Ngaroma Riley (Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, Pākehā) is an artist, curator, and people connector based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She is a co-founder of Shared Lines Collaborative and Te Ana o Hine, a women’s carving shed based at Te Tuhi in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Ngaroma began her carving journey making buddhist statues while living and working in Japan.  Returning to Aotearoa in 2020, she completed a Certificate in Whakairo at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

In 2022 she built a storehouse for a sculptural installation at Kaitaia and was shortlisted for the 2023 Kingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award.  In 2025, she won the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award.

Known for her contemporary Māori wood carving, blending traditional whakairo with global influences from her time in Japan, Ngaroma’s work explores identity, whakapapa and ancestral narratives, Indigenous knowledge, belonging and challenging colonial impacts.  She creates genderless figures and queer-positive works such as the Lovers series.

She is also known for her karetao (hand-carved puppets) and love of chainsaws.