Of Te Rarawa and Pākehā descent, Ana Iti is a contemporary Māori artist from Aotearoa New Zealand. Working across sculpture, video and text, she explores poetic and structural relationships between language and the environment in addition to the practices of shared and personal history-making. Iti has developed a body of work that engages with the unstable borders between the land and sea as well as the human and non-human through video, text, publishing and modular steel sculptures.
Her work has been shown at several solo exhibitions, including I am a salt lake, The Physics Room, Ōtautahi Christchurch (2023) and I must shroud myself in a stinging nettle, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi (2022). She has received the Grace Butler Memorial Foundation Award (2022) and Walters Prize (2024). Iti has a BFA in sculpture from the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Ōtautahi Christchurch (2012) and an MFA from Toi Rauwharangi Massey University in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2018).