Selected
Exhibitions
Veronica Green is a New Zealand-born contemporary artist based in Venice, Italy. Her work has been presented during multiple Venice Biennale periods and in museum, institutional, and international gallery exhibitions across Europe, Asia, and New Zealand. Known for her triple-scene painting technique integrating natural light, ultraviolet light, and phosphorescent materials, Green explores perception, identity, and psychological transformation through light-responsive surfaces.
Major Biennale Period Exhibitions
From Where I Stand
Venice Art Projects, Venice, Italy
12 April – 18 July 2024
Presented during the 60th Venice Biennale, From Where I Stand explored identity through large-scale abstract paintings activated across three light environments. The exhibition examined the questions “Who are we?” and “What are we?” through Green’s signature multi-scenario technique. Featured in Venezia Today and Contemporary Hum.
10 Minute Window
Biennale Spaces, Venice, Italy
19 April – 21 July 2022
A solo exhibition presented during the 59th Venice Biennale period, 10 Minute Window introduced Green’s triple-scene methodology to an international audience. The exhibition integrated phosphorescent and fluorescent materials, revealing distinct visual states under shifting light conditions.
Featured in Stuff (The Dominion Post), June 3, 2022.
Museum & Institutional Exhibitions
Space is the Place
Mudac – Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland
08.09.2023 - 04.02.2024
Green’s work was included in Space is the Place, a major institutional exhibition examining humanity’s relationship with space and planetary futures. Her painting appeared in official Mudac press materials and the exhibition publication Objective: Earth, positioning her work within international museum discourse.
Selected International Exhibitions
Small Acts of Kindness
Palazzo Delle Prigioni - Venice, Italy
1 March – 17 March 2024
In this solo exhibition at Palazzo delle Prigioni, presented during the Venice Biennale period, Green examined the quiet power of empathy and human connection. Through layered abstraction and her evolving triple scene technique, the works reflected on how seemingly small gestures shape collective experience.
The exhibition positioned kindness not as sentimentality, but as strength, a conscious act of resistance within complex social and emotional landscapes.
Brighten Dark Spaces
Spazio 996/A - Venice, Italy
7 December 2023 – 10 April 2024
In this solo exhibition at Spazio 996/A, Venice, Green explored fear, vulnerability, and the confrontation of the unknown. Through her triple scene painting technique integrating natural light, ultraviolet light, and phosphorescent materials, the works transformed between visibility and obscurity, shifting with the viewer’s environment.
The exhibition examined how acceptance of uncertainty becomes a catalyst for inner strength, positioning light not only as material, but as metaphor for resilience and psychological clarity.
Invisible
Boundaries
Van Rensburg Galleries, New York, USA
6 March – 11 March 2019
Presented in New York, Invisible Boundaries examined the psychological and cultural lines that shape human interaction. Through layered imagery and spatial tension, Green explored the unseen structures that define belonging, separation, and identity. The exhibition further developed her ongoing investigation into perception and the subtle divisions that influence how we position ourselves within the world.
My Window,
My View
Van Rensburg Galleries, Hong Kong
22 September – 2 October 2018
In this Hong Kong solo exhibition, Green examined perception as both structure and metaphor. Through layered compositions and shifting viewpoints, she explored how individual experience frames reality and reshapes what we believe we see. The exhibition continued her investigation into duality and perspective, reinforcing her developing language of layered visual narratives.
Whimisical
Pockets
Van Rensburg Galleries, New York, USA
13 – 19 March 2018
Green’s first solo exhibition in New York marked a significant milestone in her international trajectory. The exhibition introduced her layered visual language to a U.S. audience, merging figurative symbolism with immersive spatial composition. Whimsical Pockets examined intimate psychological spaces, small internal worlds shaped by memory, imagination, and resilience, reinforcing Green’s evolving exploration of identity through light and narrative structure.
Beyond the
Brick Wall
Van Rensburg Galleries, Hong Kong
6 November – 2 December 2017
Presented during Hong Kong Art Week (Artropolis HK 2017)
Green’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong marked her formal entry into the Asian art market. Presented during Hong Kong Art Week, the exhibition introduced her evolving triple-scene practice to an international audience.Beyond the Brick Wall explored psychological and structural barriers through layered surfaces and shifting light, reinforcing Green’s ongoing investigation into perception, transformation, and identity.
Golden
Worlds
Cospace Gallery, Shanghai, China
20 September – 5 November 2016
Green’s first solo exhibition in Shanghai marked a significant expansion of her international practice into the Asian context. Golden Worlds explored psychological space, aspiration, and luminosity through layered surfaces and evolving material experimentation.
Presented in one of China’s leading contemporary art hubs, the exhibition reinforced Green’s growing presence between Europe and Asia while advancing her investigation into perception and light.
