ANGELA TIATIA
Born 1973 Lives and works in Sydney
EDUCATION
2010 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand 2002 Bachelor of Commerce, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand, Senior Prize for academic achievement
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2018 Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2018 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize Finalist, Sydney, Australia 2018 The 40th Alice Art Prize National Art Award Finalist, Alice Springs Art Foundation, Australia 2017 Finalist, Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2017 Finalist, Fishers Ghost Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2017 Finalist, John Fries Art Award, UNSW Art & Design Galleries, Sydney, Australia 2017 National Museum of Singapore Artist in Residence, Singapore 2017 Finalist, The Maddocks Art Prizes, NSW/ACT & VIC 2017 Paramor Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2017 Winner, BEST ARTIST, FBi Radio Sydney Music, Arts and Culture (SMAC Awards), Sydney 2016 Finalist, Fishers Ghost Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2016 Finalist, NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney, Australia 2016 Finalist, John Fries Art Award, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia 2016 Finalist, The 64th Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2015 Finalist, NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging), Artspace, Sydney, Australia 2015 4A Beijing Studio Program (Residency), 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Beijing, China 2015 Finalist, National Contemporary Art Award, New Zealand 2011 Finalist, Bold Horizons National Art Award, New Zealand
COLLECTIONS
Artbank Australian Museum Copyright Agency | Viscopy, Australia National Gallery of Victoria Private Collections Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Tuvalu. The Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia 2017 Walking the Wall, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide, Australia 2016 Soft Power, Alaska Projects, Sydney, Australia 2016 Survey / Fā'aliga, Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku, Auckland, New Zealand 2015 Yoke, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand 2014 Angela Tiatia, Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne, New Zealand 2013 Edging and Seaming, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 2013 Edging and Seaming, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand 2011 Foreign Objects, Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland, New Zealand 2011 Neo-Colonial Extracts, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland, New Zealand 2010 Angela Tiatia, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2018 Auckland Art Fair PROJECTS, Auckland, New Zealand 2018 Intercambio - Australia/Cuba Video Art Exchange, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia 2018 Dance. Runway Australian Experimental Art, Australia 2018 Grit. Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby City Council, Sydney, Australia 2018 Dead Centre, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA 2018 Under the Sun. Gosford Regional Gallery, NSW 2018 2018 Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia 2018 Tūrangawaewae: Art and New Zealand, Toi Art, Gallery of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand 2018 London Art Fair, with Alaska Projects, London, United Kingdom 2017 Personal Structures, a group exhibition of the 57th Venice Biennial 2017, Venice, Italy 2017 After the Fall, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore 2017 Video Contemporary 2017 at Sydney Contemporary 2017, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia 2017 lei-pā, ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2017 IMPACT: New Media Works by Michael Cook, Fiona Foley, Taloi Havini and Angela Tiatia, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 2017 Political Ecology, The Dowse Museum, Wellington, New Zealand 2017 Pōuliuli, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia 2017 Countercurrents, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia 2017 Darklands, Alaska Projects, Sydney, Australia 2017 Paramor Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2017 Under the Sun, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia 2016/17 The 64th Blake Prize, The Touring Exhibition, Australia 2016 Art of the Pacific, National Gallery of Victoria - International, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2016 Provenance Does Matter, The Collectors' Exhibition, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2016 A Polycultural Storm, Urbanesia 2016, Te Oro, Auckland, New Zealand 2016 Dead Centre, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, Australia 2016 Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis, Peel Street Park Projections, The City of Yarra, Melbourne, Australia 2016 Impact, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia 2016 Tautai | Navigate, Studio One, Auckland, New Zealand 2016 Everyday Things, CIRCUIT Artist Film & Video, Ashburton Art Gallery, Canterbury, NZ 2016 Video oediV, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2016 10 x 10, Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland, New Zealand 2015/16 Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 8), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2015/16 Coconut Water, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia 2015 City Matrix, 2015 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Shenzhen Culture Creative Park, Shenzhen, China 2015 Pacifique(S) Contemporain, Natural History Museums of Le Havre & Rouen, France 2015 All About Art, White Canvas Gallery, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Australia 2015 Video Platform, Art Stage Singapore, Singapore 2014 Melbourne Art Fair Video Exhibition, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2014 Stitching the Sea, Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia 2014 And Then He Took Them All Away, The Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand, We are the Ocean in association with Wellington City Council 2014 Out of Sequence, Roslyn Smorgen Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2014 Art Stabs Power: que se vayan todos!, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal 2014 Art Stabs Power: que se vayan todos! Bermondsey Project/CRISIS, London, United Kingdom 2013 Return to Sender, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2013 Towards the Morning Sun, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia, SaVAge Art Klub live art performance 2013 Made in Oceania, Material Culture, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Köln, Germany 2013 Digital Natives – Return to Paradise, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2012 The Anatomy of Paradise, Artstation, Auckland, New Zealand 2012 Offstage, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand 2012 ATA: An Exhibition of Samoan Contemporary Art, University of La Verne, CA, USA 2012 Home AKL, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
2012 See, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand 2012 Pacifica Power, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2011 OFF-STAGE, Tautai at Galatos, Auckland, New Zealand 2011 This is not a Vitrine, this is an Ocean, Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, NZ 2011 Neo-Colonial Extracts, Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton, NZ 2011 Niu Warrior, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2010 Armory Art Week, 100th Street Art Salon, New York City, New York, USA 2010 Tiaho (To Shine), Instituto Latino de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico 2010 Samoan Art: Urban, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California, United States of America
COMMISSIONS
2018 Dance. Runway Australian Experimental Art, Australia 2017/18 Catch Sight (Installation) for Me, Myselfie and I, QAGOMA Children's Art Centre, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2017 The Fall, The Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra, Australia 2017 Under the Sun, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia 2016 Woman's Movement, 2016, Video oediV, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2015/16 Looking Back (Installation), KIDS APT8 Gallery, Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 8), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2015 KIDS APT8 Publication, Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT 8), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 2014 Liminality, 2014, Stitching the Sea, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2012 Material Culture Installation, Home AKL, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2017 After the Fall - Making Art About World War Two History, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore 2017 The Conversation - Socially Engaged Art Practice, For Adelaide Festival, Guildhouse and SAMSTAG Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia 2016 Control - How Can Women Take and Own Their Place? Broadly Speaking | Vice, Sydney, Australia 2016 Indigenous Women in the Arts, Vivid Ideas, Sydney, Australia 2016 Video as Document, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia 2015 Climate Change, Pacific Art and Activation, Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival Symposium, Melbourne, Australia 2014 New Ways, Old Photos, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Australia 2014 Performance, Resistance & Bloodlines, Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival Symposium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2013 Apart: Remoteness and Resistance, ISEA – International Symposium for Electronic Art, Panel Discussion: Resistance is Futile
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 'Bodies That Matter', Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital, Public 54, York University, Toronto 2016 New Zealand: Kiwi Consciousness, Contemporary Artists from New Zealand, Imago Mundi: Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy 2016 NAVA Artist File: Angela Tiatia, National Association For the Visual Arts, Online Publication, Penelope Benton 2016 'Angela Tiatia, Edging and Seaming, 2013', Ruth McDougall, Artlines Magazine, Australia 2014 ‘Voyagers across Space and Time’ Erika Wolf, Blick ins Paradies / A Glimpse into Paradise’, Journal of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology 2014 ‘Pacific Intersections and Cross-Currents: Uncharted Histories and Future Trends’ Giles Peterson and Billie Lythberg, Pacific Arts Association Journal 2012 ’From Home to Homepage’, NinaTonga, Home AKL, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi O Tamaki