Education
Certificate in Applied Technology (Carpentry), Unitec Institute of Technology (2016)
Bachelor of Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology (2020).
Selected Exhibitions
2023
Trees (Gavin Chai, Megan Houching, Ekaterina Dimieva), Malcolm Smith Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2022
Interiors, Foenander Galleries, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Idyll (Tori Beeche, brunelle dias, Gavin Chai), Page Galleries, Wellington
2021
David Shennan and Gavin Chai, Foenander Galleries, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2020
AD20 Grad Show, WE Building, AUT City Campus, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2019
Character Study: the figure in action and inaction, Arts in Oxford, Oxford
Accept each word spoken with love, Northart, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Light of Experience: people to objects, Kumeu Arts Centre
2018
Blue and White, Northart, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Life as a Builder, Franklin Arts Centre Community Gallery
2015
New Works, Estuary Arts Centre, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Selected Honors and Awards
2023
Finalist, Molly Morpeth Canaday Painting and Drawing Award, Whakatane
2021
Zinni Douglas Merit Award, Walker & Hall Art Award, Waiheke Community Art Gallery
Supreme Award, Excellence in Painting Award, Youth Award, Cleveland National Art Awards, Otago Art Society, Dunedin
2020
Main Prize, National Youth Art Award 2020, Artspost Gallery, Hamilton
2019
Centago Mining Merit AwardArts Gold Award, Central Stories Museum, Alexandra
2018
Finalist, Adam Portraiture Award, Wellington
Finalist, NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, Hamilton
2017
1st Prize Winner Waitakere Trust Art Award, Auckland
Collections
Porirua City Council
The Stevenson Collection
New Zealand Portrait Gallery
James Wallace Art Collection