Upcoming
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the first incision I saw I dreamed no more
John Pule 1 Aug - 5 Sep 2026 Onehunga John Pule's the first incision I saw I dreamed no more presents a body of recent paintings and works on paper shaped by memory, spirituality and lived experience in Niue. Layered with vivid colour and symbolic imagery, the works continue Pule's deeply personal exploration of identity, environment and ancestral knowledge.... Read more -
My brush cannot begin to paint you a picture of my feelings
Aiko Robinson 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Auckland City Intimate, erotic and exquisitely detailed, Gow Langsford is delighted to present Aiko Robinson's latest body of work My brush cannot begin to paint you a picture of my feelings. Over the past decade, Robinson has developed an image-making practice that delicately balances historic influences with a contemporary aesthetic. Her work... Read more -
to be oneself
Raymond McIntyre 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Auckland City Few artists occupy a more enigmatic place within New Zealand art history than Raymond McIntyre (1879–1933). A painter of subtle perception and refined sensibility, McIntyre belonged to a generation of artists who looked beyond the geographical and cultural horizons of a colonial outpost towards the cultural ferment of modern Europe.... Read more -
House Style
James Cousins 16 Sep - 10 Oct 2026 Auckland City -
Shane Cotton
14 Oct - 14 Nov 2026 Auckland City Coinciding with the release of Shane Cotton: Moerewa | Liquid Sleep , published by Auckland University Press, this exhibition presents a new body of paintings by one of Aotearoa New Zealand's most significant contemporary artists. For more than three decades, Shane Cotton has developed a distinctive and continually evolving painting... -
Spring Catalogue 2026
24 Oct - 21 Nov 2026 Onehunga This spring, Gow Langsford brings its celebrated Spring Catalogue Exhibition to Onehunga for the first time, marking the return of one of the gallery’s longest-running exhibition traditions after a hiatus in recent years. A cornerstone of the gallery’s programme since the mid-1990s, the Spring Catalogue has long showcased exceptional works... Read more
Past
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Another Day
Claudia Kogachi 27 Jun - 25 Jul 2026 Onehunga Permeated with personal and cultural iconography, Claudia Kogachi's inaugural exhibition at Gow Langsford, Another Day , transports us into a distinct world where experience and fantasy collide. These works show Kogachi’s exploration of a sense of place and belonging—through inherited histories, memory, research, imagination, travel and personal experience. Born in... Read more -
Minor infractions
Hugo Koha Lindsay 10 Jun - 4 Jul 2026 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present a new body of work by Hugo Koha Lindsay (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Maru). With a practice that is based in abstraction, Lindsay is interested in how everyday life and its systems are increasingly mediated and structured through abstract processes and language. His paintings... Read more -
Protest Paintings
Jacqueline Fahey 23 May - 20 Jun 2026 Onehunga Gow Langsford is proud to present a major exhibition surveying the work of Jacqueline Fahey from the 1950s to the present day. Protest Paintings brings together works spanning over seven decades of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinctive and celebrated artistic voices – whose unflinching eye for the sociopolitical... Read more -
Something in the Air
Yafeng Duan 13 May - 6 Jun 2026 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present a new body of work by Yafeng Duan, bringing together recent and newly developed paintings created between 2022 and 2025. This series emerges in the wake of a transformative 20-day visit to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024, when Duan celebrated her inaugural exhibition with... Read more -
Doorway to Night
Brett Graham 18 Apr - 16 May 2026 Onehunga For his inaugural exhibition with Gow Langsford, Brett Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui) presents Doorway to Night , a reimagining of the 1840s home of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, who lived overlooking Onehunga Beach and the Manukau Harbour near the gallery’s present site. Structured from tī kōuka (cabbage trees), whose leaves... Read more -
New Works by Gallery Artists
15 Apr - 9 May 2026 Auckland City Presented at Gow Langsford Gallery’s City gallery, this exhibition brings together a considered selection of recent works from the gallery’s stable of represented artists. Spanning a diverse range of mediums, approaches and conceptual frameworks, the exhibition reflects the depth and dynamism of contemporary practice across Aotearoa. The exhibition coincides with... Read more
