Christina Barton

Exhibitions

• In Relation: Performance Works by Peter Roche & Linda Buis 1979–1985, co-curated with Gregory Burke, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 13 May – 30 July 2023.

• Tēnei Ao Tūroa: This Enduring World. Mark Adams, Chris Corson-Scott, Natalie Robertson, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington,  9 April – 26 June 2022.
  
• Energy Work: Kathy Barry/Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 13 July – 2 October 2022.
  
• Billy Apple® Rainbows 1965, The Mayor Gallery, London, 18 May – 27 July 2022.

• Kate Newby YES TOMORROW, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 20 February – 30 May 2021.
  
• Crossings (a group show about intimacies and distances), co-curated with Millie Riddell and Sophie Thorn, Adam Art Gallery, 19 June – 22 August 2021.
• Image Processors. Artists in the Medium – A Short History 1968–2020, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 14 September – 7 November 2021.

• Dane Mitchell: Letters and Documents, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2 June – 16 August 2020.
  
• Billy Apple®: A Brand Looking for a Product, MTG Hawke’s Bay, Napier, 26 September 2020 – 31 October 2021.

• ‘Looking for a New Country’: Christopher Perkins in New Zealand, co-curated with Lachlan Taylor, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 6 November 2019 – 22 March 2020.
  
• The Live Feed: Fiona Clark’s ‘Egmontiana’, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 6 November 2019 – 22 March 2020.

• Elizabeth Price: A Restoration, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 28 April – 24 June 2018.
  
• Billy Apple. Six Decades 1962–2018, Rossi & Rossi gallery, Hong Kong, 9 June – 28 July 2018.
  
• The earth looks upon us Ko Papatūānuku te matua o te tangata: Ngahuia Harrison, Ana Iti, Nova Paul, Raukura Turei, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 7 July – 23 September 2018.
  
• Vivian Lynn: Extricating Form 1969–1984, Bowerbank Ninow gallery, Auckland, 12 September – 13 October 2018.

• The Tomorrow People, co-curated with Stephen Cleland and Simon Gennard, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 22 July – 1 October 2017.
  
• What Remains: The Karori Commission. Gavin Hipkins, Anna Sanderson, Philip Kelly, Adam Art Gallery, 14 October – 21 December 2017.

• Walker Evans: Magazine Work, curated by David Campany; Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans; Patrick Pound: Documentary Intersect; Sonya Lacey: Newspaper for Vignelli, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 30 July – 18 September 2016.
  
• Bad Visual Systems: Ruth Buchanan, Judith Hopf, Marianne Wex, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2 October – 22 December 2016.

• Billy Apple® The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 14 March – 21 June 2015.
  
• The Specious Present: Andrew Beck, David Claerbout, Colin McCahon, Keith Tyson, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 11 July – 20 September 2015.

• RELOAD: Kirk Gallery Series 2014, with Hito Steyerl, Eddie Clemens, Shannon Te Ao, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 27 May – 21 September 2014.
  
• What is a Life? Kim Pieters, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 27 May – 21 September 2014.
  
• Simon Denny: The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 4 October – 19 December 2014.

• Beautiful Creatures: Jack Smith/Bill Henson/Jacqueline Fraser, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 4 May – 7 July 2013.
  
• Paul Johns: Mum, a commissioned installation for All There Is Left, co-curated with Laura Preston and Michelle Menzies, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 21 July – 29 September 2013.
  
• Peter Robinson: Cuts and Junctures, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 12 October – 20 December 2013.

• Dark Sky, co-curated with Geoffrey Batchen, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 1 May – 8 July 2012.
  

• Behind Closed Doors: New Zealand Art from Private Collections in Wellington, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 4 June – 18 December 2011.
  

• Anthony McCall: Drawing with Light, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 24 February – 25 April 2010.
  
• Play On, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 8 May – 25 July 2010.

• Billy Apple New York 1969–1973, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 28 March – 17 May 2009.
  
• Wall Works, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 8 September – 4 October 2009
  
• Gavin Hipkins: Bible Studies (New Testament), Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 16 October 2009 – 7 February 2010.

• Hydraulics of Solids: João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 15 February – 20 April 2008.
  
• The Subject Now, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 26 July – 5 October 2008.
  
• I, HERE, NOW Vivian Lynn, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 25 October 2008 – 15 March 2009.

• Four Times Painting, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2 June – 29 July 2007.
  
• Primary Products, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 11 August – 7 October 2007.

• The Expatriates: Barrie Bates and Frances Hodgkins, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 23 October 2004 – 5 February 2005, touring to Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, 28 September – 6 December 2005.

• Pauline Rhodes: Conduits and Containers: Leakage from the Text, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 22 June – 18 August 2002.

• Language Matters, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 11 February – 26 March 2000.
  
• Joseph Kosuth: Guests and Foreigners, Rules and Meanings (Te Kore), Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2 March – 30 April 2000.

• Manufacturing Meaning: The Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection in Context, concept and coordinating curator for ten projects developed around ten works from the Collection, inaugural exhibition, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 22 September 1999 – 31 January 2000.

• Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, co-curated with Zara Stanhope and Clare Williamson, Monash University Gallery and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 9 October – 22 November 1998. Touring to Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 5–27 March 1999, Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra, 2 July – 29 August 1999; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 16 September – 6 November 1999;  Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 18 December 1999 – 27 February 2000; and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 19 August – 15 October 2000.
  
• Action Replay: Post Object Art, co-curated with Wystan Curnow, John Hurrell and Robert Leonard, Artspace and Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 7 October – 28 November 1998.

• Art Now: First Biennial Review of Contemporary Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (and public venues around Wellington), 11 June – 18 Sept 1994.
  

• Sculpture by Marie Shannon, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 17 November – 30 January 1994.
  
• Alter/Image: Feminism and Representation in Recent New Zealand Art 1973–1993, co-curated with Deborah Lawler-Dormer. City Gallery, Wellington, 1 August – 21 November 1993; and Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 17 December 1993 – 20 February 1994.

• Surface Tension: Ten Artists in the ’90s, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 3 September – 25 October 1992.
  

• Louise Henderson: The Cubist Years 1946–1958, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 29 August – 13 October 1991.
  

• In the Forest of Dream, co-curated with Wystan Curnow and Gregory Burke, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 23 May – 1 July 1990; Suter Gallery, Nelson, 25 September – 14 October 1990; Artspace, Auckland, 21 November – 21 December 1990; exhibition organised and toured by the Moët & Chandon NZ Art Foundation.
  

• After McCahon: Some Configurations in Recent Art, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, 25 May – 9 July 1989.