Anita DeSoto

Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

  • MASTER of FINE ARTS, Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • BACHELOR of FINE ARTS, Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • GRADUATE DIPLOMA in TEACHING, Dunedin

Professional Experience

  • 2004 – 2024
    Drawing and Painting Lecturer at the Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic

Residences

  • William Hodges Fellowship, Southland 2018
  • New Pacific Studio, Vallejo, San Francisco, California, USA 2014
  • Arotoi Residency Award at New Pacific Studios, New Zealand, 2013
  • Leipzig International Art Residency ProgrammeLeipzig, Germany, 2010

Collections

  • Self Portrait 2005. Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
  • Gala Day and Time is Not Linear 2018. Southland Art Foundation
  • Not of This World, 2013,  Pah House, Auckland
  • Signpost from God,  James Wallace Collection, Pah Homestead, Auckland
  • Further than Far Away, Anderson Park Public Gallery Collection, Invercargill

Judging of Art Awards

  • University of Otago, Intercollege Student Visual Art Competition 2022
  • Edinburgh Art Awards, Dunedin 2022
  • Preston Russel Art Awards, Riverton 2019
  • Almost an Island, Otago peninsula 2019
  • Edinburgh Realty Art Awards Dunedin 2018
  • Otago University Students Association Art Awards 2015
  • Aspiring Art Awards, Central Otago 2014

Prizes & Awards

2019 Merit award, Cleveland Art Awards, Dunedin
2018 William Hodges Fellowship and Residency, Southland|
2017 Peoples choice award, New Edinburgh Art Awards, Dunedin
2014  Artist in residence, New Pacific Studios in Vallejo, San Francisco, USA
2013  Aratoi Fellowship, New Pacific Studio, New Zealand
2012  Molly Morpeth Canady Art Award, merit prize for Abor Spiritus
2010  Awarded a 3 month Leipzig International Art Residency in Germany
2006  Park Lane Art Awards, First Prize, Portrait CategoryAuckland Museum
2004  The McAlister Award, Anderson Park Gallery, Invercargill
2004  Highly Commended, Cleveland Award, Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2003  Cleveland Premier Award, Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2003  Derivan Art Award, Dunedin
2000  Recognition of Achievement in Painting, Otago Polytechnic School of Art

 

Reviews & Publications

  • Toi Moroki CoCA, https://coca.org.nz/exhibitions/ways-of-knowing 2024
  • Otago Daily Times https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/the-ensign/shedding-light-past 2024
  • Art Beat: https://artbeat.org.nz/Women%E2%80%99s%20Work%20%28is%20Not%20Yet%20Done%29 2024
  • Bice Grace Lapin. Essay for Potion https://bicelapin.com/posts/ 2024
  • I Don’t Want Your Golden Apple https://issuu.com/opresearch/docs/i_don_t_want_your_golden_apple 2022
  • Rebecca Fox https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/putting-new-spin-past 2022
  • Darren Ludlow, Art is Perception, Radio Southland NZ on Air 2018
  • Amy Johnstone, Southland Express  7/8/2018
  • Amy Johnstone, Southland Express 3/9/ 2018
  • Westernstar July 2018
  • T J McNamara, review, Vintage. New Zealand Herald Aug 2016
  • Sian Hannagan, Home Birth Aotearoa, artists page 3.2 Winter https://homebirth.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Issue-3.2.pdf 2016
  • James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Coming Back, p 26, 31 May 2012
  • David Eggleton (ed), Landfall, Home + Building, 2012
  • Scope, Contemporary Research Topics Art and Design, Otago Polytechnic, p. 5-6, 2011
  • Nigel Benson, Otago Daily Times, True to Form, 16 Sept 2009
  • Leoni Shmidt, Scope, Contemporary Research Topics: Art 3, Pie in the sky, 2009
  • Otago Polytechnic Research Annual Report, Otago Polytechnic, 2009
  • James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Cross My Heart, 23 April 2009
  • Gavin Bartram, D-Scene, Cross My Heart , Dunedin, 15 April 2009
  • T.J. McNamara, The New Zealand Herald, Pie in the Sky, April 9 2008
  • David Eggleton, The Listener, 25 Aug 2007
  • Channel 9 Documentary, 7 July 2007
  • Margi Macmurdo, Critic, OUSA, Issue 15, 2007
  • Nigel Benson, Otago Daily Times, 12 July 2007
  • Stephen Higginson, a review for the exhibition “Cross My Heart”, 2009
  • Bridie Leonie, Ordinary Ecstacies catalogue for exhibition, Away, away, July 2007
  • Maari McClusky, Drawn from Life: The Art of Anita DeSotoArt New Zealand, Winter, 2007
  • T.J. McNamara, The New Zealand Herald, Votive & Lies, July 5, 2006
  • Ralph Body, Critic, Discomposures, OUSA, 2006
  • James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Discomposures, May 18, 2006
  • Katrina Megget, Otago Daily Times, report on Park Lane Award, April 22, 2006
  • Capital Times, Adam Portraiture Award, 2-28 March, 2006
  • Diana Dekker, Dominion Post, Adam Portraiture Award, March 18, 2006
  • Ben Vidgen, Deadline, 18 August, 2005
  • Frith, Review of Limbus, p.23 – 24
  • Joanne Campbell, Otago Daily Times, review of Limbus, (page 25), 12 August 2005
  • Katrina Megget, Otago Daily Times, Cleveland Past Winners Show, p.26, 2 July 2005
  • James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Southern Light  review, 16 Dec 2004
  • McAlister Award, Southland Times, Amy Glass, P.27, 3 Oct 2004
  • James Dignan, Otago Daily Times, Cleveland Award, 1 Oct 2004
  • Richard Dingwall, Otago Daily Times, Post Raphaelites review, 15 Nov 2004
  • David Eggleton, The Listener, Cleveland Award, 25 Oct 2004
  • Richard Dingwall, Otago Daily Times, Cleveland Award, 3 Oct 2004
  • Catherine Patterson, Otago Daily Times, Cleveland Award, p.28, 3 Oct 2004
  • Brenda Harwood, Otago Daily Times, Desire Drapes Everything, 20 July 2004
  • Richard Dingwall, Otago Daily Times, Desire Drapes Everything Review, 18 July 2004
  • Peter Entwistle, Otago Daily Times, Site review, Dec 2000

