Born Auckland, New Zealand
Education
2001 Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
Up Coming
Editions Dubai, Taste Contemporary, Dubai, November 2024
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Holy Organs, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand (group)
Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia (group)
Homo Faber, The Journey of Life, Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Italy (group)
Abstrakt Abstrakt, Northart, Auckland, New Zealand, (group)
Auckland Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery & Martin Browne Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (group)
Collective Visions, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (group)
Melbourne Art Fair, Martin Browne Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (group)
2023
Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery, Martin Browne Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia (group)
Cromwell Place, Taste Contemporary, London, UK (group)
Spectral Evidence, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Splintered, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (solo)
Jugs, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (group)
Design Miami/Podium Shanghai, Side Gallery, Shanghai, China (group)
Felix Art Fair, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, US (group)
Friends & Family, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, US (group)
2022
Design Miami, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (group)
Urns for Unwanted Limbs, Hastings City Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand (solo)
Canberra Art Biennial, Contour 556, Canberra, Australia
Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (group)
Splash, Taste Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland (group)
Australian Ceramics Triennale, Alice Springs, Australia
Sabotaje estético, Yusto/Giner, Madrid, Spain (group)
No One Will See Me Walk to Deny Me Grace, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Exposed Material, Side Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (group)
artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (group)
Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Group Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (group)
2021
Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia (group)
Golden Legs and Other Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US, (solo)
Distorted Duets, Taste Contemporary, La Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland (group)
miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy (group)
Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy (Winner - Main Prize)
Odd & Even, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France (group)
Urns For Unwanted Limbs, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ (solo)
Full House, Artist-run exhibition, Auckland, NZ (group)
Threshold, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (group)
Summer Exhibition, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ (group)
2020
Design Miami / Basel, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (group)
Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia (group)
miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy, September 2020 (group)
Breath Holder, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (solo)
Auckland Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (group)
The Backbone of Things, Te Auaha, Wellington, NZ (group)
Ladies Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US, (group)
The Cook and Her Driver, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne, Australia (Residency Exhibition)
2019
Hot Mess, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland, NZ, (group)
Beau-laid, Masons Yard, St. James, London, UK (group)
The Dowse Art Museum, Dirty Ceramics, Wellington, NZ (group)
International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics 2019, Geneva, Switzerland (group)
Gloria, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Sydney Contemporary, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (group)
Autumn Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (group)
miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy (solo)
Trans-Pacific Dialogue, NCECA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US (group)
National Treasures, Contemporary Ceramics from Australia and New Zealand, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)
Open to Art, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy (group)
artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (group)
2018
I Come Out Of Surgery Looking Golden; Virginia Leonard with Gretchen Albrecht, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
It Only Hurts When I Bend, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (solo)
All I Want is a Facelift, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Melbourne Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Auckland Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
miart, Erastudio Apartment Gallery, Milan, Italy (group)
Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, New York, US (group)
artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Exodus, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)
2017
Pulse Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami Beach, US (group)
Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (solo)
Farvestralende Keramik, Guldagergaard, Denmark (solo)
Village huha, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand (group)
2016
HANDBUILT made in clay, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand (group)
Christmas Time at Middlemore, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Spring 1883, PAULNACHE, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Australia (group)
MUD, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (group)
Graffiti Lounge, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand (group)
2015
Potters & Painters, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)
2014
The Effects of Crack, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Foursome, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)
2013
Virginia Leonard, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (solo)
2012
The Opening Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)
2009
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
2008
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
2007
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (group)
2003
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
2002
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
2001
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
Awards
2021
Winner - Main Prize, Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy
2020
First Runner-Up Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
2019
Winner Artist-in-Residence Prize in Finland, Open to Art Ceramic Award, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy
2018
Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
2017
Finalist Portage Ceramic Awards, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland
Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
2016
Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
Finalist Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, Whakatane, New Zealand
Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2015
Merit Award Portage Ceramic Awards, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
Finalist National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2014
Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
Finalist Molly Morpeth Canaday Sculpture Award, Te kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, Whakatane, New Zealand
Finalist National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2013
Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
Finalist Waikato Painting and Printmaking Art Award, Hamilton, New Zealand
2012
Finalist Waikato Painting and Printmaking Art Award, Hamilton, New Zealand
Winner Molly Morpeth Canady Art Award, Whakatane, New Zealand
2011
Winner of the Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
Finalist Molly Morpeth Art Award, Whakatane, New Zealand
2010
Finalist Molly Morpeth Art Award, Whakatane, New Zealand
2009
Finalist Waiheke Art Awards, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2008
Finalist Waiheke Art Awards, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2007
Waiheke Art Awards - Zinni Douglas Merit Award, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
Finalist Norsewear Art Awards, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
2003
Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Public and Private Collections
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū, Nelson, New Zealand
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia
Rigo-Saitta Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kansas, USA
Ann Tennenenbaum Collection, New York, USA
Girls Club Collection, Miami, USA
Residencies
Glass House/Stone House, Chenaud, France
Guldagergaard - International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark
Publications
Stonehouse-France, Glasshouse-Australia.’ Artist Residency 2019. Published 2023 Stonehouse-Glasshouse 03. Texts Kathy Marks, Antje Geczy and Michael Schwarz
Art New Zealand. ‘Mind, Body, Action’. Vol 183/Spring 2022. Essay by Connie Brown
Contemporary Hum. ‘Don’t Learn Anything More’. 26.10.2021. Essay by Connie Brown
Officine Saffi Award 4. 2020-2021 Published by Officine Saffi, 2022. Introduction by Laura Borghi.
100 Sculptures of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson
Ceramics Art + Perception #113
Ceramics New Zealand, Volume 1 issue 2, Essay by Kim Paton
The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 57 No1, Essay by Anna Briers