Dr. Kirsty Baker is a curator, writer and art historian based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Recent curatorial projects include Site Seeing (2025), Memory Lines (2024), Ngahuia Harrison: Coastal Cannibals (2023) and Ana Iti: I must shroud myself in a stinging nettle (2022).Originally from Scotland, Baker has been researching and writing about art in Aotearoa for over a decade, and completed her PhD in Art History at Victoria University of Wellington in 2019. Her writing on contemporary art has been published widely in New Zealand, and has also appeared in international publications including The Brooklyn Rail, Artist Profile, Art and Australia and n.Paradoxa feminist journal. Her book Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa was published in 2024 and received the Mātātuhi Foundation First Book Awards Judith Binney Prize for Illustrated Non-Fiction at the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
