Mathias Kauage

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| name = Mathias Kauage

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| birth_name = Mathias Kauage O.B.E.

| birth_date = 1944

| birth_place = Miugu,Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|1944|df=y}}

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| nationality = Papua New Guinea

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| awards = Order of the British Empire for services to the arts by Queen Elizabeth II.

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| field = Painting

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Mathias Kauage O.B.E. (1944 in Miugu, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea – May 2003){{cite web |title=National Gallery of Australia website |url=http://www.nga.gov.au/imagining/details/118683.cfm |accessdate=25 March 2015 |publisher=National Gallery of Australia}}[http://www.niuginiarts.com/artists/ Niugini Arts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208104809/http://www.niuginiarts.com/artists/|date=8 February 2007}} was a Papua New Guinean artist. In 1998, Kauage was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to the arts by Queen Elizabeth II.[http://www.theoctobergallery.com/kauageprof.htm Mathias Kauage] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070816005537/http://www.theoctobergallery.com/kauageprof.htm |date=16 August 2007 }} The National Gallery of Australia has described him as "Papua New Guinea's best-known contemporary artist".[http://www.nga.gov.au/imagining/essay.cfm "Imagining Papua New Guinea"], National Gallery of Australia He was still holding regular exhibitions abroad shortly before his death,[http://www.nga.gov.au/imagining/essay.cfm "Imagining Papua New Guinea"], National Gallery of Australia in Australia, Europe and Africa.

Kauage's art included drawing, painting and woodcuts. His career as an artist was reportedly inspired by visiting an exhibition of Timothy Akis' in 1969.

He was unrelated to fellow artist Chris Kauage, although the two were friends.