The Gallery is open daily 10.00am - 4.30pm. Entry is free.
Exhibitions in our two gallery spaces change three or four times a year and feature artworks on loan and from our collection.
A selection of portraits of prominent New Zealand musicians and poets from the New Zealand Portrait Gallery collection.
Who Am I focuses on identity through the art of portraiture.
Toured by the Dowse Museum
Image: Louise Lewis, The visitor, 1969, Collection The Dowse
As the first of the major WWI art exhibitions, it takes a broad-brush stroke, telling the story of an appalling, inhuman, war in one building, rounded out by the inclusion of artists, architects, historians and novelists who have shaped our changing views on the war
Curated by Gavin McLean
French traveller Quentin Dumortier walked the streets of Wellington, taking photographic portraits of passer-by
The biennial Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
Image: Tim (Henry Christian-Slane)
