Simon Endres (b. 1969, Aotearoa New Zealand) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, sculpture, photography, drawing and sound. Of Ngāpuhi and Pākehā descent, Endres explores identity, cultural narrative, masculinity, and social power structures through humour, theatricality, and critical reflection. He lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), bringing a bicultural and Pacific-informed perspective to his contemporary investigations of self and society. 

Endres graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts (University of Canterbury) in the early 1990s and has exhibited widely in Aotearoa. After spending 21 years in New York working in design and branding, he returned to full-time art-making in 2020, producing work that examines personal and collective identity, social anxiety, and cultural memory. 

His recent installation “First Person (HardBoiled)” (2025) transformed a flood-damaged house in Ponsonby, Auckland, into a site-specific exhibition of life-sized sculptural figures, objects, and sound. Drawing on Māori and Pacific notions of community, ancestry, and spiritual presence, the work combined humour and theatricality to explore trauma, resilience, and multiplicity of self. 

Endres’s practice is materially inventive and conceptually agile, integrating found objects, sculptural figuration, and visual language drawn from Ngāpuhi and wider Māori traditions to investigate how identities and cultural meanings are constructed and contested. He has also contributed to community-focused projects such as the “Niu Dawn” mural on Karangahape Rd, reflecting his commitment to increase the visibility of Pacific People’s narratives and public art. 

Through his multidisciplinary work, Endres continues to explore the intersections of Māori and Pākehā identity, cultural history, and contemporary social experience, using humour, disruption, and performative installation to engage audiences in reflection on self, society, and shared memory.

In May 2026, Simon Endres will exhibit for the first time with Melanie Roger Gallery in "Dark Matter" alongside Simon Attwooll, Harry Culy and Kirsten Roberts.