20 September - 3 November 2024
First Floor Galleries
Touring Exhibition from NZ Portrait Gallery

The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages emerging Māori artists to create portraits of their tūpuna (ancestors) in any medium. Administered by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata in honour of Kiingi Tuheitia.

12 September - 24 November 2024
Ground Floor Galleries

Featuring contemporary collage by George Hajian, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Teresa HR Lane, Peter Madden, Kenneth Merrick, Tracey Tawhiao

Now in its 12th year, the annual event recognises and celebrates emerging artistic talent in New Zealand. The awards are a fantastic way to explore your artistic potential, challenge yourself, and take your passion for art to the next level.

Year 11, 12 or 13 students submit one artwork via The Arts House Trust website. Finalists will be selected by The Arts House Trust team and will be exhibited at the Pah Homestead.

4 September - 1 December
Morrinsville Gallery

Light From Near and Far brings together many works from the Arts House Trust Collection and works by Audrey Goggin, Sophia Malota, Bridget Pahl, Angus Collis and Shan James, to explore how artists utilise a sensitive depiction of light to convey emotion and intimacy. Whether portraying distant landscapes or close domestic scenes, each work communicates a distinct lightness through the artist’s use of colour, texture, or their treatment of space.

15 August – 15 September 2024
Opening Night: Wednesday 14 August 6pm
Curator Talk and Walk Through: TBA
First Floor Galleries

This annual exhibition showcases and awards the outstanding pottery and ceramics of members of Auckland Studio Potters (ASP). ASP will shortly announce the selector and judge this year.

24 July– 15 September 2024
Opening Night: Wednesday 14 August, 6pm
AV Gallery

THE SEA INSIDE HER is an exhibition of paintings and a short film. Utilising performers, puppets, household objects and paint, the immersive experience is about the fragility of staying in control of oneself. Each piece depicts an older woman’s response to a wild animal encroaching on her domestic space.

5 July – 8 September 2024
Ceramics
Jaime Jenkins & Janna van Hasselt

This exhibition brings together the practices of Jaime Jenkins and Janna van Hasselt, to broaden our thinking of ceramics beyond domestic functionality. These artists construct sculptural work from clay lead by other influences including architecture, nature, industry, and Fine Arts.

30 May – 21 July, 2024
AV Gallery
Matariki Exhibition

On 23rd March 2020, just days before the Level 4 lockdown was announced, artist Tanya Ruka asked her mother to perform a karakia on the point overlooking the gannet colony at Muriwai. Presenting a dawn karakia with Whaea Jane Mihingarangi Ruka, Ngāti Pakau, Ngāpuhi, Waitaha.

30 May - 11 August 2024
Opening Event: Thursday 30 May 4-6pm
Artist Talk: Friday 31 May 11am-12pm
First Floor Galleries and Foyer

An exploration of Staged Photography with works by Andrea Gardner and from The Arts House Trust Collection. Subjects are presented in forms of disguise and explore identity, selfhood, and the psychological tension found in female experience.
Presented in association with the Auckland Festival of Photography 2024.

26 April - 26 May, 2024
Opening Event: Saturday 27 April, 1.30-3.30pm
Boardroom Gallery

Hyphen brings together artists of Asian descent into the Back Room to reflect on their existence as workers and creatives in the world. The reality of being an artist is to constantly play a game of tug of war between one's practice and the costs of sustaining a livelihood.

26 April - 26 May, 2024
Opening Event: Saturday 27 April, 1.30-3.30pm
First Floor Galleries
Curated by Kiki Hall and Lexi Kerr

Buttercup and Lavender presents the idea of the sweetness of awe, the space is transformed into a scene of whimsy, celebration and memory. Curated by and composed of female artists, the space draws inspiration from curator Peter Shaw’s house at the edge of Pirongia.

6 March – 30 June (extended date), 2024
Ground Floor Galleries
Slow Art Day: Saturday 13 April

Lovers & Castaways explores the decade in which Aotearoa experienced a shift in its social, political and economic landscape – the 1980s – through artworks drawn from our collection.
Presented in association with the Auckland Arts Festival.

22 February – 21 April, 2024
Artist Talk with Matilda Gold (R18): Thursday 22 February, 10am
AV Gallery

More Than Just unfolds as a celebration of resilience, individuality, and the right to self-expression. This exhibition encapsulates the myriad roles sex workers play in their daily lives — creators, thinkers, and agents of change. It challenges the viewer to see beyond the surface, encouraging a deeper understanding of the human behind the label.

22 February – 21 April, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 28 February, 6pm
Panel Discussion: Wednesday 20 March, 6pm
First Floor Galleries

Ululau Ama and Sarah Holten have both lived with their own personal challenges. Art has been the common language through which they could express themselves. This exhibition through Māpura Studios celebrates their recognition by Creative New Zealand as outstanding artists.

1 December 2023 – 3 March 2024
Curator Talk: Wednesday 6 December, 11am
Artist Talk with Finn Ferrier: Sunday 11 February, 10am
Ground Floor Galleries

If you’re a yachtie and you’re “luffing”, your sail is flapping – you’ve gone too far easing out the sheet, and you’re no longer harnessing the wind – out on the water, an encounter with this term is familiar, known, and informative. Here in the gallery, the word comes across unexpectedly, cute, and perhaps with a hint of intrigue. The idea of the four seasons served as a guide in our summer major exhibition.

