Ayesha Green lives and works in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is of Ngāi Tahu/Kāi Tahu and Ngāti Kahungunu Māori descent. Green graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Media Arts from Wintec in Hamilton, followed by an MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, in 2013. In 2016, she completed a Graduate Diploma in Arts from the University of Auckland, specialising in Museums and Cultural Heritage.
Ayesha Green is known for her distinctive pictorial aesthetic, producing figurative portraits in flattened blocks of colour. Her practice is primarily occupied with histories of representation, and the role of images and language play in perpetuating systems of power. Borrowing imagery from historical periods as well as from her personal life, Green employs a self-reflexive mimicry that subverts the authority attached to cultural and historical symbols.
In 2019, Ayesha Green was awarded first place at the National Contemporary Art Awards for her painting Nana's Birthday (A Big Breath) (2019). She was a recipient of the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi's Springboard Award in the following year.

OLGA, 2016 Evie was part of a series which featured characters from Home and Away – Alf Stewart and Drax, were gifted to the Waikato Museum.