Laurence Aberhart
New Zealand photographer, Laurence Aberhart was born in Nelson in 1949. Aberhart has received several Art Council of New Zealand awards, a Fulbright Travel Grant (USA, 1988), a Fulbright Research Fellowship (USA, 2010) and a Moet et Chandon Fellowship in France (1994). He was artist in residence at Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 1999 and was the recipient of an Arts Foundation Award in 2013.
In 2022 the Whangarei Art Museum held Whare Tapu Taonga, a survey of Aberhart's Northland church series and in 2005 a survey of his work was shown at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia. Other solo exhibitions inlcude Ghostwriting: Photographs of Macau, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, 2001; Laurence Aberhart: Photographs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2002; Flight Patterns, MCA, Los Angeles, 2000; and All Gates Open, Laurence Aberhart, Fisher Gallery, Auckland, 1998
A major theme in his photography is the architecture of colonialism in ruin and decay. He has photographed in Europe, Asia, America and New Zealand. He lives and works in Russell, and travels extensively.
