Exhibitions (selected)
CHAIN$
Solo exhibition
The Good The Bad, Tātou
Auckland / 2025
#EXADECIMAL
Solo exhibition
The Good The Bad, Café with No Name
Auckland / 2025
WANA
Group exhibition
Grey Place
Auckland / 2025
[Astronaut Islanders]
Group exhibition
Māngere Arts Centre
Auckland / 2024
A Niu Dawn
Group exhibition
Studio One / Toi Tū
Auckland / 2024
MALAGA / DYNAMISM
Group exhibition
The Good The Bad, Tātou, Café with No Name
Auckland / 2023
SLW23
Group exhibition
The Good The Bad
Auckland / 2023
We Were Here
Group exhibition
RM Gallery
Auckland / 2023
#685TOTHEWORLD
Solo exhibition
The Oyster
Auckland / 2023
[Windows into] Modern Pacific Art
Group exhibition
NorthART
Auckland / 2022
The Most Dedicated
Group exhibition
The Dowse
Lower Hutt / 2021
colourshapestudies / Se ia toe fofogaina atu
Group exhibition
The Good The Bad
Auckland / 2021
Kenese
Solo exhibition
Māngere Arts Centre
Auckland / 2020
O le pi tautau
Solo exhibition
Te Oro
Auckland / 2019
Colin McCahon: On The Road
Group exhibition
Somervell Presbyterian Church
Auckland / 2017
HYBRID
Solo exhibition
The Good The Bad
Auckland / 2017
Post-Graffiti Pacific
Group exhibition
The Pah Homestead
Auckland / 2016
Dreamscape
Group exhibition
Franklin Arts Centre
Auckland / 2016
PGP
Group exhibition
aMBUSH Gallery
Sydney / 2015
Not To Speak Is To Speak
Solo exhibition
Fresh Gallery
Auckland / 2015
Spacebeams
Solo exhibition
Youkobo Art Space
Tokyo / 2014
The Gang
Solo exhibition
Studio 40
Auckland / 2014
TSFA
Solo exhibition
Ironbank
Auckland / 2013
Life After Death
Group exhibition
Corban Estate Arts Centre
Auckland / 2013
Presence
Group exhibition
Studio One / Toi Tū
Auckland / 2012
Residencies
Artist-in-Residence International Program (´acePIRAR)
Proyecto’ace
Buenos Aires / 2017
AIR Program
Youkobo artspace
Tokyo / 2014
Selected Articles
My Tāmaki Makaurau
OurAuckland, MAR-APR 2022, Issue 108:p9
New Zealand / 2022
Divine timing : Gary Silipa’s Kenese at
Mangere Arts Centre / by Lana Lopesi
Art New Zealand, Win 2020; n.174:p.63-65
New Zealand / 2020
Twelve Questions with Gary Silipa, art gallery director
NZ Herald, 3 October
New Zealand / 2016
Work Experience
Director
The Good The Bad
Auckland / 2015-current
Director
TGTB Charitable Trust
Auckland / 2016-23, 2024-current
Auckland Creative Spaces Community Arts
Advisor
Arts Access Aotearoa
Auckland / 2020-21
Visual Arts Tutor
Te Oro
Auckland / 2015-19
Visual Arts Lecturer
Manukau Institute of Technology
Auckland / 2017
Network Engineer
Auckland Council
Auckland / 2006-11
Other
Development Fund for Artists & Practitioners 2024 Grant recipient
Creative New Zealand
2024
Whānui programme (At The Foot of the Maunga)
Auckland Arts Festival
2020
Changing Lanes project artist (Durham St East)
Artweek Auckland
2018
Founder of community arts event in Glen Innes, Auckland
Bradley Lane Illuminated
2016
Founder of first art gallery in Tāmaki (Glen Innes, Panmure, Pt.
England), Auckland
The Good The Bad
2015
Founder of community arts event in Glen Innes, Auckland
Bradley Lane Project
2013
Member of international art collective and 2 x ‘Write4Gold’ World
Graffiti Art Champions (2006, 2008)
The Most Dedicated
2005
BsC Majoring in Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Auckland
2005
