Fiona Connor
Lives and works in Los Angeles, United States. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, 1981.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Coastal Signs, ‘Thump’, Auckland, New Zealand
2023
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, ‘Drawing Something Under Itself’, Dusseldorf, Germany
Chateau Shatto, 621 Roberta Ave, ‘Continuous Sidewalk’, Los Angeles, United States
2022
Maureen Paley, ’Long Distance’, London, United Kingdom
Fine Arts, Sydney, 'Behind the Door', Sydney, Australia
Finley Gallery, ’Rooms I Have Keys For’, Los Angeles, United States
Château Shatto, ’My muse is my memory, an archive of Closed Down Clubs’, Los Angeles, United States
2020
Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Work University’, Sydney, Australia
New Low, Los Angeles, United States
2019
SculptureCenter, ‘Closed for installation, Fiona Connor, SculptureCenter, #4’, New York, United States
Secession, ‘#8, Closed for Installation, Sequence of Events’, Vienna, Austria
Sydney, ‘#10’, Sydney, Australia
2018
Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
1301PE, ‘Direct Address’, Los Angeles, United States
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, ‘Closed Down Clubs’, Los Angeles, United States
Hopkinson Mossman, ‘Closed Down Clubs and Monochromes’, Wellington, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Object Classrooms’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Modern Art hosting 1301PE, Condo London: ‘Community Notice Board and Monochromes’, London, United Kingdom
Marquise, ‘Community Noticeboard (Snax in the City)’, Lisbon, Portugal
Salon Stuttgart, ‘#1’, Berlin, Germany
2017
1301PE, ‘Color Census’, Los Angeles, United States
2016
Hopkinson Mossman, ‘Brick, Cane and Paint’, Auckland, New Zealand
Lisa Cooley, ‘On What Remains Part 2’, New York, United States
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, ‘Process Interrupted’, Los Angeles, United States
Gallery at REDCAT, ‘Can you help with this project? Will you please print a page of the book? Could you print as close to 100 copies as possible?’, Los Angeles, United States
2015
Lisa Cooley, ‘On what remains’, New York, United States
1301PE, ‘Community Notice Board’, Los Angeles, United States
Permanently Closed, ‘A letter’, Los Angeles, United States
2014
Monash University Museum of Art MUMA, ‘Wallworks’, Melbourne, Australia
Lisa Cooley, ‘Newspaper Reading Club’, New York, United States
Hopkinson Mossman, ‘Can Do Academy’, Auckland, New Zealand
2013
1301PE, ‘Bare Use’, Los Angeles, United States
2012
Various Small Fires, ‘Murals and Print’, Los Angeles, United States
Hopkinson Cundy, ‘Mount Gabriel, Ruby and Ash’, Auckland, New Zealand
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Untitled (Mural Design)’, Dunedin, New Zealand
2011
CalArts, ‘Reading the map while driving’, Los Angeles, United States
2010
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Something Transparent (please go around the back) II’, Walter’s Prize 2010, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
Michael Lett, ‘Something Transparent (please go around the back)’, Auckland, New Zealand
Gambia Castle, ‘Notes on half the page’, Auckland, New Zealand
2008
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Outside In’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Physics Room, ‘Screening Room, Exhibition Space C’, Christchurch, New Zealand
2007
Gambia Castle, ‘Old Buildings’, Auckland, New Zealand
Window, ‘Free Literature’, Auckland, New Zealand
2006
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, ‘Inner City Real Estate’, Wellington, New Zealand
dep_art_ment, Auckland, New Zealand
Special Gallery, ‘536 Days and 88388 km Away’, Auckland, New Zealand
Ramp Gallery, ‘Time Capsule From Japan 14/10/04-5/11/04’, Hamilton, New Zealand
