Emily Parr (Ngāi Te Rangi, Moana, Pākehā) is an artist/researcher living in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand). Her moving-image practice explores relational ecologies of Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.

Emily’s master’s body of work on settler-indigenous relationships traverses oceans and centuries, seeking stories in archives and waters on haerenga to her ancestral homelands of Tauranga Moana, Sāmoa, and Tonga. Her recent doctoral research considers the responsibilities she has inherited through her ancestral legacies and, in particular, to her family’s collection held by museums.

Emily is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the AUT Vā Moana Research Centre and a Lecturer in the School of Art + Design. She received a 2024 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Springboard Award and 2025 Samoa House Library Research Residency.