Fiona Amundsen is an Aotearoa-New Zealand artist and writer who has exhibited throughout the Asia Pacific region, United States and Europe. Working collaboratively, Fiona is interested in establishing relationships between specific historical events, the social responsibility of witnessing, and the ethics of image making. Working with declassified military produced archives and her own present-day photography and filming, she investigates the potential for imagery to perform a visual listening and documentary witnessing of acts of colonial imperial violence, be it historical or not.

She is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design (AUT University). In 2019 Fiona was awarded a three-month Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award enabling her to begin initial research for 'Coming back to Life', a photo-filmic-writing project that explores relationships between Cold War military technologies, military-capitalism, nuclear environmental destruction and spirituality. Fiona’s PhD (Monash University) explored alternative modalities for memorialising stories and experiences associated with the Asia-Pacific War (WWII). The resulting exhibition—'A Body that Lives' (2018)—was nominated for the 2020 ‘Walters Prize’, Aotearoa-New Zealand’s most prestigious art award. Fiona was awarded the 2019 Mollie Holman Award for “best doctoral thesis”. This award is “among the highest academic honours the University bestows, and mark the recipients as researchers of the highest order.” She expanded her PhD research into new artworks for the 2021 Tokyo Biennale and the 2020 Mori Museum (Tokyo)/Tate Modern (London) research project looking at non-western imperialism. Fiona also practices aikido and was recently awarded her second-degree blackbelt. Aikido’s focus on harmonising conflict via non-combative methods influences Fiona’s approach to using a camera.