Megan Tamati-Quennell

Megan Tamati-Quennell is a leading curator and writer of modern and contemporary Māori and Indigenous art, a field she has specialized in for thirty-three years. She holds the position of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Māori and Indigenous Art at Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, New Zealand and holds an additional position as an external curator at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand. Megan is of Te Āti Awa, Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe and Waitaha Māori descent. Her research interests include Māori modernism, contemporary Māori art, international First Nations art, the intersection between the global Indigenous contemporary, non-Western art and modern and contemporary art, and First Nations art curatorial praxis.