Ronnie van Hout

Ronnie van Hout (born Christchurch, 22 January 1962) is a New Zealand artist, living in Melbourne, Australia. He works across a wide variety of media including sculpture, video, painting, photography, embroidery, and sound recordings.

Van Hout attended the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury between 1980 and 1982, where he majored in film. In 1999, he gained a Master of Fine Arts from RMIT University, Melbourne.

Van Hout has exhibited extensively, in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, at private and public galleries.

Major solo shows

• 2012 Ronnie van Hout: I've Seen Things, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
• 2011 Ronnie van Hout: Who Goes There, Christchurch Art Gallery
• 2004 Ronnie van Hout: I've Abandoned Me, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and City Gallery Wellington
• 2003 No Exit, Part 2, Physics Room, Christchurch

• "Ronnie van Hout: I've Seen Things". The Dowse Art Museum. Retrieved 21 June 2015. 
• "Ronnie van Hout: Who Goes There". Christchurch Art Gallery. Retrieved 21 June 2015. 
• "Ronnie van Hout: I've Abandoned Me". City Gallery Wellington. Retrieved 21 June 2015. 
• "Ronnie van Hout: No Exit Part 2". The Physics Room. Retrieved 21 June 2015. 

Van Hout has also produced a number of large-scale or permanent public art works, including Fallen Robot near The Dowse Art Museum and Comin' Down for the Christchurch Art Gallery.

• 2004 nominated for the Walters Prize held at Auckland Art Gallery.
• 2004 Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
• 2005 recipient of a Laureate award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.
• 2008 Rita Angus Residency, Wellington

• "Walters Prize 2004". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 21 June 2015. 
• "Alicia Frankovich awarded Creative New Zealand Berlin Visual Artists Residency 2010/11". NZEmbassy. com. Retrieved 21 June 2015. 
• "Ronnie van Hout". Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Retrieved 21 June 2015. 
• "The artist residing - Exiting: Ronnie van Hout - Artist in Residence". Massey University. Retrieved 21 June 2015. 

Van Hout's work is held in many public collections including the Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Christchurch Art Gallery and the Public Art Gallery.

• Anthony Byrt Who's There: Ronnie van Hout and the Anti-Hero Aesthetic, Art New Zealand 126, Autumn 2008
• John Hurrell, Review of Who Goes There, EyeContact, 27 September 2009
• John Hurrell, Review of The Other Mother, EyeContact, 28 June 2011
• Tom Cardy, Van Hout's latest hits the Dowse, The DominionPost, 12 July 2012
• Robert Leonard, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Eyeline, no. 73, 2011