Biography
John Puhiatau Pule
b. 1962, Liku, Niue
Emigrated to New Zealand, 1964
Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 Recent paintings, karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Another Green World, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2005 John Pule, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Niniko Lalolagi - Dazzling Worlds, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2003 Recent Painting, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Wind reminds me how palpable and mythical my life was becoming, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington
New Lithographs and Etchings, Paper Graphica Gallery, Christchurch
2002 I had a mind as invisible as light, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 A Sequence of Lyrics Dedicated to the Birth of a Lighthouse, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2000 Fakaue Kia Koe Maui Pomare (Thanks to you Maui Pomare), Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
People Get Ready, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
1999 New Works Studio, Wellington, New Zealand
1998-99 Savage Island, Djamu gallery, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
1998 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1996 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1995 Malika, New Works Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1993 Woodcuts/Lithographs, Lane Gallery, New Zealand
1993 Kokohonea, Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1992 Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1991 Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Turbulence: The Third Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland
News From Islands, Campbelltown Gallery, Sydney
Dateline: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2006 The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Tribute, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland
2005 FREIZE, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Scope Miami, Miami
Group Exhibition, Te Tuhi the Mark, Pakuranga, Auckland
Group Exhibition, Corbans Art Gallery, Henderson, Auckland
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland
Group Exhibition, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
Future Tense: Security and Human Rights, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
John Pule, Sofia Tekela-Smith and John Walsh, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2004 Paradise Now! Asia Society Museum, New York
South Pacific Arts Festival, Palau
2003 You are my sunshine, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington
Three Significant Paintings and two vintage photographs, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington
Iki, and thanks for the ika, Lithuania/Cook Islands/New Zealand
2003 Na, Jonothan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2001 - 2003 Sea Knowing and Island Looking: Contemporary New Zealand and Pacific Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
2002 2002: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Melbourne Art Fair 2002, Gow Langsford Galleries stand, Melbourne, Australia
Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2001 Catalogue Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Screens, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2000 South Pacific Arts Festival, New Caledonia
1999 Wonderlands: views of life at the end of the century, at the end of the world, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
In other words, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Gow Langsford Gallery at Span Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1998 Wake Naima,Creating Together, Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea
Picturing History, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
Australian Contemporary Art Fair 6, Melbourne, Australia, c/- Gow Langsford Gallery
1997 Group Show, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Joint Show, New Zealand Ambassadors’ Residence
Vibes: Polynesian Island Group Show, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1996 Asia Pacific Triennale, Brisbane
Seventh Festival of the South Pacific, Samoa
Re- Imaging the Pacific, Australia National University, Canberra
1995 Kwangju Biennale, Korea
Island to Island, Cheju, Korea
Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
Bottled Ocean: Contemporary Polynesian Artists, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
1992 Contemporary Niue Artists, Fisher Gallery, Pakuranga
1991 Te Moemoea no lotefa, Traditional and Contemporary Pacific Island Artists. (National Tour)
Lithographs and Woodcuts Selected Exhibitions
1996 Oil and Water, Lane Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1993 Series/1995 Series CSA, Christchurch, New Zealand
1995 Salamander Gallery, Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
1995 Marian McGuire Lithoprints Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand
1994 Pacific Island Group Show, ASA, Ponsonby, New Zealand
1993 Lime Works, Christchurch, New Zealand
Salamander Gallery, Arts Center, Christchurch, New Zealand
Taking Stock of the 90’s, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
Poetry Tours
2003 The Second International Indigenous Authors Celebration Tour, Brisbane, Sydney, Katoomba, Alice Springs, Auckland
1986 North Island Group Tour
1985 North Island Group Tour
1984 South Island Group Tour
1983 New Zealand Tour with David Eggleton as Two South Auckland Polynesian Poets
1982 New Zealand Tour with Paul Luker
Selected Performance/ Poetry
2005 Strata, Auckland University
Poet’s Corner on “Artsville” (director, Ian Mune)
2003 Honouring Words 2003 Australia, Indigenous writers tour
1998 Ocean & Others Symposium, Museum of Sydney, Sydney
