Kezia Barnett, aka KEZIAI, is a New Zealand–British Intermedia artist and filmmaker moving between cinematic storytelling, conceptual art, and technology. Fusing nearly 30 years of filmmaking with AI, KEZIAI creates metaphorical worlds exploring emotional, social, and technological thresholds — with AI as a creative accelerator, a pseudo film set and speculative collaborator.

Raised in Devonport, New Zealand, Kezia is propelled by curiosity and imagination. With creative ingenuity and a sharp eye for both detail and the conceptual idea, she creates with bleeding-edge technology and has an instinct for the zeitgeist.

Living with chronic illness, KEZIAI creates surreal scenes from bed. Her AI-infused artworks do the travelling for her.

From 2022, KEZIAI has been deeply immersed in the world of AI — experimenting, learning, and creating. Curated by Claire Silver, her work has been exhibited with Superchief in Seoul and Miami, and shown at PIVOTAL: Digitalism at the British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery London, LUME Studios NYC, Craiova Art Museum Romania, Casa Nua Gallery São Paulo, Cineteca de Nuevo León Mexico, Mecenate Fine Art Gallery Rome, kHaus Basel, Goat Gallery Toronto, Seattle NFT Museum, Times Square — even in the stratosphere. At Saatchi, her ‘Deserted Realities’ series transformed personal narratives into dystopian future landscapes — works haunted by isolation, pain, and resilience, mirroring the state of the world while dancing through it. Her work has been featured on daily.xyz, an ecosystem connecting AI artists with collectors and bridging the gap between traditional art and the digital frontier.

She has also worked as AI consultant / AI artist on commercials with The Gardening Club and is represented by Honor Society.

Her cinematic work has screened at BAFTA-qualifying and OSCAR-accredited festivals, earning accolades including Golds at the Asia Pacific Advertising Festival, D&AD, The One Show, and AWARD, as well as nominations at Cannes Lions. As a commercials director, she travelled the globe directing for brands including HSBC, Mastercard, Ponds, and Cadbury.

Since 1997, she has documented her life through a daily self-portrait — a long-term living archive. You could call it endurance art.

BFA majoring in Intermedia from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in the 90s.

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