BORN Auckland, New Zealand 1935
EDUCATION
1958 Studies painting at the Chelsea School of Art, London, England
1961 - 1962 Studies painting at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
1963 - 1966 Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Graduated Dip. Fine Arts
1966 Auckland College of Education, Graduated Teaching Dip.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1980 Stacks and Sites Profiles, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1981 Fifteen Birdcalls, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1982 Midden Site, National Art Gallery, Wellington
Fifteen Birdcalls, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1983 Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1984 Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1985 Country Life RKS Art, Auckland
Recent Sculpture, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1986 Entries / Exits, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington; Timurid Gallery, Wellington; National Art Gallery, Wellington
1987 House Flesh, House Bone RKS Art, Auckland
The Smokehouse, Peter McLeavy Art Gallery, Wellington
1988 Four New Works, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1991 Guided Tours, Auckland City Art Gallery
The Sower, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
Vivarium (window work) Auckland City Art Gallery
Warren Viscoe: Sculpture and Drawings, Claybrook Gallery, Auckland
1992 Coral Gardens, Cultural Pearls, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1994 Coral Gardens, Cultured Pearls (with additions), Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1995 Coral Gardens, Cultured Pearls and Down Among the Deadmen, Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
Satellite Skies Don’t Tell Lies, Fisher Gallery, Auckland
1996 Of the Raw and the Cooked and The Bride from Pula, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1997 In the Dead of Night, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
Two Decades: A Survey Exhibition of the Work of Warren Viscoe, Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt
2000 Life and Limb: A Survey of Works, Lopdell House, Auckland
2001 Portable Rivers, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
2002 In Situ: Survey Show, Whangarei Arts Museum
2003 Pages From the Book of Birdsong, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
2004 Pages From the Book of Birdsong, Artis Gallery, Auckland
2005 Pages from the Book of Birdsong, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1965 Uptown Gallery, Auckland
1966 Group Sculpture, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
Recent New Zealand Sculpture, Auckland City Art Gallery
1967 Group Sculpture, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
Mildura Competition for Contemporary Sculpture, Mildura Arts Centre, Australia
1968 Fourth Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
1970 Five Sculptors, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
The Fourth Midura Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre
1971 Group Exhibition, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1972 New Zealand Society of Sculptors and Painters Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Osborne Galleries, Auckland
1973 Exhibition by Members of the New Zealand Society of Sculptors and Painters, Osborne Galleries, Auckland
Hansells Prize for Contemporary Sculpture, Wairarapa Arts Centre, Masterton
1974 Art New Zealand 1974: Commonwealth Games Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Christchurch
1974-76 Hansells Sculpture Award, Wairarapa Arts Centre, Masterton
1975 New Zealand Society of Sculptors and Painters, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
1976 New Zealand Drawing 1976, Auckland City Art Gallery (and touring)
1977 New Zealand Prints 1977, Auckland City Art Gallery (and touring)
1978 Auckland Artists, Auckland City Art Gallery
Five New Zealand Sculptors, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
New Zealand Sculptors at Mildura (toured by Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council)
The New Zealand Society of Sculptors and Painters Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Christchurch
Seventh Sculpture Triennial, Mildura Arts Centre
1979 Dunedin Sculptors, Grounds of First Church, Dunedin
1981 ANZ art, Christchurch
The First Australian Sculpture Triennial, Preston Institute of Technology and La Trobe University, Melbourne
1982 Hansells Sculpture Award, Wairarapa Arts Centre, Masterton
Two Decades 1962-1982 (New Zealand Society of Sculptors and Painters Exhibition) RKS Art, Auckland
1984 Art in Dunedin: 1984, Various Sites
Corrugated Iron in New Zealand (with John Maynard), Real Pictures, Auckland and Dunedin
Nature and Form, National Art Gallery, Wellington
1986 Aspects of Recent New Zealand Art: Sculpture 2, Auckland City Art Gallery
Auckland Sculptors, Fisher Gallery, Auckland
Content / Context: A Survey of Recent New Zealand Art, Shed 11, Wellington
1987 The Works: Sculpture, Star Art Gallery, Auckland
1988 Group Show (with Dick Frizzell and Tom Kreisler), Star Art Gallery, Auckland
New Moves - Physical Statements, Centre For Contemporary Art, Hamilton
1989 Door, Gate, Lintel, Fisher Gallery, Auckland
Group Show, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
Tom Kreisler::Painter, Warren Viscoe: Sculptor, Star Art Gallery, Auckland
1990 Art and Organised Labour, City Gallery, Wellington (and touring)
Kei Konei Inaianei: Here and Now: Fifteen New Zealand Sculptors, The Bath House, Rotorua
Out of the Woods, Sarjeant Gallery / Te Whare O Rehua / Whanganui
1991 Catholic Tastes, Artspace, Auckland
1993 Kia Ora Paora: Paul Gauguin in Aotearoa / New Zealand RKS Art, Auckland
The Right Stuff, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1996 Group Show, Artis Gallery, Auckland
Proposals for a Public Artwork, Fisher Gallery, Auckland
1997 Family Values, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
1998 Action Replay: Post-Object in New Zealand, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
What We Do Here, Peter McLeavy Gallery, Wellington
Narrative Works, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
1989 Molte Grazie Venezia: An Exercise in Perpendicular Thinking, Commissoned by Wellington City Art Gallery for Wellington Central Library Lawns
1998 Puriri Moth, Auckland College of Education
2001 The Eel Man, Waitakere City Council
2002 The Guardian, Gribben House, Anawhata
2002 Bill McKay & Warren Viscoe, Portage Licensing Trust
2003 Puriri Moth, Whangarei Arts Museum
2004 Pink & White Bather, James Wallace Trust, Auckland
AWARDS
1973 Co-winner (with Terry Stringer) of the Hansells Sculpture Award
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