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One Person Exhibitions

2016 The Shops Photospace Gallery, Wellington

2013 the grass is awfully green Photospace Gallery, Wellington

2010  At Home  Photospace Gallery, Wellington

2009 New Colour  Photospace Gallery, Wellington

2008 Outskirts McNamara Gallery, Whanganui

2007  Flowers and Foliage (with Robert Mapplethorpe) Te Papa, Wellington

2007  Public  Photospace Gallery, Wellington

2005  Public McNamara Gallery, Whanganui

2003 Real Fiction, survey show, City Gallery, Wellington

2002 Moving Pictures McNamara Gallery, Whanganui

1997 Picture Stories (with Mary Macpherson), New Work Gallery, Wellington          

1995 Sign Language (with Mary Macpherson & Lucien Rizos), New Work Gallery,

Wellington

1992  Vox Humana (with music by Jack Body), Goethe Institute, Wellington

1992  Sites, National Library Gallery, Wellington

1990  Moving Pictures, City Gallery, Wellington

1988  Foliage, National Art Gallery

1987  2 Brooklyn Terrace (commissioned by Peter McLeavey), Exposures Gallery

1986  Foliage, New Vision Gallery, Auckland

1986  Petone Portraits, Settlers Museum, Petone

1985  Dancing in the Streets, City Gallery, Wellington

1984  Made in New Zealand, colour photographs, Exposures Gallery, Wellington

1982  Fifty Photographs, National Art Gallery, Wellington

1981  Recent Photographs, City Gallery, Wellington

1981  Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton

1979  Photographs by Peter Black, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington


Selected Group Shows

2021 Places in the mind, (Blacksville series), PhotoForum Online

2015 NZ Photography Collected, Te Papa Press

2007 Moving Still, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland

2007 New Zealand Legacy, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Singapore, Hong Kong

2007 Auckland Art Fair, McNamara Gallery

2006 New Zealand Contemporary Photographers, Stark White, Auckland, Pataka, Wellington

2005 Verbatim, Lopdell House, Auckland

2000 Drive - power>progress>desire, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

1998 Folklore, Artspace Auckland; Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui

1983 Shared Pleasures, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton

1989 Montana Lindauer Art Award, ASA Gallery Auckland

Collections

Auckland City Art Gallery;  Dowse Art Museum; Waikato Museum of  Art and History; Robert McDougall Art Gallery; Te Papa; Ministry of External Relations and Trade; State Services Commission; Bank of New Zealand;  National Library Gallery; Manawatu Art Gallery; Sarjeant Art Gallery; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Wellington City Art Collection.

Publications

2022 Peter Black profile by Adrian Hatwell - DPhoto magazine (issue 104)

2021 Peter Black part of the landscape - video by Hans Weston

2018 Art at Te Papa, Te Papa Press

2018 Podcast interview with Simon Sweetman

2017 10 x 10 - Te Papa Press

2015 Frozen - Peter Black

2014
Peter Black: Back to Colour - video by the Learning Connextion

2014 Simple Beauty portfolio - Landfall

2013 the grass is awfully green - Peter Black

2011 I loved you the moment I saw you - VUP

2010 Art at Te Papa - Te Papa Press

2009 New Zealand Art - from Cook to Contemporary - Te Papa Press

2007 Into the Light – A history of New Zealand Photographs, Craig Potton

2006 Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Mountain View Publishing

2003 Real Fiction - Fergus Barrowman

2000 Landfall, Summer

1998 Bonjour La France, boxed set of photographs,

1998 New Zealand, A Century of Images, Te Papa Press

1995 White Horse Black Dog (Moving Pictures portfolio) Fergus Barrowman

1993 New Zealand Photography from the 1840s to the Present

1992 Sites, catalogue, National Library,

1990 Moving Pictures, catalogue, Wellington City Art Gallery

PhotoForum 35, 1977; 47, 1980; 1982

1982 Fifty Photographs, National Art Galler
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