INA JOHANN – Awards
Merit Award Parkin Drawing Prize 2022, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
Merit Award Parkin Drawing Prize 2020, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
Merit Award Parkin Drawing Prize 2016, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
Merit Award National Contemporary Art Award 2014, Hamilton
Supreme Winner CoCA/Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award 2006, Christchurch
Winner of the CoCA/Guthrey Travel Award 2005, Christchurch
Financial assistance by the Goethe Institute Wellington and the Ministerium fuer Wissenschaft und Kultur Rheinland Pfalz; for the exhibition project Moving Spaces with Sandra Heinz; 2002; Venues: Christchurch/NZ and Wiesbaden/Germany
Finalist in all major art awards in New Zealand: The Cleveland National Art Awards 2025, Wallace Art Awards, ZONTA Ashburton Female Art Award, Molly Morpeth Canady Award, Parkin Drawing Prize, National Contemporary Art Award, Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award, National Drawing Award, CoCA/Anthony Harper Art Award, CoCA Contemporary Art Award 2002
Collaborative practice (2007 - ongoing) with Dr. Victoria Edwards alias EDWARDS+JOHANN - Awards/Grants
Merit Award The Cleveland National Art Awards, Otago Society of Arts, Dunedin, 22 March - 26 April 2025
Merit Awards (x2) in Parkin Drawing Prize 2020, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
Merit Award Parkin Drawing Prize 2018, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
Highly Commended Molly Morpeth Canady 2017, Whakatane
Supreme Winner New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2016, Hamilton
Winner International Juried Competition, Top ten group show, LACDA, 2014, Los Angeles
Winner Margaret Stoddart Award 2009, CoCA, Christchurch
Highly Commended, Margaret Stoddart Award 2008, CoCA, Christchurch
Selected Finalists in all major New Zealand Art Awards (2008-2023)
CNZ Grant to develop Edwards+Johann website
Residencies (in collaboration with Victoria Edwards)
Sutton House Residency, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Weiwhetū, Sutton House, Ōtautahi Christchurch, May 2024
Pilot Volcanic Artist Residency, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, April 2018 and 24 September - 2 November 2018, Whakatane (including touring exhibition in April and two new site-specific installations in April and November)
Artists in Residence Altes Spital, January - March 2015, Altes Spital Kultur - and Kongresszentrum Solothurn/Switzerland (including exhibition and live performance)
Artists in Residence at The School of Art Otago Polytechnic, August 2014, Dunedin (including exhibition)
Perth II Island Ties: The Return of the Pacific Flicker, Artist Residency and Art Project, Perth800 & Perth and Kinross Council, November 2010, Perth/Scotland (including exhibition)
Perth I Maps of Engagement: Pathways and connections; Artist Residency at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth800 & Perth and Kinross Council, May/June 2010, Perth/Scotland (including exhibition and live performance)
CHATEAU de PADIES ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM in association with its CULTURE & CULTURES Festival, Residency project in October 2009 and returning residency in April 2010, Lempaut/France
(Including exhibition and live performance)
Artists in Schools Residency at Selwyn College, May/June 2009, Auckland (including an exhibition project and live performance)
Works in public collections:
Wallace Arts Trust, Aigantighe Art Gallery, Altes Spital Solothurm/Switzerland, Christchurch Art Gallery, Perth Art Museum/Scotland
Selected exhibitions and projects
Ina Johann – new work, Chambers Art Gallery, November 2024, Christchurch
E+J Mutabilities – propositions to an unknown universe, The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 13. Sept - 16. Feb 2025
IJ: Fractures and Residues, Stoddart Cottage, March 2024, Diamond Harbour
IJ: POROSITIES, Ashburton Art Gallery, 20 February – 26 March 2021
Garden Party - fundraising exhibition Friends of the Christchurch Botanical Gardens, 12 March 2023
POROSITIES solo exhibition at Ashburton Art Gallery, Ina Johann, 20 February - 16 March 2021
Concretions - the act of coming together 2019, Edwards+Johann, 7 - 25 May, Chambers Art Gallery and studio spaces, Christchurch
Volcanic Artist Residency ,Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, Edwards+Johann, 24 September - 2 November 2018, Whakatane
from THE EDGE of SPACES, Whangarei Art Museum, Edwards+Johann, 31 August - 25 November 2018, Whangarei
from THE EDGE of SPACES with the inclusion of Only Ghosts Glow in the Dark, Edwards+Johann, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, 20 April - 28 June 2018, Whakatane
Perilous Edges - what lingers in the mist, Pilot Volcanic Artist Residency and exhibition, Edwards+Johann, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, 20 April - 28 June 2018, Whakatane
From the Edge of Spaces, Chambers Art Gallery and studio spaces, Edwards+Johann, September/October 2017, Christchurch
Events Growing from the Edge of Spaces, Edwards+Johann, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, The Pah Homestead, 29 May - 9 July 2017, Auckland
No two skies are ever the same, Edwards+Johann, public performance and exhibition, Galerie9, March 2015, Solothurn/Switzerland
Artist in Residence Altes Spital, Edwards+Johann, January - March 2015, Altes Spital Kultur - and Kongresszentrum Solothurn/Switzerland
Rebels Knights and Other Tomorrows, Christchurch Art Gallery, Tuam Street Gallery, Edwards+Johann, August - November 2014, Christchurch
On the Seam of Things, DSA Gallery, School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Edwards+Johann, August 2014, Dunedin
Bliss, group exhibition, Edwards+Johann, Chambers 241, December 2013, Christchurch
[IN] box, group exhibition, Edwards+Johann, Artbox project, November 2013, Christchurch
Paper Trails - works on paper, group exhibition, Edwards+Johann, Chambers @241, June 2013, Christchurch
Tormenting Luxury, Edwards+Johann, Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Faculty of Wonder - Lost and Found: take two, Edwards+Johann, Chambers @241, Christchurch
A Gathering, group exhibition curated by Grant Banbury, E+J, CPIT, August 2011, Christchurch
A Chain of Episodes, Six Christchurch Artists, Edwards+Johann, Arts Post, Waikato Museum Hamilton, July/August 2011
Faculty of Wonder : Lost & Found, Edwards+Johann, Auckland Festival of Photography exhibition, Lopdell House Gallery Titirangi, May/June 2011
I can't...you see, Edwards+Johann, Christchurch Art Gallery, Twin Set, September 2010 & January/February 2011
Perth II Island Ties: The Return of the Pacific Flicker, Edwards+Johann, AK Bell Library, Perth/Scotland, November 2010
Tableau Vivant, E+J Art Project with students of St John RC Academy, Perth/Scotland, November 2010
Perth I Maps of Engagement: Pathways and connections: E+J Artist Residency at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, funded by Perth & Kinross Council/Perth800, May/June 2010
Forms of Narratives, Edwards+Johann, Group exhibition with PVAF members, Birnam/Scotland, June 2010,
CHATEAU de PADIES ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM in association with its CULTURE & CULTURES Festival, Lempaut/France, 2009 & 2010
Science and Voyages II - From the Pacific to the Attic and A voyage of discovery - from installation to installation, Edwards+Johann, Exhibition project and performance at Chateau de Padies, May 2010
LeSalon Recroit, Edwards+Johann, group exhibition, Toulouse, France, May 2010
Les Jardiniers - Artistes et leurs outiles, Edwards+Johann, The Artistes in residence 2009/10, Group exhibition, Chateau de Padies, June 2010
Notations on a visit - Ghosts and Hydrangeas in the Attic; Edwards+Johann: Exhibition and Performance, Chateau de Padies, October 2009
I'll be your mirror - One of us cannot be wrong, Edwards+Johann: Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, August 2009,
Fishing in a Bathtub: Tormenting Luxury 2007/2008, Edwards+Johann, MIC, Auckland, May/June 2009
E+J Artists in Schools Residency at Selwyn College, Auckland/New Zealand, May/June 2009
A splinter in the eye is the best looking glass, Edwards+Johann, CoCA, Christchurch, April 2009
Interruption to Transmission, Ina Johann, Robert West, Iain Cheeseman, Hamish Pettengell
CoCA, Christchurch, January 2009
The Middle Way, international exhibition project with five Thai artists and five artists fromNew Zealand; shown at Randolph Street Gallery, Auckland, 2006
Acknowledged as Detail, Repeating In Place, video/DVD, visual/sound collaboration with Sally McIntyre, Film Archive: Viewfinder, Auckland Library, 2006
The National Grid, Stuttering Structures II, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington, 2006
Repeating In Place , light sculpture/video-DVD, The Kiosk, Christchurch, 2005
Participant in Canary Gallery's Inaugural Artist's Film Festival 2005, Auckland, 2005
Participant in Crossings: experimental sound and vision, video/DVD, Foursquare Festival, Christchurch, 2005
Mond 3-Ungeschminkt,group exhibition, Kunstzentrum Bosener Muehle, Germany, 2005
