Gary McMillan (b.1969) is originally from the Waikato and currently lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. He graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (with distinction) from the Dunedin School of Art in 2003. McMillan has exhibited throughout New Zealand in private galleries and public art institutions and in 2012 he was the paramount winner of the NZ Painting and Printmaking Award. McMillan is represented by Fox Jensen McCrory in Auckland and Fox Jensen Gallery in Sydney.
Contact:
www.jensengallery.com
Fox Jensen McCrory
10 Putiki Street
Grey Lynn, Auckland
New Zealand
ph. +649 360 9161
gallery@fjmgallery.com
Fox Jensen Private Office
Sydney
1/8 Soudan Lane
Paddington, NSW 2021
ph. +61 280 844 298
Fox Jensen Alexandria
Sydney
68-70 Burrows Road
Alexandria, NSW 2015
ph. +61 478 006 359
gallery@foxjensengallery.com
Bio:
2021 Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
2016-17 Life Drawing Tutor, Unitec, Auckland
2009 Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA
2007 Drawing and Painting Tutor, Uxbridge Creative Centre, Auckland
1999-05 Lecturer (Painting and Drawing), Dunedin School of Art
Tutor (Life Drawing and Painting), Cleveland Living Arts Centre
2000-03 Master of Fine Arts with distinction, Dunedin School of Art
1994-97 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Dunedin School of Art
Solo Exhibitions:
2020 Transmission, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2018 Phase IV, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2014 Broadcast, FHE Galleries, Auckland
2012 The Quiet Earth, The Film Archives, Auckland
Noise, FHE Project, Auckland
2011 Sector 8, A Gallery, Dunedin
2005 The Day the Earth Stood Still, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin
2003 Moving Still, Hocken Library, University of Otago
Moving Still (Reprised), The Arthouse, Christchurch
2000 High Street and Other Stories, The Arthouse, Christchurch
1993 Metropolis Café, Hamilton
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2020 Yallop and Smith Memorial Exhibition, Olga Gallery, Dunedin
Analogue, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2019 Auckland Art Fair, Fox Jensen McCrory & Fox Jensen, Auckland/Sydney
2018 Portrait Without a Face, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2016 Ocular Fusion, Fox Jensen Gallery, Auckland
2015 New Urban Realists, Millennium Public Art Gallery, Blenheim
2014-15 New Urban Realists, Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
2013 Seven Wishes, FHE Project, Auckland
Inland Empire, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland (with Ruth Cleland)
Path Upon the Air, FHE Galleries, Auckland
Auckland Art Fair, FHE Galleries
Inland Empire, Calder & Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato (with Ruth Cleland)
Seen Recently, Northart, Auckland
2012 Picture This: Recently Acquired Art, Hocken Library, Dunedin
Group Show, FHE Galleries, Auckland
New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, Hamilton
2011 Yallop and Smith Memorial Exhibition, A Gallery, Dunedin
Wallace Art Awards, Auckland and The Dowse, Lower Hutt
VS. The Art of Going Over, A Gallery, Dunedin
Auckland International Art Fair, FHE Project
Auratica Fantastica, Window, Auckland
2010 Wallace Art Awards, Auckland and The Dowse, Lower Hutt
2008 National Drawing Awards, Artspace, Enjoy, Physics Room
It’s about Painting, RH Gallery, Nelson
Wallace Art Awards, Auckland and Wellington
2006 Wallace Art Awards, Auckland and Wellington
National Drawing Awards, Artspace and Physics Room
2005 Some Plus One, Otago School of Art Lecturers Exhibition, Segue Gallery
2004 Wallace Awards, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
Room, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
International Art Fair and Cake Stall, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
2003 Paper, Dowling Street Gallery, Dunedin
Tease, 82 Bond Street, Dunedin
