Artist CV
Ana Iti (Te Rarawa, Ngāi Tūpoto, Ngāti Here, Pākehā) is currently based in Te Matau-a-Māui Hawke’s Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand.
2018 — Master of Fine Arts, Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2012 — Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Ilam School of Fine Arts, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2024 — Church at Rawene Residency, Rawene, Aotearoa New Zealand
2021 — Arts Four Creative Residency, Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
2020 — Parehuia Colin McCahon House Residency, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
2019 — Canberra Wellington Indigenous Artist Exchange, Canberra, Australia
2016 — Australian Experimental Art Foundation Residency, Adelaide, Australia
2016 — Blue Oyster Art Project Space Summer Residency, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
2025 — Harriet Friedland Award
2024 — Walters Prize
2022 — Grace Butler Memorial Award
Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka Victoria University Art Collection, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Govett Brewster Art Gallery Collection, Ngāmotu New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Macmillan Brown Library Collection, Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
Wellington City Council Collection, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
2026 — Ngahere behind a pile of metal, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi Christchruch
2025 — He wāhi pāoro, Stepdown, Heretaunga Hastings
2023 — I am a salt lake, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2022 — I must shroud myself in a stinging nettle, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2022 — Hidden between leaves and debris, Paludal, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2021 — How should we talk to one another? Te Uru, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2020 — Kimihia te āhua, Te Tuhi Billboards, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2020 — Takoto, North Terrace, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2019 — Beyond the ash cloud, Open Window Govett Brewster, Ngāmotu New Plymouth
2018 — Time is now measured in damage, Window, Online site
2017 — The Old and The New, SCAPE Public Art Season 2017, Ōtautahi Christchurch, curated by Heather Galbraith
2017 — All the way to Te Rerenga Wairua, Mason’s Screen, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2017 — Does the brick recall Pukeahu? The Engine Room, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2016 — Is the past a foreign country? North Projects, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2016 — Heavy to Hold, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Ōtepoti Dunedin
Group Exhibitions
2026 — All the world’s memories, UNSW Galleries, Bidjigal & Gadigal Country Sydney, curated by José Da Silva
2025 — Te Iringa a Tūpoto, Village Arts Gallery, Kohukohu, Hokianga, curated by Claire Kaahu White and Paul White
2025 — Every word, thought, object, mineral, place and person,Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2025 — Enmeshed: Feminist modes of information sharing, Ashburton Art Gallery, Hakatere Ashburton
2025 — Image Economies,Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm Melbourne, curated by Melanie Oliver
2025 — Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Al Dhaid, Kalba, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell and Zeynep Öz
2024 — The Walters Prize 2024, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, curated by Natasha Conland and Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua
2024 — Chrysalis, Starling, Limerick, Ireland
2023 — Hiahia Whenua | Landscape and Desire, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell and Rebecca Rice
2023 — Te Hau Whakatonu | A Series of Never-Ending Beginnings, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth, curated by Taarati Taiaroa
2022 — The long waves of our ocean: New Responses to Pacific Poems, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand, Pōneke Wellington, curated by Hanahiva Rose
2022 — Turning a page, starting a chapter, Gus Fisher Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, curated by Lisa Beauchamp
2021 — Swallowing Geography, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell
2021 — Māori Moving Image ki Te Uru, Te Uru, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, curated by Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver
2021 — Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns, CIRCUIT Artist Cinema Commissions, curated by David Teh
2020 — Into the Open, The New Zealand Festival, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, curated by Emma Ng
2019 — Strands, The Dowse Art Museum, Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt, curated by Melanie Oliver
2019 — Sympathetic resonance, The Suter Art Gallery, Whakatū Nelson
2019 — Lost in the air, Courtenay Place Lightboxes, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, curated by Chloe Geoghegan
2019 — Māori moving image: an open archive, The Dowse Art Museum, Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt, curated by Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver
2019 — Māori moving image: an open archive, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi Christchurch, curated by Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver
2019 — From here on out,The Engine Room, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2018 — The earth looks upon us / Ko Papatūānuku te matua o te tangata, Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, curated by Tina Barton