23 November 2023 – 18 February 2024
Little Gallery & Boardroom

Clouds reign over us in the sky. They seem too far from our reach when in fact, they may be much closer to us than we think. In this exhibition, artist Orimi explores the relationship between our emotions and the clouds. Reflect deeply on your true emotions and feelings that you may have hidden amongst the clouds.

3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6-8pm
AV Gallery

As a city awakens, early morning hues colour an increasingly busy scene. The dawn chorus, having just completed their concert, is now busy foraging. Animalia, human, are also beginning the day. Ensconced in moving metal cages, they follow each other in a ritual resembling ants.

In this delicate dance of survival, it is essentially a human decision determining where these spaces converge, forcing other species to adapt or perish. Morning Commute offers a view where the seemingly opposing worlds of urban and natural environments collide.

3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6-8pm
Master Bedroom Gallery

Deceased Estate (2023) invites us to “move into” a space not entirely our own; vacated family homes, mysterious rental properties, storied shared flats, or one’s first home. These works speak to the precarity of an object’s value, and how legacies can persist unseen in the “stuff” we inherit.

Dillon Gamble is the 2023 recipient of The Arts House Trust & Jan Warburton Graduate Exhibition Scholarship.

3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6pm
Curator Talk with Richard Penn: Saturday 17 February, 10.30am
Photography Gallery

AiR2 is Auckland Studio Potters’ second Artist in Residence exhibition. This year, it showcases the work of the seven ASP residents during 2023. Established in 2019, the resident programme welcomes applications from national and international potters to spend up to three months in one of ASP’s two pod studios. The artists include young graduates, PhD candidates, traditional artisan master craftsmen through to contemporary exhibiting artists and modern table and homeware specialists.

21 September – 29 October
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 20 September, 6-8pm
Master Bedroom and Photography Galleries

This year’s annual exhibition from Māpura Studios presents an eclectic selection of abstract and expressionist mixed media works from Māpura artists.

Finalists’ Exhibition: 20 September – 15 October
Exhibition Opening Afternoon Tea and Winners Announced: Weds 20th Sept 3:30pm -5pm
Boardroom & Little Gallery

The Secondary School Art Awards recognise and celebrate emerging artistic talent in New Zealand. These are the young artists to look out for in the future. Artworks in the mediums of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture make up the works on show.

20 September — 29 October
First Floor Foyer

Chattering Creases is a collection of experimental photographic prints that investigate environmental physics. Daisy Nicholas’ pieces explore the salty coast and exposed bedrock of the East Auckland shoreline.

1 September – 26 November, 2023
Opening Night: Thursday 31 August, 6pm
Ground Floor Galleries

Friends + Family is a group exhibition that embodies a kaupapa Māori and kaupapa Moana Oceania way of educating our youth in the visual arts. Featuring the work of emerging artist Ercan Cairns —with Fatu Feu’u, Emily Karaka, Donn Ratana, Tēvita Lātū, Taniela Petelō, Terje Koloamatangi, Alexis Neal and Colin Gibbs.

17 August – 17 September, 2023
Opening Night: Wednesday 16 August, 6pm
Curator Talk and Walk Through: Saturday 26 August, 11am
First Floor Galleries

This annual exhibition showcases and awards the outstanding pottery and ceramics of members of Auckland Studio Potters (ASP). ASP is delighted to announce the selector and judge this year is Ceramic Artist, Peter Hawkesby.

17 August – 29 October, 2023
AV Gallery

closed circle is a video and sculpture exhibition by Niamh Maher, examining how individual identity is closely associated with our production of knowledge.

11 July – 13 August, 2023
AV Gallery

Kahungunu Marae in Nūhaka is unique amongst marae in Aotearoa in having a featuring role in Broken Barrier by John O'Shea. The Cinema Marae exhibition presents archival footage and photographs of Kahungunu Marae and the Nūhaka community in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, in addition to work by media-artist Jordan Koziol-Repia, photographs from the Wairoa Māori Film Festival and an artistic response to the recent Cyclone Gabrielle impact.

5 July – 13 August, 2023

WHISKY LOUNGE is a collection show with a difference… domestic, nostalgic and with Nana at the core, this show challenges the notions of contemporary art on a plinth.

28 June – 9 August, 2023
First Floor Galleries

Our Place presents film and photography by Karen Crisp, Sarah Davis and Russ Flatt (Ngāti Kahungunu). These artists explore concerns of whenua at locations in Te Ika-a-Māui North Island, giving views of both the past and our present situation. Whenua is that which bonds us, our grounding, our place. It has deep layering through time and linkages, it can be often contentious and fraught. The flooding events of the 2023 Auckland Anniversary and Cyclone Gabrielle were traumatic events for many, highlighting that whenua continues to be a significant national issue.

2 June – 27 August, 2023
Ground Floor Galleries
Curated by Peter Shaw

Pauline Thompson, first exhibiting at the age of sixteen, trained at Elam where she found herself somewhat apart from the prevailing current of modernism. Undeterred, and determined to follow her childhood ambition, she continued painting. This is the first retrospective of her work since the artist’s death in 2012.

20 April – 2 July, 2023
AV Gallery, Little Gallery and Conservatory

Ever wondered what’s at the end of Colonial Road? It’s not a carpark or failed monument to imperial ambition but more a surprising, self-determined community of seabirds living in sight of the city. A.A.M. Bos’ film Colonial Road (2020) is an intimate, uncensored, harbourside view of the lives and crimes of The Real Shags of Chelsea Heritage Estate.