Telly Tu’u was born in 1976 in Wellington, New Zealand. He graduated from Canterbury University in Christchurch NZ, in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and then again from Sydney College of the Arts in 2012, with a Master of Fine Arts.
In 2011 Telly Tu’u was the recipient of the Australian Postgraduate Award from Sydney University.
Telly’s work features in the collections of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Artbank, Sydney. His third exhibition with King Street Gallery as an associated artist commences in 2020.
2019
Telly Tu’u [with Neil Frazer] 333 Art Project the Clayton Utz Art Partnership, Clayton Utz, Sydney
2018
You can’t lose what you ain’t never had King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2017
Syncopation King Street Gallery on William
Limbic Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand
2014
New Work: Telly Tu’u and Michelle Ah Kuoi 474 Oxford Street, Sydney
2008
Thalamus: Telly Tu’u 150 Lichfield Street, Christchurch
2007
The Unromantics: Yeo Won and Telly Tu’u School of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2016
You are Invited Watters Gallery, Sydney
2011
Drawing Centre of Contemporary Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand
Airline – International Drawing Show ABC Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
2009
Nicht So Schlimm HSP High Street Project, 140a Lichfield Street, Christchurch, NZ
The Friends of the Gallery – Acquisition Christchurch Public Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, NZ
Cloud 9 Christchurch Public Art Gallery, Te Puna Waiwhetu, NZ
Group Show Newcall Gallery, Auckland, NZ
SELECT: The 2009 University of Canterbury Art Acquisition School of Fine Arts Gallery,
Christchurch Arts Centre, NZ
2008
SELECT: The 2008 University of Canterbury Art Acquisition School of Fine Arts Gallery,
Christchurch Arts Centre, NZ
Artbank
University of Canterbury Art Collection, Christchurch, NZ
University Aukland, Aukland, NZ
The James Wallace Art Trust, NZ
Everywhere/always: Abstract painting from Christchurch by Andrew Paul Wood
Art New Zealand, Issue 133, Autumn
2009
