JK Russ
As I've obtained a green card, I will also be working in the States from July 2010.
Visual art practitioner, curator, art museum front-of-house.
1980: Bursary, Queen Elizabeth College, Palmerston North.
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Manukau School of Visual Arts, Auckland
2007-present: Front-of-house officer at The Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, part-time. Role includes assisting with exhibition installation, updating website, conducting gallery tours. Also working as self-employed artist and curator.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Roses are Blue, Thermostat Art Gallery, Palmerston North.
2008 Flirtation Device, Edith Gallery, Whanganui
2007 Games for Grown-ups, Thermostat Art Gallery.
2005 Seasonal Salon, Dunn Fashion, Wellington.
2004 Portraits from the Urban Jungle. Thermostat Art Gallery.
2001 Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, Thermostat Art Gallery.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 I go where the party takes me, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui
2009 This is not a rock shop, Ladyfest, DAF106, Wellington.
I go where the party takes me, Wallace Trust Gallery, Auckland.
I go where the party takes me, Thermostat Art Gallery.
Blue, Thermostat Art Gallery.
2008 Skullduggery, Rayner Brothers Gallery, Whanganui.
First Friday, The Arts Factory, Las Vegas.
2 Degrees, The Pencil Gallery, Gisborne.
2007 Collecting Photographers, New Zealand Centre for Photography, Wellington.
Sexhibition: a visual conversation about sex, Whanganui.
2006 Prologue: The Matthew Couper and Jo Russ Collection, Sarjeant Galleryi.
2009 Bronze award, Podravski Salon Collection of Art Photography, Durdevac
2007 Carey Smith & Co. Open Award Winner, Whanganui Art Review
1999 Robert Willyams Scholarship, Manukau School of Visual Art, Auckland
‘Fun times caught on camera make quirky show’ Wanganui Chronicle, 16 Sept 2009
<Games for Grown-Ups> <Flirtation Device> (catalogue) 2008
Sexhibition: a visual conversation about sex (catalogue) 2007
‘Winning Sculpture’, Wanganui Chronicle, 8 August 2007
New Zealand Centre for Photography: Collecting Photographers (catalogue) 2007
‘Visual Arts: How we reveal ourselves’, Dominion Post, 1 August 2007
‘We’re doing it here too’ Wanganui Chronicle, 21 March 2007
‘Art at Ground Level’, Manawatu Evening Standard, May 25 2002
‘R&R Recommended Exhibit’, The Evening Post, 31 January 2002
Mobile: +6421 665897
email: info@jkruss.com


















