Education
Van Hout attended the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury between 1980 and 1982, where he majored in film. In 1999, he gained a Master of Fine Arts from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne.
Van Hout attended the Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury between 1980 and 1982, where he majored in film. In 1999, he gained a Master of Fine Arts from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne.
He works across a wide variety of media including sculpture, video, painting, photography, embroidery, and sound recordings. Van Hout has exhibited extensively, in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, at private and public galleries. Major solo shows 2012 Ronnie van Hout: I"ve Seen Things, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt 2011 Ronnie van Hout: Who Goes There, Christchurch Art Gallery 2004 Ronnie van Hout: I"ve Abandoned Maine, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and City Gallery Wellington 2003 Number Exit, Participant 2, Physics Room, Christchurch Van Hout has also produced a number of large-scale or permanent public art works, including Fallen Robot near The Dowse Art Museum and Comin" Down for the Christchurch Art Gallery.
Anthony Byrt Who"s There: Ronnie van Hout and the Anti-Hero Aesthetic, Art New Zealand 126, Autumn 2008 John Hurrell, Review of Who Goes There, EyeContact, 27 September 2009 John Hurrell, Review of The Other Mother, EyeContact, 28 June 2011 Tom Cardy, Van Hout"s latest hits the Dowse, The DominionPost, 12 July 2012 Robert Leonard, Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Eyeline, northern