Angela Tiatia explores contemporary culture, drawing attention to its relationship to representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of the body and place, often through the lenses of history and popular culture. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Angela Tiatia is of Samoan and Australian heritage.

Important institutional group exhibitions, include Intercambio, Cuba Biennial, Havana (2019), After the Fall, National Museum of Singapore (2017); Countercurrents, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide (2017); Personal Structures, a collateral exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennial (2017); Under the Sun, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2017); the Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 8), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015/16); and Tūrangawaewae: Art and New Zealand, Toi Art, Gallery of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand (2018).

Her major solo exhibitions include Narcissus, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney (2019), Soft Power, Alaska Projects, Sydney (2016); Survey / Fáaliga, Mángere Arts Centre - Ngá Tohu o Uenuku, Auckland (2016); Edging and Seaming, City Gallery, Wellington (2013); and Neo-Colonial Extracts, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland (2011). Notable group exhibitions include Art of the Pacific, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2016); Political Ecology, The Dowse Museum, Wellington (2017); and Impact, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland (2016).

Angela Tiatia’s work is held in numerous public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra; and the Australian Museum, Sydney. She was awarded the 2018 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize and has been a finalist in numerous prestigious awards, including the Edinburgh Short Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Archibald Prize, Sir John Sulman Prize, and the John Fries Art Award.