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Potion, Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
2022
 I Dont Want Your Golden Apple, Gallery DeNovo Dunedin 
2019 Our Frocks Like MountainsWilliam Hodges Fellowship Exhibition, Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore.
2019 Our Frocks Like MountainsWilliam Hodges Fellowship Exhibition, Raw Gallery. Invercargill.
2018 Our Frocks Like MountainsWilliam Hodges Fellowship Exhibition. Riverton Community Art center, Riverton 
2016 Vintage, Orex Art , Auckland
2016 O Maria, Artists Room, Dunedin
2015 I Want More in a Nutshell, Artists Room, Dunedin
2014 Sweet Home Sick, Aratoi-Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Wairarapa
2012  Coming Back,  Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2010 Sign Post from God. Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
2009 Cross My Heart, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2007 Away, Away, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2008 Pie in the Sky, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
2006 Votive & Lies, Oedipus Gallery, Auckland
2005 Limbus The Temple Gallery, Moray Place, Dunedin
2003 Desire Drapes Everything The Temple Gallery, Dunedin

Group Exhibitions

2024 Hello Petal, DeNovo Gallery, Dunedin
2024 Persona, Eastern Southland Gallery, Gore
2024 Parkin Award Finalist Show, Wellington
2024 Working Women, Stoddart Gallery, Diamond Harbor, Christchurch
2024 Ways of Knowing, CoCA, Christchurch
2023 Self Directed, Dunedin School of Art, Dunedin
2023 Mid Winter DeNovo Gallery, Dunedin
2022 Slow Works , Dundedin School of Art Gallery
2022 Mid Winter , DeNovo Gallery Dunedin
2021 Around Christmas, DeNovo Gallery, Dunedin
2020 Birthday Exhibition, DeNovo Galllery, Dunedin
2020 Around Christmas, DeNovo Gallery, Dunedin
2020 Postcards From the Otherside, DeNovo Gallery, Dunedin
2020 Get Staffed, Again Dunedin School of Art Staff show, Dunedin
​2020 Smith and Yallop Memorial Exhibition Olga Gallery, Dunedin
2019 Around Christmas, DeNovo Gallery, Dunedin
2019 Celebration DeNovo Gallery, Dunedin
2018 Around Christmas, DeNovo Gallery, Dunedin
2018 Group show,MD Gallery, Whangarei ​
2018 Unbound, University of Otago at Dunedin School of Art
2018 Trailblazers MD Gallery, Whangarei 
2018 Landfall Exhibition Otago Art Society
2016 Birthday show, Artists Room, Dunedin
2016 Hope & sons Art Awards, Dunedin
2016  Art Fair, Oamaru
2015  Xmas exhibition Artists Room, Dunedin
2015 Art & Design, Skinner Annex, Dunedin
2015 Birthday show, Artists Room, Dunedin
2014 Staff, Aigantighe Gallery, Timaru
2014 Staff, Forrester Gallery, Oamaru
2013 Small Works, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2013 Religious Experience, Orex Art, Auckland
2012 TracesLeipzig Art Fair, Leipzig, Germany
2012 Molly Morpeth Canady Art Award Exhibition
2012 Summer Show, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2012  Art in Practice, University of Otago, Dunedin
2011 The Smith & Yallop Memorial Exhibition, A Gallery, Princes St, Dunedin
2010  Summer Show, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2009 Art In Law, Law Faculty, University of Otago, Dunedin
2009 ANZAAE Conference, Otago School of Art, Dunedin
2009 The Collectors Exhibition, Oedipus Rex, Auckland
2009  Auckland Art Fair, Auckland
2008  Summer Show, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2007  Preview, 40 contemporary NZ artists. Coca, Christchurch
2007  Summer Show, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2006  Discomposures, Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2006  Adams Portrait Exhibition, Lopdell House, Auckland
2006  Parklane Art Awards, Artis Gallery, Parnell. Auckland
2006  The Adam Portraiture Award & Exhibition, New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington
2005  Past Winners.The Cleveland Living Arts Centre, The Railway Station, Dunedin
2005  Some Plus One, Segue Gallery, Burlington Street, Dunedin
2004  Southern Lights, The Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2004  Small Works, Peter Rae Gallery, Stuart Street, Dunedin
2004  Annual Spring Festival, Anderson Park Art Gallery, Invercargill
2004  Cleveland Art Awards. Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2003  Large Art, Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2003  Post Raphaelites, Temple Gallery, Dunedin
2003  Cleveland Art Awards, Cleveland Living Arts Centre, Dunedin
2000  Divine World Descend, Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic
1999  Love Stories, Sirenz, Dunedin
1999  Prodigal Daughter, Sirenz, Dunedin
1998  Winter Solstice Exhibition, Arc Café, High Street, Dunedin