Billy Apple, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Billy Apple

New Zealand artist

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1935

Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand

Profession: artist, painter

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Billy Apple ONZM (born Barrie Bates in Auckland, New Zealand in 1935), is an artist whose work is associated with the New York and British schools of Pop Art in the 1960s and with the Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s.
He collaborated with the likes of Andy Warhol and other pop artists.
His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (New Zealand), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (New Zealand), the Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetu (New Zealand), The University of Auckland (New Zealand) and the SMAK/Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent, Belgium).