Group Exhibitions
2024
Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Francis Upritchard, Hany Armanious, Fiona Connor, Ricky Swallow’, Sydney, Australia
Chateau Shatto, ‘Fiona Connor & Alan Lynch’, New York, United States
2023
Hammer Museum, ‘Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection’, Los Angeles, United States
2022
Chateau Shatto, ‘Oceans of Time’, Los Angeles, United States
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show, Auckland, New Zealand
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘On the Table’, Dunedin, New Zealand
OxfordBerlin, ‘Oh Baby’, Berlin, Germany
2021
Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, ‘Out of Place’, Canberra, Australia
Neutra VDL House, ‘Built In’, Los Angeles, United States
Galerie Nordenhake, ‘Reassembly’, curated by Spencer Young, Stockholm, Sweden
2020
Gaga & Reena Spaulings, ‘four corners of the landscape’, Los Angeles, United States
Kunsthal Extra City, ‘Daily Nightshift’, Antwerp, Belgium
1301PE, ‘Mapping Internal Landscapes’, Los Angeles, United States
2019
Hammer Contemporary, ‘Celebration of Our Enemies’, Los Angeles, United States
Henry Art Gallery, ‘In Plain Sight’, Seattle, United States
Institute of Modern Art, ‘Haunt’, Brisbane, Australia
Hopkinson Mossman, ‘Memory Disco’, Wellington, New Zealand
Armory Center for the Arts, ‘Berman Board’, Los Angeles, United States
2018
Hammer Museum, ‘Stories of Almost Everyone’, Los Angeles, United States
Chateau Shatto, ‘Ma’, Los Angeles, United States
Salt Galata, ‘Bureau of Unspecified Services (O.U.S.)’, Istanbul, Turkey
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Light switch and conduit: the Jim Barr and Mary Barr collection’, Dunedin, New Zealand
500 Capp Street/David Ireland House, ‘Not the Apple but the Fall’, San Franciso, United States
Talbot Rice Gallery, ‘Green Man’, Lucy Skaer, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2017
Chicago Architecture Biennale, with Erin Besler, Chicago, United States
High Desert Test Sites, ‘An Ephemeral History of High Desert Test Sites: 2002-2015’, Joshua Tree, United States
Minerva, ‘We Remember It For You Wholesale (Part Two)’, Sydney, Australia
2016
Chateau Shatto, ‘Ma’, Los Angeles, United States
Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara, Mexico
Human Resources, ‘Distance Plan’, Los Angeles, United States
Minerva, ‘Fiona Connor, Sydney de Jong, Audrey Wollen’, Sydney, Australia
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, ‘Routine Pleasures’, Los Angeles, United States
Human Resources, ‘Distance Plan’, Los Angeles, United States
Laurel Doody, ‘Not a Dated Annotation (Designation of Will Within The Season Which We Live)’, with Daniel Malone, Los Angeles, United States
2015
Human Resources, ‘A Man of Average Means’, Los Angeles, United States
Minerva, ‘Have it Your Way’, Sydney, Australia
Permanently Closed, ‘A letter’, Los Angeles, United States
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, ‘Country Practice’, Horsham, Australia
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Inside Outside Upside Down’, Auckland, New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand, ‘Splash! Four Contemporary New Zealand Paintings’, Wellington, New Zealand
City Gallery Wellington, ‘Julian Dashper and Friends’, Wellington, New Zealand
2014
Artspace, ‘TL;DR’, Auckland, New Zealand
2013
13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Scape Public Art Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand
Cleopatra’s, ‘Works Sited’, New York, United States
Henningsen Gallery, ‘The things we know’, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pacific Standard Time/Machine Projects, ‘This peculiarity we afterwards observed in other streams; they flowed by night and became dry by day’, Los Angeles, United States
