Gretchen Albrecht
Born in 1943, Auckland, New Zealand. Lives and works in Auckland, and London, United Kingdom.
Diploma of Fine Arts (Hons Painting), University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand (1963)
Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage (2007)
Companion of the Order of New Zealand (CNZM) (2000)
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Furia’, Sydney, Australia
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Art Gallery, ‘Liquid States: Gretchen Albrecht’, Auckland, New Zealand
2023—2024
Two Rooms, ‘Lighting the Path’, Auckland, New Zealand
2022
Two Rooms, ‘Eight Hours’, Auckland, New Zealand
2021
Two Rooms, ‘Light Breaks’, Auckland, New Zealand
2020
Michael Lett, ‘After Goya’, Auckland, New Zealand
Two Rooms, ‘Collages 1988–1989’, Auckland, New Zealand
2019
Fine Arts, Sydney, ‘Hemispheres, 1981 & 1982’, Sydney, Australia
Two Rooms, ‘Between gesture and geometry’, Auckland, New Zealand
2016
Sarjeant on Quay, ‘Gretchen Albrecht: The Fire and the Rose’, Whanganui, New Zealand
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Last Light – Looking West’, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Two Rooms Gallery, ‘On Copper’, Auckland, New Zealand
2015
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Swimming into Darkness’, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Two Rooms Gallery, ‘Colloquy’, Auckland, New Zealand
Old Government House, ‘Gretchen Albrecht’, Auckland, New Zealand
2014
Two Rooms Gallery, ‘Gretchen Albrecht: Painting’, Auckland, New Zealand
2013
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Gretchen Albrecht – Violet Dusk’, Arrowtown, New Zealand
2012
Tauranga Art Gallery, ‘A Luminous Shade’, Tauranga, New Zealand
Mark Hutchins Gallery, ‘Walls and Corners’, with James Ross, Wellington, New Zealand
Open Studio, Camberwell, London, United Kingdom
2011
Michael Lett Gallery, ‘Making Arrangements’, with Eve Armstrong, Auckland, New Zealand
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Not Far From Home’, with Elizabeth Thompson, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Falling on Grass’, Auckland, New Zealand
Black Barn Gallery, ‘Shimmer’, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
2010
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Roses in the Snow’, Auckland, New Zealand
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Radiance’, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Open Studio, Camberwell, London, United Kingdom
2009
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Between Paint and Nature - Five Decades’, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Mark Hutchins Gallery, ‘Rosea’, Wellington, New Zealand
2008
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Rose Gardens and the Deep Sea Swell’, Auckland, New Zealand
2007
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Horizon’, Auckland, New Zealand
2006
Judith Anderson Gallery, ‘Print Survey’, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Time’, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Mark Hutchins Gallery, ‘Plantae Oceaniae’, with Jo Torr, Wellington, New Zealand
Michael Carr Art Dealer, ‘Gretchen Albrecht’, Sydney, Australia
2005
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘Returning, a 24 year Survey of the Hemispheres and Ovals’, Dunedin, New Zealand, touring to City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Crossing the Threshold’, Auckland, New Zealand
Mark Hutchins Gallery, ‘Paintings & Sculpture’, Wellington, New Zealand
2004
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Oceans, Clouds & Thresholds’, Auckland, New Zealand
2003
Tinakori Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, Wellington, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Threshold’, Auckland, New Zealand
2002
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘Illuminations: a 23 Year Survey of the Hemispheres and Ovals’, Auckland, New Zealand
2001
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Blind’, Auckland, New Zealand
Robert Steele Gallery, ‘Ovals - New Paintings’, New York, United States
2000
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, ‘15 years - 1984 – 1999’, Christchurch, New Zealand
1999
Sarjeant Gallery, ‘Crossing the Divide: a painter makes prints; a survey of graphic work 1964 – 1999’, Whanganui, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘The Cicada’s Song’, Auckland, New Zealand
Art above AVID, ‘Paintings and Prints’, Wellington, New Zealand
1998
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Gains and Losses’, Auckland, New Zealand
1997
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Mirrors and Lakes’, Auckland, New Zealand
1996
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Meditation on the Life of My Father’, Auckland, New Zealand
1995
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘The Seven Sorrows of Mary’, Auckland, New Zealand
1994
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1993
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Nomadic Geometries’, Auckland, New Zealand
1992
Clare Hall Gallery, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
