Bio
Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand-based artist and videographer whose practice includes the construction of large-scale outdoor sculptures and installations as well as the creation of ‘impossible’ moving and still images and architecture designed using 3D modelling, video editing, and image editing programs. Bunkley, a NZ/USA dual citizen, received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two NY state grants, and the Rome Prize Fellowship in the USA.
He has exhibited at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, had international screenings including the White Box Gallery in NYC, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin several times between 2003-2024, and he exhibited video multiple times at File SaoPaolo. In 2012, he was an award winner at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the «Now&After» Festival. He participated in the Athens Digital Arts Festival in 2017 and File Sao Paolo (2017, 2018, 2019). Bunkley screened his video, Ghost Shelter/6, at The Federation Square Big Screen, Channels Festival 2017, Melbourne, and at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, in 2018. He participated in the Visions in the Nunnery at the Nunnery/Bows art gallery in London in 2022.
In 2023, his video screenings include the Video Art Miden, the Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki, Greece; the Ibrida Festival of Experimental Audiovisual, Forlì, Italy; the Malatesta Short Film Festival, Cesena, Italy; the Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Rencontres Paris/Berlin.
Group exhibitions in 2023 include the Surrealist Vacation Resort Cologne - in collaboration with the Institute für Alles Mögliche Berlin and the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, LA; New Realism/Altered Reality at the Gallery23, NYC;the Hochkantfilmfest, FILE 2023, Sao Paolo, New Realism/Altered Reality, Gallery23 in NYC, RPM23, Boston and the Video Art Forum, Saudi Arabia.
In 2024, he exhibited sculpture and video at Cybersculpture 2024, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France and screened video Experiments inCinema Festival v19.8, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Recent solo exhibitions include Ghost Shelter at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, NewZealand, in 2018; the Institut für Alles Mögliche/Stützpunkt Teufelsberg, Berlin, 2019; the Rabbit Room, Napier, NZ, 2022; Scott Lawrie Gallery, AucklandNew Zealand 2022, and aGallery, Whanganui, NZ 2023 and 2024.
Bunkley also makes experimental documentaries which he screened at Docfest Kassel 2019 and Jihlava IDFF 2021 and 2022 in the Czech Republic.