Miriam Saphira
KIWI ROAD, PT CHEVALIER, AUCKLAND,
   AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND
Date of Birth: 24.7.41
Nationality: New Zealand

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
1994 ASA Intermediate Certificate
1994 Certificate in Women's Art
1990 PhD in Psychology
1981 Educational Psychology Diploma
1982 Etching Course, Auckland Society of Arts
1976 Diploma in Clinical Psychology
2000 Artist in Residence, Artspost, Hamilton
Current member of Artists Alliance, Jersey Art Group, Pulse Art Group, Waikato Society of Arts and the Waikato Printmakers Association.
Regular exhbitor since 1993 in the WSA Printmakers Exhibition held in Hamilton

AWARDS:
1993 Suffrage Medal
1990 Queen's Commemoration Medal
1982 Media Women's Award
1977 Zonta Woman of the Year Award

BOOKS WRITTEN & CODESIGNED:
A Man's Man: A Daughters Story, Papers Inc. 1997
My Mother Taught Me, Papers Inc 1992
Look Back Stride Forward, with Lyndy MacIntyre, Papers Inc 1989
Lavender Annual, editor & co-designer with the late Sally Smith, Papers Inc. 1989
The Power and the Glory, edited & designed, Papers Inc 1987
Good Morning I'm Fine, Papers Inc 1982
Amazon Mothers with Diane Quinn, Papers Inc. 1984
The Sexual Abuse of Children, Papers Inc 1981/1984
I ask of You, Poetry 1978

OTHER BOOKS WRITTEN:
Stopping Child Abuse: Raise NZ children to be non- offenders, Penguin, 1993
For Your Child's Sake Understanding Sexual Abuse, Reed Metheun 1987/93

CURATIONS:
2005 Women Studies Conference Art Exhibition, Auckland
1999 One Night Stand Kamo Auckland
1990 Women Studies Conference Lesbian Art Exhibition, Rotorua

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006-Open and Shut, Jersey PPg Gallery, Auckland
2006-Kith and Kin, PPg Gallery, Auckland
2005 Between the Tides, Jersey Group Auckland (also 2000- 04)
2005 Good Girl , PPg Gallery, Auckland
2005 Soothsay Pulse Group Show Marco Trust Gallery
2005 East Meets West East West Art Group, Migrant Centre, Three Kings
2005 Works on Paper WSA Arts Post Hamilton
2004 Our Landscapes Are Not Maps Ida Carey Gallery Hamilton
2004 Voice Over Jersey Group Show Chartwell Gallery Hamilton
2004 Odd Pulse Group Show Chartwell Gallery Hamilton
2003 Flying in the Face of Fragility Ida Carey Gallery Hamilton
2003 Half Past Five Pulse Group Show Auckland
2002 North For Us Pulse Group Show Sydney Gay Games Australia
2004-1999 Jersey Shows, in Auckland Voice Over, Juggled, Thin Works, A&P Show, Compeer
2001 Hera, Aotea Centre Auckland
2000 Mind Gap, Pulse Group Shows, Auckland & Chartwell Hamilton
2000 Waikato Printmakers Exhibition Guest artist Chartwell Hamilton
2000 Artex, Chiaroscuro at Ellerslie, Auckland
1997 Group Summer Exhibition, Will's Art Warehouse, London
1997 Secret Lives Europride Forum, Paris
1996 Attachments, Outreach, Auckland
1993 Hero Exhibition , Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
1993 Journey Without Maps, Waikato Museum
1990 Women Studies Conference Lesbian Art, Rotorua
1984 Women Spirit Exhibition , Parnell, mixed media

SOLO
2005 Washday as Civilisation Crumbles, PPg Gallery, Auckland
2004 Identity and Desire , PPg Gallery, Auckland
2001 Voyage de Femme, prints, Mondes Gallery, Gondrin, France
2001 Boxed In, Woodhouse Hill Gallery, Wellington
2000 Wilful Waikato Women Artist-in-residence Ida Carey Gallery Hamilton
2000 A Bit on the Side," (oils and bronzes) Chiaroscuro Gallery Auckland
1998-9 Putting Victoria into Victorious, Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton
1998 The Colonisation of Children Aotea Centre, Auckland
1998 Gesundheit Rad und Tat, Berlin
1997 Searching for Women's History Rad und Tat, Berlin
1997 Taking The His Out Of History Oedipus Rex Gallery Auckland
1997 Emportez l' il de Illustration Mondes Gallery, France
1997 Goodbye Berlin & Other Stories, WSA, Hamilton
1997 Searching for Women's History, Freida Gallery, Berlin,
1996 Taking The His Out Of History Kuchla Gallery, London
1995 Time To Ride WSA Upstairs Gallery, Hamilton
1993 Swimming For Our Lives, WSA Upstairs Gallery, Hamilton