PhotoForum Member Portfolio, May 2026
“My work traces a movement from immersion within systems of power and hyper-reality toward observation, stillness, and presence.”
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Faye Norman and Jenny Tomlin
Cell Block Studios, Studio One Toi Tū
1 Ponsonby Rd, Auckland
21 May - 6 June 2026
Opening Night Event 20th May, 5pm onwards.
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Craig Andrew Madsen
Papakura Museum
Level 3, 209 Great South Rd, Papakura
20 April - 20 June 2026
Open from 10am Mon - Sat. Sundays closed.
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Claude Cahun (1894-1954) and Marcel Moore (1892-1972)
Gus Fisher Gallery
The Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Shortland St, Auckland
29 May – 22 August 2026
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Tim Holmes
Stoddart Cottage and its Contemporaries
2 Waipapa Avenue, Diamond Harbour
2 May - 24 May 2026
Closing weekend architectural talk 4pm Saturday 23rd May
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Abbie Cossey | Anne Basquin | Aimee Magne | Cassey Locke | Charlotte Parallel | Lou Corry | Madeline Jones | Christina Little | David Laughlin | Shelley Simpson
Eyes on Fire Gallery
15 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland.
29 May - 18 June 2026
Opening Event 29 May at 6pm
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Ans Westra
The Dowse Art Museum
45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt
9 May - 18 October 2026
Opening Weekend Floor Talk: Wayne Youle + Ans Westra
Saturday 9 May, 11am-12pm
Theo Macdonald reviews the updated New Zealand Photography Collected: 175 Years of Photography in Aotearoa by Athol McCredie,
Published by Te Papa Press, 2025
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The Inevitable
Mark Adams, Joyce Campbell, Conor Clarke, Megan Jenkinson and Sam Norton.
PhotoForum re-publish Virginia Were’s essay which was first commissioned to accompany the exhibition The Inevitable Mark Adams, Joyce Campbell, Conor Clarke, Megan Jenkinson and Sam Norton at Two Rooms.
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Kate van der Drift
Sanderson Contemporary
28 May – 22 June, 2025
PhotoForum re-publish Virginia Were’s essay which was first commissioned to accompany Kate van der Drift’s exhibition Dance, Dance at Sanderson Contemporary.
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Rosalina McCarthy at Nelson Institute
Activities Room, Nelson Public Library
27 Halifax St, Nelson
2pm Sunday, 3 May 2026
Cost: $3
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Fiona Pardington Representing Aotearoa New Zealand at the 61st Venice Biennale
9 May to 22 November 2026
Creative New Zealand has announced Fiona Pardington as the representative artist for the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.
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Ai Iwane & Mānawatia te Wai
Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery
201 Eastbourne Street East, Hastings
18 April – 11 July 2026
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Laurence Aberhart & John Johns
McLeavey Gallery
147 Cuba Street, Wellington
25 March – 18 April 2026
Opening Wednesday 25 March 5.30-7.30pm
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Heather Milne
Photosynthesis
6 Battersea Street, Christchurch
18 March - 22 March 2026
Opening Wednesday 18 March, 5:30pm
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