Brigita Ozolins is an artist, writer and academic who lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania. Her art examines the convergence of language, history, bureaucracy and identity and fuses her interests in the book, the word and the library. She uses a wide range of materials to convey her ideas, including books, handwriting, digital media, furniture, office equipment, signwriter's vinyl and mirrored perspex. Her work usually takes the form of installation and it is often text-based and site-specific. Brigita's best known works involve the systemic destruction of books, accompanied by repetitive writing performances, which may seem surprising given her early training as a librarian. Brigita is currently making work about early forms of writing and cryptography and a new body of work about cultural displacement based on her mother's journey to Australia through a series of DP camps at the end of WWII.

In the 1970s, Brigita studied the classics at Monash University and in the 1980s worked as a librarian and arts administrator. In the mid 1990s she returned to study at the University of Tasmania's School of Art, where she lectures in art theory. She completed her PhD in 2004 and her thesis, which explores the links between language, bureaucracy and subjectivity through installation, was awarded the Dean's commendation.

Since 1995, Brigita has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions, which includes completing commissions for the State Library of Tasmania and the National Library of Latvia. She has received numerous artist grants, including the 2008 inaugural Qantas Contemporary Art Award, and has undertaken residencies in Riga, London, Paris, Gorge Cottage in Launceston, and Port Arthur, Tasmania.