Rongotai Lomas is a multidisciplinary Māori artist, filmmaker and designer whose practice moves between visual art, film, digital media and contemporary storytelling. Grounded in Māori culture and identity, his work explores the relationship between tradition, technology and new forms of creative expression.

Lomas emerged as an important voice in Aotearoa’s contemporary Māori art scene in the 1990s. His work was included in Choice! and later in Techno Māori: Māori Art in the Digital Age at City Gallery Wellington, an influential exhibition examining the intersection of Māori art, technology and contemporary culture.

His filmmaking career includes directing and editing music videos for artists such as Che-Fu, House of Shem, Dam Native and Upper Hutt Posse, as well as collaborating with pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita and director Geoff Murphy. He was editor of Mita’s acclaimed documentary Hotere and co-directed Solidarity, a film following Upper Hutt Posse’s journey through the United States.

Lomas’ practice continues to evolve through contemporary technologies and cross-disciplinary collaboration. His work brings together Māori knowledge, visual language and cinematic thinking to create culturally grounded works that speak to both Aotearoa and an international audience.