Biographical Notes - Follow Peter on Instagram
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
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 Gallery
