Dr Sarah Farrar is head of curatorial and learning at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She is a curator and art historian whose research focuses on contemporary art, curatorial activism and the complexities of cross-cultural exchange. Her recent curatorial projects include the exhibition Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in Aotearoa, with Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua, Dr Jane Davidson-Ladd and Nathan Pōhio, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2024–26; and the retrospective exhibition Robin White: Te Whanaketanga | Something Is Happening Here, co-curated with Dr Nina Tonga, an Auckland Art Gallery nationally touring exhibition project with Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 2022–23. Farrar’s publication Robin White: Something Is Happening Here, co-edited with Jill Trevelyan and Dr Nina Tonga, was a finalist in the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
