The Gallery is open daily 10.00am - 4.30pm. Entry is free.
Exhibitions in our two gallery spaces change three or four times a year and feature artworks on loan and from our collection.
Works that defy the conventions of traditional portraiture and explore ways of communicating diverse identities through portraiture.
Curated by Georgie Keyse
Image: Frances Hodgkins, Still life: Self-portrait c.1935, oil on panel, collection of the Museum of Te Papa Tongarewa
Celebrating 175 years of Chinese life in New Zealand, with close to 100 compelling and rarely seen photographs, you can follow the story from the first settler Appo Hocton who arrived in 1842 to new migrants in the 2000s, from pioneering goldminers and merchants to architects and entrepreneurs, from early settlers to established communities.
Featuring a new artwork by Wellington-based artist Kerry Ann Lee.
Image: Appo Hocton, the first Chinese New Zealander, 1876. Nelson Provincial Museum, WE Brown Collection.
Poutokomanawa features portraits and stories of the transgender women of Carmen’s generation including Chrissy Witoko, Georgina Beyer and Dana de Milo, celebrating their role as poutokomanawa for the community.
Image: Nicolette Page, Carmen 2012, oil on canvas, collection of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. Gift of the Artist. Photograph: Jess O’Brien
Co-curated by Chanel Hati, Talei Langley and Georgie Keyse
Jaqueline Fahey’s Suburbanites presents people from Fahey’s life within familial, domestic and neighbourhood entanglements.
Image: Jacqueline Fahey, Drinking Couple: Fraser Analyses My Words 1978. Oil on board, The University of Auckland Collection.
The idea of a portrait by Wellington illustrator Margaret Tolland, to represent a conservation view with the interests, projects, and species that each person is dedicated to working with.
My Life To Live tells the story and celebrates the immense contribution of refugee background workers in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Image: Ehsan Hazaveh
Images of New Zealanders at work over the length of the country for the past thirty years.
Image: Peter James Quinn: "At the East St corner, Kirra Lee begins a Saturday night shift on Karangahape Road, Auckland.”
This collection of homegrown examples shows some of the various creative and stylistic techniques employed by New Zealand portrait artists.
Image: Rudolf Boelee, Robyn Hyde (2007), acrylic on hessian board. NZPG collection.
Two photographers, one hundred years apart.
Image: Left: Edith Amituanai Right: George Robson Crummer
