Ayesha Green (Kai Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu (Heretaunga)) is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Ayesha has a Master of Fine Arts from Elam in 2013 and in 2016 she completed a Graduate Diploma in Arts specialising in Museums and Cultural Heritage. In August 2019, she was the winner of the National Contemporary Art Awards, and in 2020 was the inaugural recipient of the Springboard Award from the Arts Foundation. In May 2021, Ayesha was awarded the Rydall Art Prize in association with the Tauranga Art Gallery Toi Tauranga.
Recent exhibitions include; Folk Nationalism, Tauranga Art Gallery (2022); Good Citizen, Jhana Millers Gallery (2021); Wrapped up in Clouds, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2020); Strands, The Dowse Art Museum (2019). Her work was included in Toi Tū Toi Ora at the Auckland Art Gallery and is currently working on a public sculpture commissioned by the Dunedin City Council.
McCahon House Artists’ Residency, named Parehuia by local kaumatua Eru Thompson in 2008, is amongst the most prestigious artists’ residencies in New Zealand. Three residencies a year, each of three months duration, are available to outstanding professional artists. Artists receiving the residency live and work in the purpose-built French Bay house with an attached studio.
Ayesha Green has the residency from September through till November 2022.
The works made on residency will be shown at Te Uru in December 2022.
Ayesha Green is represented by Jhana Millers Gallery{.underline in Aotearoa New Zealand