Talia Smith

Talia Smith is an artist and curator from Aotearoa New Zealand and now based in Sydney, Australia. She is of Cook Island, Samoan and Pakeha heritage. Her photographic and moving image practice explores notions of time, memory, familial histories and the way in which we connect with culture when removed from ancestral homelands. She has exhibited or been a part of projects at various public and artist-run galleries in Aotearoa, Australia, Germany and the US including: Te Tuhi, Bus Projects, Artspace Aotearoa, Rm Gallery, KINGS Artist-Run, and Wellington Street Projects. In 2022, she had her first institutional show at Murray Art Museum Albury. Her work was featured in the show Recent Auckland Photography which resulted in the major publication Photographs they want to make co-edited by Chris Corson Scott and Edward Hanfling with a foreword by the late Ron Brownson. In 2019, she was commissioned for a new major work for online platform Prototype and was a participant of the 2021 Hyphenated Biennial hosted at the Substation. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts (research) from UNSW, obtained in 2021.