Michael Parekowhai

MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI

Born 1968, Porirua, New Zealand

Nga-Ariki, Ngati Whakarongo

Lives Auckland

EDUCATION

BFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Teaching Diploma, Auckland College of Education

MFA, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland

Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

The English Channel, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Michael Parekowhai: The Promised Land, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Rules of the Game, Michael Lett, Auckland

The Past in the Present, Michael Lett at the Auckland Art Fair, Auckland

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, Palazzo Loredan Dell'Ambasciatore, Dorsoduro, Venice (representing New Zealand), 54^th Venice Biennale

The Far Side, Michael Lett, Auckland

Te Ao Hurihuri, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

The Moment of Cubism, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland

Seldom is Herd, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Yes We Are, One Day Sculpture, Wellington, New Zealand

Jim McMurty, Maori Hall, Auckland, New Zealand

My Sister My Self, Michael Lett, Auckland New Zealand

Liste Art Fair, Michael Lett Stand, Basel, Switzerland

The Song of the Frog, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand

Cosmo McMurtry, NGV International, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Jim McMurtry, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Chirstchurch, New Zealand

Eerst me fiets (First my bicycle), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Beaufort Inside, PMMK, Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium

Driving Mr. Albert, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand

Rainbow Servant Dreaming, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Consolation of Philosophy - Piko nei te matenga, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Selected Works 1989 - 1994, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand

Michael Parekowhai: Consolation of philosophy Piko nei te matenga, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Michael Parekowhai/Hany Armanious, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Kapa Haka, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand

Michael Parekowhai, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia

All there is / The Consolation of Philosophy, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

All there is, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Patriot: Ten Guitars, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA

Consolation of philosophy - Piko nei te matenga, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

The Beverly Hills Gun Club, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

The Beverly Hills Gun Club / True Action Adventures of the Twentieth Century, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Patriot: Ten Guitars, touring exhibition (Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, Beyond the Future, The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand)

Kitset Cultures, Djamu Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Recent Paintings, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Recent Paintings, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Kiss the Baby Goodbye, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Kiss the Baby Goodbye, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand

A capella, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Soft Core, Shepparton Art Musuem, Victoria

Sheer Fantasy, Campbell town Arts Centre, NSW

Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu, 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

Common Ground, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Group Show, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Soft Core, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Lake Macquarie City Gallery, NSW

Light Switch and Conduit, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

Implicated and Immune, Michael Lett, Auckland

Menagerie, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne

Michael Parekowhai et al., Michael Lett, Auckland
Black Rainbow: Michael Parekowhai and Ralph Hotere, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Letter from Alice May Williams, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand

Sculpture is Everything, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane

Peripheral Relations; Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1960-2011, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington

Toi Aotearoa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland

Evolution, Max Lang, New York, curated by Marc Wellmann

Dateline, City Gallery Kiel; City Gallery Sindelfingen, Germany

Dateline, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

SURREALITES - Traces du surreel dans l'art contemporain, Centre PasquArt, Switzerland, 19 August - 21 October

Love Chief, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Hei konei mai: We'll meet again, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

High Tide: currents in contemporary New Zealand & Australian Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 13th February 2006 - 9th April 2006

High Tide: currents in contemporary New Zealand & Australian Art, Contemporary Art Centre, 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2nd June 2006 - 13th August 2006

Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, New York, USA, January 28 - June 18, 2006

Random Access, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria

High Chair, St. Paul Street Gallery, Aut, Auckland, New Zealand

Remember New Zealand, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

Melbourne Art Fair, Michael Lett, Melbourne, Australia

Earthly Delights, George Perry Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand

Art Showcase, Grace Joel, Auckland, New Zealand

The Suter, Nelson, New Zealand

IKI and thanks for all the IKA, Artspace, Auckland

State of Art, George Perry Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand

In Flower, Pataka, Poriua, Wellington, New Zealand

Animals in Art, North Art, Auckland, New Zealand

Remember New Zealand, Sao Paulo Biennale, San Paulo, Brazil

A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, Korea

35K, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

Urban Legends, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Paradise Now?, Asia Pacific Society, New York, USA

Judy Darragh & Michael Parekowhai, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Traffic, Crossing Currents in Indigenous Photomedia, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia

Pacific Harbours, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Opening Exhibition, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

9 Lives, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Indians and Cowboys, (touring Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia, Canberra Artspace, Canberra, Australia)

Thompson, Frank, Paterson, Gimblett, Parekowhai, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Chartwell Collection: Recent Acquisitions, New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Pataka Art Museum, Pataka, New Zealand

(The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, 2002, Sydney, Australia

