BIO

Born in 1960, Kaye McGarva is an award-winning artist, based in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Her home and studio are nestled into the side of Te Mata Peak where the elevated position and distant vistas feed into her art practice directly and indirectly.

AWARDS & PRIZES

2022 Highly Commended, Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards Tauranga

2021 Finalist, National Contemporary Art Awards Hamilton

2020 Finalist, Wallace Art Awards Auckland

2020 Finalist, Parkin Drawing Prize Wellington

2019 Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Awards Auckland

2019 Finalist, Parkin Drawing Prize Wellington

2016 Finalist, Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards Tauranga

2015 Finalist, National Contemporary Art Awards Hamilton

2014 Top Research Student, EIT Ideaschool Hawkes Bay

EXHIBITIONS

2023 Auckland Art Fair Auckland

2023 Ghost In The Machine, Group Show, Muse Art Gallery Hawkes Bay

2021 / 2022 Made You Look Solo Show, Hastings City Art Gallery, Hawkes Bay

2021 Theresi_Art 01 Group Show, Art[s] Gallery Simone Jansen, Noordwijk Nl

2021 National Contemporary Art Awards Selected Group Show, Waikato Museum, Hamilton

2021 Shadow Play Kaye McGarva & Alice Rose, Muse Gallery Hawkes Bay

2021 Auckland Art Fair Auckland

2020 East Selected Group show, Hastings City Art Gallery, Hawkes Bay

2020 L’Eloge du Noir, Group Show, Macadam Gallery, Brussels

2020 / 2021 Wallace Awards, Selected Group Show Pah Homestead Auckland, Pataka Gallery Porirua, Wallace Museum Morrinsonville

2020 Parkin Drawing Prize Selected Group Show NZ Fine Arts Society Wellington

2019 Parkin Drawing Prize Selected Group Show NZ Fine Arts Society Wellington

2018 Macadam Gallery Brussels, Belgium

2018 IIDE International Interior Design Exhibition Brussels, Belgium

2017 Hawkes Bay Review Selected Group Show Napier, Hawkes Bay

2017 Obscurity Group Show, Studio 541 Auckland

2017 Colour Sense Group Show, Muse, Hawkes Bay

2017 Shift Group Show, Muse, Hawkes Bay

2016 East Selected Group show, Hastings City Art Gallery, Hawkes Bay

2016 Mixing It Up Group show, CAN, Napier, Hawkes Bay

2016 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards, Selected Group Show Whakatane Museum, Whakatane

2015 New Perspectives Solo show, a+e Gallery, Napier, Hawkes Bay

2015 National Contemporary Art Awards, Selected Group Show, Waikato Museum, Hamilton

2015 Disequilibrium Solo show, a+e Gallery, Napier, Hawkes Bay

2014 Graduate Exhibition Group show, Ideaschool EIT Hawkes Bay

2014 Unhinged Group show, Hastings Community Art Gallery, Hawkes Bay

WORK HISTORY

2017 - Established Muse Gallery, Gallery Director, Hawkes Bay

1992 - 2001 Established and operated award winning bakery, Pandoro Paneterria, Auckland

EDUCATION

2010 - 2014 Degree in Visual Art & Design Ideaschool (EIT)

2002 - 2004 Nanette Cameron Interior Design Course at Te Tuhi

2001 - 2002 Mathew Browne Art Classes, Art Station

1979 – 1982 BA in History at Canterbury University

1973 - 1978 Karamu High School, Hawkes Bay