Angela Tiatia explores contemporary culture through performance, moving image, painting, sculpture and photography, drawing out the relationships between representation, gender, neo-colonialism and the commodification of body and place. Often through the lenses of history, popular and material culture, the artist moves deftly in her compositions of still and moving image from pointed detail to satellite view addressing themes within power structures and how these impact the individual and their communities.
Selected Works
Overview
The Dark Current, 2023.
Single-channel High Definition video, colour, sound
17 minutes, 19 seconds
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
single channel digital video, colour, sound
7 minutes, 46 seconds, aspect ratio: 32:9
Edition of 8
Two-channel High Definition video
16:9, colour, no sound
4 minutes, 58 seconds
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Single-channel 2k High Definition video, colour
13 minutes, 11 seconds
pigment print on 300gsm premium gloss photo paper
67 × 270cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
Single-channel High Definition video 16:9, colour, sound
12 minutes, 12 seconds
single-channel High Definition video
16:9, colour, no sound
1 minute, 31 seconds
Single-channel High Definition video 16:9, colour, sound
6 minutes, 33 seconds
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's
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About
Angela Tiatia
Biography
Angela Tiatia is a Sāmoan/Australian artist based in Sydney. For the past 20 years, she has explored global power structures and their impact on Pasifika communities.
Tiatia is a 2019 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow. In 2022, she received the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission, Australia’s most prestigious award for contemporary moving image art. The resulting work, The Dark Current, debuted at ACMI (the Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in 2023. Since then, the work has won the Fisher’s Ghost Award (2023) and toured nationally and internationally, including at Frieze London, Tate Modern, and the Venice Biennale.
Recent prestigious public commissions include Illuminate (Art Gallery of South Australia, 2023), Murmurations (in collaboration with Tony Albert, Hyde Park Barracks Commission, Museum of History, NSW, 2023), The Pearl (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2021), and The Golden Hour (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2020).
Tiatia’s work is held in numerous national and international public collections, including the Fonds régional d'art contemporain (France), Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australian Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australian War Memorial Museum, and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Tiatia has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally.
Recent group exhibitions include Story Place (Frieze London Art Fair, 2023), Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania (National Museum Scotland, 2023), Always Song in the Water (New Zealand Maritime Museum, Auckland, 2023), and Meltwater (Fogo Island Arts, Canada, 2023), as well as The Getty Foundation Museum (CA, USA). Important recent institutional group exhibitions include Matisse Alive (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2021–2022), National Gallery of Victoria Triennial (2020), Archi-Plus (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2020), Southern Transmissions: Contemporary Video Art from Oceania (Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, 2020), Paul Gauguin, Why Are You Angry? (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020), After Us The Deluge (Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna, Austria, 2020), From All Points of the Southern Sky: Photography from Australia and Oceania (Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Florida, 2020), Refracted Reality (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 2020), WATER (Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2019–2020), Intercambio (Cuba Biennial, Havana, 2019), Tūrangawaewae: Art and New Zealand (Toi Art Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand, 2018–2020), and After the Fall (National Museum of Singapore, 2017).
Her recent solo exhibitions include The Dark Current (Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2024), Narcissus (Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2019), The Fall (Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 2019), Tuvalu (The Australian Museum, Sydney, 2019), Walking the Wall (GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide, 2017), Soft Power (Alaska Projects, Sydney, 2016), and Survey / Fā’aliga (Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku, Auckland, 2016).
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