Katharina Grosse, Melinda Harper, Michael Parekowhai, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Good Work, the Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection (touring Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand)

Purangiaho: Seeing Clearly, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Techno Maori, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Multistylus Programme, Recent Chartwell Acquisitions, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Bright Paradise: the 1st Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Prospect 2001,City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Let There Be Light, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Catalogue Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

La+nguage Matters, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

The Numbers Game, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Noumea Biennial, Tibaou Centre, Noumea, New Caledonia

Old Worlds/New Worlds, Art Museum of Missoula, U.S.A

Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia

Flight patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A

Simpson Grierson Season - works from the collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Wonderlands, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Beyond the Future: The Third Asia - Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Home and Away, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Taonga Mauri, Artstation, Auckland, New Zealand

The Promoter, Auckland, New Zealand

Who Do I Think I Am, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

Wonderlands: views on life at the end of the century, at the end of the world, Govett - Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Dream Collectors, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

The World Over / de wereld bollen: art in the age of globalisation, City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Here I give thanks, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

Cultural Safety, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton City Gallery, Wellington, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Frankfurter, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

The Nervous System, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Korurangi, New Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Art Now, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

Changing Signs, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

After McCahon, Cubism, Wellington, New Zealand

Shared Pleasures, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand

International Festival of the Arts, Wellington, New Zealand

Stop Making Sense, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Homemade Home, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Vogue/Vague, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Hit Parade: contemporary art from the Paris Family Collection, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

W.A.R Whatu Aho Rua, Tandanya Gallery, Adelaide, Australia

Headlands: thinking through New Zealand art, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Headlands: thinking through New Zealand art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Light Sensitive, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

Cross-pollination, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

Kohia Ko Taikaka Anake, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Choice!, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

Light'arted, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Musee Du Quai Branly, Paris, France

Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

National Library Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand

Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Wellington, New Zealand

Les and Milly Paris Collection, Wellington, New Zealand

Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

Saatchi & Saatchi Collection, Wellington, New Zealand

Sweeney and Vesty Collection, Wellington, New Zealand

Thanksgiving Trust, Auckland, New Zealand

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Deutsche Bank, Sydney, Australia

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Austcorp, Sydney, Australia

Arario Gallery, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea

Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchuch, New Zealand

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

Lighthouse, Auckland Queens Wharf, Barfoot and Thompson gift

Tongue of the Dog, Commissioned by MESH, Waikato Museum

Queens Wharf, commissioned by Auckland Council, Auckland

The World Turns, commissioned by the Queensland Government, Queensland Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Brisbane

Ghost of Gondwanda Land, W Hotel, Hong Kong

The Big O.E., Museum of New Zealand, Wellington

Song of the Frog, Beaufort Inside, Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium

Currency of Colour, Deutsche Bank, Sydney

Britomart Transport Centre, Auckland New Zealand

AWARDS

Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Matthew Westwood, Have a Captain Cook at this new sculpture, The Australian, 10 March 2017, p.3

Simon Wilson, In the city at the edge of everything we launch The Spinoff Auckland, The Spin Off Auckland, 7 March 2017

John Daly-Peoples, Michael Parekowhai's “Lighthouse” is a monument to the state house, Weekend Review, The National Business Review, 17 February 2017

Robert Leonard, Michael Parekowhai, The Empire of Light, Art Monthly

Laura Tupou, Controversial artwork unwrapped on Auckland wharf, Radio New Zealand News, January 12, 2017

Peter Hill, 'Michael Parekowhai: Playing It Forward', Vault Magazine, Issue 13 February 2016

Ali Ikram, 'Art matters: Space and priority crucial to our art,' New Zealand Herald, 12 December 2015

N.A., `How Christchurch went from culling rabbits to a quiet public art renaissance', The Press, stuff.co.nz, 7 October 2015

Ray Egar, `Modern-day tapestries allow rich collaboration,' Sydney Morning Herald, 10 July 2015
Louise Martin Chew, "Michael Parekowhai The Promised Land," Art Collector, Issue 72, Jul-Sept 2015

Michelle Duff, `Support for $1.5m Michael Parekowhai Queens Wharf state house sculpture,' Auckland Now, 15 June 2015

Juliet Helmke,'Course of Action: Michael Parekowhai Unveils Nautical Masterpieces,' Blouin Artinfo, 13 June 2015

Louise Martin-Chew, `Public Art in Queensland: Gone? But Not Forgotten', Eyeline, Number 82, 2015

Nicholas Forrest, `Michael Parekowhai's First Major Solo Exhibition at Brisbane GOMA', Blouin Art Info, January 22, 2015

