Delicia Sampero
Bio
Delicia Sampero is a painter and installation artist whose exhibition career spans nearly forty years. Since 2010, Delicia Sampero has embarked on a unique artistic journey, creating art that breathes new life into discarded traffic signs..
Delicia's road sign installations have been featured at various art events, including Sculpture on the Gulf and Sculpture on the Shore, and locally at the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival, the Wildflower Sculpture exhibition, and the Hastings City Gallery.
Delicia's artwork draws inspiration from the complex interconnections present in nature, the intricate neural pathways of the brain, the dynamic exchange between humans and cultures, technology, and the complexities of the current world..
Her artworks are in private and public collections in New Zealand and internationally.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 Conference of the Birds , Summer installation, West Cast gallery , Auckland
2024 / 2025 Conference of the Birds, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland
2024. Tu'u tu'u i le loloto - Take it to the Deep, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland
2022 Heartbeat, Exhibition of traffic sign paintings, Koru Galleries, New Plymouth, Taranaki
2020 Threads of Touch, VIsual Arts Trail for the Harcourts Hawke's Bay Arts Festival with works at Muse Gallery, Boyd-Dunlop Gallery, Tennyson Gallery,
CAN Gallery, Arts Inc. Gallery, Keirunga Gardens Theatre, Hastings Opera House, Toi Toi Events Centre
2019 Signs, Exhibition of traffic sign paintings, curated by Warren Pringle, Auckland University of Technology
2018 The Digital and I Project, Artist Residency, exhibition and workshop, Green Bay High School, Auckland
2017 In Transit , Exhibition of traffic sign paintings, Franklin Arts Centre, Pukekohe / Auckland
2014 Conference of the Birds , Installation in public space: On and around Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi Village, Off-site gallery in New Lynn/ Auckland
2013 The Mirror Mama Project, collaboration, East West Gallery/ Auckland
2012 Reflective, Orex Gallery / Auckland
2009 The Mirror Mama Project, collaboration, Hastings City Gallery /Hawkes Bay
2009 The Mirror Mama Project, collaboration, MAU Forum / Auckland
Funded by Creative Communities
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2026 Paritua Sculpture Trail, Bridge Pa, Hawkes bay
2025 Pygmalion touch, West Coast Gallery , Auckland
2025 Paritua Sculpture Trail, Bridge Pa, Hawkes bay
2024 Mana Wahine o Waitākere, West Coast Gallery , Auckland
2024 The Figurative Collective - Boyd-Dunlop Gallery, Napier
2023 Pallet Cleanser –Hastings Arts Inc Gallery
2023 Riding the waves - Installation for dance workshop with Andrea Juhan - Auckland
2022 Heterodox Us- New Zealand Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre, Auckland, Curated by Andy Leleisi'uao and Ben Bergman
2022 Sunday Girl - Corbans Art Estate, Curated by Leela Bhai
2021 Remembering Roy- Curated by Delicia Sampero and John Eden.
Hastings Community Arts Centre during the Hawke's Bay Arts Festival.
Tribute Exhibition in memory of Roy Dunningham,
With works and tributes from 47 artist.
2021 The Scent of Two Lands - Arthaus, Auckland
2021 Barrel Store Colony- Barrel store building- Corbans Art Estate, Auckland
2020 Adam Portraiture Award - Finalist- The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Shed 11, Wellington and Touring Show
2020 TEMPORARY and Playing the Game, for Nomadic Art Gallery - Curated by Arthur Buerms and Eugenie Coche
COLLECTIONS & AWARDS
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Awards
1994 Merylin Savill Award, Merlin Savill Gallery, Wellington
2019 The Deans Excellent Award, Arts and Design Department / Master of Cultural and Creative Practice / Auckland University of Technology.
2020 Adam Portraiture Award - Finalist- The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Shed 11, Wellington and Touring Show
