Neil Pardington (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Pākehā) is a photographer and designer based in Wellington. He has exhibited widely including the major Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition The Vault: Neil Pardington (2009) which toured to City Gallery (2011) and Otago Museum (2010). Solo exhibitions include Solo 2016: Six Wellington Artists at The Dowse Art Museum. His work has toured in the major exhibition Civilisation: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2018); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2019); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2019) and Auckland Art Gallery (2020). Other group exhibitions include Mortality, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2010), Toi Te Papa: Art of a Nation, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (2006), Public/Private Tumatanui/Tumataiti: the 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery (2004) and Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington. In 2011 he received the Arts Foundation Marti Friedlander Photographic Award and in 2016 Baker Douglas published The Order of Things, a monograph on his work. He is represented by Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch and {Suite} Wellington.