Rita Takeuchi
(b. 2003, Tāmaki Makaurau)
Rita Takeuchi is a painter and multi-media artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She holds a Bachelor and Master of Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Her practice is grounded in the everyday encounters, treating their mundanity as a site through which to explore their layered, palpable nature. She works primarily through painting, alongside wood carving and sound installation. Through these mediums, the everyday is reflected as a space where time becomes soft and malleable, slipping beyond its habitual rigidity. Emerging from a diaristic and ritualistic practice, her work reframes the mundane, encouraging viewers to reconsider how the often overlooked everyday moments are felt and remembered.
Education
2025 Master of Visual Arts with First Class (Honours), AUT
2023 Bachelor of Visual Arts, AUT
Exhibitions
2026
GRWM, group show with Aria McInnes and Keani Rewha at RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau.
Vespertine, group show with Emma Beth Richards, Rosie McBride and Anneke Westra at Play_station Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara
2025
Slipping through your fingers, grasping, group show with Christine Brimer and Justine Fletcher at Meanwhile Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Idle:Idyll, group show with Keani Rewha, at Studio One Toi Tū
Five O’clock Chime, at Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery as part of the Masters of Visual Arts Graduating Exhibition II
2024
Relay, group show at Te Uru Gallery
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