Jenny Harper, Christchurch, MNZM
For services to the arts. Ms Harper has been Director of the Christchurch Art Gallery since 2006, and represents the Gallery nationally and internationally. Before this, she worked at Victoria University of Wellington, developing the Art History programme, and, from 2000, was head of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies. In 2003, she was appointed to the role of Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Academic). She was Director of the former National Art Gallery in Wellington, becoming Director of Art and History at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa after a legislative change in 1992. Ms Harper was Commissioner for the New Zealand exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and in 2011.