2018 — (Un)conditional I, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2018 — (Un)conditional V, The Physics Room and Aigantighe, Timaru curated by Hope Wilson
2017 — On the Grounds, curated by Misal Adnan Yıldız and Bridget Riggir-Cuddy, Starkwhite, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2016 — Passionate Instincts, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch, curated by Khye Hitchcock, Emma Ng, Henry Davidson and Ted Whittaker
2016 — Contemporary Christchurch, Centre of Contemporary Art, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2026 — Nadine Hura, “Ōmutu” The Bulletin, Christchurch Art Gallery
2024 — Abby Cunnane, “This is not crying”, What is that salty voice? The Physics Room
2024 — Conor Clarke, "The work has to settle”, The Physics Room
2023 — Rangimarie Sophie Jolley, “Te Hīkoi Toi: Knowing where we’re going and where we’ve been”, Stuff
2023 — Hana Pera Aoake, “Ana Iti’s I must shroud myself in a stinging nettle: On Finding Shelter in Whakapapa, and Imagination”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 23, Issue 2
2023 — Jane Wallace, “Wingspan, Underfoot”, The Artpaper
2022 — Kirsty Baker, “Spectral ecologies: the presence of things unseen”, City Gallery Wellington
2021 — Abby Cunnane, “I do worry waiting”, McCahon House
2021 — Lana Lopesi, “Through a window into a time not my own”, Art Now
2020 — Kassie Hartendorp, “One Foot After Another: A Response to Strands”, The Pantograph Punch
2019 — Matariki Williams, “Change to Come: 40 Years of Māori Artists and the Moving Image”, Frieze
2019 — Matariki Williams, “Whakaarahia ake tō poupou: A review of The earth looks upon us / Ko Papatūānuku te matua o te tangata”, Hamster 4
2019 — Kirsty Baker, “To think about fraught things”, Art + Australia
2024 — What is that salty voice? published by The Physics Room with texts by Colleen Marie Lenihan, essa may ranapiri, Abby Cunnane and Ana Iti
2025 — Minarets Issue 15, Compound, eds Nirvana Halder
2022 — Leaving/Returning, Hot Lunch Leftovers, ed Jane Wallace
2022 — Baby and Fire, The Pantograph Punch
2021 — Minarets Issue 12, Compound, eds Greg Kan and Hao Guang Tse 2021
2020 — A Whakapapa of Exchange: A Review of Ngā Hokohoko, The Pantograph Punch
2019 — All the way to Te Rerenga Wairua, The Spinoff
2020 — Contribution to Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns, Presented by Circuit Artist Film and Video Aotearoa
2020 — Contribution to Mana Whenua, ed Sarah Hudson
2018 — Contribution to Femisphere, eds Imogen Taylor and Judy Darragh,
2018 — Contribution to Margins and Satellites, Enjoy Public Art Gallery
2019 — Joel Spring talks to Ana Iti, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi Blog, ed Robert Leonard
2017 — Interview with Bridget Reweti, The Blue Oyster Annual 2017, Blue Oyster Art Project Space
Education
2018 — Master of Fine Arts, Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2012 — Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Ilam School of Fine Arts, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Residencies
2024 — Church at Rawene Residency, Rawene, Aotearoa New Zealand
2021 — Arts Four Creative Residency, Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
2020 — Parehuia Colin McCahon House Residency, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
2019 — Canberra Wellington Indigenous Artist Exchange, Canberra, Australia
2016 — Australian Experimental Art Foundation Residency, Adelaide, Australia
2016 — Blue Oyster Art Project Space Summer Residency, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
Prizes and Awards
2025 — Harriet Friedland Award
2024 — Walters Prize
2022 — Grace Butler Memorial Award
Collections
Ngā Puhipuhi o Te Herenga Waka Victoria University Art Collection, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Govett Brewster Art Gallery Collection, Ngāmotu New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Macmillan Brown Library Collection, Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
Wellington City Council Collection, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Solo Exhibitions
2026 — Ngahere behind a pile of metal, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi Christchruch
2025 — He wāhi pāoro, Stepdown, Heretaunga Hastings
2023 — I am a salt lake, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2022 — I must shroud myself in a stinging nettle, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2022 — Hidden between leaves and debris, Paludal, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2021 — How should we talk to one another? Te Uru, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2020 — Kimihia te āhua, Te Tuhi Billboards, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2020 — Takoto, North Terrace, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2019 — Beyond the ash cloud, Open Window Govett Brewster, Ngāmotu New Plymouth
2018 — Time is now measured in damage, Window, Online site
2017 — The Old and The New, SCAPE Public Art Season 2017, Ōtautahi Christchurch, curated by Heather Galbraith
2017 — All the way to Te Rerenga Wairua, Mason’s Screen, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2017 — Does the brick recall Pukeahu? The Engine Room, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2016 — Is the past a foreign country? North Projects, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2016 — Heavy to Hold, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Ōtepoti Dunedin
Group Exhibitions
2026 — All the world’s memories, UNSW Galleries, Bidjigal & Gadigal Country Sydney, curated by José Da Silva
2025 — Te Iringa a Tūpoto, Village Arts Gallery, Kohukohu, Hokianga, curated by Claire Kaahu White and Paul White
