David Hatcher

Born 1973 in Auckland, lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles

Education:

2003 - 2004 
MFA, UCLA, Los Angeles

2002 - 2003 
Critical Studies, Malmö Art Academy and Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö

2000 - 2001 
DAAD postgraduate scholarship with Prof. Katharina Sieverding, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

1997  
BFA, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch

Awards, Scholarships, Grants:

2003   
UCLA Graduate Fellowship

2002  
SLEIPNIR Travel Grant, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art

2001  
Creative New Zealand Project Grant ('+64')

2000  
DAAD Postgraduate Scholarship, Berlin

1998  
Goethe Institut Scholarship, Berlin

1997  
Bickerton-Widowson Memorial Trust Scholarship
Friends of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery Scholarship

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2003  
I DON’T MUST, Test Site, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
Was this the transition?, Starkwhite, Auckland
Standard Deviations, Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Detmold

2002  
Hi Ho, Snowhite, Auckland
Furcht und Zittern, Starkwhite, Auckland
Black Fluffy Clouds, ABEL Raum für Neue Kunst, Berlin
Works on Paper, The Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin

2001  
Black Fluffy Clouds, rm401, Auckland
The Acid Test, Black Cube, Christchurch
Capri I: The Jitters (Day Tripping), Capri, Berlin
The Jitters (NZSE40), Kiosk project space, Christchurch

2000  
On Sudden Enlightenment, Stuff Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2003  
The Sky's The Limit (cur. by Astrid Mania), Kunstverein Langenhagen
Dasein - Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Sammlung Reinking, (cur. by Rik Reinking), Ernst-Barlach-Museum Ratzeburg and Wedel
O-Form, Capri, Berlin
Money For Nothing (cur. by Tobias Berger), Artspace, Auckland; City Gallery, Wellington

2002  
Break (cur. by Simon Rees), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
City Transformers, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
RED LIGHT DISTRICT - IMAGES OF DESIRE 2, The Fields, Winston Hotel, Amsterdam
Gaststadt Berlin, Kunst Zürich 2002, Zürich

2001  
White Collar, Zimmerstr. 81, Berlin
INTER-TRANSFER, ABEL Raum für Neue Kunst, Berlin
Cuckoo II (cur. by Cuckoo), Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland
Summer Lovin', The Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin

2000  
Inventions - Festival of Visions (cur. by Brigitte Heilmann), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin & Hong Kong
Corporate Identity / Station, ABEL Raum für Neue Kunst, Berlin

1999  
Video Archaeology, ATA Centre for Contemporary Art, Sofia

Selected Own Writing:

2003  
I DON'T MUST (ed. Astrid Mania), Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art (forthcoming)

2002  
“Regionally engaged or provisionally blunted?”, Visit #5, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (contributing author)
“Stabile Werte”, Deutscher Pop Moritz Götze; Verlag der Kunst Dresden, (contributing author)

1999  
“Of the things of which we may doubt”, The Pander; Issue #8, (contributing author)

Reviews, Publications, Pageworks:

2003 
Astrid Mania, “David Hatcher”, Dasein - Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Sammlung Reinking, exh. cat. Ernst-Barlach-Museum Ratzeburg and Wedel (forthcoming)
Jon Bywater, “Break”, Broadsheet; Volume 32 No 1

2002  
Jon Bywater, “The art world and the business world meet at a private gallery in Auckland”, The Listener; August 17 - 23
Geoff Dale, “Making an art out of business”, The Sunday Star-Times, July 21
Jon Bywater, “Auckland Exhibitions; QUOBO, Feature, Humid, Dolly Mix (W)rapper, MariaMaria, David Hatcher”, Art New Zealand, Issue #103
Sarah Quigley, “What happens when nine New Zealand artists mount a group show in Berlin?”, The Listener, May 25 - 31
Tobias Hering, “Inseln in der Schwärze”, tageszeitung, 18.04.2002
“The Simplest Surrealist Act (André Breton)” (pagework), Log Illustrated, Issue #15

2000  
“4 Caspar David Friedrich” (pagework), Log Illustrated, Issue #11