Emily Parr (Ngāi Te Rangi, Moana, Pākehā)
is an artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand).
Her moving-image practice weaves through time and space, exploring systems of relation emerging from Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.

education

2021- | Doctor of Philosophy, AUT
2019-2020 | Master of Visual Arts (First Class Honours), AUT
2011-2014 | Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Elam School of Fine Arts


recent exhibitions

2022 |  At Thresholds | City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi
2022 |  Whānau Mārama | Matariki project in Commercial Bay
2022 |  Matariki Ring of Fire | Te Uru Gallery
2022 |  This side or that side, or almost | Standing by, CIRCUIT
2022 |  ĀTĀVĀ: Tātatauʻata, Marking-symmetry-in-images | St Paul St Gallery

2021 | ngā rerenga whau | Kū Kahiko
2021 | I Multiply Each Day (The Booth project) | Gus Fisher Gallery
2021 | Surfacing | The Physics Room (solo)
2021 | E Muri Ahiahi | Masterworks Gallery
2021 | Whānau Mārama, Matariki project | Commerial Bay
2021 | A Very Different World | Te Tuhi
2020 | Matariki Master of Visual Art Graduate Show | St Paul St Gallery
2020 | Speaking Surfaces | St Paul St Gallery
2020 | Groundwork | the Barrel Store, Corban Estate Arts Centre
2019 | Te Haerenga Tuatahi ki Tongaporutu | St Paul St Gallery
2018 | PCJ Conference 2018: Resistance Through Art |  University of Toronto
2017 | Government Issue: a film screening on the Glen Innes resistance | St Paul St Gallery
2017 | Screening and Artist Talk with Dieneke Jansen | The Physics Room
2016 | Estuary Art Awards | Malcolm Smith Gallery


writing
2021 | Art Asia Pacific Issue 122: Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art
2020 | Lieu Journal: Time Travel, Whatu Aho Rua (with Arielle Walker)

2020 | Cenotaph Stories, Reflections in the Port: Pandemics & the Moana Cosmopolitan
2020 | Kei te Pai Press: Te Korekore, Whatuora (with Arielle Walker)


recent awards 2021 | Auckland Museum Institute Postgraduate Scholarship
2020 | Cenotaph Stories: Contemporary Reflections Grant (Auckland Museum)
2019 | Iris Fisher Scholarship
2016 | Estuary Art Awards (First place)