Kristin Hatland

Kristin Hatland is an exhibiting artist with a background that includes a BAA, Dip. Comp. Graphic Design and an HNC in Business alongside a personal and continued study of Philosophy.

Abstract art fascinates and keeps her searching for a voice that attempts to produce works that elicits emotional responses from herself and then hopefully from the viewer.

"Philosophy seeks via its many iterations to explain life. My art expresses elements within philosophy that resonates and that gives a purpose by providing stepping stones towards knowledge that will take any person onto their own path. And it is this, the viewer’s own interpretation that plays a key role in my work."

The bastille from her plato’s cave series secured a place amongst the finalists and winners that toured New Zealand’s museums and art galleries under the care of Wallace Arts Trust.

Her artworks are held in private collections in New Zealand and overseas.

Bachelor of Applied Arts - Visual
Computer Graphic Design

2025
June; grafton bridge symphony in A minor movement I, IRIS professional photography awards
July-Aug; thinking like a mountain, 19th estuary art and ecology awards, malcolm smith gallery
Aug; grafton bridge symphony in A minor movement I, II and III, academy prize for visual art, NZ academy of fine arts
2024
Oct-Nov; ebb & flow, malcolm smith gallery, auckland
2019
May; wake up, cyan & oslo fotokunstskole, portfolio seminar, henie onstad kunstsenter, oslo
May; wake up, nordic light festival with cyan folio group exhibition, kristiansund
Jan-26; photo laundry, silo park, auckland
2017
Nov-22 Dec; PHOTON; art school & beyond, the shutter room, whangarei, new zealand
June; on the shoulders of giants > creative destruction, AFoP, monterey gallery, auckland
2016
Feb; procrustes bed, monterey art gallery, auckland
Jan; procrustes bed, cyan gallery & studio, oslo
2015
Nov-Dec; Metapherein, group exhibition, the shutter room, whangarei
July; the bastille, the exposure award - night photography collection, the louvre museum, paris
2014
Nov; a return to the dark ages, group exhibition, silver project space, auckland
2013
Jan-Feb; sugababe, saatchi's online "in living colors showdown", los angeles
Jan-Feb; the bastill...