2023

Dr Maia Nuku is the Oceania Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is the first Indigenous Pacific person to ever hold a curatorial position at the Met. Maia is a true offshore Kiwi, born in London to English and Māori (Ngai Tai) parents. She is one of only 100 or so people around the world responsible for curating works of art and taonga for museum collections. She started her career in the insurance sector but quickly realised that wasn’t where her real passion lay. Read more