Born in New Plymouth, New Zealand

Canterbury University of Fine Arts, New Zealand

Lives and works in London

Big Fish Eat Little Fish, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

Centaurs and Sea Creatures, Ivan Anothony, Auckland, New Zealand

Wetwang Slack, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Francis Upritchard, LUX Art Institute, Encinitas, CA

Jealous Saboteurs, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Jealous Saboteurs, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand

Jealous Saboteurs, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Dark Resters, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Jealous Saboteurs, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Australia
Francis Upritchard and Martino Gamper, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

Francis Upritchard, Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Children’s Comission: Do What You Will, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Francis Upritchard, Kate MacGarry, London, UK

Mandrake, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Potato Poem, MIMOCA’s EYE VOL. 3, MIMOCA, Kagawa, Japan
War Dance, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

A Hand of Cards, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
A Long Wait, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

Echo, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
Echo, Amersfoort Kunsthal, The Netherlands
Methusalem, Ivan Anthony, Auckland, New Zealand

Francis Upritchard: In die Höhle, Wiener Secession, Vienna
Solo presentation, Open Space, Art Cologne, Germany

Save Yourself, 53rd Venice Biennale - New Zealand national representation, Venice, Italy

Rainwob II, Artspace Sydney and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Rainwob I, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Bogagnome, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Francis Upritchard, Kate MacGarry, London, UK

Francis Upritchard, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Salon 94, New York, NY
Francis Upritchard, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Doomed, Doomed, All Doomed, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

Francis Upritchard, Kate MacGarry, London
New Work, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Ich Dien, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Untitled (Boxing arms), Rear View, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand

Prince Charles Antichrist, warehouse space, London, 2000

Curious Creatures & Marvellous Monsters, Te Paa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ (opening August)
Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

Fifteen, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Things that soak you, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
Viva Arte Viva, 57th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, curated by Christine Macel, Tesa dell'Isolotto, Arsenale, Venice, Italy

Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
The Neighbour, curated by Francis Upritchard, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Young Potters, The Young, Wellington, New Zealand

Summer of Art, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand
Ulla von Brandenburg, Haris Epaminonda & Francis Upritchard, Galerie Art Concept, Paris, France
Dead, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
STATION TO STATION: A 30 Day Happening, Barbican Centre, London, UK

HOUSE PARTY with Dzek, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
Selected by…, curated by Michael Marriott and Jesse Wine, Limoncello, London, UK

The Upritchard Family Collection, Small collections, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Freedom Farmers, Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand
Mad Bad and Sad, Woman and the Mind Doctors, Freud Museum, London UK
Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Visual: Center for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
O Chair O Flesh, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France
Stereoscope, Christchurch City Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch

Contact. Artists From Aotearoa/New Zealand, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
Bush of Ghosts, Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lilliput, New York High Line, New York
Daydream Believers, IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Everybody knows this is nowhere?, Castillo/Corrales, Paris
Gesumptkunsthandwerk, with Martino Gamper and Karl Fritsch, Dowse, Wellington, New Zealand

An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Winter in America, Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich, Germany
Stealing The Senses, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Gesamtkunsthandwerk, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Heads With Tails, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
Une légende en cache une autre (One caption hides another), Bétonsalon, Paris,  France
H x W x D, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany

Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Out of Joint, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
Ashes to Ashes, AMP, Athens, Greece
The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place, 176 Project Space/Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
The House of Fairy Tales - exquisite trove, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK
New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Horn of Plenty, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London, UK
Feelings, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Feierabend: Francis Upritchard, Martino Gamper, Karl Fritsch, Kate MacGarry, London

Wunderbox, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand
 Lost & Found: An Archeology of the Present, TarraWarra Biennial 2008, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Box Hill, Australia
The Flight of the Dodo, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker - Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Nuremberg, Germany
The Institute of Psychoplasmics, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Re/trato - The Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Reboot: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Free Radicals, Artnews Projects Berlin, Germany
Life is a Funny Old Dog, Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich, Germany
The Big Chill Festival, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire, UK
Dadadandy Boutique, Artprojx Space, London, UK

The Crown Jewels, Salon 94 Freemans, New York
Of Deities and Mortals, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand
An Archaeology, 176 -Zabludovicz Collection, London
Reboot, The Jim and Mary Barr Collection, Christchurch Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu and City Gallery Wellington Re/ Trato, Travelling Gallery, Scotland
Metrosideros Robusta, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany
Tiere II, Overbeckgesellschaft Lübeck, Germany
Effigies, Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London, UK
Making Worlds, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Speculation, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Toi Te Papa/ Art Of The Nation, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

Six Feet Under – Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Le Nouveau Siécle, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Walters Prize 2006, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Around The World In Eighty Days, South London Gallery, London, UK
Pasifika Styles – Artists inside the museum, University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
HIGH TIDE: new currents in art from Australia and New Zealand, Zaçheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw & CAC - Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

Hot Spots 05, The Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria
Brutal Ornamental, Galerie Kosak Hall, Vienna, Austria
Schmuck (with Karl Fritsch), Luitpold Lounge, Munich, Germany
The Way We Work Now, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
DIAMONDS FOR WORKERS, Kate MacGarry, London, UK

The Secret History of Clay, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Ika and thanks for all the Ika, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Albino, (with Rohan Whellans), Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Bart Wells Institute of London, Hamish McKay Gallery, New Zealand
New Blood, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Telecom Prospect, Wellington City Art Gallery & Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Beck’s Futures, ICA London, Southampton City Art Gallery, & CCA Glasgow
Curiosity Kills the Gab, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter Blake Sculpture, The London Institute, London, UK
Lost Collection, Laing Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Picture Room (curated by Goshka Macuga), Gasworks, London, UK
Rollout, curated by Ricky Swallow, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bart Wells Institute, Kapinos Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Reaching out, Calling New Age Power, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Portraiture: the art of social commentary, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau City, New Zealand

Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
+64, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Another Shitty Day in Paradise, Bart Wells Institute, London, UK
The Only Way Forward, Neon Gallery, London, UK

The Bart Wells Gang, Bart Wells Institute, London, UK
Group show, Neon Gallery, London, UK
Enough Or Too Much, Shop Tactics Gallery, London, UK
Teeth & Trousers, Cell Project Space, London, UK

Outcome of Probability: Francis Upritchard and Saskia Leek, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Stuffed, Stuff Gallery, London, UK

Hobby Core, Stripp Gallery (curated by Ricky Swallow), Melbourne, Australia

Group show, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Bland, George Fraser Gallery Auckland, New Zealand
An Attic and Two Rooms, Deans’ House, Historic Trust, Christchurch, New Zealand
Rutherford was a Teenage Sculptor, Science Alive, Christchurch, New Zealand
Accidents, Hungry Eyes Series, Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand