2000-1 Computer Graphic Design and Multimedia, NVQ 2, Information Systems Design and Programming and Software Creation, NVQ 2 & 3, Focus Central and The Graphics Academy, London.

1974 Animator Apprenticeship, Halas and Bachelor Film Company, London.

1973 Postgraduate, City and Guilds Schools, London.

1971 Teaching Certificate in Art and Design, Auckland Secondary Teacher's College.

1967-1970 Diploma with Honours in Art History and Painting, Elam School of Art, University of Auckland.

CAREER TO DATE

Alexis Hunter was a founder member of the Women's Art Movement in London and has been invited to have solo shows annually since her photographic series Approaches to Fear was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. In 1989, the Auckland City Gallery mounted the Retrospective Fears/Dreams/Desires and published a monograph of the artist’s work. Hunter’s essays on the psychology of creativity are published and her work has been widely discussed by other writers.

She has held individual exhibitions in private galleries in London, New York, Amsterdam, Wellington and Auckland and has figured in over 150 group exhibitions; these include The Hayward Annual, Issue and The State of the Art, the 4th Sydney Biennalle and Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her work has been bought for International Public and Private Collections such as the New Zealand National Gallery Te Papa in Wellington.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Art Award, The Information Age Art Award, Dunedin, NZ.

1998 British Council Travel Grant as exhibiting artist, lecturer and writer for the exhibition Fantasy, United Arab Emirates.

1995 Public and Private Grant Awards for the Cultural Exchange between the Republic of China and Britain From the Interior.

1985 British Council Travel Award Passion and Power in New York. Private grants given for video Studio 5, which accompanied the exhibition

 1988 Grant Award, Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand Award to painted The Hawaiki Series.

1983 Grant Award, Greater London Arts Council, printmaker in residence, Lowick House, Cumbria.

1982 British Council Travel Grant Award to Exhibit at The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Australia 

1982 Major Award Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand.

1978 Major Award, Greater London Arts Association.                 

1975 Arts Council and Private Awards for 'Space Open Studios' Co-ordinated with the participation of two hundred artists who opened their Studios in London's East End to the public for the first time.

1973 Arts Council of Great Britain Grant Award to exhibit films, (now in the Film Archive of NZ).

1969 University of Otago (Dunedin, NZ) Travel Award to Australia.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Artist's Publications, Selected Essays and Interviews:

2007 Interview ‘Do we still need Feminism’ Virginia Were, Art News New Zealand. ISSN 1174 - 1155

2006 Artist's Book, ‘Alexis Hunter/ Radical Feminist Art of the 1970s’ Norwich Gallery, ISBN 1-872482-82-1

2006 Artist's Book, ‘Alexis Hunter/ Advice for a New Painter’

2004 Artist's book, ‘Alexis Hunter/ Full of Sweet Dissolution’

2002 Essay, Artemisia Gentileschi, an Intense Vision’, FWA News

1997 'The Pleasure of Creativity ' From the Interior' editor: Fran Lloyd Published by Kingston University Press ISBN: 1 899999 04 3. 

1988 'Mark Making' '68'78'88: From Women's Liberation to Feminism', Ed Amanda Sebestyen, Great Britain. Pub: Prism Press. ISBN: 1 85327 022 9. 1984

Caroline Osborne 'Alexis Hunter Interviewed' Feminist Review, Cultural Politics' No18 pp93-101. 

MEMBERSHIP/AFFILIATIONS

DACS (UK), VISCOPY (AUSTRALASIA), ALS (USA), ALCS (EUROPE), THE BRIDGEMAN LIBRARY

The Foundation of Women's Art, London.

The Artist's Alliance of New Zealand

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

James Wallace Charitable Arts Trust, New Zealand,

Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Film Archive of New Zealand, Wellington.

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust, Napier, New Zealand.

Waikato Museum of Art & History, Hamilton, New Zealand.

New Hall, Cambridge University, England.

Te Papa Te Aro, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.

Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand.

Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand.

Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand.

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK.

Camden Council, London.U.K.

Greater London Arts, London UK.

Imperial War Museum, London.U.K.

Northern Arts, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK.

Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

University of Houston, Texas, USA

Cultural Foundation of Abu Dhabi. U.A.E.

Manchester City Gallery, England, UK.

Rutherford Trust Collection, New Zealand.

Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS OF ALEXIS HUNTER

2009 Paintings Whitespace Gallery Auckland

2008 Open Space at Art Cologne, Germany, with Karma International

2007 Radykalny feminizm w latach 70, Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej Bunkier Sztuki, Kracow, Poland. Radical Feminist Art of the 1970s, Part One. Whitespace Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.

2006 Radical Feminist Art of the 1970s. Norwich Gallery, United Kingdom.

2005 Amphetamine Queens and Other Spirits, Whitespace Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.

2003 Myth and Culture, Alexis Hunter at Studio Ceramics, Corbans Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ. Technomyths, Whitespace Gallery, Auckland, NZ.

