Leonard, Robert (Personal Name)

Headlands, c1992: t.p. (Robert Leonard) t.p. verso (Curator of cont. New Zealand art, Nat. Art Gallery; now, curator, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth)

NZ files, Sept. 24, 2003 (hdg.: Leonard, Robert, 1963-)

The Domain, 2017: page 237 (Contributor: Robert Leonard is Chief Curator at City Gallery Wellington)

Robert Leonard, Contemporary-art writer and curator, viewed July 1, 2022: Who am I (I am a contemporary-art curator and writer. I have held curatorial posts at Wellington's National Art Gallery, New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, and City Gallery Wellington, and have directed Auckland's Artspace and Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art. My shows include Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art for Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art (1992); Action Replay: Post-Object Art for Artspace, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, and Auckland Art Gallery (1998); and Mixed-Up Childhood for Auckland Art Gallery (2005). My City Gallery shows include Yvonne Todd: Creamy Psychology (2014), Julian Dashper & Friends (2015), Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs (2016), Colin McCahon: On Going Out with the Tide (2017), John Stezaker: Lost World (2017), This Is New Zealand (2018), Iconography of Revolt (2018), Semiconductor: The Technological Sublime (2019), Oracles (2020), Zac Langdon Pole: Containing Multitudes (2020), and Judy Millar: Action Movie (2021). I curated New Zealand representation for Brisbane.s Asia-Pacific Triennial in 1999, the Sao Paulo Biennale in 2002, and the Venice Biennale in 2003 and 2015. I am co-publisher of the imprint Bouncy Castle.) https://robertleonard.org