Rosanna Raymond

Rosanna Marie Raymond (born 1967) is a New Zealand artist, poet, and cultural commentator. Raymond was recognised for "Pasifika artists practicing contemporary and heritage art forms in Aotearoa," winning the Senior Pacific Artist Award Winner of 2018, at the Arts Pasifika Awards through Creative New Zealand. Raymond is a member of the Pacific and Māori collective, Pacific Sisters.

Background Raymond was born 1967 in Auckland, New Zealand. A New Zealand born third generation Moana of Samoan, Tuvaluan, Irish and French descent.

Career Raymond began her career as a model in 1980s Christchurch. Raymond would be featured on the covers of ChaCha and Fashion Quarterly. She would later work as a stylist.

In 2008, with Amiria Manutahi Salmond, Raymond published Pasifika Styles: Artists Inside the Museum.

In 2010 Raymond launched the SaVAge K’lub project at the Queensland Art Gallery. The project in an installation space that has hosted artworks, spoken word, and performance art from over twenty five artists, including Ani O'Neill, Grace Taylor, and Suzanne Tamaki. Despite the cultural stereotypes and decor of such exclusive institutions Raymonds version removes the gendered and elitist elements. In 2017 she gave the Peter Turner Memorial Lecture at Massey University.

Raymond also works as an exhibition curator. In 2016 she curated Ata Te Tangata, an exhibition of photography by Māori and Pacific artists that toured to China. In 2018 Raymond curated the annual Tautai tertiary exhibition.

At the Arts Pasifika Awards in 2018 Raymond was awarded the Senior Pacific Artist Award.

In the 2023 New Year Honours, Raymond was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Pacific art.

Works by Raymond are held in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Personal life In the 1980s she was married to fashion photographer Kerry Brown. 2008 – de Young Museum San Francisco 2014 – Ethnological Museum Berlin 2017 – Matairangi Mahi Toi Artist Residency at Government House – Massey University College of Creative Arts Toi Rauwhārangi