Lucien Rizos
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        • early work. pre 1977
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        • Traffic Lights 1981 >
          • some contact sheets
        • McDonald's Corner 1983 >
          • some contact sheets 1983
        • 5 minutes on street corner. Whanganui
        • LAST PHOTOS 1984
        • post last photos 1984-1986
        • telephoto from car 2002
        • unposed portraits 2014-15 >
          • more Unposed Portraits
        • memories 2016
        • Marble Art Ltd. 2017 >
          • exhibition marble art ltd exhib photos
        • remuera 2018
        • Everything. 2019-2021 >
          • A Man Of His Time Exhibition 2020
          • Lucien Rizos .Everything. exhibition.2022
        • family photos and headstones 2023
        • Marble Art Ltd 2024 >
          • exhibition photos. Marble Art Ltd 2024
      • photography related projects >
        • ANZAC day 1984
        • Blue skies. Green grass. 1984-86
        • searching for... 1984-1986
        • Silver Lining 1988
        • family album 1989
        • My Relationship with... >
          • My Relationship With Cartier Bresson 1986-1992
          • My Relationship With The Old Masters 1986
        • New Work Studio 1995
        • Analogies 2000-2001
        • My Reality The Camera 2002
        • fringes and backgrounds 2002
        • P O V 2015
      • bits and pieces (photography) in a documentary style. 2015- >
        • people from a distance
        • rural homes from a moving bus
        • random, unconnected photographs.
      • movies >
        • drive-by. pittsburgh 2005
        • to and fro. 2006 spin. 2006
        • Hi Mary... 2007
        • glide 2008
        • from the car. circa 2009-
        • from the bus. circa 2009-
        • musicians at work. 2010
        • Buskers, various. 2009-2010
        • GDBY PK P. 2012
        • reverberation 2012
        • around the perimeter 2016
        • Where's Wally? 2019
      • Rubbings. 1998-1999 >
        • rubbings. literal
        • rubbings. non literal.
    • text >
      • My Relationship With The Old Masters, review. Ian Wedde. 1986
      • A Man Walks Out Of A Bar... >
        • Essay. Ian Wedde. A Man Walks Out Of A Bar.
        • Essay. Damian Skinner. New Zealand Photographs.
        • Review. Peter Ireland. S'kite
        • Review. Peter Ireland. New Zealand Listener
        • Review. Abby Cunnane. Lumiere.net.nz
        • Review. The Landfall Review On Line. David Eggleton
        • Essay. Greg O'Brien. A Man Walks Out Of A Bar.
      • Essay. Greg O'Brien. Where I Find Myself
      • Aaron Lister. Art New Zealand. Springbok Tour Book. >
        • springbok tour book. 1 contact sheet
      • certain materialities. Damian Skinner. 2017
      • the empire strikes back.Peter Ireland 2017
      • Everything. 2019-2021 >
        • Lucien Rizos: Processing Power. Robert Leonard 2022
        • Secret life of Gerald.Eva Corlett.Guardian.
    • information >
      • biography and chronology
    • CONTACT
    • publications, books



  BIOGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY

Lucien Rizos has been on the fringes and backgrounds of the Art World since the late 1970's.
Violinist in the  New Zealand Symphony Orchestra from 1974-2020
Previously studied Visual Communication and Design at the Wellington Polytechnic 1972-1973.

1953         Born Wellington, New Zealand.

1978         Exhibition. Romanian Photos. Wellington PhotoForum.
1980         Exhibition. Contact sheets and prints. New Zealand Photos. PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington.
1980         Portfolio and cover of PhotoForum issue ​​45 (April 1980).
1984         Exhibition. McDonald's Corner. Real Pictures Gallery, Auckland.
1985       ​  Exhibition.  McDonald's Corner. Exposures Gallery, Wellington.
1986         Exhibition. My Relationship With The Old Masters. Exposures Gallery, Wellington.
1988         Alexander Turnbull Library archives entire Documentary Style photographic output: 
                       negatives, prints, and seven books in photocopy form.
1994         Group Exhibition. Lest We Forget: Photography, Memory and National Character. City Gallery Wellington.
1995         Group Exhibition.With Peter Black and Mary Macpherson.  My Relationship With Cartier Bresson.
                       New Work Studio, Wellington.
2005         Exhibition. Where I Find Myself, Work 1974-2005. Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, Wellington.
2007         Exhibition. New Zealand Photographs 1979-1982. Photospace Gallery , Wellington.
2008         Exhibi
tion. Fifty New Zealand Photographs. Millennium Art Gallery, Blenheim. 
                       Curated by Dr Damian Skinner.
2008         Exhibition. Fringes and Backgrounds. Photospace Gallery, Wellington.
2009         Exhibition. Te Awamutu through Kihikihi. Short movies. Photospace Gallery, Wellington.
2010         Exhibition. Musicians At Work.Screening. New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington.
2013         Exhibition. Cinema & Painting.  GDBY PK P. Screening. Adam Art Gallery, in conjunction with Circuit Artist Film and                                      Video  Aotearoa. Curated by Michelle Menzies and Mark Williams.
2014         Group Exhibition. History in the Taking. Gus Fisher Gallery.
                       Curated by Nina Seja and Geoffrey H. Short.
2014         Group Exhibition. Streets We Have Known. Anna Miles Gallery. Auckland.
                       Curated by Anna Miles.
2014         Exhibition. Reverberation. Screening. Wellington City Gallery.
                       Curated by Seung Yul Oh.
2015         Exhibition. Unposed Portraits. Anna Miles Gallery. Auckland.
2017         Group Exhibition. Flying Carpet. Anna Miles Gallery. Auckland.
​2017         Exhibition. Marble Art Ltd. Anna Miles Gallery. Auckland.

