Josonia Palaitis (born Josephine Mills, 28 June 1949)[1][2] is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia.

She won the 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize[3] with a portrait of her father artist John Mills.

In 1995 she won the Archibald Prize People's Choice award with a portrait of Bill Leak (artist and cartoonist for the Australian Newspaper).

[5] In 2002 she was commissioned to paint the Childers Memorial Portrait which depicts the fifteen young backpackers who died in a hostel fire in Childers, Queensland in 2000.

[6] Her portrait Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Man, (of chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Pat Dodson), was a finalist in the 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and is in the collection of the National Library of Australia.