Rose Campbell and Falvio Villani, 'Telling Stories', Christchurch Art Gallery Bulletin, Spring 2012, pp26-30

Bridget Cormack, `Jumbo and water rat fall into place', The Australian, Thursday November 15, 2012, pp 17

Peter Shand, 'Ready and Willing', Art Collector, Issue 65, July - Sept 2013, pp116-122

Maud Page, `Micheal Parekowhai - The World Turns', APT7 Exhibition Publication, QUAG-GOMA, 2012, pp264-265

Kate Brettkelly Chalmers, `Micheal Parekowhai: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', Eyeline, No 75, Summer 2011-2012, pp.78

Katrina Strickland, `New Zealand paints itself into the picture', The Weekend Australian Financial Review, April 23-26, 2010, pp 44-45

Sarah Hopkins, “Michael Parekowhai”, Art World Magazine, pp 94 - 101.

Gina Fairley, `Micheal Parekowhai at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery', World Scuplture News, Autumn 2009, pp.80

Current, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia (eds.), Sydney, p248

Michael Lett and Ryan Moore (eds), Michael Parekowhai, Michael Lett Publishing: Auckland, 2007

Adam Jasper, `The 5^th Asia-Pacific Triennial', Frieze, Issue 105 March 2007, p. 195

Reuben Keehan, `Michael Parekowhai, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Australia, October 5 - 28, 2006', Art US, January-February, 2007, p. 6

Barrett Newkirk, `One sneeze and the seal…', The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday, 10 October 2006, p. 14

High Tide: new currents in art from Australia and New Zealand, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius and Poland, Warsaw

Gillian Serisier, `Deutsche Bank', (inside) australian design review, Issue 41, 2006 pp. 92 - 97

Timothy Morrell, `Michael Parekowhai, 50 Most Collectable Artists', Australian Art Collector, Issue 35, January - March 2006 p119

Richard Kalina, `Report from New Zealand: A Change of Empires', Art in America, October 2005, pp. 83 - 89

Jarrod Rawlins,” Michael Parekowhai” Flash Art July/September 2005 . Review

p. 132.

Lenny Ann Low, Open Gallery, Michael Parekowhai-Rainbow Servant Dreaming, Sydney Morning Herald, pg 33, May 14-15, 2005.

Craig Judd, “Gwangju Biennale 2004: A Vienna-Participant Memoir,” eyeline, No. 56, Summer 04/05, pg 18-20.

`A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water', Gwangju Biennale 2004,

http://www.gwangju-biennale.org/eng/gb2004/index.asp

A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, exh. cat., Korea, 2004, pp. 310-312

Roberta Smith, `The Beauty of the Pacific, Enshrined and Exploited', The New York Times, 5 March, New York

Melissa Chiu, Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, cat. essay, http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/paradise/essay.html

Nine Lives, The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

Exhibition catalogue, pp. 37-42

Sue Gardiner, `Tuning in', LOOK!, Winter 2003, pg. 51

Watson, Ruth, `Indians and Cowboys: Now and Here,' Indian and Cowboys, exh. cat., Gallery 4A, Asia Australia, Arts Centre, Sydney 2003

Alexa Moses, “Exhibitions: Walk the blanks,” Sydney Morning Herald, 20 September, p. 10 (48 Hours)

Big Bang Theory: Recent Chartwell Acquisitions, `Michael Parekowhai', exh. Cat., Auckland Art Gallery, May-Aug 2002

Benedict Reid, `Michael Parekowhai', cat., 2002 Biennale of Sydney, pp. 149-152

Paul Panckhurst, `Don't Fence Me In', The New Zealand Herald, 29 April 2002

Paton, Justin, `Special Agent, Michael Parekowhai's Generous Duplicity,' Art New Zealand 103, Winter

Michael Parekowhai. exh. cat., The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh USA

Paton, Justin, `Michael Parekowhai' In Frieze, #67, May, p. 95

Jordan Weeks, `Popular CultureS: Installations by Michael Parekowhai, Ravinder Reddy, and Yinka Shonibare', Carnegie Magazine

http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/2001/mayjun/awm.htm

`Pop Goes the World,Pop CultureS events'

Bright Paradise, The 1^st Auckland Triennial 2001, Mar-Apr, https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/

Nigel Clark and Giovanni Intra, `Bright Paradise', The 1^st Auckland Triennial 2001

Michael Parekowhai, Cushla Parekowhai, `The Gypsy Lover', cat., June-Sept 2001

Margery King, `Michael Parekowhai', exh. Cat., June-Sept 2001

Amanda Linnell, `Star Bright', Vogue, August 2001

Mason, Ngahiraka, `Purangiaho Toku Mata,' Purangiaho (Seeing Clearly), exh. cat., Auckland Art Gallery, 2001

