Richard Killeen

Born 1946
Lives in Auckland
New Zealand



One Person Exhibitions

1970
Auckland, Barry Lett Galleries, Paintings April 1969-April 1970

1972
Auckland, Petar James Gallery

1973
Auckland, Petar James Gallery

1974
Auckland, Petar James Gallery
Wellington, Victoria University
Christchurch, Canterbury University

1975
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1976
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1978
Auckland, Data Gallery
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1979
Auckland, Peter Webb Galleries
Dunedin, Bosshard Galleries
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1980
Dunedin, Bosshard Galleries
Auckland, Peter Webb Galleries
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1981
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery
Auckland, Peter Webb Galleries

1982
Auckland City Art Gallery, Artist Project No.1. Chance and Inevitability
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1983
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Chance and Inevitability
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery
Christchurch, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Chance and Inevitability
Christchurch, Brooke /Gifford Gallery, 'Paintings 1981-83'

1984
Brisbane, Ray Hughes Gallery
Auckland, New Vision Gallery
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Drawings
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery
New York, Bertha Urdang Gallery

1985
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1986
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, Born alive in New Zealand
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1987
New York, Bertha Urdang Gallery
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1988
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1989
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery
New York, Bertha Urdang Gallery
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, Lessons in Lightness
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1990
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Richard Killeen, Sampler 1967-1990, curated by Francis Pound, July 3 - July 20
Portland, Oregon, Butters Gallery Ltd, Art=Anthropology, 5 June - 30 June
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Destruction of the circle, 25 September - 13 October

1991
New York, Bertha Urdang Gallery, 8 January - 2 February
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Paintings and Drawings, 15 April - 3 May
Manukau City, Fisher Gallery, The Age of Fishes, 31 May - 31 June
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, The politics of geometry, 11 June - 28 June
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Letters from my Father, 29 October - 23 November

1992
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, How may we learn?, 10 April - 6 May
Auckland City Art Gallery, A collection of works 1975 - 1991, 27 June - 6 September
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, 28 July - 14 August
New York, Bertha Urdang Gallery, 8 October - 31 October
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, 13 October - 7 November

1993
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Know this place, 13 July-6 August
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Measuring tools, 2 November - 27 November
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Paintings and Drawings, 15 November - 4 December
Auckland, Anzac Avenue billboard, Changing Signs, 22 November - 8 January

1994
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Dead Woman, Dead Man, Painting and drawings from 1969 , 29 March - 23 April
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, New Paintings, 10 June - 6 July
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Measuring tools, 9 August -2 September
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Two Texts, 18 October-12 November

1995
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, 18 July - 11 August
Wellington, Peter McLeavey, Here sits Harold, King of the English, 26 September - 21 October

1996
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, Islands of rage, 29 March - 1 May
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Two legged animals, 30 April - 18 May
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, The Dreaming of Gordon Walters, 9 July - 2 August
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Object and Images from the Cult of the Hook, 15 October - 9 November

1997
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Paths of Seniority, 14 October - 8 November
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Social Fragments, 24 June - 18 July

1998
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Interiors, Paintings 1968 - 1969, 3 March - 28 March
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Tags, 26 May - 13 June.
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Matchbox economy, 18 August - 11 September
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Ten paintings in tins, 6 October - 31 October

1999
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, State of mind, 3 August - 28 August
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Song of Isis, 16 November - 11 December
Auckland Art Gallery, Stories We Tell Ourselves, The Paintings of Richard Killeen, Curated by Francis Pound, 9 September - 5 December, touring

2000
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Soap, 6 June - 1 July
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Codex, 17 October - 11 November

2001
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Jars and Cases, 2 October-20 October
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Signs
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, Seals, Shields, Signs, Stacks, Strips, 7 September-3 October

2002
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Containers Various, 15 October-9 November
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Jars etc, 19 June-13 July
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Clock, Cup, Jacket, Jar, Shield, Shoe, 12 March-6 April

2003
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Ladybird, 22 November-13 December
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Interiors Lost and Found, 21 May-14 June

2004
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Jars, Tins and Pots, 23 November-24 December
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, City Living, 28 July-28 August
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Ladybird, 24 February-20 March

2005
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, On paper at Peter's 1975-2005, 2 November-26 November
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Run Takahe Run, 29 June-23 July
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, Breakfast Again, 25 November-24 December
Dunedin, Dunedin Art Gallery, Nature Culture,-6 November

2006
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Times, 29 November-24 December
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Catcher, 24 May-17 June

