BIOGRAPHY

1966
Born Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Currently lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia

EDUCATION

2011-2012
MFA Elam University of Auckland

2010
Post Graduate Diploma, Elam, Auckland University, New Zealand

2000- 2002
Australian Centre For Photography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
Prinicpal of Hope, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne

2011
Unearthed; Encrouchment Of The Commons, Woolongong Regional Gallery, Woolongong, NSW, Australia 

2009
Another Day in Paradise, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney Pretty, as a Picture, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne Pyramid Scheme, The John Paynter Gallery

2008
Cliffhanger, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Competing continents of Bling, Kiosk, Christchurch

2006
Painting Rubbish, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Ether, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India

2005
Ether, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney

2004
Ascension, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney

2003
Behold The Man, Gallery Barry Keldoulis (Inaugural Exhibition), Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
Link, Snake Pit, Auckland, New Zealand

2011
The New Arcadia, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW Black, Cessnock Regional Gallery, NSW  

2010
Shifting Sands, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW Curious Colony: A twenty first century wunderkammer, Newcastle Region Gallery 

2009
Wax on Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW  

2008
 17th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Atoea Centre Gallery, Auckland and The New Dowse, Wellington, New Zealand Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award 08, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand gbk @ Melbourne Art Fair 2008

2007
Roger Williams Contemporary, New Zealand gbk @ Silvershot, Melbourne

2006
Bitmap, International Photo Project, Alternative Space Loop, Korea gbk @ Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building

2005
December Group, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast GBK Group Show, Span Galleries, Melbourne Sweet Louise Charity Art Auction, Auckland ABN AMRO Australian Emerging Artist Finalist, Renzo Piano Building Sydney

2004
Melbourne Art Fair, Gallery Barry Keldoulis ABN AMRO Australian Emerging Artist, Finalist, Renzo Piano Building Sydney Group Show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Conrads Jupiter Art Prize, Gold Coast

2003
Citibank Photographic Archibald Prize, New South Wales Gallery, Sydney Refresh: 10 years of Photo Technica new Australian Photo Artist of the Year, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Portraiture The Art of Social Commentary, Te Tuhi The Mark, Auckland

2002
Photo Technica New Australian Photo-Artist of The Year, Australian Centre For Photography, Sydney

2001
Kodak ACP Student of The Year, Australian Centre For Photography, Sydney

AWARDS

2010
Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand, finalist. 

2009
RBS Emerging Artist Award, Sydney

2008 17
th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Aotea Centre Gallery, Auckland and The New Dowse Wellington, New Zealand, finalist Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand, finalist

2002
Photo Technica New Australian Photo-Artist of the Year, Australian Centre For Photography

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Art Bank, Sydney Australia Deutsche Bank, Sydney Macquarie Group Collection, Sydney Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle

CURATING

2003
'20 Years Between Europe and New Zealand': a contemporary jewellery show, Anna Bibby Gallery, New Zealand

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
Rule, Dan. 'Around the galleries', The Age, A2, 11 July, 2009, p. 20

2008
'Ten recommended shows for April an May', Art World, April/May 2008, pp. 34-35

2007
Rawlings, Sarah. 'Sarah Smuts-Kennedy', Insight Magazine, Westpac Private Bank, Sydney , p. 9, 16-17, 25

2006
Nagy, Peter, 'Sarah Smuts-Kennedy', Bitmap: International Photo Project, Alternative Space LOOP, Korea 2006 Rawlings, Sarah, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, ex cat, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney Smuts-Kennedy, Sarah, Dispatch: Chasing Clouds in Rajasthan?, Artnews New Zealand, Autumn 2006, p. 72 ? 74

2005
Hynes, Victoria and AnneMarie Lopez, The Apprentice, The Sydney Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, n. 29, September 2005, p. 52 - 60 Low, Lenny Ann, Exhibitions, The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 July, p. 10

2005
. MacNeil, Jess, 'Indecipherable Eloquence, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Ether Gallery. Barry Keldoulis

2005
. Parr, Andrew, 'Inside Knowledge', Good Weekend, 18 June, p. 58-59

July 2005. 'We Can Build You', The Art Life, http://www.artlife.blogspot.com.

2004
. Benzie, Tim, In The Frame, Sunday Herald, June 2004 Forster, Alisdair (ed), Preview, Photofile, Spring 2004. p 6 Keehan, Reuben, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy Ascension, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, June 2004 The Art Life, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, http://www.artlife.blogspot.com

2003
. Breen, Sally, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy - Behold the Man, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, August 2003

2002
. Hill, Peter, Exposure: Photo Techica Award 2002, The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, p. 26

2002
. McFarlane, Robert, Freed from perspective in the hills of Tuscany, The Sydney Morning Herald