Ioana Gordon-Smith is a curator of Sāmoan (Faleula, Leauva'a) and English heritage. She currently works as the inaugural Curator Māori Pacific at Pātaka Art + Museum. Prior to that, she was the inaugural Curator at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery. She contributes regularly to a number of catalogues as well as magazines and journals and and is a trustee for the community-focused art collective Whau The People.