckland, Zurich: JRP/Ringer, 2007, pp. 62 - 67, p 206
^ Leonhard Emmerling (ed.), IS/NZ (Ingólfur Arnarsson, Stephen Bambury, Tumi Magnússon, Judy Millar) , with an interview by Susanne Kaeppele, Heidelberg, Kehrer Publisher, 2005, ISBN 978-3-936636-47-5 http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/detail/de/isnz-978-3-936636-47-5.html
^ Lopdell House Gallery (ed.), Keeping You You Keeping Me Me, ISBN 0-9582284-3-4
^ CAP Art Limited, Dublin, Ireland (ed.), CAP Collection, Dublin 2005, ISBN 2-88100-052-5, S. 184-187, 347
^ New Zealand at Venice Biennale 2009 | New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009
^ Rees-Owen, Rose. "Pop-up book called Swell is a first in New Zealand publishing". The Western Leader. Stuff. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
^ "SWELL - THE ART OF JUDY MILLAR - POP-UP BOOK". Scape Public Art. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
^ http://www.hamishmorrison.com/en/News.html

External links

[1] Wallace Arts Trust

[2] McCahon - McCahon Arts Residency

[Emmerling-3] Emmerling, Leonhard (2010). Judy Millar: You You, Me Me. Kerber Art. p. 180. ISBN 9783866782358.

[4] "Judy Millar: The Model World". Te Uru. Retrieved 7 March 2015.

[5] Angelika Affentrager-Krichrath in: Neue Zuericher Zeitung, September 14, 2005.

[6] Andrea Hilgenstock, "Jeder Künstler abstrahiert." In: Die Welt, August 4, 2006, [1]

[7] Cf. Brian Butler (ed.), Speculation, Auckland, Zurich: JRP/Ringer, 2007, pp. 62 - 67, p 206

[8] Leonhard Emmerling (ed.), IS/NZ (Ingólfur Arnarsson, Stephen Bambury, Tumi Magnússon, Judy Millar) , with an interview by Susanne Kaeppele, Heidelberg, Kehrer Publisher, 2005, ISBN 978-3-936636-47-5 http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/detail/de/isnz-978-3-936636-47-5.html

[9] Lopdell House Gallery (ed.), Keeping You You Keeping Me Me, ISBN 0-9582284-3-4

[10] CAP Art Limited, Dublin, Ireland (ed.), CAP Collection, Dublin 2005, ISBN 2-88100-052-5, S. 184-187, 347

[11] New Zealand at Venice Biennale 2009 | New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009

[12] Rees-Owen, Rose. "Pop-up book called Swell is a first in New Zealand publishing". The Western Leader. Stuff. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

[13] "SWELL - THE ART OF JUDY MILLAR - POP-UP BOOK". Scape Public Art. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

[14] ttp://www.hamishmorrison.com/en/News.html

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