2007
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 25 July-25 August
Manukau City, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Something Old Something New, 12 May-1 July
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, China Dog, 26 June-14 July
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, 12 New Graphics, 8 August- 1 September
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Butterfly, 1 November-24 November

2008
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Butterfly evening, 14 May-14 June, dedicated to Samuel Killeen-Chance
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Shadow, 26 November- 20 December

2009
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Cutouts 1981-2008, 4 February-28 February

2010
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, The Presence of Objects, 21 April-22 May
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Objects from another place, 1 December- 25 December

2011
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Spider, 31 August-24 September

2012
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Interiors, 6 June-30 June
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Reproductions from the Image Catalogue 1-100, 31 October- 27 November

2013
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Twenty five Categories from the Image Database, 5 September-28 September
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Reproductions fron Image Database, 20 November-21 December

2014
Dunedin, Brett McDowell Gallery, Random Reproductions, 7 March-27 March
Waiheke Island, Tivoli, Random Reproductions, 5 April-15 May
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Three Random Reproductions, 4 October-25 October
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, POPUP, Random Reproductions, 25 October-4 November

2015
Dunedin, Brett McDowell Gallery, Mummoke,1 May-21 May
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Two Plywoods, 4 June-27 June

2016
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Two Cut-outs, 21 September - 15 October
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Two Years, 1975 and 2015, 30 March - 23 April
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, Databases G and O, 30 November - 24 December

2017
Dunedin, Brett McDowell Gallery, Databases I, J and L, 21 April
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Database J, 19 August - 16 September
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, Butterfly and Mask, 15 November - 9 December

2018
Dunedin, Brett McDowell Gallery, Rhizome, 6 April

2019
Auckland, Ivan Anthony, Forty-Eight Years Between, 5 June - 29 June
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, Rhizome, 27 November - 24 December

2020
Auckland, Ivan Anthony,  Repetition, 25 November - 24 December
Dunedin, Brett McDowell Gallery, Rhizomes, Repetitions and Dead Black Deer, 5 June - 2 July

2021
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, Repetition, 3 March - 20 March
Dunedin, Brett McDowell Gallery, Repetition, 21 May - 10 June
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, Early Works, 22 September- 2 October

2022
Dunedin, Brett McDowell Gallery, Multiplicity, 17 June - 14 July
Auckland, Ivan Anthony,  Multiplicity, 7 May- 4 June
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, Old and New, 26 November- 24 December

 

 


Group exhibitions

1967
Christchurch, Durham St. Art Gallery, The Group Show

1968
Auckland, Barry Lett Galleries, This Land
Auckland University, Young Aucklanders in the Arts
Christchurch, Durham St. Art Gallery, The Group Show
1969 Auckland, Barry Lett Galleries, with Ian Scott
Palmerston North Art Gallery, Manawatu Prize for Contemporary Art

1970
Auckland, Benson and Hedges Art Award, Barry Lett Galleries
Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Art of the Sixties: a Royal Visit Exhibition

1971
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, Young Auckland Painters + one

1972
Auckland, First exhibition, Petar James Gallery, with Driver, Gopas, Mrkusich, Trusttum, Walters
Auckland, An Expressionist Impulse, Petar James Gallery

1973
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, Drawing Invitational

1974
Christchurch, C.S.A. Gallery, Art 74
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, N.Z.on Paper
Auckland, Group Exhibition, Petar James Gallery

1975
Auckland, Rosehill College
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1976
Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Drawing 1976
Auckland City Art Gallery, Abstract Attitudes,
Auckland, Benson and Hedges Art Award, Barrington Gallery

1977
Auckland City Art Gallery, Young Contemporaries
Auckland, Group Exhibition, Data Gallery

1978
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland artists
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery
Lower Hutt, Dowse Art Gallery, Benson and Hedges Art Award
Auckland, Group Exhibition, Data Gallery
Dunedin, Bosshard Galleries
Auckland, Peter Webb Galleries, Christmas Crackers and Toys for Children
Auckland, Peter Webb Galleries, Rangitoto Special

1979
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, Flight Fancies
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery
Lower Hutt, Dowse Gallery, Drawing on the Line
Wanganui, Sarjeant Gallery, A Chair is a Chair
Christchurch, C.S.A. Indoor Outdoor
Rotorua, Air N.Z. Rotorua Civic Art Award, Rotorua City Art Gallery
Auckland, Peter Webb Galleries at Auckland University, 8 NZ Printmakers