Otras Obras, ‘Asamblea/Ensamblar, Tijuana, Mexico
VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, ‘Third/Forth’, Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Duncan Gallery, ‘P & CO’, Los Angeles, United States
2012
Hammer Museum, ‘Made in LA’, 1stst Los Angeles Biennial, Los Angeles, United States
Torrance Art Museum, ‘Baker’s Dozen 4’, Torrance, United States
Human Resources, ‘Gap, Mark, Sever and Return’, curated by Chiara Giovando, Los Angeles, United States
Expo Chicago, ‘IN SITU’, curated by Michael Ned Holte, Chicago, United States
ltd los angeles, ‘Chinatown: the sequel’, curated by Liv Barrett, Los Angeles, United States
2011
REDCAT, ‘The Experimental Impulse’, Los Angeles, United States
Christchurch Art Gallery, ‘De-Building’, curated by Justin Paton, Christchurch, New Zealand
City Gallery Wellington, ‘Prospect’, Wellington, New Zealand
Cirrus Gallery, ‘Once Emerging Now EMERGING: Now and Then’, Los Angeles, United States
LAXART, ‘ON FORGERY: IS ONE THING BETTER THAN ANOTHER?’, curated by Andrew Berardini and Lesley Moon, Los Angeles, United States
2010
UCLA Wight Gallery, ‘Another Romance: The New Wight Biennial’, Los Angeles, United States
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA, ‘NEW10’, Melbourne, Australia
Musée Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
California Institute for the Arts, ‘The sky a tree and a wall’, collaboration with Kate Newby, Los Angeles, United States
Gambia Castle and Split Fountain, ‘Carry on or stow away’, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
‘Blackwelder Show’, Los Angeles, United States
Adam Art Gallery, ‘The Future is Unwritten’, Wellington, New Zealand
Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, ‘F is for Fake’, Auckland, New Zealand
21 Mercury Lane, ‘INTERIOR WHAT?’, Auckland, New Zealand
Y3K Gallery, ‘Pickups, Magic Mountain, Home, Okay, A pretty intense long drawn out game’, with Tahi Moore, Melbourne, Australia
2008
Newcall Gallery, ‘NSFW’, Auckland, New Zealand
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, ‘Octopus 8’, curated by Emily Cormack, Melbourne, Australia
Charlton Avenue / Gambia Castle, ‘The World (will soon turn our way)’, with Kate Newby and Marnie Slater, Auckland, New Zealand
Artspace, ‘You Are Here’, curated by Ariane Craig-Smith,, Auckland, New Zealand
Engine Room, ‘Fiona Connor and Things you would find in a Library’, Wellington, New Zealand
2007
MAS, ‘en permuta’, Barcelona, Spain
Gambia Castle, ‘Drinking From a Bucket’, Auckland, New Zealand
2006
Artspace, ‘HEADWAY’, Auckland, New Zealand
Special Gallery, ‘Fifteen People Present Their Favourite Book’, in conjunction with the publication release of ‘Artists Respond to Working in Libraries’, Auckland, New Zealand
Blue Oyster Gallery, ‘Drifting Observatories’, Dunedin, and rm. 103, Auckland, New Zealand
Next Wave Festival, ‘Silver Clouds’, facilitated by Cuckoo and Clubs projects, Melbourne, Australia
2005
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, ‘Best In Show’, Wellington, New Zealand
Ramp Gallery, ‘Likes the Outdoors’, Hamilton, New Zealand
Special Gallery, ‘TIMECAPSULE II’, Auckland, New Zealand
2004
High Street Project, ‘TIMECAPSULE’, Christchurch, New Zealand
Special Gallery, ‘Razza II: Common Knowledge with Leah Mulgrew, and Dan 2000’, Auckland, New Zealand
Westspace, ‘Cuckooborough’, facilitated by Cuckoo, Melbourne, Australia
Rm. 103, ‘Snowball’, Auckland, New Zealand
Special Gallery, ‘Drawns’, Auckland, New Zealand
Special Gallery, ‘Razza II: Common Knowledge’, Auckland, New Zealand
George Fraser Gallery, ‘Razza’, Auckland, New Zealand
Education
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, United States, MFA (2011)
University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand, BFA/BA (2004)