2001 Haunted House, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
2000 New Works, CoCA, Christchurch
1999 Dark Art, Temple Gallery, Dunedin
Cranleigh Barton Drawing Awards, Robert McDougall Gallery, Christchurch
Sister City Group Exhibition, Otaru Museum, Japan
Awards:
2012 Paramount Award, New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award
2009 One-month artist residency at Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA
2008 Jury Prize, Wallace Art Awards
1999 Merit Award, Mainland Art Awards
1997 Student Prize, Cleveland Art Awards
1996 Derivan Painting Award, Otago School of Art
Publications/Reviews:
2020 McMillan's Loop by John Hurrell, EyeContact, 16 October
Transmission exhibition catalogue, text by Andrew Jensen, Fox Jensen McCrory
Remembering Analogue by John Hurrell, EyeContact, 15 April
Analogue exhibition catalogue, text by Andrew Jensen, Fox Jensen McCrory
2018 Faceless Portraits by John Hurrell, EyeContact, 9 November
Granular Cityscapes by John Hurrell, EyeContact, 7 September
Artist with a Fascination for Light by John Daly-Peoples, NBR, 31 August
2016 Ocular Fusion exhibition catalogue, text by Andrew Jensen, Fox Jensen McCrory
2014 NZ Herald, Review by T.J. McNamara, Saturday 4 October 2014
2013 Inland Empire by Steph Chalmers, Takahe Magazine, No.80 December 2013
Cleland and McMillan, Inland Empire review by Peter Dornauf, EyeContact, 25 June
Inland Empire, exhibition Catalogue by Steph Chalmers, University of Waikato
2012 “The Subtleties of Unease” by Melody Thomas, Art Zone, No.44 April-June, pp. 29-37
Waikato Times, 20 February 2012
2009 Seen This Century by Warwick Brown, Random House, New Zealand
2006 Art News New Zealand, Autumn 2006, p.29
2005 Otago Daily Times, December 8, 2005, p.38
Otago Daily Times, November 24, 2005, pp.33-34
2003 Art New Zealand, Number 108 / Spring 2003, p.56
Art New Zealand, Number 107 / Winter 2003, pp.46-47
Otago Daily Times, March 20, 2003, p.29
2001-02 Art New Zealand, Number 101 / Summer 2001-02, p.36
Selected Collections:
James Wallace Arts Trust Collection
Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin
Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
www.jensengallery.com
Fox Jensen McCrory
10 Putiki Street
Grey Lynn, Auckland
New Zealand
ph. +649 360 9161
gallery@fjmgallery.com
Fox Jensen Private Office
Sydney
1/8 Soudan Lane
Paddington, NSW 2021
ph. +61 280 844 298
Fox Jensen Alexandria
Sydney
68-70 Burrows Road
Alexandria, NSW 2015
ph. +61 478 006 359
gallery@foxjensengallery.com
Bio:
2021 Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
2016-17 Life Drawing Tutor, Unitec, Auckland
2009 Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA
2007 Drawing and Painting Tutor, Uxbridge Creative Centre, Auckland
1999-05 Lecturer (Painting and Drawing), Dunedin School of Art
Tutor (Life Drawing and Painting), Cleveland Living Arts Centre
2000-03 Master of Fine Arts with distinction, Dunedin School of Art
1994-97 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Dunedin School of Art
Solo Exhibitions:
2020 Transmission, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2018 Phase IV, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2014 Broadcast, FHE Galleries, Auckland
2012 The Quiet Earth, The Film Archives, Auckland
Noise, FHE Project, Auckland
2011 Sector 8, A Gallery, Dunedin
2005 The Day the Earth Stood Still, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin
2003 Moving Still, Hocken Library, University of Otago
Moving Still (Reprised), The Arthouse, Christchurch
2000 High Street and Other Stories, The Arthouse, Christchurch
1993 Metropolis Café, Hamilton
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2020 Yallop and Smith Memorial Exhibition, Olga Gallery, Dunedin
Analogue, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2019 Auckland Art Fair, Fox Jensen McCrory & Fox Jensen, Auckland/Sydney
2018 Portrait Without a Face, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland
2016 Ocular Fusion, Fox Jensen Gallery, Auckland
2015 New Urban Realists, Millennium Public Art Gallery, Blenheim
2014-15 New Urban Realists, Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
2013 Seven Wishes, FHE Project, Auckland
Inland Empire, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland (with Ruth Cleland)
Path Upon the Air, FHE Galleries, Auckland
Auckland Art Fair, FHE Galleries
Inland Empire, Calder & Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato (with Ruth Cleland)
Seen Recently, Northart, Auckland
2012 Picture This: Recently Acquired Art, Hocken Library, Dunedin
Group Show, FHE Galleries, Auckland
New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, Hamilton
2011 Yallop and Smith Memorial Exhibition, A Gallery, Dunedin
Wallace Art Awards, Auckland and The Dowse, Lower Hutt
VS. The Art of Going Over, A Gallery, Dunedin
Auckland International Art Fair, FHE Project
Auratica Fantastica, Window, Auckland
2010 Wallace Art Awards, Auckland and The Dowse, Lower Hutt
2008 National Drawing Awards, Artspace, Enjoy, Physics Room
It’s about Painting, RH Gallery, Nelson
Wallace Art Awards, Auckland and Wellington
2006 Wallace Art Awards, Auckland and Wellington
National Drawing Awards, Artspace and Physics Room
2005 Some Plus One, Otago School of Art Lecturers Exhibition, Segue Gallery
2004 Wallace Awards, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
Room, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
International Art Fair and Cake Stall, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
2003 Paper, Dowling Street Gallery, Dunedin
Tease, 82 Bond Street, Dunedin
2001 Haunted House, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
2000 New Works, CoCA, Christchurch
1999 Dark Art, Temple Gallery, Dunedin
Cranleigh Barton Drawing Awards, Robert McDougall Gallery, Christchurch
Sister City Group Exhibition, Otaru Museum, Japan
Awards:
2012 Paramount Award, New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award
2009 One-month artist residency at Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA
2008 Jury Prize, Wallace Art Awards
1999 Merit Award, Mainland Art Awards
1997 Student Prize, Cleveland Art Awards
1996 Derivan Painting Award, Otago School of Art
Publications/Reviews:
2020 McMillan's Loop by John Hurrell, EyeContact, 16 October
Transmission exhibition catalogue, text by Andrew Jensen, Fox Jensen McCrory
Remembering Analogue by John Hurrell, EyeContact, 15 April
Analogue exhibition catalogue, text by Andrew Jensen, Fox Jensen McCrory
2018 Faceless Portraits by John Hurrell, EyeContact, 9 November
Granular Cityscapes by John Hurrell, EyeContact, 7 September
Artist with a Fascination for Light by John Daly-Peoples, NBR, 31 August
2016 Ocular Fusion exhibition catalogue, text by Andrew Jensen, Fox Jensen McCrory
2014 NZ Herald, Review by T.J. McNamara, Saturday 4 October 2014
2013 Inland Empire by Steph Chalmers, Takahe Magazine, No.80 December 2013
Cleland and McMillan, Inland Empire review by Peter Dornauf, EyeContact, 25 June
Inland Empire, exhibition Catalogue by Steph Chalmers, University of Waikato
2012 “The Subtleties of Unease” by Melody Thomas, Art Zone, No.44 April-June, pp. 29-37
Waikato Times, 20 February 2012
2009 Seen This Century by Warwick Brown, Random House, New Zealand
2006 Art News New Zealand, Autumn 2006, p.29
2005 Otago Daily Times, December 8, 2005, p.38
Otago Daily Times, November 24, 2005, pp.33-34
2003 Art New Zealand, Number 108 / Spring 2003, p.56
Art New Zealand, Number 107 / Winter 2003, pp.46-47
Otago Daily Times, March 20, 2003, p.29
2001-02 Art New Zealand, Number 101 / Summer 2001-02, p.36
Selected Collections:
James Wallace Arts Trust Collection
Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin
Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin
Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
© 2009-2021 Gary McMillan & authors. All rights reserved.