Vanessa Narbey is a multimedia visual artist and art educator who has exhibited her work throughout New Zealand, and internationally. Two of her paintings are held in the Art House Trust Collection and she has been a recent finalist for the London Art Biennale, the Walker and Hall Art Awards, The Perpetual Guardian Small Sculpture Prize, the Tasman National Art Awards and Craig’s Aspiring Art Prize. Narbey was also Highly Commended for her piece in the Estuary Art and Ecology Prize in 2023.

Narbey completed her MFA with first class honors in 1998 from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. 

She lives in Auckland with her family.