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