Lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (NZ).
From Wulgurukaba country (Black River, QLD, Australia).
EDUCATION
2021
Graduate Diploma of Secondary Teaching, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, NZL.
2018
Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZL.
2010
Certificate in Tertiary Teaching, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, NZL.
2005
Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA.
2003
Honours, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, AUS.
2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, AUS.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS//SCREENINGS//SYMPOSIUMS//CONFERENCES
2024
CORPS, Espace Culturel François Mitterrand, Périgueux, FR.
2023
Māngere Bridge; 246 meters, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, NZL.
2022
twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects, Objectspace, Auckland, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Harriet Stockman.)
2021
The Drift – Kōrewa: Boycott, Leader, and the Victim, Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, NZL.
2020
Maungataketake, Masons Screen, Wellington, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Martin Awa Clarke Langdon.)
Episode 91, CIRCUIT: Artist Film and Video Aotearoa, Wellington, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Martin Awa Clarke Langdon and Qiane Matata-Sipu.)
Arts Makers Aotearoa Pub Quiz, May Fair Art Fair, Auckland, NZL.
Queer Pavilion, Auckland Pride, Auckland, NZL.
(In collaboration with: © Mahonri.)
Wansolwara: One Salt Water Exhibition, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, AUS.
Wansolwara: One Salt Water Symposium, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, AUS.
2019
AAANZ Ngā Tūtaki, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZL.
Finding Emory – A Poster Show, Vunilagi Vou, Ōtāhuhu, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho.)
Te Whāinga, Silo Park, Auckland, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Qiane Matata-Sipu, and Vicky Tamariki.)
Time-knots, ST PAUL St Gallery, Māngere, NZL.
Association for Visual Pedagogies Symposium, RMIT, Melbourne, AUS.
Ngātahi Reading Room, Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, NZL.
Curriculum #1, Samoa House Library, Auckland, NZL.
2018
18 Horas Entre Nosotros, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZL.
Association for Visual Pedagogies Symposium, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZL.
2017
Te Karanga a Hape Hīkoi, Karangahape Road, Auckland, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Te Wai-ō-Hua, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, SOUL, and the extended art community of Tāmaki Makaurau.)
#ThisHomeisOccupied, RM Gallery, Auckland, NZL.
Ipu ki uta, ihu ki tai, ST PAUL St Symposium, Auckland, NZL.
Research Pavilion: The Utopia of Access, Sala del Camino, Venice, IT.
(In collaboration with: Harriet Stockman.)
9X5 NOW, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, AUS.
2016
Te Ihu o Mataoho, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Cat Ruka, David Veart, Fiona Jack, Kahu Tuwhare, Karamia Müller, Louisa Afoa, Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Moana Waa, Molly Rangiwai McHale, Paula Booker, Qiane Matata-Sipu, Ralph Brown, Tosh Ahkit, SOUL, and Te Wai-ō-Hua.)
Repeat/Rotate/Reflect, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, NZL.
Art Sale for Phoenix, Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust, Auckland, NZL.
Point of Hue, LOT23, Auckland, NZL.
2015
The Future is a Do-Over, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZL.
Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Video Art Network Lagos, Lagos, NGA.
Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Fresh Milk, St. George, BAR.
The Brain, Te Uru, Titirangi, NZL.
Garden, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, AUS.
Artists’ Film International 2014-2015, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, TUR.
2014
Other Waters, Te Tuhi, Auckland, NZL.
EAF Film Club, Edinburgh Arts Festival, Edinburgh, SCT.
What’s the Hurry? RAMP, Hamilton, NZL.
Saturate Every Atom, Māngere Arts Centre, Māngere, NZL.
Curatorial Symposium 2014, ST PAUL St Symposium, Ihumātao, NZL.
Carpet Burn, Papakura Gallery, Papakura, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Ashlin Frances Raymond, Phoenix Puleanga, and Samson Vaotuua.)
2013
Body Rock, Film Archive, Auckland, NZL.
(In collaboration with: Alex Richardson, Christopher L G Hill, Daniel Munn, Dieneke Jansen, Dylan John Scott, Ema Tavola, Fiona Amundsen, Lindsay Benedict & Julia Brown Matthew Cowan, Natalie Medlock & Robbie Magasiva, Reuben Heller-Quintanilla & Lucreccia Quintanilla, and Vera Mey.)
TEZA screening event, Picture House, Christchurch, NZL.
Moving on Asia: Towards a New Art Network 2004- 2013, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZL.
Unearthing Delights/Odkrywanie zachwyca, Long Gardens, Gdańsk, POL.
2012
Waack, Whine, Pop & Roll, Dog Park, Christchurch, NZL.
Māngere Mall, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, AUS.
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary, The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, NZL.
Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, GER.
WWJD, Fresh Gallery Otara, Ōtara, NZL.
Urban Pictures, Ängelholm International Video Art Festival, Ängelholm, SWD.
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland, NZL
2011
Māngere Bridge: 246 Meters, Fishbowl, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZL.
Focus Nouvelle-Zélande, “People Television”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FRA.
Remoteness, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AUS.
2010
Ah-round, SQUARE2 City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZL.
Failing, Falling, Flying, ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland, NZL.
Ah-round, Monte Vista, Los Angeles, USA.
Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, AUS.
Manu toi; Artists and Messengers, Māngere Arts Centre, Māngere, NZL.
Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AUS.
2009
To Do, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, AUS.
Photography Sell-out, Gus Fisher, Auckland, NZL.
International Photography, Gow Langsford, Auckland, NZL.
2008
The MGA Collection: Quite Earth, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, AUS.
Down to Earth, Academy Gallery, Launceston, AUS.
2007
Up With the Fall, Down on the Diagonal, Stills Gallery, Sydney, AUS.
Vertigo, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, AUS.
Perfect For Every Occasion, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, AUS.
2006
Royal Alumni, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, NZL.
Light Sensitive, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS.
In Cold Light, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, AUS.
SELECTED PRIZES//GRANTS//SCHOLARSHIPS
2021
TeachNZ Te Huarau Scholarship, Auckland, NZL.
2017
Todd Trust Scholarship in Fine Arts, Auckland, NZL.
2016
Albert-Eden Local Board Grant, Auckland, NZL.
2015
MIT Study Grant, Auckland, NZL.
2013
NZJEP Grant, Auckland, NZL.
2009
MGA Annual Fundraising Auction, Melbourne, AUS.
2008
Art Gallery NSW Collection, Sydney, AUS.
Monash Gallery of Art Collection, Melbourne, AUS.
2003
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS.
Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, Adelaide, AUS.
SELECTED PRESS//PUBLICATIONS//MEDIA
2024
Mark Harvey, Neki Arā, Arā Neki, Wrestling With (Not) Belonging, U.S.
Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Hand Book, , NZ.
Cats and Dogs: In Art and Design, The National Gallery of Victoria, AUS.
2023
Photography: Real and Imagined, The National Gallery of Victoria, AUS.
2021
Mark Harvey, Manaakitanga me te kōrero, Knowledge Cultures Vol9(3), U.S.
Victoria Wynne-Jones, Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art, Palgrave Macmillan, CH.
2020
Alys Longley, Folds of Time, Blooms of Vibrancy: Queer Pavilion in the Park, Art New Zealand, NZL.
Cushla Donaldson, The future of art is not on a screen, it’s with people, The Spinoff, NZL.
2018
Rebecca Ann Hobbs, On Generosity, Performance Research Journal: 23.6, Centre for Performance Research, Ceredigion, WAL.
Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ngā Puia o Ihumātao (The Volcanoes of Ihumātao), DocFA thesis at the University of Auckland, Auckland, NZL.
2017
Victoria Wynne-Jones, Wine and Swish: Rebecca Ann Hobbs’ Dancevideos in the Mall, Performance Paradigm, AUS.
Sasha Grbich, Radical Care: Personhood and the river, Artlink, AUS.
Leonie Hayden, Bringing the fight for Ihumātao to K Road, The Spinoff, NZL.
Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Body Configurations after VALIE EXPORT, Femisphere, NZL.
2016
Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Using food analogies to help explain the live volcanic field of Tāmaki Makaurau, LeRoy, NZL.
2014
Lucreccia Quintanilla and Rebecca Ann Hobbs, A series of calls and responses for ST PAUL Street Gallery’s In practice: models of cultural exchange and reciprocity, NZL.
2012
Megan Dunn, Let’s Get Physical: looking at the work of Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Circuit: Artist Film and Video Aotearoa, NZL.
2011
Ema Tavola, Artist Profile: SOUTH, Issue #1, NZL.
Barbara Ann Dover, Interrogating Reciprocal Gaze: the Animal and Human in Contemporary Art, PhD thesis, James Cook University, AUS.
Ema Tavola, Artist Profile//Rebecca Hobbs, Eyeline Magazine, Issue #74 2011, AUS.
Anne Marsh, Look: Contemporary Australian Photography Since 1980, Monash University, AUS.
2010
Ema Tavola, Liquid Lady Swagger, Manu Toi Catalogue, NZL.
2009
Mario Cresci, Future Images, Radu Stern Publisher, ITA.
2006
Isobel Crombie, Light Sensitive, National Gallery of Victoria, AUS.
Jeff Khan, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, UN. Magazine #6, AUS.
Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Failure and Fountains, RAMP, NZL.
VOLUNTARY AFFILIATIONS
Arts Makers Aotearoa – Kāhui Ringatoi Aotearoa, ca. 2020.
Art and Design Queer Reading Group – Auckland University of Technology, ca. 2017.
Document Research Group – Auckland University of Technology, ca. 2014.
Photo Media Department Advisory Board – Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, ca. 2019.
Samoa House Library – Karangahape Rd, ca. 2021.
Save Our Unique Landscape Campaign – Ihumātao, ca. 2015.
