Julia Waite

Julia Waite is curator, New Zealand art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Her research interests are focused on the development of modern art in New Zealand and global modernisms. She co-curated Gordon Walters: New Vision (2018) and Louise Henderson: From Life (2019), both of which toured New Zealand and have associated publications that she contributed to and co-edited. Her most recent large-scale exhibition, Bill Culbert | Slow Wonder (2021), included works never before presented in Aotearoa New Zealand and is accompanied by a catalogue. Waite is an arts commentator on Radio New Zealand, regularly contributes to publications, and is studying for a PhD in Art History at the University of Auckland.