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Born in Hamilton in 1970, Richard Lewer trained at Elam. He holds a Master of Visual Arts from the Victoria College of Arts at the University of Melbourne and exhibits regularly in both New Zealand and Australia.
Winner of the 2008 Wallace Art Awards, Lewer took up the ISCP Residency in New York in February 2010. We featured his impressive body of work from this residency, entitled 10-4: New York Crime Stories, at the Melbourne Art Fair in August 2010; check it out here.
Lewer was a finalist in the inaugural 2008 Basil Sellers Art Prize and again in 2010, making him the only artist to have been nominated twice. In 2009 Lewer was the subject of a major retrospective at Monash University Museum of Art and a second major retrospective, I must learn to like myself, was exhibited at the Waikato Museum in 2010. Check out the Lumiere blog review of the Monash catalogue Nobody Likes a Show Off here, or read a review of I must learn to like myself here.
Lewer also completed the much sought-after McCahon House Residency in 2008. His work is represented in numerous public collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Te Papa Tongarewa, Waikato Museum, The Monash University Museum of Art, the University of Auckland, the Art Bank Collection and the Wallace Trust, as well as many private collections throughout New Zealand and Australia.
Read Richard's CV here.
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