Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis is a proud Aboriginal woman of Pitta Pitta descent. She is an artist and researcher based on Kulin Land, Victoria, Australia.
After completing an Honours in Photography degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2020, she commenced a PhD at Monash University in 2021 through the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab, in the faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. Her arts practice is inextricably intertwined with her identity as a Pitta Pitta woman and aims to subvert and disrupt colonial approaches to image making and photography. Romanis’ research and practice is heavily informed by her family oral histories and photographic archives.
Her work has been exhibited in various galleries and arts festivals locally and internationally, some of which include Ars Electronica, PHOTO, The Museum of Australian Photography and Craft Victoria. In 2023, Romanis was a finalist in The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards based on Larrakia Country in Darwin. She currently works as a lecturer in the Art, Design and Architecture faculty at Monash University.