MERVYN WILLIAMS
BORN Whakatane, New Zealand, 1940
EDUCATION
1957-58 Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. New Zealand
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 In the Round, Janne Land Art Gallery, Wellington
2006 Recent Paintings, Judith Anderson Gallery, Hawke’s Bay
2005 Selected Works, Judith Anderson Gallery, Hawkes Bay
2004 Selected Paintings, Janne Land Art Gallery, Wellington
2003 Southern Oscillation, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2002 Quintessence, Michael Carr, Sydney
Qautrains, Janne Land Art Gallery, Wellington
2001 Quintessence, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1999 In the Nature of Things, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
In The Nature of Things, SPAN Gallery, Melbourne
1997 In the Round: Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1995 Exposures: New Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1993 New Work, Brooker Gallery, Wellington
Recent Painting, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1991-92 Between Darkness and Light, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1989 Wood Works, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
In Different Light, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland
Works on Paper, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
Recent Paintings, Brooker Gallery, Wellington
Points of Departure, Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui
1988 Works in Progress, Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui
1987 Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Recent Gouaches, Portfolio Gallery, Auckland
1986 Recent Paintings, Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
1984 Recent Paintings, Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
Recent Paintings, New Vision Gallery, Auckland
1983 Twelve Gouaches, New Vision Gallery, Auckland
1982 Recent Paintings, Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
1981 Recent Painting, RKS Art, Auckland
1980 Recent Paintings, Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington
Recent Paintings, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
Recent Paintings, New Vision Gallery, Auckland
1979 Recent Paintings, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
1975 Paintings and Drawings, Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Summer Exhibition, Milford Galleries Queenstown
2006 Masterworks, Milford Galleries, Auckland
Winter Light, Janne Land Art Gallery, Wellington
2005 Frieze, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
2004 Transit of Venus, Milford Galleries, Auckland
2002 Selected Artists, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2000 Opposites Attract with Paul Dibble, Michael Carr, Sydney
1997 Ross Blackner, Mark Francis, Leigh Martin and Mervyn Williams, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
Current Abstractions, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
1996 Visa Gold Award, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
1994 Parallel Lines, Gordon Walters in Context, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
1992 Surface Tension, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
1990 Out of the Woods, Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui
1988 Faith and Works, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
1984 Gordon Walters and Mervyn Williams, CSA Gallery, Christchurch
1983 Aspects of Recent New Zealand Art – The Grid, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
1982 Seven Painters/ The Eighties, Touring Exhibition
1981 Tokoroa Painting Award Exhibition
1980 Benson and Hedges Art Award Exhibition
1979 NZ Drawing Exhibition, CSA Gallery, Christchurch
1978 Auckland Painters Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery
1977 NZ Prints Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery
1972 Biennale of Graphic Art, Paris
1970 NZ Pavilion ‘Expo 70’, Japan
1969 Biennale of Graphic Art, Yugoslavia
1967 Pat Hanly and Mervyn Williams, CSA Gallery, Christchurch
1966 Biennale of Graphic Art, Tokyo
AWARDS
1988 Artist in Residence, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
1981 First Prize, Tokoroa Painting Award
1969 NZ Print Council Samarkand Award
1966 First Prize (Prints), Hay’s Art Award
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
New Zealand Embassy, Washington DC
New Zealand Embassy, Consulate General New York
Private Collections USA, Canada, Europe, UK, Japan and Australia
All major public collections and many private collections in New Zealand
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Chin, David ‘Shades of Meaning’, Gow Langsford Gallery 1999
Dunn, Michael ‘Contemporary Painting in New Zealand’, Craftsman House 1996
Brown, Warwick, ‘One Hundred New Zealand Paintings’ Godwit Press 1995
Barton, Christine, ‘Surface Tension’, Auckland Art Gallery 1992
Williams, M, ‘Between Darkness and Light’, Catalogue Essay 1992
Dunn, Michael ‘A Concise History of New Zealand Painting’, Bateman, 1991
Panaho, Rangi ‘Points of Departure’, Sarjeant Gallery 1989
Wedde, Ian ‘Mervyn Williams: Paintings With His Feet in Wanganui’, Art New Zealand 51 1989
Bett, Elva “New Zealand Art: A Modern Perspective’ Reed Methuen, 1986
Dunn, Michael ‘Mervyn Williams: A Vision of Light’, Art New Zealand 36 1985
Parr, Chris ‘The Grid, Lattice and Network’ Art New Zealand 28 1983
Curnow, Wynston “Seven Painters/The Eighties: The Politics of Abstraction’ Art New Zealand 28 1983
Bogle, Andrew ‘Aspects of Recent New Zealand Art: The Grid’, Auckland Art Gallery, 1983
Schulz, Derek ‘Differences of Intention’, The Listener, 9 October 1982
Schulz, Derek ‘Seven Painters/The Eighties’, Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui 1982
‘New Zealand Prints 1977’, Auckland Art Gallery
‘New Zealand Prints 1976’ Auckland Art Gallery
Cape, Peter ‘Prints and Print Makers in New Zealand’ Collins 1974
‘Mervyn Williams’, Arts and Community, July 1969
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