Fiona Connor

Fine Arts, Sydney is presenting an exhibition of new work by Fiona Connor.

Fiona Connor’s work often remakes things that already exist, and is often to do with places where there is a connection between the built environment and local communities.

Over the last five years Connor has been documenting community notice boards found in places near her home in Los Angeles and on her regular trips to California’s High Desert. Connor has made series’ of works that remake these community notice boards, carefully reproducing their appearance while substituting their ephemeral paper postings for permanent copies in silkscreened metal.

This exhibition at the gallery in Sydney comprises two new works: a large 'Notice Board' that recreates a section of wall designated for posting community notices at the Cleaning Co-op in California’s Yucca Valley, and a cast resin monochrome.

Fiona Connor lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. She was born in 1981 in Auckland, New Zealand. Connor completed MFA at California Institute for the Arts, Los Angeles, in 2011, and BFA/BA at the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, in 2004. Connor has made solo exhibitions at institutions including the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2018); Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2018, 2008, 2004); Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2014); Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2012); and Auckland Art Gallery (2010). Her work has been included in international thematic exhibitions including the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013), the 1st and 2nd Los Angeles Biennials (2014, 2012); and in curated exhibitions at public institutions including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2016); Auckland Art Gallery (2015); City Gallery Wellington (2015); Christchurch Art Gallery (2011); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2010); Adam Art Gallery, Wellington (2009); Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (2008); and Artspace, Auckland (2008, 2006). This is the first solo exhibition of Fiona Connor’s work in Sydney.

24 November — 2 February, 2018 — 2019