Born in Slovenia, Gregor Kregar relocated to New Zealand in 1997 to complete a Master of Fine Arts at the Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland.

An artist reluctant to confine his practice to a single material or medium, Kregar relies on a wide variety of resources to create his work. Familiar objects like television sets, glass bottles and plastic containers are combined and reconstructed into sculptural works that redefine meaning and evoke a sense of ambiguity and the uncanny.

Although Kregar’s work blurs the line between the familiar and unfamiliar, it is also strongly connected to the social, economic and political environment in which he lives.

Kregar has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and internationally. He has recently shown work in the solo exhibitions “Piercing the Clouds” at the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney,  “I appear and disappear” at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and “Matthew 12/12″ at Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island. In 2004 Kregar received a merit award in the prestigious Norsewear ART Award and was the recipient of an Art Residency at the McColl Art Centre in Charlotte, USA for 2006.
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Gregor Kregar’s CV