1980
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Work for a New Decade, 6 Painters
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery
New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Carnival of the Animals
Christchurch, Benson and Hedges Art Award

1981
Auckland, Eight New Works, Peter Webb Galleries
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery

1982
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Vision in Disbelief
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, N.Z. Drawing 1982
Wanganui, Sarjeant Gallery Seven Painters/The Eighties
Wellington, F1, N.Z. Sculpture Project, wall painting

1983
Auckland City Art Gallery, New Image, Aspects of Recent N.Z. Art
Bilbao, Spain, Muestra Internacional de Arte Grafico Artenda
Auckland City Art Gallery, The Grid, Lattice and Network, Aspects of Recent N.Z. Art
Auckland Society of Arts, University of Auckland Art Collection

1984
Edinburgh International Festival, ANZART, Australian and New Zealand artists in Edinburgh
Wellington, National Art Gallery, Contemporary New Zealand Prints (Toured to Japan)
Wellington City Art Gallery, Animals Animals

1985
New York, 22 Wooster St. N.Z./N.Y.
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Opening Exhibition
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Selections from the Edinburgh Festival
Auckland City Art Gallery, ANZART 85 Artists Book Show
Hamilton Centre for Contemporary Art, Chartwell Collection Viewing

1986
Sydney, Origins originality & beyond: the Sixth Biennale of Sydney
Chicago, Marianne Deson Gallery, New Zealand Art Today
Wellington, National Gallery, Content/Context
Paris, Palais de l’UNESCO 40 Ans: Une Generation Mondiale

1987
Napier, Hawke’s Bay Gallery and Museum, Contemporary N Z Art Exhibition

1988
Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery, NZXI
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, NZXI
Brisbane, Museum of Contemporary Art, NZXI
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Early Works
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, Group Show

1989
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, The Cross
Wellington, National Art Gallery, Exhibits
Seoul, Olympiad of Art, Contemporary Painting Exhibition
Wellington, Art Too, National Library’s contemporary art collection
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, 17.7.89-28.7.89
Sydney, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, City Art Institute, Delineations, Exploring Drawing
Wanganui, Sarjeant Gallery, Out of the Woods

1990
Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery Acquisitions Review 1988 - 1990
Venice, 20 Australian Artists, Ray Hughes Gallery Galleria San Vidal, Campo San Stefano
Auckland, Lopdell House, Animals Animals
Auckland, The Elam Centenary Exhibition, Auckland institute and Museum,29 June - July 22
Sydney, 20 Australian Artists, Ray Hughes Gallery, 2 June - 27 June
Wellington, Elements, Explorations and Oppositions Exhibitions, National Art Gallery, Shed 11
Auckland, The George Fraser Gallery, "..exuberant, floating, dancing, mocking, childish and blissful art." Nietzsche; 'The Gay Science', 26 September - 19 October
Brisbane, 20 Australian Artists, Queensland Art Gallery

1991
Waitakere Arts and Culture Centre, Lopdell House, Wild West 91, 28 February - 31 March
Manukau City, Fisher Gallery, Review 90, 22 February - 24 March
Waitakere Arts and Culture Centre, Lopdell House,Facsimilies,10 May - 9 June
Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Pacific Parallels, Artists and the Landscape in New Zealand, 5 May - 30 June, touring
Wellington City Art Gallery, INHERITANCE Art, Heritage and the Past, 27 March - 19 May
New Plymouth, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Signatures of Place, 15 June - 21 July
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, Thinking Allowed, 6 July - 31 July
Hamilton, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Cross Currents: Contempory New Zealand and Australian Art from the Chartwell Collection, 13 July -
Sydney, Museum of Contempory Art, Opening Exhibition
Wellington City Art Gallery, Home Made Home, 30 November - 9 February

1992
Wanganui, Sarjeant Gallery,Contemporary Update - From the Sarjeant Gallery Collection and Beyond, January
Auckland, Artspace, Light Sensitive, 11 February - 6 March
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Headlands, 1 April-28 June
Auckland City Art Gallery, Hidden Treasures, 7 July - 20 August
Manukau City, Fisher Gallery, Implicated and Immune: Artists responses to AIDS, 23 September-20 October

1993
New Plymouth, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Collaborations, 1 May - 20June
Hamilton, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Shared Pleasures, The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, 5 December - 6 March
Auckland, Artspace, The Gift of the Artist, 17 September - 25 October
Turin, WELTANSCHAUUNG, Goethe Institut Turin

