Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
- Kineticism: Len Lye and the Howard Wise Gallery ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Shelling out: Len Lye’s Experiments in Animations ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Storm ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: The Edge Of The Sea ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Charting the zig-zags ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Wand Dance ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
2022
2021
- Len Lye: Convolutions ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Rainbow Dance ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye Tangibles: 1963 - 1969 ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Wand Dance ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
2020
2019
2018
- Len Lye: Wand Dance ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Group Therapy ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Heaven and Earth ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Pretty Good for the 21st Century ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Love Springs Eternal ,Starkwhite, Auckland ,Auckland, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Blade ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
2017
- Len Lye’s Jazz: Projection Series 9 ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Convolutions ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Stopped Short by Wonder ,Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu ,Christchurch, New Zealand
- Len Lye's kinetic sculpture Roundhead ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye's kinetic sculpture Grass ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Fountain III ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
2016
2015
- Len Lye: Flora and Fauna ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Trilogy (A Flip and Two Twisters) ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye’s Jam Session ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Len Lye: Four Fountains ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
2011
2010
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
2019
2018
- Oskar Fischinger and Len Lye: Projection Series #12 ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Sensory Agents ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Free Radicals: Cinema on the Wrong Side of the Tracks ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Tūrangawaewae: Art and New Zealand ,Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa ,Wellington, New Zealand
- Antipodean emanations cameraless photographs from Australia and New Zealand ,Monash Gallery of Art ,Melbourne, Australia
2017
2016
- The Shadow of Color ,The Israel Museum, Jerusalem ,Jerusalem, Israel
- Set in Motion ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Projection Series #3: Syncopated Cinema ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Emanations ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
2015
- In Motion ,Starkwhite, Auckland ,Auckland, New Zealand
- America Is Hard to See ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- A Journal of the Plague Year ,Kadist, San Francisco ,Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA
- Imaginary Audience Scale ,Artspace Aotearoa ,Auckland, New Zealand
2011
- Ozlem Altin, Ruth Laskey & Len Lye: Figures in Space ,Galerie Ute Parduhn ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Animism - Modernity Through the Looking Glass ,Generali Foundation ,Vienna, Austria
- Watch Me Move: The Animation Show ,Barbican Art Gallery ,London, UK
- Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am. ,Museum Tinguely ,Basel, Switzerland
2010
- Points of Contact: Jim Allen, Len Lye and Helio Oiticica ,Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ,New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Celluloid: Cameraless Film ,SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt ,Frankfurt, Germany
- Animism ,Kunsthalle Bern ,Bern, Switzerland
- Le Mouvement: From Cinema to Kinetics ,Museum Tinguely ,Basel, Switzerland
- Animism ,Kunsthal Extra City ,Antwerp, Belgium
2009
Len Lye was a New Zealander artist who was born in 1901. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Govett-Brewster Art Gallery have featured Len Lye's work in the past.Len Lye's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1,360 USD to 30,240 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2010 the record price for this artist at auction is 30,240 USD for Twilight, sold at Rago Arts and Auction Center in 2024. Len Lye has been featured in articles for FAD Magazine, Juliet Art Magazine and The Guardian. The most recent article is The London museum that is putting on its war paint written for Apollo in November 2023. The artist died in 1980.