2025 — Every word, thought, object, mineral, place and person,Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2025 — Enmeshed: Feminist modes of information sharing, Ashburton Art Gallery, Hakatere Ashburton
2025 — Image Economies,Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm Melbourne, curated by Melanie Oliver
2025 — Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Al Dhaid, Kalba, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell and Zeynep Öz
2024 — The Walters Prize 2024, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, curated by Natasha Conland and Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua
2024 — Chrysalis, Starling, Limerick, Ireland
2023 — Hiahia Whenua | Landscape and Desire, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell and Rebecca Rice
2023 — Te Hau Whakatonu | A Series of Never-Ending Beginnings, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth, curated by Taarati Taiaroa
2022 — The long waves of our ocean: New Responses to Pacific Poems, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand, Pōneke Wellington, curated by Hanahiva Rose
2022 — Turning a page, starting a chapter, Gus Fisher Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, curated by Lisa Beauchamp
2021 — Swallowing Geography, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth, curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell
2021 — Māori Moving Image ki Te Uru, Te Uru, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, curated by Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver
2021 — Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns, CIRCUIT Artist Cinema Commissions, curated by David Teh
2020 — Into the Open, The New Zealand Festival, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, curated by Emma Ng
2019 — Strands, The Dowse Art Museum, Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt, curated by Melanie Oliver
2019 — Sympathetic resonance, The Suter Art Gallery, Whakatū Nelson
2019 — Lost in the air, Courtenay Place Lightboxes, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, curated by Chloe Geoghegan
2019 — Māori moving image: an open archive, The Dowse Art Museum, Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt, curated by Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver
2019 — Māori moving image: an open archive, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi Christchurch, curated by Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver
2019 — From here on out,The Engine Room, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2018 — The earth looks upon us / Ko Papatūānuku te matua o te tangata, Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, curated by Tina Barton
2018 — (Un)conditional I, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch
2018 — (Un)conditional V, The Physics Room and Aigantighe, Timaru curated by Hope Wilson
2017 — On the Grounds, curated by Misal Adnan Yıldız and Bridget Riggir-Cuddy, Starkwhite, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2016 — Passionate Instincts, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch, curated by Khye Hitchcock, Emma Ng, Henry Davidson and Ted Whittaker
2016 — Contemporary Christchurch, Centre of Contemporary Art, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Press and Reviews
2026 — Nadine Hura, “Ōmutu” The Bulletin, Christchurch Art Gallery
2024 — Abby Cunnane, “This is not crying”, What is that salty voice? The Physics Room
2024 — Conor Clarke, "The work has to settle”, The Physics Room
2023 — Rangimarie Sophie Jolley, “Te Hīkoi Toi: Knowing where we’re going and where we’ve been”, Stuff
2023 — Hana Pera Aoake, “Ana Iti’s I must shroud myself in a stinging nettle: On Finding Shelter in Whakapapa, and Imagination”, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Volume 23, Issue 2
2023 — Jane Wallace, “Wingspan, Underfoot”, The Artpaper
2022 — Kirsty Baker, “Spectral ecologies: the presence of things unseen”, City Gallery Wellington
2021 — Abby Cunnane, “I do worry waiting”, McCahon House
2021 — Lana Lopesi, “Through a window into a time not my own”, Art Now
2020 — Kassie Hartendorp, “One Foot After Another: A Response to Strands”, The Pantograph Punch
2019 — Matariki Williams, “Change to Come: 40 Years of Māori Artists and the Moving Image”, Frieze
2019 — Matariki Williams, “Whakaarahia ake tō poupou: A review of The earth looks upon us / Ko Papatūānuku te matua o te tangata”, Hamster 4
2019 — Kirsty Baker, “To think about fraught things”, Art + Australia
Artist Books
2024 — What is that salty voice? published by The Physics Room with texts by Colleen Marie Lenihan, essa may ranapiri, Abby Cunnane and Ana Iti
Selected Writing
2025 — Minarets Issue 15, Compound, eds Nirvana Halder
2022 — Leaving/Returning, Hot Lunch Leftovers, ed Jane Wallace
2022 — Baby and Fire, The Pantograph Punch
2021 — Minarets Issue 12, Compound, eds Greg Kan and Hao Guang Tse 2021
2020 — A Whakapapa of Exchange: A Review of Ngā Hokohoko, The Pantograph Punch
2019 — All the way to Te Rerenga Wairua, The Spinoff
Contributions to Publications
2020 — Contribution to Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns, Presented by Circuit Artist Film and Video Aotearoa
2020 — Contribution to Mana Whenua, ed Sarah Hudson
2018 — Contribution to Femisphere, eds Imogen Taylor and Judy Darragh,
2018 — Contribution to Margins and Satellites, Enjoy Public Art Gallery
Interviews
2019 — Joel Spring talks to Ana Iti, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi Blog, ed Robert Leonard
2017 — Interview with Bridget Reweti, The Blue Oyster Annual 2017, Blue Oyster Art Project Space
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