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

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, 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

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

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
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

2025 - Te Iringa a Tūpoto, Village Arts Gallery, Kohukohu, Hokianga, curated by Claire Kaahu 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
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
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

2024 — Abby Cunnane, “This is not crying”, in What is that salty voice? (editor: Abby Cunnane), publication in response to I am a salt lake, 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, February
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
2022 — Kirsty Baker, “Spectral ecologies: the presence of things unseen”
2021 — Abby Cunnane, “I do worry waiting”, McCahon House
2021 — Lana Lopesi, “Through A Window Into A Time Not My Own”, Art Now 
2023 — Jane Wallace “Wingspan, Underfoot”, The Artpaper
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

Writing and publications

Iti, Ana. Minarets Issue 15, Compound, eds Nirvana Halder, 2025
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. Interview with Bridget Reweti, The Blue Oyster Annual 2017, Blue Oyster Art Project Space: Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2017