delicia sampero
Delicia Sampero is an Auckland based painter and installation artist, who has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1993. Collaborative exhibitions such as I AM and THE MIRROR MAMA PROJECT, deal with issues of identity and offer documentation of, and insights into, a wider creative community of Aotearoa.
Since 2010 she has specialised in traffic sign art. Her ongoing artistic and conceptual enquiry spans many ways of working with this material, as sculptures, paintings, installations and film. Her artwork reflects on advancements in transport and technology and its effects on human beings and the natural world. Delicia’s work is held in private and public collections nationally and internationally. (Massey University, Wallace Arts Trust, Reef Shipping, Michael Hill, University of Samoa, German Consulate, World Bank Washington DC )
Her road-sign installations have featured at prestigious art events including Sculpture on the Gulf and Sculpture on the Shore.
As public signs, they suggest a sense of urgency, even danger; A necessity to engage and look ahead. The quest of these projects is to stimulate imaginations and discourse.
Education
2016-2018 Master of Cultural and Creative Practice (Hons) at the Auckland University of Technology.
Selected Solo Exhibitions / Installations
Selected Group Exhibitions
Since 2010 she has specialised in traffic sign art. Her ongoing artistic and conceptual enquiry spans many ways of working with this material, as sculptures, paintings, installations and film. Her artwork reflects on advancements in transport and technology and its effects on human beings and the natural world. Delicia’s work is held in private and public collections nationally and internationally. (Massey University, Wallace Arts Trust, Reef Shipping, Michael Hill, University of Samoa, German Consulate, World Bank Washington DC )
Her road-sign installations have featured at prestigious art events including Sculpture on the Gulf and Sculpture on the Shore.
As public signs, they suggest a sense of urgency, even danger; A necessity to engage and look ahead. The quest of these projects is to stimulate imaginations and discourse.
Education
2016-2018 Master of Cultural and Creative Practice (Hons) at the Auckland University of Technology.
Selected Solo Exhibitions / Installations
- 2019 Signs, Exhibition of traffic sign paintings, curated by Warren Pringle, Auckland University of Technology
- 2018 The Digital and I Project, Artist Residency, exhibition and workshop, Green Bay High School, Auckland
- 2017 In Transit , Exhibition of traffic sign paintings, Franklin Arts Centre, Pukekohe / Auckland
- 2014 Conference of the Birds , Installation in public space: On and around Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi Village, Off-site gallery in New Lynn/ Auckland
- 2013 The Mirror Mama Project, collaboration, East West Gallery/ Auckland
- 2012 Reflective, Orex Gallery / Auckland
- 2009 The Mirror Mama Project, collaboration, Hastings City Gallery /Hawkes Bay
- 2009 The Mirror Mama Project, collaboration, MAU Forum / Auckland Funded by Creative Communities
- 2008 I AM painting installation, National Portrait Gallery / Wellington
- 2008 A Well Written Body, Exhibition and book launch, Aotea Centre / Auckland,
- 2007 I AM , painting installation, Lopdell house/ Waitakere City
- 2008 www .ambassadors.co.nz, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
- 2006 I AM, Oedipus Rex gallery/ Auckland
- 2005 Here Today, Oedipus Rex gallery /Auckland
- 2003 Select Works, T Galleria/Compose Art gallery /Auckland
- 2002 He Tangata, Gallery Ngano / Berlin
- 2001 Muttermal , Oedipus Rex Gallery/ Auckland
- 2001 Chrysalis , Oedipus Rex gallery, Auckland
- 2000 Body as door, Oedipus Rex /Auckland
- 1999 Malaga, Madd Gallery / Apia
- 1999 Present, Oedipus Rex Gallery,Auckland
- 1998 Lagona - Sea Beneath My Skin, Oedipus Rex Gallery- Auckland
- 1997 Sensha, Archill Gallery- Auckland
- 1993 Space- Within, Marylin Savill Gallery- Wellington
- 1992 Bewegung und Farben , Dresdner Bank , Isny , Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2020 Adam Portraiture Award - Finalist- The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Shed 11, Wellington
- 2018 The Kauri Project - Nathan Homestead Gallery, Auckland
- 2018 The Kauri Project - Arataki Visitors Centre, Auckland
- 2018 The Digital and I Project signs - Wildflower Sculpture exhibition, Hawkes Bay
- 2016 Playing the Game 2- Wildflower Sculpture exhibition, Hawkes Bay
- 2014 Playing the Game- 10th Biennial -Sculpture on the shore , Devonport / Auckland
- 2014 Conference of the Birds – Wildflower, Installation at Wildflower Sculpture exhibition, Hawkes Bay
- 2014 Conference of the Birds - Matariki , Installation visually connecting Matapihi Art gallery and the Raglan community Centre for the MATARIKI celebrations
- 2013 TEMPORARY, Headlands- Sculpture on the Gulf Biennale, Waiheke Island
- 2012 East, Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings
- 2011 Hawkes Bay Invitational, Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings
- 2010 Hawkes Bay Invitational, Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings
- 2005 Compose Art Gallery, Grey Lynn, Auckland
- 1996 Back to Basics, Madd Gallery- Apia / Samoa
- 1994-1996 Theatre of Paint, Dija Gallery, James Smith Building, Wellington
- 1994 Backbone, Merylin Savill Gallery, Wellington
- Dual, The Vault Gallery, Wellington
- 1993 Space Between, City Limits, Wellington
- WINNER of the The Merilyn Savill Young Artist of the Year Awar
- 1993 Hawkes Bay Review, Hawkes Bay Museum, Napier
- 1990 The White-house Exhibition, Barreto residence, Honolulu Hawaii
- 1990 Hawkes Bay Review, Hastings City Gallery, Hastings