1994
Wellington, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Power Works, From the MCA Collection, 19 February - 15 May, touring
Atlanta College of Art, Multiple World: An International Survey of Artist’s Books, 28 January - 4 March
New Plymouth, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, The Face, 13 June - 10 July
Wanganui, Sarjeant Gallery, Taking stock of the 90’s, 3 September - 20 November
Palmerston North, Manawatu Art Gallery, Exhibition of the Rutherford Trust, 8 December 1994 - 29 January
Christchurch, CSA Gallery, Fax About Art, 16 November - 4 December
Christchurch, McDougall Art Annex, Child’s Play, 25 November - 15 January
Wellington City Art Gallery, Town and Gown, 19 November - 26 February
Auckland City Art Gallery, Echoes and Reflections, December - April
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, The Last Show, 6 December - 23 December

1995
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, New Space, 22 February - 3 March
Auckland City Art Gallery, The Irish connection, 10 March - 23 April
Hamilton, Waikato Museum of Art and History, New Works New Directions, Recent Acquisitions by the Chartwell Collection 17 June - 9 July
Wellington, City Art Gallery, A Very Peculiar practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting, 10 June - 3 September.
Korea, Kwangju Biennale, Beyond the Borders, 20 September - 20 November

1996
Wellington, City Gallery, “ECNZ Live”, 30 March - 5 May.

1997
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, McCahon to Robinson, 15 July - 9 August.
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, New Zealand on Paper, 10 January - 5 February.
Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery, Finding Our Way Home, August - February 1998.
Pakuranga, Fisher Gallery, Floored! Rugs by Invited Artists, 26 September - 26 October.
Pakuranga, Fisher Gallery, Unbound, 22 August - 21 September.
Titirangi, Lopdell House Gallery, Paging the Book, 22 August - 5 October.
Titirangi, Lopdell House Gallery, Art in The City, 11 April - 11 May.
Auckland, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Colin McCahon, The Man and the Teacher, 26 August - 13 September.

1998
Wellington, Museum of New Zealand, Dream Collectors, One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand, February - July.
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, What we do here, April - May.
Auckland, New Gallery, Recent Acquisitions from the Chartwell Collection, February - March.
Titirangi, Lopdell House Gallery, Table Setting, 12 June - 12 July.
Auckland, Sue Crockford Gallery, 1970’s, 23 June - 17 July.

2000
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, Thinking Allowed, A Drawing Show, 14 April - 17 May.
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, 16 May - 10 June.
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Wonderlust, 2 December - 22 December.
New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Wonderlands, 18 December-31 January

2001
Dunedin, Good Work: The Jim and Mary Barr Collection, 17 June-26 August
Auckland, Artspace, After Killeen: Social Observation in Recent Art, 13 November-15 December
Wellington,City Gallery, Prospect 2001: New Art New Zealand, 11 April-1 July

2003
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Several exceptionally good paintings, photographs and works on paper, 27 February-29 March
Auckland, Gus Fisher Gallery, Vuletic and his Circle, 10 May-28 June
Sydney, Ray Hughes Gallery, 5 New Zealand Artists, 18 July-14 August
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Cream and Sugar, 15 October-1 November

2004
Sao Paulo, 26th Sao Paulo Bienal, Remember New Zealand, 25 September-19 December

2005
Auckland, Auckland Art Gallery, Mixed-up Childhood
Christchurch, Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Then and Now, Richard Killeen and Andrew McLeod, 1 March-26 March
Wellington, Adam Art Gallery, Islanded: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan
Hastings, Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Parallel Practices, 15 July-18 September

2006
Wellington, Adam Art Gallery, In View: Works from the VUW Art Collection, 19 October-25 February
Porirua, Pataka, The Koru Club, 5 November-17 February
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Hotpot, 1 March-25 March

2007
Wellington City Gallery, Telecom Prospect, 11 February-29 April
Christchurch Art Gallery, I See Red, December 2007-February 2008

2008
Auckland, Gus Fisher Gallery, Swarm: A peek into the hive-mind of group dynamics, 11 July-16 August

2009
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Feelings, 23 May- 1 July
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Making a Mark, prints and drawings gifted by Ian Brown, 29 August-8 February

2010
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Graham, 3 February- 20 February
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, If, March
Brisbane, Gallery of Modern Art, Unnerved, The New Zealand Project, 1 May-4 June

2011
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, For Oscar, 15 February-5 March
Auckland, Gow Langsford Gallery, Walters and Killeen, 30 March- 23 April
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, What I did last Summer, 11 May-4 June

