Rachel Punturiero is a contemporary art photographer born in Takapuna, New Zealand. She is currently living and working between Auckland and the Bay of Plenty.
NEWS
● Threads series reviewed by LensCulture — work seen by international curators and editors (Jan 2024).
● First images from a new ongoing series now live (Sep 2025).
● /Currently developing a new series — first images coming soon (Dec 2025).
● Website refreshed with new works (Sep 2025)
In all Punturiero’s photos there is a kind
of ambience that is quiet, mysterious,
and full of drama.
Using slow shutter speeds, she takes advantage of
motion blur to abstract images and evoke response in
the viewer’s emotions.
Begin exploring:
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I. STAY SOFT
II. BITTERSWEET
III. CAN(N)IBAL
IV. IN WATER
V. OAIA
Upcoming Exhibitions, Publications, and Announcements
Investment
The following publications span Matsutani's practice and body of work. Available publications can be ordered through the links below.
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TAKESADA MATSUTANI
Accompanying a major retrospective of Matsutani’s work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2019, this catalogue fully illustrates the exhibition’s artworks ranging from 1958 to 2019.
Essays by Valérie Douniaux, Christine Macel, Yves Peyré and Toshio Yamanashi. Zürich, Hauser & Wirth Publishers / Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2019. Français / English.
MATSUTANI, CURRENTS
Published on occasion of the exhibition of the artist at the Ōtani Memorial Art Museum in Nishinomiya in 2015.
Essays by Takesada Matsutani, Izumi Nakajima, Germain Viatte. Nishinomiya, Ōtani Memorial Art Museum, 2015. English / Français / Japanese.
TAKESADA MATSUTANI, A MATRIX
Published on occasion of the first exhibition of the artist at Hauser & Wirth in London in 2013.
Essays by Midori Nishizawa, Ming Tiampo, Kate Van Houten, interview with the artist by Mizusawa Tsutomu and Inaniwa Sawako. Zürich, Hauser & Wirth Publishers / JRP Ringier, 2013. English.
Self-portrait, 2017.
Rachel Punturiero was born in Takapuna, in the North Island of New Zealand. She discovered photography as a child, ritually poring over her grandfather’s hand-made photo album from his time in the West African Frontier. For her 13th birthday, she was gifted two film-based point-and-shoots and began quietly teaching herself the craft.
Her practice, characterised by its accidental nature, is the result of personal perception juxtaposed with an experimental approach to the study of time and motion. Punturiero is interested in communicating her experience by evoking an emotive response in the viewer. By exposing the mundane, overlaid with Punturiero’s unmistakable atmosphere, she challenges the very paradigms that have shaped her, and offers insight into the ever present phenomenon of co-existing planes of reality.
Rachel Punturiero
info@rachelpunturiero.com
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