Avis Newman is a London based artist. Her work has featured in national and international solo, group and touring exhibitions including most recently: A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s, Birmingham, UK; the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Tate Modern, London, UK; 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; Mummery + Schnelle Gallery, London, UK; The Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Tate Britain, London, UK.
Newman has been a visiting Professor of Fine Art, Norwich University of the Arts, 2013-2015; Professor of Drawing at The Centre for Drawing, Research Centre: Wimbledon, UAL, UK, 2005-2010 where she developed a Phd Drawing Research Group and was editor of ‘Notes’, a publication documenting artists residencies at The Centre for Drawing Project Space, UAL from 2006-2009.
She was artist-advisor at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam, NL, 1991-2007 where she was also co-editor from 2005-2008 of the journal ‘Documents’ published by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam, NL. Newman was project tutor at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht. NL, 1994-2001 and studio tutor in Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, University of London, 1984-2005. Other teaching and advisory posts include Slade School of Fine Art, London, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford and Wimbledon College of Art.
In 2003, Newman selected drawing works from the Tate Collection for the large-scale exhibition, ‘The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act’, curated by Catherine de Zegher for The Drawing Center, New York, USA and Tate. Exhibited at The Drawing Center, New York, USA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Tate Liverpool and Tate Britain, UK. This enabled Newman to really explore a different theory of drawing connected to unconscious processes, language and the genesis of marking and writing.
Museum and Public Collections include Arts Council Collection, UK; British Council Collection, UK; Tate Collection, UK; Weltkunst Collection, Zurich; Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park; Washington DC, USA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA and various private collections in UK, Europe and the USA