[5] Towards the end of 2023, around three years after initiating the restructuring of the City Gallery, Sarah Rusholme resigned as Chief Executive of Experience Wellington and was replaced by Diana Marsh.

[6] Other senior members of the Experience Wellington leadership team left at the same time as Rusholme, including Elizabeth Caldwell, the ex-Director of the City Gallery.

[14] Since 2019, the roof of the gallery has hosted a 16 ft (5 m) sculpture of a hand with a face called Quasi that was created by Ronnie van Hout.

Curated by Gregory Burke and Ian Wedde to mark 150 years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi,  it featured 236 New Zealand and international artists.

Alongside the Rosemarie Trockel exhibition were four shows of women artists: Alter/Image, Te Whare Puanga, and Jacqueline Fraser's project He Tohu: The New Zealand Room.

[30] In 1998 City Gallery worked with the acclaimed Dutch curator Rudi Fuchs to present The Exhibition of the Century: Modern Masters from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam[31] which included artists ranging from Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons.

[23] Since opening at its current location in 1993, City Gallery has also hosted monographic exhibitions of many other major international artists including Tracey Emin, Keith Haring, Rosalie Gascoigne, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Tracey Moffatt, Sidney Nolan, Bridget Riley, Sam Taylor Wood, Salla Tykkä, Hilma af Klint, Stanley Spencer, Wim Wenders as well as New Zealand's own Laurence Aberhart, Rita Angus, Shane Cotton, Tony Fomison, Bill Hammond, Ralph Hotere, Ronnie van Hout, Melvin Day, Martin Thompson, and Boyd Webb.

[33] In 1995 a petition by the Christian Heritage Party collected 2829 signatures and an advertisement was placed in an unsuccessful but controversial attempt to close the Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective[34][35] exhibition at City Gallery.

[43] The restructure proved controversial, and although questioned by the Mayor[44] and opposed by senior members of the wider arts community,[45] it was fully implemented and the role of Director disestablished.