Ruth Buchanan

Ruth Buchanan graduated from Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts in 2002 and gained her MA (Fine Art) from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2007. She won the 2018 Walters Prize for Bad Visual Systems, first exhibited at Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi in 2017, and is currently Kaitohu Director of Artspace Aotearoa.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Put a curve, an arch, right through it, Krome Gallery, Berlin (2012); Furniture, Plan, Rival Brain, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (2011); Eigenwillige Zeiechensetzung, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2011); Lying Freely, Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht (2010); and Several Attentions – Lying Freely Part III, The Showroom, London (2009). Recent performances include: A Wayward Punctuation, Liste 16, Basel (2011); The weather, a building, Tate Modern, London (2011).

In 2012 Buchanan made a solo presentation at Liste, Basel, and was included in several group exhibitions: Expanded Performance, Stroom, the Hague; Diagrams, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefelder; Beyond Words, GAK, Bremen; Tumulus, MOTINTERNATIONAL, Brussels; and A wavy line is drawn across the middle of the original plans, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. In 2013 Buchanan was artist-in-residence at McCahon House, Titirangi, and in 2015 and 2016 she was the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery's Artist in Residence.