Richard Lewer

Born 1970, Hamilton, New Zealand; arrived in Australia 1997; lives and works in Melbourne. Richard Lewer completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University, in 1992 and a Master of Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000. Survey exhibitions include Nobody Likes a Show-Off, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2009, and I Must Learn to Like Myself, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include I Must Learn to Like Myself, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2012, and God Created Me in His Own Image, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, 2013. Group exhibitions include I Walk the Line, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009; Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2010; and 10 Ways to Look at the Past, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011.