Born in 1963, lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
Self-employed artist, Head of Department Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland, NZ
Noel Ivanoff fathoms the possibilities of contemporary painting. He coats or spreads paint on the carrier in a way, thus the result often reminds of mechanical processes. In his choice of carriers the New Zealander goes as well beyond the limits of tradition. He works on aluminum-dibond or polystyrene or wooden boxes.
Order and structure are the guiding lines for his pictorial effort. Almost laconically he offers the possibility to comprehend and experience the traces of his pictorial impulses.
The result is highly sensitive and sensual products, revealing the shades of color, the traces and injuries of the material; comparable to an allegory of our life.
Works of the artist

exibitions/grants/awards (selected):
1991 London (GB), Islington Design Centre
1993 Oxford (GB), Templeton College
1993 Tokyo, (J), Metropolitan Art Museum, ‘Japan International Artists’
1998 Auckland (NZ), The Drawings Gallery, ‘Towards Abstraction Two’
2005 Christchurch (NZ), Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘GPS 6 artists 2 institutions’
2005 Hamilton (NZ), The Signal Gallery, ‘Peel & Some works from Gobsmack and flabbergast’
2008 Hawkes Bay (NZ), Hastings Art Gallery, ‘Faking it: a revisitation of postmodernism’
2008 Wellington (NZ), Enjoy Public Art Gallery, ‘Landing‘ (mit Raewyn Martin)
2009 Nelson (NZ), The Gallery at Woolaston, ‘Beyond the Image’
2011 Across Along and Around: RH Gallery at Woolaston, Nelson
2012 Bonn (D), raum2810, ‘Honey – Einblicke in eine Privatsammlung’
2013 Antwerpen (B), Faktor 44, ‘Precise Operations’