André Hemer (b. 1981, New Zealand) maintains an artistic practice which explores the intersections between digital media and painting. He received his PhD in Painting from the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia in 2015 and his MA from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2006, including a Postgraduate Research Residency at the Royal College of Art, London (2006). His work embraces and reveals the transformations and transactions that occur between the contemporary digital image and the traditional painted object. He has exhibited widely and is represented internationally by Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery; Luis de Jesus Los Angeles in the United States; Yavuz Gallery in South-East Asia; Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand and Bartley and Company in Wellington, New Zealand.
Solo exhibitions include Salon, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL (2025); Techno Dreaming, Ames Yavuz Gallery, Sydney (2024); Sunrise of Fog and Dreams, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland (2024); Sky Sculpture (Palazzo Previtera), SARP Gallery, Sicily (2024); Birch Mapel Oak Post Rococo, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); Hyper-Abandonment, Gow Langsford Gallery, NZ (2022); Phenomena, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles (2022); Scenes from a Voyage, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, AU (2022); Scenes from an Infinite Sky, Melbourne Art Fair w/ Yavuz Gallery, AU (2022); Skyscapes & Portals, Bartley & Company Gallery, Wellington, NZ (2022); These Days, Hollis Taggart Contemporary, NY (2020); The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (2020); Sunset/Sunrise, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles (2020); Images Cast by the Sun, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore (2019); The Cobra Effect, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2018); The Imagist & the Materialist, COMA Gallery, Sydney (2018); Making-Image, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles (2018); Day Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland (2018); IRL, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore (2017); Deep Surfacing, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (2016); New Representation Part III, How Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (2016).
Group exhibitions include Contemporary Selections, Hollis Taggart, New York (2024); Sky Sculpture (Viewport), curated by Simon Bowerbank, The Lightship Commision, Auckland, NZ (2024); Absence (curated by Felicity Milburn), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, NZ (2023); Where the Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2023); Off the Past and Present, Hollis Taggart Contemporary, NY (2023); The Grand Finale, Bartley & Comnpany Art, NZ (2023); Group presentation (Yavuz Gallery), Art Basel Hong Kong (2023); Artists Responding to Artists, Bartley & Company Art, Wellington, NZ (2022); Art Paris, Kristin Hjellegjedre Gallery, Paris, France (2022); Facing the Sun, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Germany (2021); NFTism (curated by Kenny Schachter), Institut, London (2021); < soft glow > (with Anne Vieux), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Look Again, Hollis Taggart, Southport, CT (2021); Sensor Glow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021); Group presentation with Yavuz Gallery, Art Basel Hong Kong (2021); CADAF Paris (curated by Studio As We Are), Digital Art Month, Paris, France (2021); First Light, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney (2020); Closer than they appear, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney (2020); WestFarbe (curated by Christoph Dahlhausen), Center for Contemporary Art (CoCA), NZ (2020); From this place things glimmer, Bartley & Company Art, Wellington (2020); Containment Field, COMA Gallery, Sydney (2019); a duo show Woven and Illuminated, André Hemer and Sinta Tantra, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2019); Art Basel Hong Kong with Yavuz Gallery; Hong Kong (2019); Manila Art Fair with Yavuz Gallery, Phillipines (2019); Art Brussels with Kristin Hjellejgerde Gallery, Berlin & London (2019); Highlight (curated by Paul Efstathiou & Eleanor Flatow), National Arts Club, New York (2019); Looking for U, Unit London, London (2018); Group presentation with Yavuz Gallery Singapore, Art Basel Hong Kong (2018); Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NYC (2017); Watching Windows, (curated by Andrew Clifford), Te Uru Witakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, NZ (2017); Yavuz Gallery Group Presentation, Art Basel HK, Hong Kong (2017); Fauvette Loureiro Finalist Exhibition, SCA Galleries, Sydney (2016); Picturesque, (curated by Tristian Koenig), Palmer Art Projects, Sydney (2016); Antipodean Inquiry, curated by Owen Craven), Yavuz Gallery, Singapore (2016);
Highlights and collections.
In 2017, André Hemer was awarded a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York.
His work can be found in important public and private collections such as Taiwan Museum of Art, ROC, Taipei, Taiwan; NTNU Gallery Collection, Institute of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul Artspace Geumcheon, Seoul, South Korea; Fletcher Trust Collection, Auckland, New Zealand; Wallace Art Collection, Auckland, New Zealand; Te Manawa Museum, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Massey University Art Collection, Auckland, New Zealand; Massey University Art Collection, Wellington, New Zealand; Christchurch Art Gallery Collection, Christchurch, New Zealand; College of Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; Bunker Artspace Museum, USA.