Kate Newby, I like the way I am, 2023. Bronze, corde artisanale / Bronze, Handmade rope. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo by Jorge Davalos Palma 
Kate Newby, Kate Newby, a year in the wild, 2022. Verre, jaune d’argent / Glass, jaune d’argent. 37 × 37 cm (14 ⅝ × 14 ⅝ inches). Courtesy the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur 
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Feel Noise, Kate Newby and MacKenzie Stevens, 2022, Testsite, TX/US 
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Carbonate of Copper, 2022, Artpace, San Antonio, TX/US
Curator Jennifer Teets
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Carbonate of Copper, 2022, Artpace, San Antonio, TX/US
Curator Jennifer Teets
Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “Réclamer la terre”, 14.04.22 – 04.09.22, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Courtesy the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Aurélien Mole 
Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “Réclamer la terre”, 14.04.22 – 04.09.22, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Courtesy the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Aurélien Mole 
Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “Réclamer la terre”, 14.04.22 – 04.09.22, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Courtesy the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Aurélien Mole 
Vues de l’exposition / Installation view “Réclamer la terre”, 14.04.22 – 04.09.22, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Courtesy the artist & Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Aurélien Mole 
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris 
Kate Newby, 5 minutes to everywhere, 2022, Bronze, 19,5 x 54 x 0,4 cm 
Kate Newby, amazing all times of year, 2022. White brass, silver, found glass (Auckland), stoneware, glaze (6 pieces). Dimensions variables (6 pièces). Dimensions variables. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur 
Try doing anything without it, 2022. Briques, pièces de monnaie, verre trouvé (Paris, Texas) / Bricks, coins, found glass (Paris, Texas). 324 x 397 cm. Produit aux / Produced at Rairies Montrieux. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur 
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris 
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris 
Thank you for taking us along (à gauche/left), Her expression (à droite/right), 2022. Briques, mortier / Bricks, mortar. 324 x 10 x 11 cm (127 1/2 x 3 7/8 x 4 3/8 in). Produit aux / Produced at Rairies-Montrieux. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris 
Vue de l’exposition / Installation view, Kate Newby: Try doing anything without it, 2022, Art : Concept, Paris 
Kate Newby, Walking with a lot of people, 2022. Limoges porcelain, glass, whipping twine, woolen rope, wire, Jute, ribbon, thread, gold, bronze. Dimensions variables. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur 
Kate Newby, Walking with a lot of people, 2022. Limoges porcelain, glass, whipping twine, woolen rope, wire, Jute, ribbon, thread, gold, bronze. Dimensions variables. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur 
Kate Newby, Walking with a lot of people, 2022. Limoges porcelain, glass, whipping twine, woolen rope, wire, Jute, ribbon, thread, gold, bronze. Dimensions variables. Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur 
Generous and with light, 2019. Verre, corde de laine, câble / glass, wool rope, wire, dimensions variables Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur
Generous and with light, 2019. Verre, corde de laine, câble / glass, wool rope, wire, dimensions variables Courtesy of the artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Nicolas Brasseur
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Kate Newby. Grows and grows on you, 2021
Argile, bris de verres collectés, crayon dermographique, 3700 éléments.
Vue d’exposition / Installation view Musée d’art contemporain de Haute-Vienne – Château de Rochechouart
photo: Aurélien Mole
Kate Newby, ’Sorry fingers keep going’, 2018. White brass, porcelain, silver, brass, stoneware and glaze, 8 pieces 
Kate Newby, ‘Let me be the wind that pulls your hair’, 2017, Exhibition view (detail), Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA 
Kate Newby, ‘I can’t nail the days down’, 2018. Exhibition detail, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 
Kate Newby, ‘I can’t nail the days down’, 2018. Exhibition detail, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 
Kate Newby, ’lit by lightning’, 2019. Glass, Two parts, 9.4 x 18 x 29cm, 8.8 x 20 x 11.5cm 
Kate Newby, ’Bring Everyone’, 2019. Glass, Dimensions vary according to site 
Kate Newby, ‘The more I listen to it the more I love it’, 2017. Glass, beer bottles Exhibition detail, Contemporary Swedish Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden 
Kate Newby, ‘Not this time, not for me’, 2017. Mortar, concrete colour, silver, white brass, porcelain, cotton rope, glass, stoneware. Exhibition detail, SculptureCenter, New York, NY, USA 
Kate Newby, ‘Let me be the wind that pulls your hair’, 2017. Exhibition detail, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA 
Kate Newby, ‘A rock in this pocket’, 2018. Bricks, glass, ceramics, metal Exhibition view, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Biography
Kate Newby was born in Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand in 1979 and works in the United States where she resides. In 2015 she graduated with a PhD from the Elam School of Fine Art at the University of Auckland.
Working with a variety of media including installation, textile, ceramics, casting and glass, Newby is a sculptor who is committed to exploring and putting pressure on the limits and nature of sculpture. As such, she is interested in not only space, volume, texture and materials, but where and how sculpture happens. The handmade plays a very important role in her work ; it is not merely romantic or even retrograde, but rather the aesthetic byproduct of a position that shamelessly embraces direct experience over the mediated.
Her work has been shown at the 21st Biennale of Sydney in 2018, as well as in various institutions and galleries around the world: Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, Nouvelle-Zélande (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Musée de Rochechouart (2021); Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbane (2019); Lumber room, Portland, Oregon (2019); Kunsthalle Vienna (2018); Kunsthaus Hamburg (2018); Index, Contemporary Swedish Art Foundation (2017); and the SculptureCenter, NY (2017).
Kate has completed residencies at: The Joan Mitchell Foundation (2019), The Chinati Foundation (2017), Artpace (2017), Fogo Island (2013), and the International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP (2012).
She won the Walters Prize, New Zealand’s largest contemporary art prize, in 2012 and the Ettore Fico Prize (Turin, IT) in 2022.
At the gallery
- Try doing anything without it, solo show, 2022
- Indus 2, Group show, 2019