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Ana Iti (1989—) is an established contemporary artist of Te Rarawa, Ngāi Tūpoto, Ngāti Here, and Pākehā descent. Her practice is in Aotearoa New Zealand, specifically in Te Matau-a-Māui Hawkes Bay most recently.[1]
Biography
[edit]Iti's fine arts education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from Ilam School of Fine Arts (completed by 2012), and a Master of Fine Arts from Massey University in Wellington (completed by 2018).[2] She grew up in Te Waiharakeke Blenheim.[3]
Career
[edit]Ana Iti is known to work with artistic mediums of sculpture, video and text.[4] With her work Iti investigates connections across language as a practice, learning experience and concept, and environments (often connected to her personally).[5] Her practice involves "shared and personal history-making."[5]
Residencies and Publications
[edit]- McCahon House resident - July - September 2020[6]
- Summer resident in Blue Oyster space - January 9 - 29 2016[7]
- Languages of Design - panel discussion with Matthew Galloway, May 11 2024, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington
Exhibitions
[edit]- He wāhi pāoro, May 10 - June 7 2025, combines her videos I am a salt lake (2024) and A dry and windswept body (2025), Stepdown, Hastings.
- Whakaruruhau, 2024, aluminium and shade cloth - site specific sculptural installation exploring the relationship between the kahukura, ongaonga, and surrounding environment.
- A resilient heart like the mānawa, 2024, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- I must shroud myself in a stinging nettle, December 17 2022 - April 23 2023, dual-channel HD video in colour with sound, steel and gardener's frost cloth sculpture, and accompanying text, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi - includes Roharoha (commissioned and initially exhibited by Gus Fisher Gallery in Turning a page, starting a chapter (April 30 - July 9 2022)) and Shelters.
- I am a salt lake, September 9 - October 22 2023, research images and video, The Physics Room - includes footage of Kāpara-Te-Hau (salt lakes in Te Tau Ihu), various abstract diagrams on glass, and text in the first person.
- How should we talk to one another?, February 27 - May 23 2021, digital display and text, Te Uru Gallery - delves into writing of Māori woman authors and learning language.
- Essay on A dusty handrail on the track, 2021.
- The Old and the New, 2017, text on front of Nursery building at Christchurch Botanic Gardens, in collaboration with Gemma Banks.
- Heavy to Hold, February 2 - 27 2016, sculpture and video, Blue Oyster Art Project Space Te Tio Kikorangi, Dunedin.
Awards
[edit]Iti won the Walters Prize 2024 with her sculptural install accompanied by sound elements entitled A resilient heart like the mānawa, 2024. The prize recognises her as a winner of Aotearoa’s national contemporary art prize alongside a cash prize. A quote from the prize’s internationally recognized judge Professor Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (director and chief curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin) explaining the justifications for Iti’s win: “Ana Iti’s work A resilient heart like the mānawa has been singled out because of the radicality of its manifestation. Stripped to the bare minimum, the work shares something in common with great poetry: the ability of accessing multiple universes through the availability of a few words.” Ndikung notes the install emulates a wharf environment through a combination of wood and metal mediums. Ideas of industrialism, capitalism, extraction of resources and colonialism are all conveyed. The work also addresses the timber production occurring in Rāwene in the early 1800s. As for the title, it is speculated by Ndikung to mean either “A Resilient Heart Like the Heart” or “A Resilient Heart Like the Mangrove.”[8]
Additionally she won the Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara in 2022. With the award she planned a printed publication with a combination of analogue printed art, text and written elements stemming from some of her 2020-2021 video works. It was intended to reference other artists' books found in the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna I Waiwhetū. The judging panel for 2022 included art history senior lecturer Rosie Ibbotson, printmaker and lecturer Kim Lowe and Christchurch Art Gallery lead curator Felicity Milburn.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ https://anaiti.art/Artist-CV. Ana Iti. “Artist CV.” Anaiti.art. Ana Iti and Carmel Rowden. Accessed August 15, 2025.
- ^ "Ana Iti". Sculpture On The Gulf. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ "I am a salt lake | The Physics Room". physicsroom.org.nz. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ "Ana Iti". www.circuit.org.nz. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ a b "Sharjah Biennial | Sharjah Art Foundation". www.sharjahart.org. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ "Ana Iti: How should we talk to one another?". Te Uru. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ "Heavy to Hold". blueoyster.org.nz. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ "Ana Iti wins Walters Prize 2024". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 2025-08-15.
- ^ Flightdec (2022-02-27). "The Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award at Ara 2022". ArtBeat. Retrieved 2025-08-16.