Amery, Mark, `Know Just Where You Are', Review, Listener, 24 June 2000

Barr, Jim & Mary, `The Indefinite Article', Art Asia Pacific 23, p72-76

Barton, Christina, Art Now, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand,1994, p9, 11, 66-67, 90

Butler, Connie, `West of everything' Parkett 57, p189-194

Burke, Gregory, `Michael Parekowhai', Review, Art & Text, No. 69, May - July 2000

French, Blair, `Michael Parekowhai', Reviews, Art Asia Pacific, issue 26, p92

Gibson, Jeff,' Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art', Artforum International, January 2000

Hewitson, Michele, `On the Wild Side', NZ Herald, 19 June 2000

McAloon, William, `Sixty Strings Slowly Strummed', Sunday Star Times, 21 May 2000

McNamara, T.J., `Plenty of fire power and a lot of serious questions', NZ Herald, 12 June 2000

Pound, Francis, `Topographies', Flight Patterns, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, p. 130

Stoney, Robin, `Taonga Maori,' Circa, vol. 91, Spring 2000, cover and p. 63

William McAloon, home and away: contemporary Australian and New Zealand art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, 1999, p. 58-9, 140

Parekowhai, Michael, `pagework', Pavement (NZ), Oct/Nov, Issue 37, p. 190-191

Dale, Richard, `Reviews Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art', Eyeline 41, Summer 1999 / 2000

Jim Barr, Mary Barr, `The Indefinite Article: Michael Parekowhai's Riff on Representation', Art Asia Pacific, 1999

Gregory Burke, `Michael Parekowhai', Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art from the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, 1999

Leonard, Robert, Patriot, exh. cat., published by Gow Langsford Gallery and Artspace, Auckland, 1999

`Michael Parekowhai, Ten Guitars', exh. cat., Artspace, Auckland, 1999

Leonard, Robert, ` Michael Parekowhai: Ten Guitars', Beyond the future: The Third Asia Art Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1999, p100-101

Mane-Wheoki, Jonathan, `States of Flux: The Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art', Art New Zealand 93, Summer 1999-2000

Mason, Ngahiraka, `The Bosom of Abraham, A recent Gallery acquisition', Gallery News 04, Dec - Feb 1999-2000

Page, Maud, Kitset Cultures, exh. cat., Djamu Gallery, Sydney,1999

Dream Collectors, Te Papa Tongarewa, exh. cat., Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, Auckland Art Gallery,1998

The world over / de wereld bollen: art in the age of globalisation, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; City Gallery, Wellington; 1996

Burke, Gregory, Cultural Safety, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; City Gallery, Wellington, 1995

Jahnke, Robert, Korurangi, New Gallery, Auckland, 1995

Smith, Alan, The Nervous System, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 1995

Leonard, Robert, `Perverse Homage's', Planet #13, Auckland, New Zealand, 1994

Leonard, Robert and Strongman, Lara, Kiss the Baby Goodbye, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth & Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1994

Localities of Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1994

Smith, Allan, “Michael Parekowhai: Kiss the Baby Goodbye”, Art New Zealand 72, Spring 1994, p. 64-67

Speden, Graeme, `Accent on Child's Play', New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 September 1993

Strongman, Lara, Shared Pleasures: The Chartwell Collecton, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1993

Burke, Gregory, `Michael Parekowhai', Home and Away: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand Art From the Chartwell Collection (ed. William McAloon)

Cochrane-Simons, Susan, `Maori Custom is Worth Remembering', Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia, 18 April 1992

Mary Barr (ed), Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art, exh. cat., Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Art Gallery, Wellington

Hit parade: contemporary art from the Paris Family Collection, Wellington, City Art Gallery, 1992

McAloon, William, Vogue/Vague, CSA Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1992

Mendelssohn, Joanna, `New Views of New Zealand: two versions of isolation', The Bulletin, Auckland, New Zealand, 21 April 1992

Panaho, Rangi, W.A.R.. Whatu Aho Rua, Tandanya Gallery, Adelaide, 1992

Zepke, Stephen, `Difference without Binary oppositions. A chance for a Choice!' Antic, #8, Auckland, New Zealand, 1992

Leonard, Robert, `Against Purity: three word sculptures by Michael Parekowhai', Art New Zealand, #59, Auckland, New Zealand, 1991, p52-54

Intra, Giovanni, `Being Brown, Making flutes and Dying', Stamp #12, Auckland, New Zealand, 1990