# Kate Newby

Kate Newby (born 1979) is an artist from New Zealand.

## Background

Newby was born in 1979 in the Auckland region of New Zealand. She attended the Elam School of Fine Arts, receiving a BFA in 2001, an MFA in 2007, and a PhD in 2015. The title of her doctoral thesis was Casualness: it's not about what it looks like it's about what it does.

## Career

Newby is a mixed materials installation artist. She creates her installations based on their site and setting, often disused urban environments. Using commonplace materials such as pebbles, nails, and rope, her work explores the details of everyday life.
Newby was a member of the Auckland artist space Gambia Castle.

### Exhibitions

2008
* Show me, don’t tell me (group show), Brussels Biennial 1, Brussels
* Thinking with your body, Gambia Castle, Auckland
* Academy (with Ryan Moore), TCB, Melbourne
* Many directions, as much as possible, all over the country, 1301 PE, Los Angeles
2011
* I'll follow you down the road, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
* I'm just like a pile of leaves, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland
2013
* Let the Other Thing In, Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island
* Maybe I won’t go to sleep at all, La Loge, Brussels
2014
* Portmanteaux (with Nick Austin, Bill Culbert, Pup Culbert, Mateo Tannatt), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
2015
* Lunch Poems (with Joanna Margaret Paul), Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland
* 2016
* Big Tree. Bird’s Eye, Michael Lett, Auckland
2016
* Every day I make my way (with Talia Chetrit, Moyra Davey, Barbara Kasten), Minerva, Sydney
2017
* Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, curated by Michelle Grabner, Artpace, San Antonio
2018
* Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
* A puzzling light and moving. (Part I), lumber room, Portland, OR
* Nothing that's over so soon should give you that much strength, curated by Mathijs van Geest, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
* can't nail the days down, curated by Juliane Bischoff, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2019
* Wild was the night, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
* A puzzling light and moving. (Part II and Part III), lumber room, Portland, OR
* Bring Everyone, Fine Arts, Sydney, Sydney
2020
* As far as you can, Feuilleton, Los Angeles
2021
* Cold Water, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia
* YES TOMORROW, Adam Art Gallery, Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, New Zealand
* The Flames: The Living Arts of Ceramics (group show) Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2022
* Kate Newby: She's Talking to the Wall, Museum of New Zealand
* Kate Newby: So Close, come on, The Sunday Painter, London, UK
* We are such stuff, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA
* Try doing anything without it, Art : Concept, Paris, France
* Feel noise, Testsite, curated by Makenzie Stevens, Austin, US
* Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo (group show), Paris, France
2023
* miles off road, Fine Arts Sydney, Sydney, Australia
* Had us running with you, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand
* Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living (group show) Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2024
* Hours in wind, Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia