Taisha Brehaut

Based in New York, Taisha is included in the collections of Sol LeWitt, the Federal Reserve Bank, New York, New York and in numerous private collections internationally. She hails from New Zealand, was born in Australia to New Zealand parents and emigrated to America in 1998 to take up a position at the Yale School of Art on a full scholarship.

She has worked consistently and her practice has blossomed from Conceptual Sculpture, found in the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Teststrip Gallery and Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, to her intimate and sensitive line drawings and spare photographs that record her daily surrounds and reveal her empathy with those findings. Her paintings have developed from her enigmatic "Landmarks," series, to the white on white "Ziggurats," to "Space Lights," a cross between a Japanese light and a "UFO," exhibited in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Philippe de Boucaud of Paris, selected "Vignettes," her hand-made moving image of postcard-like vistas, for "The Fourth Free International Forum," in Bolognanno, Italy, 2010, the place where Joseph Beuys, planted his trees - inclusion in an exhibition at St. Cyr Ecole, France, consisting of three recent paintings and a drawing of an egg on a pl...

MFA - Yale University, Sculpture - Full Scholarship - '00
BFA - University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts -'97. Awarded Scott Elery medal.

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2013 - "Recent Paintings and Drawings," Pearl Capital, Lords Court Building, Exchange Place, New York, New York.

2012 - "Two Decades of Works," Pearl Capital, Lord's Court Building, Exchange Place, New York, New York.

2011 - "Recent Paintings & Drawings," Pearl Capital, Pearl Street, New York, New York.

2009 - "A Recent Survey," Chaffers Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, August - September.

2008 - "Mademoiselles," Chaffers Gallery, Wellington, Recent Paintings.

2006 - "Recent Work," Ea Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.

2004 - "Landmarks," Saatchi & Saatchi, New York.

2003 - "Landmarks," Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, Connecticut.

1999 - "City-Wide Open Studios," Outdoor Structures, The Lot, Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut, "Norfolk Sculpture Fellowship," Yale School of Art, Open Structures, Outdoor Sculpture, Ellen Battell Stoekel Estate, Norfolk, Connecticut.

1997 - "Steel Strip," Teststrip Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, curated by Daniel Malone with Billy Apple featured in Storefront.

1996 - "Sites," Flat Screen Viewing Room with Directions, Elam School of Fine Arts, "Linear Formation of a Cube," The Strand, Parnell, "Picket Fence (50 feet long)," Wakefi...