2020         Exhibition. A Man Of His Time. Photospace Gallery. Wellington.
2022         Exhibition. Lucien Rizos: Everything.  Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi. Curated by Robert Leonard.
2024         Exhibition   Marble Art Ltd.  Photospace Gallery. Wellington

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  • home
    • work >
      • photography, documentary style projects >
        • early work. pre 1977
        • Romanian Photos 1977-1978
        • A Man Walks Out Of A Bar... 1979-1982 >
          • A Man...some contact sheets
          • some rejects from A Man Walks Out Of A Bar... 1979-1982
        • Traffic Lights 1981 >
          • some contact sheets
        • McDonald's Corner 1983 >
          • some contact sheets 1983
        • 5 minutes on street corner. Whanganui
        • LAST PHOTOS 1984
        • post last photos 1984-1986
        • telephoto from car 2002
        • unposed portraits 2014-15 >
          • more Unposed Portraits
        • memories 2016
        • Marble Art Ltd. 2017 >
          • exhibition marble art ltd exhib photos
        • remuera 2018
        • Everything. 2019-2021 >
          • A Man Of His Time Exhibition 2020
          • Lucien Rizos .Everything. exhibition.2022
        • family photos and headstones 2023
        • Marble Art Ltd 2024 >
          • exhibition photos. Marble Art Ltd 2024
      • photography related projects >
        • ANZAC day 1984
        • Blue skies. Green grass. 1984-86
        • searching for... 1984-1986
        • Silver Lining 1988
        • family album 1989
        • My Relationship with... >
          • My Relationship With Cartier Bresson 1986-1992
          • My Relationship With The Old Masters 1986
        • New Work Studio 1995
        • Analogies 2000-2001
        • My Reality The Camera 2002
        • fringes and backgrounds 2002
        • P O V 2015
      • bits and pieces (photography) in a documentary style. 2015- >
        • people from a distance
        • rural homes from a moving bus
        • random, unconnected photographs.
      • movies >
        • drive-by. pittsburgh 2005
        • to and fro. 2006 spin. 2006
        • Hi Mary... 2007
        • glide 2008
        • from the car. circa 2009-
        • from the bus. circa 2009-
        • musicians at work. 2010
        • Buskers, various. 2009-2010
        • GDBY PK P. 2012
        • reverberation 2012
        • around the perimeter 2016
        • Where's Wally? 2019
      • Rubbings. 1998-1999 >
        • rubbings. literal
        • rubbings. non literal.
    • text >
      • My Relationship With The Old Masters, review. Ian Wedde. 1986
      • A Man Walks Out Of A Bar... >
        • Essay. Ian Wedde. A Man Walks Out Of A Bar.
        • Essay. Damian Skinner. New Zealand Photographs.
        • Review. Peter Ireland. S'kite
        • Review. Peter Ireland. New Zealand Listener
        • Review. Abby Cunnane. Lumiere.net.nz
        • Review. The Landfall Review On Line. David Eggleton
        • Essay. Greg O'Brien. A Man Walks Out Of A Bar.
      • Essay. Greg O'Brien. Where I Find Myself
      • Aaron Lister. Art New Zealand. Springbok Tour Book. >
        • springbok tour book. 1 contact sheet
      • certain materialities. Damian Skinner. 2017
      • the empire strikes back.Peter Ireland 2017
      • Everything. 2019-2021 >
        • Lucien Rizos: Processing Power. Robert Leonard 2022
        • Secret life of Gerald.Eva Corlett.Guardian.
    • information >
      • biography and chronology
    • CONTACT
    • publications, books