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.

Tiatia’s recent work, The Dark Current (2022), commissioned by the Ian Potter Foundation, debuted at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) in 2023. Since then, the work has won the Fisher’s Ghost Award (2023) and toured nationally and internationally, including exhibition at Frieze London, and inclusion at symposiums at Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale. Recent public commissions include Illuminate (Art Gallery of South Australia, 2023), Murmurations (in collaboration with Tony Albert, Hyde Park Barracks Commission, Museums of History NSW, 2023), The Pearl (Art Gallery of New South Wales [AGNSW], 2021), and The golden hour (AGNSW, 2020). Tiatia’s work is held in numerous national and international public collections.

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 We Are Eagles: TarraWarra Biennial (TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2025), Matisse Alive (AGNSW, 2021–2022), National Gallery of Victoria Triennial (2020), Archi-Plus (AGNSW, 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).

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), and Soft Power (Alaska Projects, Sydney, 2016).