Rohan Wealleans (b. 1977) completed a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from The Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland in 2003 and in the same year won the Waikato Art Prize. In 2006 he was the winner of the 15th Annual Wallace Art Award. Since 2001, Wealleans has exhibited regularly both in New Zealand and internationally. This year Rohan presented works at the Dowse Museum of Art in Wellington, the Wunderruma in Munich, Germany and BOS, New York, USA. Just last year Rohan exhibited in ‘Future Primitive’ at the Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia as well as a collaborative exhibition with Sarah Lucas at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin and C24 Gallery in New York. In 2012 Rohan exhibited solo shows at PS Project space in Amsterdam, Netherlands and at City Gallery in Wellington with a solo show titled, Apocalyptic Intuition. In 2010 David Elliot selected him for the ‘17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’ (2010). Wealleans’ work was included in the ‘6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ at the Queensland Art Gallery (2009). Other important group exhibitions include: ‘Lost and Found: An Archaeology of the Present’ at the TarraWarra Museum of Art Healesville and ‘Just Painting’ at the Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (2007). In 2008, Wealleans was selected by Rachel Kent for ‘Best of Discovery’ at the Sh Contemporary, Shanghai, China. The Auckland Art Gallery, Te Papa Tongarewa, The Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, The Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth and the Chartwell Collection as well as private collections in Australia and New Zealand hold Wealleans’ work.