Talia Smith is an artist and curator from Aotearoa based in Sydney, Australia. She has curated exhibitions for organisations such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Singapore International Photography Festival, IMA, UTS Gallery, Ballarat Foto Biennale and Cement Fondu among others. Her writing has appeared in various publications such as Memo Review, Art New Zealand and artist catalogue essays and books. She was nominated for Best Art Writing by a New Zealand Maori or Pasifika in the 2022 AAANZ awards. Talia was chair of Runway Journal 2017-18 and is currently a board member at Bus Projects and on the editorial committee for Un Projects. She has completed research residencies in Singapore, Germany and the Nordics and currently works as the Coordinator of Programming at Blacktown Arts.