2012
Auckland, RM, Procedure, curated by Simon Bowerbank, 25 October-10 November

2013
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, In the early 1990's, 22 May-15 June

2015
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Let's Go, 25 February - 21 March
Whanganui, Sarjeant Gallery,The Archivists, 29 November 2014 – 22 February
Auckland, Michael Lett Gallery, Implicated and Immune, 28 January - 28 February
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Multiples, 27 May - 24 June

2017
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Stop Making Sense, 15 March - 8 April
Auckland, Ivan Anthony Gallery, A Series of Bad Decisions, 16 June - 22 July
Wellington, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Home Sweet Home, 15 September - 14 October

2018
Dunedin, Hocken Library, TheOrder of Things, 5 May - 16 June
Wellington, Te Papa Tongarewa, Kaleidoscope: Abstract Aotearoa 
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, This Can't Go On, 28 July - 18 August
Auckland Art Fair, 23 May - 27 May, McLeavey Gallery
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, 50 Years 50 Knockout Works, 21 September - 13 October

2019
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, There Will Be Strange Things From The Ocean, 15 May - 8 June

2022
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, Richard Killeen and Robin White, 9 February - 5 March
Wellington, McLeavey Gallery, A Family Collection, 24 August - 10 September

 



Thesis

Cutouts Killeen, Francis Pound, PHD, 1987, PDF


Bibliography

1971, 1975, Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting, Gil Docking, H.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, pp. 203-204 (illus.)

1973, Michael Dunn, 'Present Performance, Sculpture and Painting', Islands no. 6, Summer, pp. 369-380 (illus.)

1976, Rodney Wilson, 'Formal Abstraction in Post War New Zealand Painting', Art New Zealand no. 2, pp. 13-20 (cover illus.)

1980, Contemporary New Zealand Painters: A to M, Jim Barr, Mary Barr, Marti Friedlander, Alister Taylor, Martinborough, pp. 120-127 (illus.)

1983, The Grid, Lattice and Network, Andrew Bogle, Auckland City Art Gallery, p. 9, 12, pp. 28-31 (illus.)

1982, An Introduction to New Zealand Painting 1839--1980: new and revised edition, Gordon Brown, and Hamish Keith, Collins, Auckland, p. 195, 214, 215, 216, 218, 220 (illus.)

1980, Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting, Gil Docking, and Michael Dunn,H.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, revised edition, pp. 203-204, 226-228 (illus.)

1981, Francis Pound, 'The escape from the frame, Richard Killeen’s cut-outs', Art New Zealand no. 20, Winter, pp. 34-39 (cover illus.)

1982, F1: New Zealand Sculpture Project, Stuart Griffiths, and Jurgen Waibel (eds),Wellington, p. 25 (illus.)

1982, Seven Painters / The Eighties, Derek Schulz, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, p. 10, pp. 26-27 (illus.)

1982, Richard Killeen: Chance and Inevitability: Artist’s Project No. 1, Alexa Johnston, Auckland City Art Gallery, unpaginated (illus.)

1983, The University of Auckland Art Collection, Michael Dunn, University of Auckland, unpaginated (illus.)

1984, Stephen Ellis, 'Artists in Auckland University’s Arts and Commerce Building', Art New Zealand no. 33, Summer, pp. 36-39 (illus.)

1983, Francis Pound, 'On a text by Killeen: Snakes and Ladders', Parallax no. 2, Summer, pp. 198-204 (cover illus.)

1988, Exhibits: the Museum Display and the Encyclopedic Plate, Priscilla Pitts, and Robert Leonard, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Auckland, pp. 19-21

1983, New Image, Francis Pound, Auckland City Art Gallery, pp. 8-9, 14-16, 36-39 (illus.)

1984, Tony Green, Francis Pound, Richard Killeen, 'Silhouettes on the shade', Splash vol. 1, no. 2, December, pp. 96-104

1984, Francis Pound, 'I will not serve', And no. 3, October, pp. 63-83 (illus.)

1984, Anzart, Australian and New Zealand Artists in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival

1985, Betty Collings, 'Entity, The Paintings of Richard Killeen', Arts Magazine, February, pp. 112-113 (illus.)

1985, Forty Modern New Zealand Paintings, Francis Pound, Penguin, Auckland, unpaginated (illus.)

1985, Francis Pound, 'Killeen Cut outs', Artlink, double issue, August/September, pp. 23-24 (illus.)

1986, Francis Pound, 'Killeen’s Suburbia', Art New Zealand no. 40, Spring, pp. 45-49 (illus.)

