Maryrose Crook

Sometimes the effect is almost frightening: Lovecraftian horrors made chillingly real. A striking female nude viewed from the back has a slightly alien, organic and erotic quality – and we instinctively know that she is not of this earth.

Maryrose Crook

Sometimes the effect is almost frightening: Lovecraftian horrors made chillingly real. A striking female nude viewed from the back has a slightly alien, organic and erotic quality – and we instinctively know that she is not of this earth.

2022 Ninefold Underworld, Pūmanawa Exhibition Space, The Arts Centre.Christchurch NZ.
2022 In Heroes We Trust, Melrose Place, Los Angeles.
2022 The Persistence of Vision, new work, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles.
2022 The Desert Sea, Grüüp art collective inaugural exhibition Available Space Art Projects (ASAP) Las Vegas.
2021 Black Magick Circles, La Matadora Gallery, Joshua Tree, California.
2021 29 Palms Art Gallery, Desert Oddities.
2019 Kiwis in LA, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica. 
2019 Hey! 4 Halle Saint Pierre, Paris. 5 new works in exclusive international survey of outsider art.
2019 In Heroes We Trust, Downtown Los Angeles.
2019 The Hive Gallery, Sequin Night in the Darkness of the Blood
2018  Sequin Suns in the Garden of Darkness, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles
2018  Desert Icons, Yucca Valley Arts Center, Yucca Valley, CA
2018  Laluzapalooza 2018, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles
2017  In Heroes We Trust, Miami Art Basel Pop Up Exhibition, “Daughters of the Desert” Gallery, Miami, group exhibition
2017  Bardo of the Nectar Lovers, 50 Works Gallery, New Zealand, solo exhibition
2017  Pop Surrealism, 50 Works Gallery, New Zealand, group exhibition
2016  New Work, 50 Works Gallery, New Zealand, solo exhibition
2016  Nigrdeo, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, CA, solo exhibition
2016  Spring Collection, 50 Works Gallery, New Zealand, group exhibition
2015  The Godfey Daniels School of Charm, Riverside City College, CA, group exhibition
2014  Relics from the Dream Desert, BKB gallery, Joshua Tree, CA, solo exhibition
2013  Back of Beyond, Deering Estate at Cutler, Miami, FL, group exhibition
2012  Murmur of the Fallen, Gallery 33, Wanaka, New Zealand, solo exhibition
2011  Wholly Other, Bartley and co Art, Wellington, solo exhibition
2011  36 Years in the Zone, Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch, group exhibition.
2010  Inland seas, Bartley and co Art, Wellington, solo exhibition
2009  Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin, group exhibition
2009  Ghost Songs, Sonnenallee, Berlin, solo exhibition
2009  Home and Deranged, Brooke Gifford, solo exhibition
2009  Harvester of Eyes, Gallery 33, Wanaka, group exhibition
2008  Lucky Lamb, Bei Gao Studio Complex, Beijing, China, solo exhibition
2008  Too Much to Dream, Brooke G, solo exhibition
2007  Everything with wings is restless, Brooke G, solo exhibition
2006  Wallace art Awards Finalists exhibition, Auckland nz, group exhibition
2006  Open Slate, Gallery 33, Wanaka, New Zealand, group exhibition
2006  Don’t worry about me, I’m Fine, Brooke Gifford, solo exhibition
2005  Bringing All the Things that Run, Southland Museum and Art Gallery, Aigantighe (Timaru), touring solo exhibition
2005 Waikato Art Award finalists, Waikato, New Zealand, group exhibition
2005  Bringing all the Things that Run, Mary Newton Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, solo exhibition
2004  The Sorrowful Eye, Brooke Gifford, chch, solo exhibition.
2004  Prospect 2004, City Gallery Wellington, group exhibition.
2003  Sleeping Sickness, Brooke Gifford Gallery, solo exhibition
2001  Beyond the Surface, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Hawkes bay museum, touring group exhibition
1999  Semel Insanivimus Omnes (we have all been mad once), Physics Room, chch. solo exhibition
1996  Pillars of Salt, Dunedin Public Gallery, group exhibition

Residencies

2008  Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2007  Unictec, Auckland, New Zealand
2006  Christchurch arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand
2006  Rangi Ruru, Christchurch, New Zealand
2003  William Hodges Fellowship, New Zealand

Awards

2006  Wallace Art Awards, Development award winner “Song of the Grey Ghost”
2005  Waikato art Award merit award “It’s Happening Again”