Identity and Hybridity

Mark Adams

(NZ/Aotearoa)

Mark Adams is one of our most distinguished documentary photographers. His work on Samoan tatau, Maori-Pakeha interactions around Rotorua, and historic sites around the South Island have been extensively exhibited within New Zealand, as well as in Europe, Australia, South Africa and Brazil's Sao Paulo biennale.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2003 Pe'a. Photographs by Mark Adams, curators Peter Brunt and Sophie McIntyre, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ 2000 The Tatau Series, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ 1999 Cook's Sites: Revisiting History, Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ 1998 Roterios. Roterios. Roterios. Roterios. Roterios. Roterios. Roterios, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, curator for Oceania, Louise Neri, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil 1997 Observations, Martin Van Verden and Mark Adams, Gallery Die Praktjik, Lauriergracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1996 Observations, (for 'Re-Imaging the Pacifc', a conference convened by Professor Nicholas Thomas and Dr Dianne Loche), School of Fine Arts, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 1995 Portrait of the Artist Tony Fomison, curator Ron Brownson, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ 1994 Africus Biennale, curators Jenny Harper and Tim Walker, Johannesburg, South Africa; Waiariki ~ Waiora. The Blue Baths, Photographs by Mark Adams, curator John Perry, Rotorua Art Museum, Rotorua, NZ 1993 Whenua I Maharatia, Hae hae Nga Takata – Land of Memories, Scarred by People, curator William McAloon, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin and Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ 1986–90 Pakeha – Maori, a Conjuncture, curator John Perry, Rotorua City Art Gallery and New Zealand Art Gallery Directors Council touring exhibition 1985 Work in Progress, Real Pictures Photographic Gallery, Auckland, NZ 1982 O Le Ta Tatau, Samoan Tattooing, Real Pictures Photographic Gallery, Auckland, NZ 1976 Mark Adams, Snaps, a Photographers' Gallery, Auckland, NZ

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003 Curiosity Killed the Gap, curator Tobias Berger, Artspace, Auckland, NZ; Sea Knowing and Island Seeing, curator Ron Brownson, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, NZ 2002 Skin Deep, A history of tattooing, curator Nicholas Thomas, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK 2000 Millennium show. Mark Adams and Ans Westra, Rotorua Art Museum, Rotorua, NZ 1998 Lights and Shadows, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, NZ; Southern Lights, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, NZ and City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland 1996 Art in the City/ Sight Seeing, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, NZ 1995 Currency: Selected New Zealand Photographers, Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, NZ 1994 Open the Shutter. Auckland Photographers Now, Photoforum group show, Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland, NZ 1993 After the Fact and Silence, Haru Sameshima and Mark Adams, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, NZ 1993 Perspectives, curator Christina Barton, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ 1992 Te Moemoea no lotefa: The Dream of Joseph, curator Rangihiroa Panoho, Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ

Selected Bibliography

Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas, Cook's Sites: Revisiting History, Otago University Press, 1999
After the Fact and Silence, exhibition catalogue, essay by Ron Brownson, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, 1998
Maori. Pakeha, He Waerenga Ururua – Pakeha. Maori, a Conjuncture, exhibition catalogue, essay by John Te Manihera Chadwick, Rotorua City Art Gallery, 1987
Louise Neri, 'Oceania: exploring, not knowing', Roterios. Roterios. Roterios. Roterios. Roterios. Roterios. Roterios, exhibition catalogue, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, 1998
Damian Skinner, review, Art New Zealand, no. 98, 2001
Nicholas Thomas, 'The Case of Tattooing', NZ Journal of Photography, no. 51, 2003
Nicholas Thomas, Contemporary Artists and Anthropology, C. Wright and A. Schneider (eds), Thames and Hudson, London, 2002.
Nicholas Thomas, 'Marked Men', Art Asia Pacific Quarterly, no. 13, 1997
Nicholas Thomas, 'The Dream of Joseph: Practices of Identity in Pacific Art', The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 8, no. 2, 1996
Tatau. Pe'a: Photographs by Mark Adams, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, 2003
The Painting Part, essay by Jim and Mary Barr, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, 1990
Whenua I Maharatia, Hae hae Nga Takata – Land of Memories, Scarred by People, exhibition catalogue, photographs by Mark Adams, text by Harry Evison, Tandem Press, 1993