Ronnie van Hout

Van Hout attended the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury between 1980 and 1982, where he majored in film. In 1999, he gained a Master of Fine Arts from RMIT University, Melbourne.[2]

Van Hout has exhibited extensively, in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, at private and public galleries.

Major solo shows

• 2012 Ronnie van Hout: I've Seen Things, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt[3]
• 2011 Ronnie van Hout: Who Goes There, Christchurch Art Gallery[4]
• 2004 Ronnie van Hout: I've Abandoned Me, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and City Gallery Wellington[5]
• 2003 No Exit, Part 2, Physics Room, Christchurch[6]

Van Hout has also produced a number of large-scale or permanent public art works, including Fallen Robot near The Dowse Art Museum, Comin' Down for the Christchurch Art Gallery, "Boy Walking" installed in Potters Park in Auckland,[7] and Quasi, a hand sculpture currently at City Gallery Wellington.[8][9][10][11]

• 2004 nominated for the Walters Prize held at Auckland Art Gallery.[12]
• 2004 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin[13][14]
• 2005 recipient of a Laureate award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.[2]
• 2008 Rita Angus Residency, Wellington[15]

Van Hout's work is held in many public collections including the Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery and the Public Art Gallery.

• Anthony Byrt Who's There: Ronnie van Hout and the Anti-Hero Aesthetic, Art New Zealand 126, Autumn 2008
• John Hurrell, Review of Who Goes There, EyeContact, 27 September 2009
• John Hurrell, Review of The Other Mother, EyeContact, 28 June 2011
• Tom Cardy, Van Hout's latest hits the Dowse, The DominionPost, 12 July 2012
• Robert Leonard, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Eyeline, no. 73, 2011