Nick Austin

Nick Austin was born in Whangārei in 1979. He received a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology in 2001 and a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2004. He has exhibited throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and in Australia, United States and Europe. In 2012 he was the Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin, where he now lives. Austin’s mid-career survey exhibition, Life Puzzle, was first presented at Whangārei Art Museum (9 April–10 July 2022), the town where he was born and grew up. The exhibition included works produced over the previous 15 years, all selected and arranged by the artist.