2002 Realising Gentileschi, Baroque Painting in the Computer Age, Il Bottaccio, London, UK.

2000 Sin and Redemption: London Paintings, McPherson Gallery, Auckland, NZ. Interface Illusions: Systems Analysis of the Immaculate Conception, New Hall, Cambridge University, UK. Radical Photography, Gerry's Private Members Club, London, UK.

1999 Drinkers, Gerry's Private Member's Club, Soho, London, UK. Systems Analysis of the Immaculate Conception, Shoreditch Gallery, London, UK.

1998 New Works, The Drawings Gallery, Auckland, NZ. The Ego Series and The Projection Series, Queenin Gallery, Wellington, NZ.

1996 Devilish Thoughts, Drawings Gallery, Auckland, NZ. The Memory Series, The Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ.

1993 Daphne, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ.

1990 The Camden Town Series, Todd Gallery, London, UK. Personal Archetypes, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London, UK. Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ.

1989 Fears/Dreams/Desires: A survey exhibition 1976-1988, Auckland City Art Gallery, N.Z.Dreams and Desires, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ. Paintings, 1 Finsbury Avenue, Broadgate, London, UK.

1988 Landscapes of the Heart, RKS Art, Auckland, NZ. Hawaiki Series, Brooker Gallery, Wellington, NZ.

1987 Monotypes, Todd Gallery, London, UK.

1986 Mythic Landscapes and Memory Series, Totah Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

1984 Conflicts of the Psyche, Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK. Edward Totah Gallery - Forum Internationale, Kunstmesse, Zurich, Switzerland.

1982 Sequential Xerox Work, RKS Art, Auckland, NZ.

1980 Sequential Xerox Work, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. Dreams, Nightmares and Male Myths, Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK.

1978 Approaches to Fear, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2010 This Could Happen To You, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

2008 No Such Thing as Society, Hayward Travelling Exhibition

2007 WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution, Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles and travelling.

2005 work[w3:k],Galerie im Taxipalais, Austria. and Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Republic of Ireland and OGB Gallery, Northern Ireland.

2004 After Hiroshima, Nuclear Imaginaries, The Brunei Gallery London, UK and Travelling,Whitespace Gallery, New Zealand, The Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland, The New Hall Collection at Agnews, London.

2003 Design and Copyrights Artists Society 20 years, The Mall Galleries, London.

2002 DACS Exhibition CISAC 2002 World Congress, London.

2001 The Information Age Art Awards, Dunedin, New Zealand (First Prize Award).

2000 Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965 - 1975, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK and Museu Do Chiado, National Museum of Modern Art of Portugal. Tooth and Claw: an A-Z of Animals in Art, Auckland City Art Gallery. Women Beyond Borders, Rivington Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK.

1999 Conversations, Fisher Gallery, Manakau City, NZ.

1998 From the Interior University of Brighton, and touring six venues in the UK.

1997 The Impossible Document, Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966 - 1976, Cameraworks Gallery, London and Cambridge Gallery. Um Kunstlicht, Photography in the 20th Century, Donnesberg, Kunsthaus Zurich.

1995 Fantasy, Touring: The United Arab Emirates and England 1994/5. 2nd Sharjah Biennale, British Representative, United Arab Emirates.

1993 Alter/Image, Feminism and Representation in New Zealand Art 1973-1993, Wellington City Gallery , Auckland City Gallery. Who is She? Portraits of NZ Women from the Collection, Auckland City Gallery, NZ. Taking Stock of the 1990's,Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, NZ.

1992 Addressing the Forbidden, Brighton Festival and Stills Gallery, Scotland, UK. The Nude Reviewed, The National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ.

1991 New Acquisitions in Context, Auckland City Art Gallery, NZ.

1990 Large Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ. Goodman-Suter Bienalle, Nelson (Purchase Award), NZ. Gallery Artists, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London, UK. Biting Back, Symbolic Animals, by Ken Kiff and Alexis Hunter, Manchester City Gallery, UK 1989XIX Festival International de la Peinture, Chateau-Musee de Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.

1987 Erewhon/Nowhere, New Zealand High Commission, London, UK State of the Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK. Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.

1986  Identity/Desire', Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition, UK. New Acquisitions', National Art Gallery, Wellington, NZ.

1985 Passion and Power, La Mama La Galleria with Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

1984 Contemporary Acquisitions, The Imperial War Museum, London, UK. Amsterdam-London, Galerie Rob Jurka, Amsterdam, Holland.

1982 The 4th Biennial of Sydney: Vision in Disbelief, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

1981 Summer Exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK. Un Certain d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. JP2, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium. The New Europeans, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, U.S.A. Issue, Social Strategies by Women Artists, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.

1978 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK.