Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) is an associate professor of art history at Waipapa Taumata Rau the University of Auckland.
She is the author of the multi-award winning A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngāti Porou Carving 1830-1930 (Auckland University Press, 2016), and co-editor of Te Puna: Māori Art from Te Tai Tokerau Northland with Deidre Brown (Reed, 2007), and Te Ata: Māori art from the East Coast, New Zealand with Witi Ihimaera (Raupo, 2002).
Ngarino’s curatorial collaborative projects include Whakawhanaungatanga (2022-2024) at the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, and Pūrangiaho: Seeing Clearly (2001) Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
She looks forward to the November 2024 release of Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art, co-written with Deidre Brown, and Jonathan Mane-Wheoki. This 600-page, 500-image ‘once in a generation’ book travels from Te Pō to today and into the future.