Artist CV

Ana Iti (Te Rarawa, Ngāi Tūpoto, Ngāti Here, Pākehā) is currently based in Te Matau-a-Māui Hawkes Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Education

Master of Fine Arts, Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Te Whanganui-A-Tara Wellington 2017-2018
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Ilam School of Fine Arts, Ōtautahi Christchurch 2008-2012

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, Tītīrangi Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand 
2019 Canberra Wellington Indigenous Artist Exchange, Canberra, Australia
2016 Australian Experimental Art Foundation Residenc, Adelaide, Australia
2016 Blue Oyster Art Project Space Summer Residency, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand 

Prizes and awards

2024 Walters Prize Recipient
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

I am a salt lake, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch, 2023
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, 2022
How should we talk to one another?, Te Uru, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2021
Kimihia te āhua, Te Tuhi Billboards, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2020
Takoto, North Terrace, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 2020
Beyond the ash cloud, Open Window Govett Brewster, Ngāmotu New Plymouth, 2019
Time is now measured in damage, Window, Online site, 2018
The Old and The New, SCAPE Public Art Season 2017, Ōtautahi Christchurch, 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, 2017
Is the past a foreign country?, North Projects, Ōtautahi Christchurch, 2016
Heavy to Hold, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2016

Group exhibitions

The Walters Prize 2024, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, curated by Natasha Conland and Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua, 2024
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, 2023
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
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
Screened at: Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, Te Whanganui-A-Tara Wellington 2020, Grand Hall, Arts Centre, Ōtautahi Christchurch 2021, Artspace Aotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2021
Into the Open, The New Zealand Festival, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, curated by Emma Ng, 2020
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, 2019
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, 2018
On the Grounds, curated by Misal Adnan Yıldız and Bridget Riggir-Cuddy, Starkwhite, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, 2017
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, 2016

Writing and publications

Iti, Ana. Leaving/Returning, Hot Lunch Leftovers, ed Jane Wallace 2022
Iti, Ana. Baby and Fire, The Pantograph Punch, 2022
Iti, Ana. Minarets Issue 12, Compound, eds Greg Kan and Hao Guang Tse 2021
Iti, Ana. Contribution to Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns, Presented by Circuit Artist Film and Video Aotearoa, 2020
Iti, Ana. Contribution to Mana Whenua, ed Sarah Hudson, 2020
Iti, Ana. A Whakapapa of Exchange: A Review of Ngā Hokohoko, The Pantograph Punch, 2020
Iti, Ana. Joel Spring talks to Ana Iti, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi Blog, ed Robert Leonard 2019
Iti, Ana. All the way to Te Rerenga Wairua, The Spinoff, 2019
Iti, Ana. Contribution to Femisphere, eds Imogen Taylor and Judy Darragh, 2018
Iti, Ana. Contribution to Margins and Satellites, Enjoy Public Art Gallery: July 2018
Iti, Ana. Ōtākaro, The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space: Christchurch, 2017
Iti, Ana. Interview with Bridget Reweti, The Blue Oyster Annual 2017, Blue Oyster Art Project Space: Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2017