36 New Zealand painters

Eliza Stewart was a New Zealand painter, born in Sussex, England. She was the elder sister of New Zealand architect Edmund Anscombe.

Benjamin Herschel Babbage was an English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his work in the colony of South Australia. He invariably signed his name "B. Herschel Babbage" and was frequently referred to as "Herschel Babbage".

George Baloghy is a prominent New Zealand artist. He is a painter, preferring to paint with oil on canvas.

Nigel Roderick Brown is a New Zealand painter living in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Kushana Bush is a New Zealand artist based in Dunedin. She is best known for her paintings which typically blend historic and contemporary styles. Bush has won several awards for her works and has held international exhibitions.

Shane William Cotton is a New Zealand painter whose work explores biculturalism, colonialism, cultural identity, Maori spirituality, and life and death.

Melvin Norman "Pat" Day was a New Zealand artist and art historian.

Sam Foley is a contemporary New Zealand landscape painter.

Tony Fomison was a notable artist in New Zealand. He was an important post-war visual artist in the country and influenced New Zealand art by incorporating elements of narrative and myth into contemporary art.

Suzanne Goldberg (1940–1999) was a New Zealand painter, born in Auckland, New Zealand.

Caley J. Hall is classified as a listed New Zealand investment artist in Invercargill and Queenstown, New Zealand. Hall specializes in oil painting, and is well known for his Fiordland landscapes and expressionist abstracts. A largely self-taught artist, he has learned techniques and takes inspiration from other New Zealand artists, including renowned Queenstown-based painter Tim Wilson, Canterbury wilderness artist Nathanael Provis and Central Otago-based painter Peter Beadle. He exhibited his large abstracts at the Peppers Bluewater Resort in Tekapo in 2012.

Hone Papita Raukura "Ralph" Hotere was a New Zealand artist of Māori descent. He was born in Mitimiti, Northland and is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most important artists. In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago and in 2003 received an Icon Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.

Charles Henry Howorth was a New Zealand artist.

Alexis Jan Atthill Hunter was a New Zealand painter and photographer, who used feminist theory in her work. She lived and worked in London UK, and Beaurainville France. Hunter was also a member of the Stuckism collective. Her archive and artistic legacy is now administered by the Alexis Hunter Trust.

John Francis Kavanagh was an Irish sculptor and artist. In 1930 he was awarded the British School at Rome Scholarship in Sculpture.

Gottfried Lindauer was a Bohemian and New Zealand artist famous for his portraits, including many of Māori people.

Paratene Matchitt is a New Zealand sculptor and painter. He is known for combining traditional Māori art forms with those of modernist art. His work also references events from New Zealand history, particularly the Māori prophetic movements of the nineteenth century and most specifically Te Kooti.

Ellen von Meyern was a New Zealand artist who is remembered for her portraits of Maori people.

Sofia Minson is a contemporary New Zealand oil painter of Māori, Swedish, English and Irish descent.

Julia Morison is a New Zealand artist working across a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and recently ceramics.

Alvin Ernest Pankhurst is a New Zealand magic realist artist. He is the owner of two galleries of his art in Parnell, Auckland and Pauanui on the Coromandel Peninsula. Pankhurst has been a full-time artist since 1969, starting with the Young Contemporaries Touring Exhibition and the finals in the 1970 National Benson & Hedges Art Competition. Pankhurst won the 1974 Benson & Hedges Art Award with the large tempera on board work "Maybe Tomorrow", was bought by the Dunedin Art Gallery. He lives in Auckland.

John Puhiatau Pule is a Niuean artist, novelist and poet. The Queensland Art Gallery describes him as "one of the Pacific's most significant artists".

John Z. Robinson is a New Zealand painter, printmaker, and jeweller. He has lived in Dunedin, New Zealand since 1978.

Gary Stewart Schofield is a New Zealand writer, musician, television producer and artist. He is president of Global Concern, Inc. a non-profit organization with practical solutions for global warming.

Sir Peter Graham Siddell was a New Zealand artist.

Sylvia Grace Siddell, Lady Siddell was a New Zealand painter, etcher, and screen-printer, based in Auckland.

Prof Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville (1879–1934) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. He was a co-founder and the first secretary of the New Zealand Astronomical Society.

Eleanor Catherine Sperrey, also known as Kate Sperrey, was a noted portraitist from New Zealand who flourished at the end of the nineteenth century. She painted portraits of many of the most noted statesmen of New Zealand and has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, and the Whangarei Art Museum.

Justin Summerton is a New Zealand artist and writer, who lives in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Grahame Charles Sydney is a New Zealand artist, based in the South Island region of Central Otago. Since beginning his professional art life in 1974 he has worked as a painter, printmaker, photographer and writer.

Sydney Lough Thompson was a New Zealand artist.

Philip Trusttum is a leading New Zealand figurative expressionist artist. His works are usually large-scale, energetic, and colourful works on unstretched canvas.

William Twigg-Smith (1883–1950) was a New Zealand-born painter, illustrator and musician, who lived most of his life in Hawaii. During World War I, he was one of the first artists to serve in the American Camouflage Corps.

Vincent Ward is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and artist, who was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007 for his contribution to film. His films have received international recognition at both the Academy Awards and the Cannes Film Festival. The Boston Globe called him "one of film's great image makers", while Roger Ebert, one of America's foremost film critics, hailed him as "a true visionary."

Mary Wirepa (1904–1971), also known as Mary Wi Repa, was a visual artist of Māori descent born in Auckland, New Zealand. She was fluent in both Maori and English.

Geoff Williams is a New Zealand contemporary realist artist, based in the southern South Island city of Dunedin, Otago. He is best known for his meticulously rendered acrylic paintings, encompassing nudes, landscapes and still life. He started his career as a sign writer and screen printer in his father's sign shop where he was exposed to other pre-eminent New Zealand artists. He has been working as full-time artists since the mid-1990s.