Amy Howden-Chapman

Amy Howden-Chapman was born in 1984 in Wellington, New Zealand.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

Howden-Chapman studied at Victoria University of Wellington and graduated with a master's degree in creative writing and an Honours degree in Art History. She later studied at the California Institute of the Arts, and graduated with a master's degree in Fine Arts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mccahonhouse.org.nz/Residency/MeettheArtists/AmyHowdenChapman.aspx|title=McCahon House > Residency > Meet the Artists > Amy Howden Chapman|website=www.mccahonhouse.org.nz|access-date=2019-03-10}}

Howden-Chapman has exhibited extensively in New Zealand, the United States and Europe. Using performance, photography, video and print, Howden-Chapman's work investigates moments of cultural, environmental and political change. Many of her works focus on climate change and environmental protection.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

Howden-Chapman is co-founder (with Abby Cunnane) of TheDistancePlan.org, an organisation that seeks to promote climate change discussion within the arts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarystack.org/the-distance-plan/|title=The Distance Plan|website=LIBRARYSTACK∎|access-date=2019-03-10}}

Major commissions:

• The Apologies, an installation developed with writer Andrew Gorin for the 2022 show Better than This at East Quay gallery in Watchet, UK.{{Cite web |title=Past exhibition: BETTER THAN THIS |url=https://www.eastquaywatchet.co.uk/articles/better-than-this |access-date=2024-01-11 |website=www.eastquaywatchet.co.uk |language=en}}
• The Flood, My Chanting, a work commissioned as part of One Day Sculpture 2008, a series of temporary public artworks around New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.situations.org.uk/projects/amy-howden-chapman-flood-chanting-2008/|title=Amy Howden-Chapman, The Flood, My Chanting / 2008|website=Situations|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-10}}
• Meanwhile, a film work for Hue & Cry (2012).{{Cite web|url=http://hueandcry.org.nz/artist5.html|title=Hue & Cry|website=hueandcry.org.nz|access-date=2019-03-10}}

Notable exhibitions:

• Since the Great Depression, as part of performance art duo Raised By Wolves (with Biddy Livesey), at the New Zealand Film Archive Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (2009).{{Cite web|url=http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/events/since-the-great-depression-raised-by-wolves|title=Since the Great Depression - Raised by Wolves {{!}} The Physics Room|website=www.physicsroom.org.nz|access-date=2019-03-10}}
• They Say Ten Thousand Years at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2014).{{Cite web|url=https://www.teuru.org.nz/index.cfm/whats-on/calendar/amy-howden-chapman-they-say-ten-thousand-years/|title=Amy Howden-Chapman: They Say Ten Thousand Years - Te Uru|website=www.teuru.org.nz|access-date=2019-03-10}}
• Advice for our Aerial Ocean at Artspace Mezzanine, Auckland, New Zealand (2014).{{Cite web|url=http://www.artspace.org.nz/|title=Artspace Aotearoa - In response to the exhibition: Amy Howden-Chapman, Advice for our Aerial Ocean.|website=www.artspace.org.nz|language=en|access-date=2019-03-10}}
• Sad Problems at The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland (2015).{{Cite web|url=http://www.nylo.is/en/events/sad-problems-amy-howden-chapman/|title=Living art museum » Sad Problems|language=en|access-date=2019-03-10}}
• Brick Fall, Glass Wall, a moving image and sound installation at The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand (2016).{{Cite web|url=http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/exhibitions/brick-fall-glass-wall|title=Brick Fall, Glass Wall {{!}} The Physics Room|website=www.physicsroom.org.nz|access-date=2019-03-10}}

• Residency in McCahon House in 2014, and presented an exhibition of works produced during that time titled They Say Ten Thousand Years, held at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery. This exhibition was accompanied by an interpretive essay by Victoria Wynne-Jones titled Rainbow Warriors of Light.
• Recipient of the 2015 HOLA Public Art Residency, Los Angeles.{{Cite web|url=http://holapublicartproject.tumblr.com/post/122287897931/hola-welcomes-summer-2015-artists-in-residence|title=HOLA Welcomes Summer 2015 Artists in Residence|website=holapublicartproject|language=en|access-date=2019-03-10}}
• 2016 DAAD fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/in-short/new-artist-in-residence-amy-howden-chapman|title=New Artist in Residence: Amy Howden-Chapman — PIK Research Portal|website=www.pik-potsdam.de|access-date=2019-03-10}}

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