White Cloud,
Golden Horizons
Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
3 December 2015 – 13 February 2016
Solo exhibition exploring landscape, memory, and horizon as psychological space. Presented during a period of established practice in Venice, the exhibition marked Green’s continued international engagement with New Zealand audiences. The show received national press coverage in the New Zealand Herald, reinforcing her transnational presence between Europe and the Pacific.
The Light
of My Shadow
30 Upstairs Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
21 August – 12 September 2015
Solo exhibition exploring light as both material and metaphor. This body of work marked a significant development in Green’s integration of phosphorescent media and layered perception. The exhibition received national media attention, including exclusive television coverage on TV3 and interviews with National Radio Arts and Radio Active.
Within Light/
Inside Glass
Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di Scienze,
Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy
8 February - 19 April 2014
An Institutional group exhibition examining the intersection of art and science through material, light, and perception. Presented at Palazzo Loredan, the exhibition positioned Green’s work within broader contemporary research into transformation and optical phenomena. The project received extensive critical coverage across major Italian art publications including Artribune, Arte.it, +fortuna, and was accompanied by a printed exhibition publication.
L'Era Delle Stelle
Ego Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
17 January - 2 March 2013
Significant solo exhibition exploring celestial symbolism and perceptual transformation within Green’s evolving layered painting practice. The exhibition received coverage in Exibart and was featured in an exclusive television interview with RSI Cultura (Radiotelevisione svizzera), marking an important moment of international visibility in Switzerland.
The Temptress
Movimento Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Milan, Italy
3 December 2009 – 22 January 2010
Featured in Exibart
Solo exhibition exploring narrative tension, symbolic architecture, and psychological duality through layered mixed media painting. The exhibition further established Green’s presence within the Italian contemporary art context.
Forbidden
Cities
Movimento Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Milan, Italy
26 March – 30 April 2009
Solo exhibition exploring imagined architectural and psychological landscapes through layered narrative painting. The exhibition was featured in Exibart, marking an early milestone in Green’s Italian exhibition history.
Atlantis
Melori & Rosenberg Galleries, Venice, Italy
14 June - 26 July 2009
A major solo exhibition presented in Venice, marking a significant early milestone in Green’s international career. Atlantis explored myth, memory, and imagined worlds through layered narrative compositions. The exhibition received local press coverage, reinforcing Green’s emerging presence within the Venetian contemporary art context.
Once Upon
a Time
Melori & Rosenberg Galleries, Venice, Italy
23 November - 14 December 2008
Solo exhibition presenting narrative-based paintings rooted in myth, memory, and symbolic imagery. This early Venice exhibition marked a formative period in Green’s European practice and introduced themes that would later evolve into her multi-scenario painting approach Green’s emerging presence within the Venetian contemporary art context.
Inside Me I Soar
Galleria Il Serraglio, Florence, Italy
11 October - 11 November 2008
Solo exhibition exploring psychological space and inner transformation through layered narrative painting. Presented in Florence, the exhibition marked an important stage in Green’s early Italian period and the development of her evolving symbolic language.
Colombi Santi o Peccatori?
Associazione Spiazzi Galleria, Venice, Italy
4 April - 20 April 2008
Solo exhibition and artist residency marking Green's early European debut. Presented in Venice, the exhibition explored duality, morality, and symbolic narrative imagery, laying the conceptual foundation for her later investigations into perception and transformation.
Drift With Me
Whirinaki Whare Taonga (Upper Hutt Art Centre),
Upper Hutt, New Zealand
30 November 2007- 6 January 2008
Solo exhibition presented at Whirinaki Whare Taonga, marking Green's first major institutional solo exhibition introduced early explorations of narrative painting and symbolic landscape that would later evolve into her multi-scenario light-based practice.
Selected Art Fairs
Veronica Green has exhibited extensively at major international art fairs across Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia.
Palma Art Gallery (2025–present)
International presentations including New York, Hong Kong, London, Miami, Vienna, Brussels, Seattle, Boston, Palma, Hamburg, Singapore, and Bergamo.
ArtZandra Gallery (2017–2025)
Stockholm and London art fairs.
Van Rensburg Galleries (2017–2020)
Art fairs in New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Earlier Presentations
MiArt, Milan (2009–2013)
ArtVerona (2009–2012, 2016)
Presented by Movimento Arte Contemporanea and Rigo Gallery
Affordable Art Fair (AAF) – International
New York, Hong Kong, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Brussels, Hamburg, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Melbourne, Boston, Miami, Seattle, Parma
(2009–2026)
Other international art fairs include:
Art Expo New York, Art Expo Malaysia (Taksu Galleries), Toronto Art Expo, SWAB Barcelona, Paratissima (Galleria Forni), START Strasbourg, Pavi Art Fair, and Art Factory Catania.
Residencies
2020
Château Orquevaux Artist in Residence Grant, Orquevaux, France
2015
30 Upstairs Gallery Residency, Wellington, New Zealand
2008
Spiazzi Gallery Residency, Venice, Italy