1991
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Nocturne’, Auckland, New Zealand
1990
Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Todd Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1989
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1988
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Todd Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1987
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Forum North Gallery, Whangarei, New Zealand
1986
Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Sarjeant Gallery, ‘Afternature - a survey, 23 years’, Whanganui, New Zealand
1985
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘Seasonal - Artist Project’, New Zealand
Dowse Art Gallery, ‘Artist in Focus’Lower Hutt, New Zealand
1984
New Vision Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1983
Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1981
Bosshard Galleries, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand
Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
1980
Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1977
Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
Bosshard Galleries, Dunedin, New Zealand
1976
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
1975
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1974
Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1973
Dawson’s Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
1972
Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1970
Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1967
Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand
1964
Ikon Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Two Rooms Gallery, ‘Core Sample’, Auckland, New Zealand
2021
Two Rooms, ‘XXXL’, Auckland New Zealand
2018
Hocken Library Gallery, ‘Sisters Communing’, Dunedin, New Zealand
Two Rooms Gallery, ‘I come out of surgery looking golden’, Auckland, New Zealand
Two Rooms, ‘UNDER CONTROL’, Auckland New Zealand
2017
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Hotere, Smither, Albrecht & Bambury’, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Pacific Rim – Abstraction from the South Pacific’, Christchurch, New Zealand
2016
Two Rooms Gallery, ‘Drawing Rehearsals’, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Painting’, Auckland, New Zealand
City Gallery Wellington, ‘Oceania - Imagining the Pacific’, Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘Call Waiting’, Auckland, New Zealand
2015
Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art & History, ‘Selection from the Rutherford Trust Collection’, Masterton, New Zealand
2014
Auckland City Gallery, ‘Modern Paints Aotearoa’, Auckland, New Zealand
2013
Page Blackie Gallery, ‘Line / Form / Colour / Intention’, Wellington, New Zealand
Two Rooms Gallery, ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, ‘Paper Jam, Artists Between the Covers’, Auckland, New Zealand
Art Gallery of Western Australia, ‘Luminous World’, Perth, Australia
2010
Nadene Milne Gallery, ‘Islandsong’, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Hocken Gallery, ‘100UP, a snapshot of Dunedin life 1910 – 2010’, Dunedin, New Zealand
2009
Millennium Public Art Gallery, ‘Diaspora: Pluralism + Singularity’, Blenheim, New Zealand
2008
Lemon Street Gallery, ‘Refractions/Shadows’, Truro, United Kingdom
Corban Estate Arts Centre, ‘Western Gothic’, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘The Enchanted Garden’, Auckland, New Zealand
2007
Casa Museo Benlliure, ‘ULTRAMARTE’, Valencia, Spain
2006
Mark Hutchins Gallery, ‘Plantae Oceaniae’, Wellington, New Zealand
2002
Robert Steele Gallery, ‘Decades’, New York, United States
Galerie Pieter van Ulden, ‘3 + 1’, Leiden, Netherlands
2001
City Gallery Wellington, ‘Prospect 2001’, Wellington, New Zealand
Kunsthal Hof 88, Almalo, and Beeld and Ambeld Gallery, ‘4’, Enschede, Netherlands
Robert Steele Gallery, ‘New Ovals’, New York, United States
2000
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Orange/Blue’, Auckland, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘New Works’, Auckland, New Zealand
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, ‘25th Anniversary Exhibition’, Christchurch, New Zealand
Het Koopmanshuis, ‘4’, Leusden, Netherlands
1999
Auckland Art Gallery, ‘The Journey is the Destination’, Auckland, New Zealand
1998
Museum of New Zealand, ‘Dream Collectors’, Wellington, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘1970s’, Auckland, New Zealand
Govett Brewster Gallery, ‘Leap of Faith - Contemporary New Zealand Art’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1997
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Gallery Artists’, Auckland, New Zealand
Lopdell House Art Gallery, ‘Western Lights: Art & Design in West Auckland 1945-1980’, Auckland, New Zealand
1996
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, ‘Group Exhibition’, Christchurch, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Gallery Artists - Group Show’, Auckland, New Zealand
City Gallery Wellington, ‘NZ LIVE - Rutherford Trust Collection’, Wellington, New Zealand
1995