1998 Raw Fishes, The Physics Room, Christchurch
1998 The Bond of Time, 2nd edition, PWF, University of the South Pacific
1996 Re- Imaging the Pacific, Australia National University, Canberra
1995 The Post Colonial Body, University of Waikato
Bodies in Question Symposium, University of Auckland
Interdigitate, The Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre
1992 Pacific Impressions, Galaxy Theatre, Auckland
1991 The Grand Opening, Galaxy Theatre, Auckland
1988 The Last Blah Performance, St John Church Hall, Parnell
1985 The World and I, Poets Palace, France Street, Auckland
1984 The Human Cry, Knox Community Hall, Parnell
Twang and Cadence, Kingsland Community Hall, Auckland
1983 Maori Writers Read, The Depot
Workshops / Artists Talks
2005 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
2003 Avaurua Arts Society, Rarotonga
Cook Islands Teachers Training College, Rarotonga
Continuing Education, University of Auckland
1994 Pacific Writers Workshop, Tangata Pacifica, TV 2
1993 Voyages with Island Artists from Tonga, Vanuatu, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Niue, Tahiti, Cook Islands
1992 Pacific Peoples Workshop in Theatre, Drama, Literature
Art Education in Aotearoa
Awards/ Residencies
2006 Artist in residence, University of the south Pacific, Fiji
2005 Romerapotheke Art Residency, Basel, Switzerland
2004 New Zealand Art Laureate, Arts Foundation of New Zealand
2003 Artist in Residence, Cultural Museum, Rarotonga
2002 Distinguished-Visiting Writer to Department of English at University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
2000 Writer in Residence, Auckland University (English Department)
1998 Artist in Residence, Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, USP, Fiji
Artist in Residence, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
1997 Pacific Writers Fellow, University of the South Pacific
1996 Writer in Residence Fellowship, University of Waikato, Hamilton
Selected Publications
2006 Nicholas Thomas, John Puhiatau Pule; Another Green World, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland (Exhibition Catalogue)
2005 John Pule, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich, Switzerland (Exhibition Catalogue)
Hiapo: Past and Present in Niuean Barkcloth, Otago University Press, Otago (co-author Nicholas Thomas)
2004 Paradise Now!, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
Kapakiloi Tagata, Pohutakawa Press, Auckland
Virginia Were, “Pacific Narratives”, Art News, Spring, 2004, p48-49
New Lithographs and Etchings, Papergraphica, Christchurch
2003 Michael Dunn, New Zealand Painting, A Concise History, AUP, Auckland
Venture: New Zealand Industry Magazine, June 2003
The Contemporary Pacific, A Journal of Pacific Island Affairs, University of Hawai’I Press, Hawai’I
Whetu Moana, ed. A.Wendt, R. Sullivan, R. Whaitiri, Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, AUP, Auckland
2002 John Pule, When you return…, The 4th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2002, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2001 David Eggleton, “John Pule and the Psychic Territory of Polynesia”, Art New Zealand, #99, Winter 2001, p 62-65
2000 Albert L. Refiti & Nicholas Thomas, People get ready, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (catalogue)
Linda Herrick, “Sticking it to God”, NZ Listener, October 28, 2000, p50-51
New Worlds, Old Worlds, Art Museum of Missoula, Montana, USA
1999 Elizabeth Caughey and John Gow, Contemporary New Zealand Art 2, David Bateman, 1999, p. 48-51
1998 Nicholas Thomas, In Oceania, Duke University Press, USA
John Pule, Burn My Head in Heaven, Penguin, Auckland
1997 Nicholas Thomas, “Oceans Apart”, Asian Art News, May/June, 1997, p67-70
1996 Christina Thompson, Meanjin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Stephen Zepke, Art New Zealand, No.78, Autumn, Bodies in Question Review
United Nations Year Of Tolerance, Social Policy Department, Victoria University, Wellington
1995 Warwick Brown, 100 New Zealand Paintings, Godwit Press
Wendy Vaigro, Art Asia Pacific, October, Volume 2, No. 4 Bottled Ocean
Art New Zealand, No.77, Summer, (Backcover image)
Wendy Vaigro, Art New Zealand, No. 76, Spring, Interdigitate, Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre
Jane Sayle Art New Zealand, No. 75, Winter, Malika
Nicholas Thomas, Art New Zealand, No. 74, Autumn, Bottled Ocean
Nicholas Thomas, Oceanic Art, Thames and Hudson, Sydney
Printout Issue 9, Press Print, Auckland, Autumn
1994 Nicholas Thomas, The Art of John Pule, Art Asia Pacific, Vol1, No. 4
T. Ryan, Narratives of Encounters, Anthropological History of Niue, Auckland University
Trends Design, Vol 6, No 2, Trends Publishing, Auckland
Robert Beckett, New Zealand Home and Building, April/May, Auckland
Mark Cross, Art New Zealand, No. 66, Autumn, The New Hiapo of John Pule
1993 D. Scott, Would a Good Man Die? The Larsen Murder Case, Southern Cross
1992 Jane Griffin, Art New Zealand, No. 64, Spring, Pacific Islands Artists
New Zealand Books, Vol 2, Issue 7, Reviews by Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera
Stamp Magazine, Issue 33, Base Publications, Auckland
1991 Printout Issue 1, Arts/Literature, Printpress, Auckland
Selected Public Collections
Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand
Chartwell Trust Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Fletcher Trust Challenge, Auckland, New Zealand
Government of Niue, Niue
Wallace Trust Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
National Museum of Scotland, Scotland
Manukau City Council, Auckland, New Zealand
Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Wellington High Court, Wellington, New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Pacific Studies Building, University of Auckland