Trans, solo exhibition, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, 2005
GPS, group exhibition, CoCA, Christchurch and Randolph Street Gallery, Auckland, 2005
Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts 10th Anniversary Art Exhibition & Burapha University 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Burapha University, Thailand, 2005
CatchPool, video/DVD, visual/sound performance with Peter May & Adam Haywood, Adam Concert Room, Victoria University, Wellington, 2005
NOT hoMe grown, video/DVD, Southern Oscillation, Castle Hill Sound festival, 2005
New Global Vision: East and West, Eastern Centre of Art and Culture, Burapha University, Thailand, 2004
Static Mansion#4, video/sound performance with Peter May and Adam Hayward, Christchurch, 2004
The Middle Way, Silpakorn University Bangkok, Thailand (Touring), 2004
The Middle Way, exhibition project with five Thai artists and five artists fromNew Zealand; Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, 2003
Travel Stories VI, solo exhibition, Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi/Auckland, 2003
CrossXover, solo exhibition, Te tuhi-the mark, Pakuranga/Auckland, 2003
Ina haere koe, solo exhibition, Landtag des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany, 2002
Shift, group exhibition, Campbell Grant Galleries, Christchurch, 2002
Moving Spaces, cross-cultural exhibition project with German artist Sandra Heinz, Christchurch/NewZealand and Wiesbaden/Germany, 2002
Travel Stories VI, solo exhibition, The Physics Room/Christchurch and The Blue Oyster Gallery,Dunedin, 2001
The Launch Group Exhibition, group exhibition,LandingServiceBuilding, Timaru, 2001
The Cotton Show, group exhibition, Blue Oyster Gallery ,Dunedin, 2001
The Argonauts, group exhibition, Linwood Community Centre, Christchurch, 2001
Object 180101090201 Space, solo exhibition, Kiosk, Christchurch, 2001
Brechung, solo exhibition, Alte Waggonfabrik, Mainz, Germany, 2000
Thoroughfare - Art on the Southside, group exhibition, Christchurch, 2000
Selected as one of the artists for Christchurch Art and Industry 2000 Biennial (project not realised), 2000
Education
2000 - 2001 Vertiefungsstudium; Master-class student of K. Menzel, Akademie fuer Bildende Kuenste der Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
1997 - 2000 Diplom der Freien Bildenden Kunst (Postgraduate studies; German equivalent of MFA), Akademie fuer Bildende Kuenste der Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
1991-1997 Erste Staatspruefung fuer das Lehramt an Gymnasien (MFA combined with a teaching degree), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
New Zealand Citizenship, Christchurch 2016
Immigration to New Zealand 1997
Travel and work in Europe; Guest Lecturer at the Akademie fuer Bildende Kuenste der Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, 2002
Senior Lecturer (part-time 1998 - 2005), Course-Coordinator (2003 & 2004) at The Design & Arts College of NZ Ltd, Department of Fine Arts, Christchurch
Guest Lecturer at the Akademie fuer Bildende Kuenste der Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Talks and Presentations
Numerous presentations/talks/workshops nationally and internationally at Universities, conferences and forums, schools and galleries about Edwards + Johann's collaborative, interdisciplinary art practice:
- Speaker of the Months, Edwards+Johann - On Collaboration, Christchurch Art Gallery, July 2018, Christchurch
- from THE EDGE of SPACES with the inclusion of Only Ghosts Glow in the Dark, artists' talk, Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, April 2018, Whakatane
- Co-Lab - Community workshops during the Pilot Volcanic Artist Residency and exhibition, Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, April 2018, Whakatane
- Christchurch Art Gallery, Creativity is ...Play, Edwards+johann workshop, June 2016
- Dorothy Brown Cinema, Arrowtown, July 2011
- Inter - Alia: Collaborative Dialogue, CPIT, Christchurch, March 2012, workshop and presentation
- Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland, May 2011
- Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee/Scotland, November 2010
- AK Bell Library, Perth/Scotland, November 2010
- Culture & Cultures Festival, Chateau de Padies, Lempaut/France,
October 2009 & May 2010 - Perth Visual Arts Forum PVAF, Perth/Scotland, June 2010
- Unitec, Department of Design and Visual Arts, Auckand, May 2009
- Selwyn College, Auckland, May 2009
- ANZAAE conference, Otago Polytech School of Art, Dunedin, April 2009
- Media and Interdisciplinary Arts Center MIC, Auckland, April 2009