artist's profile

Kristin Hatland is an international award winning contemporary artist working from her studio in Clevedon, New Zealand. Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts - Visual, Dip. Comp. Graphics, HNC in Bus. from Westminster University in addition to a personal and continued study of Philosophy.

The study of philosophy encompasses what it means to be human and the human condition: mind and body. It is also accepted that abstract art allows the viewer the most freedom to interpret, think about and enjoy the art on his or her own terms according to their unique values.

'Philosophy seek via its many iterations to explain life. My art expresses elements within philosophy that resonates and gives a purpose that will take me or any other curious person onto a path of discovery. The viewer's own interpretation plays a key role in my work and functions as a silent exchange of thoughts and ideas.'

Her artworks are exhibited hand displayed in private collections in New Zealand and overseas. 

 

 

 exhibitions 

2025
June; grafton bridge symphony in A minor movement I, IRIS professional photography awards
July-Aug; thinking like a mountain, 19th estuary art and ecology awards, malcolm smith gallery 
Aug; grafton bridge symphony in A minor movement I, II and III, academy prize for visual art, NZ academy of fine arts
2024
Oct-Nov; ebb & flow, malcolm smith gallery, howick, auckland
2019
May; wake up, cyan & oslo fotokunstskole, portfolio seminar, henie onstad kunstsenter, oslo
May; wake up, nordic light festival with cyan folio group exhibition, kristiansund
Jan-26; photo laundry, silo park, auckland
2017
Nov-22 Dec; photon; art school & beyond, the shutter room, whangarei
June; on the shoulders of giants > creative destruction, AFoP, monterey gallery, auckland
2016
Feb; procrustes bed, monterey art gallery, auckland
Jan; procrustes bed, cyan gallery & studio, oslo
2015
Nov-Dec; Metapherein, group exhibition, the shutter room, whangarei
July; the bastille, the exposure award - night photography collection, the louvre museum, paris
2014
Nov; a return to the dark ages, group exhibition, silver project space, auckland
2013
Jan-Feb; sugababe, saatchi's online "in living colors showdown", los angeles
Jan-Feb; the bastille, pataka art gallery & museum, porirua city, wellington
Mar-May; the bastille, wallace gallery morrinsville, morrinsville
August; achilles last stand, monterey art gallery, auckland 
2012
Dec-Feb; the bastille, pataka art gallery museum, porirua city, wellington
Dec; the awakening slave ii, lady of the unicorn, monterey art gallery, auckland
Nov; letters from the mountain, the glorius revolution, nature makes no jumps but man can ii, monterey art gallery, howick, auckland
Sep-Nov; the bastille, the pah homestead, tsb bank wallace arts centre, auckland
June; the glorius revolution, the shutter room, whangarei
May;  i, spartan, the shutter room, whangarei
March; letters from the mountain ii, saatchi's online abstract showdown, los angeles
2011
Nov; plato’s cave, geoff wilson gallery, whangarei
June; a touch of frost, the freezer, student's cafe, whangarei
2010
Nov; O2 respiration, teRina, i know it when i see it and censored, the old library, whangarei
Sep; cogito ergo sum, installation art at geoff wilson gallery, whangarei
2009
Nov; tåketokt, quiescent, tattoo and instruments at te studio, the old library, whangarei
June; ladder, shoes & knife, 3D installation at geoff wilson gallery, whangarei