1988, NZXI, Francis Pound, and Alexa Johnston, Auckland City Art Gallery, pp. 7-8, 10-11, 55-62, 106-109 (illus.)

1989, Richard Killeen: Lessons in Lightness, Francis Pound, Workshop Press, exhibition cataloguer Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

1989, Gordon Walters: Order and Intuition, Francis Pound, 'Walters and the Canon', edited James Ross and Laurence Simmons, Auckland, pp. 51-70 (illus.)

1990, Richard Killeen: Sampler 1967--1990, Francis Pound, Workshop Press, exhibition catalogue, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland

1991, Richard Killeen, Francis Pound, Workshop Press, exhibition catalogue, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York

1991, Signatures of Place: Paintings & Place-names, Francis Pound, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, pp. 14-16, p. 27 (illus.)

1991, Two Signwriters Two Fathers, Francis Pound, Workshop Press and Peter McLeavey Gallery

1991, A Concise History of New Zealand Painting, Michael Dunn, Craftsman House BVI Ltd, Tortola, BVI, Roseville East, NSW, Australia, pp 152-156 (illus.)

1991, Pacific Parallels, Eldridge, Charles C., with Jim and Mary Barr, exhibition catalogue, The New Zealand-United States Arts Foundation, Washington D.C., p. 16, 36, pp. 50-53, 54, 64, 88, 89, 91, 166 (illus.)

1994, The Space Between, Pakeha Use of Maori Motifs in Modernist New Zealand Art, Pound Francis, Workshop Press

1999, Stories We Tell Ourselves, The Paintings of Richard Killeen, Pound, Francis, exhibition catalogue, Bateman and Auckland City Art Gallery

1992, Headlands, Robert Leonard, Bernice Murphy, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

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1986, Originality and Beyond: The Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Ian Wedde, Sydney, pp. 150-151 (illus.)

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1996, Lands and Deeds, Gregory O’Brien, Godwit Publishing Ltd, p. 96 - 108

1998, Dream Collectors, One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand, Te Papa Press

1999, Home and Away, Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, essay Anna Miles, Auckland Art Gallery

2001, After Killeen, Social Observation in Recent Art, Flying over the Dominant Culture, Anna Miles, exhibition catalogue, Artspace

2001, Derrida Downunder, edited by Laurence Simmons and Heather Worth, Dunmore Press, pp 141-145

2002, The Image Always has the Last Word, On Contemporary New Zealand Painting and Photography, Laurence Simmons, Dunmore Press

2005. Shane Cotton, Cultural Surrealist, Robert Leonard, p8-p9, exhibition catalogue, Auckland Art Gallery

2005. Telecom Prospect 2007, exhibition catalogue, City Gallery Wellington

2005. How to look at a Painting, Paton Justin, Awa Press

2005. Victoria's Art, A University Collection, exhibition catalogue, Adam Art Gallery

2007. Towards Aotearoa, David Eggleton, Reed

2007. Reboot, The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, exhibition catalogue, Dunedin Art Gallery

2007. Adventures in 3D, Aaron Watson, Artzone no. 19 NZ Gallery Guide

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2009. The Invention of New Zealand, Art and National Identity 1930-1970, Francis Pound, Auckland University Press

2010. Artists, New Zealand Painters and Sculptors in the Studio, Richard Wolfe and Stephen Robinson, pp 153-159, Penguin


Artist Books

1990, Destruction of the circle, Workshop Press and Peter McLeavey Gallery
199, The Politics of geometry, Workshop Press
1991, Letters from my father, Workshop Press and Peter McLeavey Gallery
1992, How may we learn?, Workshop Press
1993, Handbook, Workshop Press
1994, Ephphatha, words by Alan Brunton, Workshop Press
1994, Knot, with John Reynolds, Workshop Press
1996, Objects and Images from the Cult of the Hook, Papers of the Hook Museum, Workshop Press
1996, The Presence of the Dew, with Margaret Orbell, Workshop Press
1997, Ticket to New York, Workshop Press
1997, Walk the Black Dog, Workshop Press
1997, Paths of Seniority, Workshop Press
1997, Standing Sitting Thinking Signwriter, Workshop Press
1998, Code of Responsibility Manual, Workshop Press
1996, Helen’s Snaps of Jenny’s Generators, Workshop Press
2000, Codex, 147 Cuba Street, Workshop Press and Peter McLeavey Gallery



Film

Profile -- Richard Killeen, 16mm, 25 minutes, director Bruce Morrison, 1982
Artists at work, Darcy Lange, video 30 minutes, 1998