Nat Tozer explores narratives of the underground to unearth objects and knowledge. She attempts to dig, cast, frottage, film, imagine and animate the ground – splicing an expanded geological inquiry with science fiction and mythology. Working across moving image, materiality and social sculpture, she is interested in folk tales, the revision of mythologies into a local ecologies, tunnelling, anarchist anthropology and network theories.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include Navigating Slowly, Gus Fisher Gallery (2026); Dialogues in Video Art, Works from the Chartwell Collection and Elam Artists, George Fraser Gallery (2025); A Sapling to Tie, Masons Screen Commission (2025); Erotic Geologies, Gow Langsford Onehunga (2024); The Metamodern in Literature, Art, Education, and Indigenous Cosmologies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium at AUT (2023); Deucalion & Pyrrha for Sluice Screens at IMT Gallery, London (2023) and Sluice Biennial supported by PADA Residency and Lisbon Art Weekend (2022).
Tozer holds an MFA with first-class honours (2022) and a PGDipFA with Distinction (2020) from the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau. During her time at Elam she received The Lightship Award which funded the presentation of an open-air 110m video work at The Ports of Auckland, a summer scholarship, an academic scholarship, was selected for the Emerging Artists Show at Sanderson Gallery and represented Elam School of Fine Arts at the Guangzhou Graduate Art Fair.
Tozer is a director at LOT23 which specialises in delivering high-production moving image for visual artists. She is also the founder and curator of mothermother, an Artist Run Initiative that prioritises gift, reciprocity and intergenerational knowledge building.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 A Sapling to Tie, Plomacy, Tāmaki Makaurau
2025 A Sapling to Tie, Masons Screen, The Terrace, Wellington,
2024 Erotic Geologies, Gow Langsford, Onehunga, Tāmaki Makaurau
2022 Deucalion & Pyrrha, Sluice Biennale, PADA Residency, Lisbon Art Weekend
2021 ONEPANEA, The Lightship, Ports of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau
2021 Companion Pieces, Public Record, Tāmaki Makaurau
2018 Future Fossils, Grey Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau
2014 Pop Vacuum 2, Corner Window, Tāmaki Makaurau
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Salted Earth, with George Turner, Sosage, Tāmaki Makaurau
2019 Goofer Dust, with Inga Fillary, Elam Project Space, Tāmaki Makaurau
2015 If this then that, with James Pinker, LOT23, Tāmaki Makaurau
2014 subject to change, with Philippa Blair, LOT23, Tāmaki Makaurau
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2026 Navigating Slowly, Wairau Māori Art Gallery, Whangārei
2026 Navigating Slowly, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, presented by Blue Oyster Project Art Space, Ōtepoti Dunedin
2026 Navigating Slowly, CIRCUIT, Level 2, 27 Dixon St, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
2026 Navigating Slowly, Gus Fisher Gallery, as part of the Auckland Arts Festival, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2025 Dialogues in Video Art: Works from the Chartwell Collection and by Elam Artists, George Fraser Gallery
2025 Plus One, Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington
2025 Unifying Threads, Te Atamira Cultural Centre, Queenstown
2025 Sluice Film Festival, Herðubíó cinema, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2025 Ōnepu Shifting Sands | Shifting TIme, Franklin Arts Centre Papakura
2025 Power Circle, mothermother, Kingsland, Tāmaki Makaurau
2025 Where the veil is thinnest, Coven of ERA (Elam Returned Artists), George Fraser Gallery
2025 Iteration 31, mothermother booth, Aotearoa Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau
2024 House Warming, mothermother, Kingsland Tāmaki Makaurau
2024 ABSTRAXT ABSTRAXT, Northart Public Art Gallery, Northcote
2024 GREEN, mothermother, Eden Terrace, Tāmaki Makaurau
2023 Sub-Urban, Northart Public Art Gallery, Northcote
2023 The Table, mothermother project booth, Aotearoa Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau
2023 The Metamodern in Literature, Art, Education + Indigenous Cosmologies: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, AUT
2022 Māter Mater, Silo6 Wynyard Quarter, Tāmaki Makaurau
2022 Sluice Screens, IMT Gallery, London
2022 He Iti, mothermother project booth, Aotearoa Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau
2021 Piki Mai: Up Here, mothermother project booth, Aotearoa Art Fair, Tāmaki Makaurau
2020 Emerging Artists, Sanderson Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau
2020 Guangzhou Graduate Art Fair, Guangzhou, China
2015 Bene Commune, LOT23, Tāmaki Makaurau, curated by Stephen Bambury
AWARD EXHIBITIONS
2022 National Contemporary Art Award Finalist, Waikato Museum
2021 National Contemporary Art Award Finalist, Waikato Museum
2022, 2017, 2014, 2011, 2009 Walker and Hall Finalist – Waiheke Gallery, Auckland
2017 Salon Des Refuses, 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & COMMISSIONS
2026 RM Gallery & Project Space Writers Residency
2026 Circuit Artist Moving Image Commission, Curator-at-Large Anuj Malhotra
2025 Masons Screen Commission, Commissioned by Circuit Artist Moving Image & Wellington City Council
2021The Lightship Award, Awarded by The University of Auckland, Crave Global Media, and Ports of Auckland
REVIEWS & COMMISSIONED TEXTS
2025 Hoping to Tie a Sapling, Essay by Rosa Cachemaille
2024 Art New Zealand, Review by Victoria Munn
2024 Art News Aotearoa Summer, Review by Eddie Geisen
2022 Sluice Publication, Republished Essay
2022 Interview, Playpen Magazine
REPRESENTATION
Circuit Artist Moving Image
RM Women’s Moving Image Archive
Femisphere 4
DEVELOPMENT
2026 Infrastructures for Collective Imagining workshop, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
2026 In Focus: Maria Lind Curatorial Intensive, Artspace Aotearoa
2025 Knowing the Living Volcanic Field, a LASER (Leonardo Art-Science Evening Rendezvous) and screening
2023 Te Reo Level 2, Auckland Women’s Centre
2021 MFA with first class honours, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2019 Summer Scholarship, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2018 PGDipFA with distinction, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2010 Parenting
2003 Trade Certified Picture Framer specialising in paper conservation
2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2000 School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington (cross credited)
ORGANISATIONS
2024 – 2026 Artspace Aotearoa, Treasurer
2025 – 2026 Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, Operations Administrator
2019 – 2026 mothermother ARI, Founder and Curator
2013 – 2026 LOT23 Media, Creative Director
CONTACT
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