Bridget Reweti is a Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi artist and curator.
Her lens-based practice shines light on Māori histories embedded in landscapes through names, narratives and lived experiences. Bridget has held multiple residencies nationally and internationally including Canada, Indonesia and Singapore. She was the 2020/21 Frances Hodgkins Fellow at the University of Otago which culminated in an exhibition and artist book Pōkai Whenua, Pōkai Moana.
Bridget is a member of Mataaho Collective, a group of four wāhine Māori that create atua-sized installations. Mataaho Collective were the first New Zealand artists to exhibit in documenta 14 in Germany and have continued to show internationally in London, Paris, the Honolulu Biennale, National Gallery of Canada, the Toronto Biennale, the Sydney Biennale and the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. In 2024 they received the Golden Lion Award for Best Participant at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Bridget co-founded with Matariki Williams ATE: Journal of Māori Art the first peer-reviewed journal of Māori Art. She is the current editor of ATE with Volume Four published in late 2024.
In 2019-22 Bridget co-curated with Dr Melanie Oliver the national series of exhibitions Māori Moving Image and co-edited the book by the same name. In late 2023 Bridget co-curated the largest retrospective exhibition of Ngāpuhi Printmaker of Marilynn Webb at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills toured to Christchurch Art Gallery and the book by the same name was shortlisted for the 2024 Ockham Illustrated Non-Fiction Book Awards
In 2023 she received the Leadership Visual Arts Tauranga Moana at Ngā Tohu Toi Award. Bridget holds a Master of Māori Visual Arts with first class honours from Massey University and a PgDip in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies from Victoria University of Wellington.
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Site Seeing City Gallery Wellington
Photosynthesisers: Women and the Lens Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Art Gallery
2024
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, Venice Biennale, Italy (Mataaho Collective)
Underfoot Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Art Gallery
2023
Folded Memory The Adam Art Gallery Wellington
Tintypes Milford Galleries, Dunedin (Solo)
Soft and Weak Like Water, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (Mataaho Collective)
2022
Perilous: Unheard stories from the collection Christchurch Art Gallery
Bedrock Masterworks, Auckland
Mataaho Collective | Te Puni Aroaro, Te Papa Tongarewa (Mataaho Collective)
Tīkawe, Christchurch Art Gallery (Mataaho Collective)
Rivus, Biennial of Sydney, Sydney (Mataaho Collective)
Toronto Biennial, Toronto (Mataaho Collective)
2021
Pōkai Whenua, Pōkai Moana Hocken Collections, Dunedin (Solo)
Can You Sense It? Part 1:The Video Art of Bridget Reweti Los Angeles Film Forum
They covered the house in stories Te Tuhi, Pakuranga
Cut Lines Images Festival, Toronto
Nyinalanginy | The Gathering Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Walters Prize 2021 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Mataaho Collective)
Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (Mataaho Collective)
2020
Toi Tū, Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Gemes* *Cunning Rubanah Underground Hub, Jakarta
Seismic Movements, Dhaka Art Summit, Shipakala Art Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2019
Aspiring of the North Pah Homestead TSB Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland (Solo)
How To Live Together ST PAUL St Gallery, AUT, Auckland
Mappings: Landscape, Memories, Histories Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin
Ziarah International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018
Tupu New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington (Solo)
Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival London
Truth or Consequences Circuit Artist Cinema Commissions, curated by Erika Balsom, touring
Being in Place Or Gallery, Vancouver
Period #1 Cemeti Institute for Art and Culture, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2017
Irihanga Tauranga Art Gallery (Solo)
John Fries Award University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney
This Time of Useful Consciousness: Political Ecology Now The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington
2016
Tauutuutu Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua, Wellington (Solo)
I thought I would of climbed more mountains by now Plymouth Arts Centre, UK (Solo)
Carry-On Corban Estate Gallery, Auckland (Solo)
Mana tū, mana toa, mana ake ake! Mason's Screen, Wellington
Tirohanga Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch (Solo)
Post-Landscape Bartley and Company Art, Wellington
Ōtakaro The Physics Room, Christchurch. Bridget Reweti and Terri Te Tau
The Future is a Do-Over Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Residencies
2020–2021
Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Otago University, Dunedin
2019
NTU CCA Singapore Artist in Residence
2018–2019
Creative Connections, Caselberg Artist in Residence, Dunedin
Wild Creations, Department of Conservation and CNZ Summer Residency, Southern Alps
2018
Samuel Marsden Artist in School Residency, Wellington
Cemeti Institute for Art and Culture, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2016
Indigenous Visual and Digital Arts Residency, The Banff Centre, Canada
The Physics Room summer artist in residence, Christchurch