Luit Bieringa

Luit Bieringa

Infobox Officeholder


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office =Director of the National Art Gallery
term_start =1979
term_end =1989
predecessor =Melvin Day
successor =Jenny Harper
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Luit Bieringa is a New Zealand art historian.

Bieringa held the position of Director at the Manawatu Art gallery from 1971 until 1979, when he was appointed as Director of the National Art Gallery of New Zealand. He held this position for twenty years until 1999. He is a champion of photography in New Zealand, promoting it on a national level with major exhibitions at the National Art Gallery during his directorship, including NZ surveys and retrospectives of the photography of Peter Black, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Richard Misrach.


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