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ABOUT

Te Rongo is an artist who works across various disciplines with an interest in combining art glass with steel, fibre, wood, film & installation.


She is of Māori (Wai o hua, Ngai Tai, Kawerau a Maki), English, and Scottish heritage - a blend that has shaped both her work and identity. Te Rongo’s work comes from a universal perspective drawing on archetypal and esoteric symbolism making artworks grounded in a Māori world view.

 

Te Rongo's studio is based in  Auckland, New Zealand and her work has been exhibited internationally  in various museums and collections in cities such as Vancouver, San Francisco, Portland, Canberra, London, Scotland, Singapore, Hawaii.

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BIOGRAPHY

2020

  • Toi tu toi ora, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.

  • Studio A, Milford Galleries Queenstown.

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2021

  • TG Transitions in Glass, Bullseye Glass Awards, Bellevue Museum, Portland, Oregon.

  • Architectural Award – 2nd Place, Design Award 1st Place.

  • Glass, Meet the future, North Lands Creative, Toyama. Institute of glass art, the museum of arts & design New York.

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2022

  • TG Transitions in Glass Bullseye Glass Awards, Pittsburgh Glass Centre.

  • Solo Exhibition, NZ Glassworks Whanganui.

  • North Lands Creative, Collect Art Fair, London.

  • Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island.

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2024

  • Aotearoa Art Fair - Te Manawa booth.

2019

  • Solo Show Hiwa I Te Rangi. Te Rongo Gallery, Auckland.

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2018

  • Solo Show Whanau Marama, Milford Galleries, Dunedin.

  • Whitu, Group show, Masterworks, Auckland.

  • Queenstown Wunderkammer, Milford Galleries, Dunedin.

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2017

  • As Above so Below, Solo Exhibition Milford Galleries, Dunedin.

  • Fine lines, Milford Galleries, Dunedin.

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2016

  • Auckland Art Fair 2016 Milford Galleries, Dunedin.

  • Korero Mai, Korero Atu, Dr Areta Wilkinson & Te Rongo Kirkwood, Auckland Museum.

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2015

  • Nga kakahu Karaihe Solo Exhibition, Milford Galleries, Dunedin.

2014

  • Te Hau a Uru: A message from the west, Te Uru Gallery, Auckland.

  • Ranamok, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra, Australia.

  • Ka Awatea Glass Cloaks Solo Exhibition, The de Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco.

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2013

  • Ranamok Glass Prize Winners Collection, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Australia.

  • Paradise Lost Contemporary Works from the Pacific, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC.

  • Call of Taranaki, Puke Ariki Museum, Palmerston North.

  • Star and Cloak, Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington.

  • Aho Whenua, Threads Sown from Earth, Pataka Museum, Wellington.

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2014

  • Mini Masterworks 4, Spirit Wrestler Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

  • Legend! Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei.

  • Ka Awatea, Solo Show Pataka Museum, Wellington.

2023

  • Northlands Creative, Scotland.

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