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘New Space’, Auckland, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Group Show’, Auckland, New Zealand
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Waikato Museum of Art and History, ‘New Works, New Directions’, Hamilton, New Zealand
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, ‘20 Years’, Christchurch, New Zealand
1994
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Sarjeant Gallery, ‘Taking Stock of the ‘90s’, Wanganui, New Zealand
City Gallery Wellington, ‘Town and Gown’, Wellington, New Zealand
1993
Usher Gallery, ‘Reclaiming the Madonna’, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Academy of Fine Arts, ‘Academy Women - 100 Years of Women’s Art in New Zealand’, Wellington, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1992
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Pabellon de las Artes, EXPO ’92, ‘Distance Looks Our Way’, Seville, Spain, toured to Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand; Stelling Gallery, Leiden, Netherlands; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain; Centro Cultural de Caja Espana, Zamora, Spain; Centre Civic Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1991
Waikato Museum of Art and History, ‘Cross-Currents’, Hamilton, New Zealand
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, ‘Signature of Place’, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
1990
Todd Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, London, United Kingdom
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Albrecht, Apple, Killeen, Mrkusich, Walters’, Auckland, New Zealand
1989
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘The Cross’, curated by John Reynolds, Auckland, New Zealand
National Art Gallery, ‘Community of Women’, Wellington, New Zealand
1988
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Early Works’, Auckland, New Zealand
1987
Sue Crockford Gallery, ‘Albrecht/Reynolds’, Auckland, New Zealand
1986
Marianne Deson Gallery, ‘New Zealand Art Today’, Chicago, United States
National Art Gallery, ‘Content/Context’, Wellington, New Zealand
1985
22 Wooster Gallery, ‘NZ/NY’, New York, United States
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
World Print Council, ‘Prints by Contemporary New Zealand Artists’, San Francisco, United States
1984
New Zealand - Japan Exchange Programme, ‘Contemporary New Zealand Prints’, travelling exhibition for Japan organized by National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1983
Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘Albrecht/Bambury/Gimblett/Ross’, Hamilton, New Zealand
1982
Sarjeant Gallery, ‘Seven Painters/The Eighties’, Wanganui, New Zealand, toured to Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand; Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, ‘New Zealand Drawing 1982’, Dunedin, New Zealand
1981
Dowse Art Gallery, ‘Paint - 4 Artists’, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
1979
Wairarapa Arts Centre, ‘Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting’, Masterton, New Zealand
1978
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘Auckland Artists’, Auckland, New Zealand
Dowse Art Gallery, ‘Benson and Hedges Art Award’, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Elva Bett Gallery, ‘Fomison/Clairmont/Albrecht’, Wellington, New Zealand
Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, ‘Opera Sets and Small Works’, Christchurch, New Zealand
1977
Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
1976
Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, ‘Land 1976, Festival Exhibition’, Christchurch, New Zealand
1975
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘New Zealand’s Women Painters’, Auckland, New Zealand
1974
Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, ‘Art ’74’, Christchurch, New Zealand
1973
Auckland Society of Arts, ‘Twenty Women Artists’, Auckland, New Zealand
1972
Osborne Galleries, ‘New Zealand Society of Sculptors and Painters 10th Anniversary Exhibition’, Auckland, New Zealand
Barry Lett Galleries, ‘Works in Progress’, Auckland, New Zealand
1971
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘New Zealand Young Contemporaries’, Auckland, New Zealand
1970
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘Art of the Sixties, Royal Tour Exhibition’, Auckland, New Zealand
1969
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘10 Years of New Zealand Painting in Auckland’, Auckland, New Zealand
1968
Auckland Society of Arts, ‘New Zealand Women Painters’, Auckland, New Zealand
1967
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand
1965
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘New Zealand Painting 1965’, Auckland, New Zealand
1964
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘Contemporary New Zealand Painting 1964’, Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Public Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection, Wellington, New Zealand
Creative New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand
Southland Art Gallery, Invercargill, New Zealand
Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand
Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand