Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2016
Heke Reo, Diploma of Te Reo Māori
Te Wananga o Raukawa
Ōtaki, New Zealand
2007 – 09
Bachelor of Visual Arts, Major: Sculpture, Performance & Moving Image
Auckland University of Technology,
Auckland, New Zealand
2008
Bachelor of Visual Arts student exchange
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh PA, USA
EMPLOYMENT
2019 - ongoing
Co-director Moana Fresh Art Gallery, Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand
2019
Video editor & Cultural liaison, NaYonal MariYme Museum, United Kingdom
2018 - 19
Co-director of MOKU, a Pacific Arts organisaYon operaYng from Raven Row Gallery, London
2017
Curatorial Internship, Honolulu Biennial, Oahu, Hawaii
Guest Curator, ST Paul St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015
Professional Teaching Fellow, ELAM School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
Freelance gallery Assistant, Artspace (Aotearoa) Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2014
Professional Teaching Fellow, ELAM School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
Education Intern, Artspace (Aotearoa) Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2011 - 2014
Online Marketing Executive and Producer, ecostore Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
SELECTED WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCES & LECTURES
2022
Artist Interview, Marinade Magazine, New Zealand
2021
Artist Interview, Native Stories Podcast, Hawai’i
2020
Artist Interview, Metro Magazine, Auckland, New Zealand
BTW, A collection of Art by the Whau, Art Publication
Article, Plant Power Sisterhood: an anthology of eco-revolution’ edited by Jenny Fraser, Australia
2019
Transits & Returns Exhibition Publication, Vancouver Art Gallery
2018
Piko A, Piko O, Piko I: Those That Came Before, Those That are Here Now, and Those That Will Come, Amer Journal of Design and Science (JoDS), a joint venture of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press Journal
Mana Moana in the UK’s year of Captain Cook, Contemporary Hum
James Cook: Legacies and Controversies, Panel discussion alongside Dame Anne Salmond & Selina Tusitala Marsh, The British Library
Under Her Eye 2018: Women and Climate Change, Invisible Dust & The British Library
The Pacific Past, Present and Future, Panel Presentation alongside Noelani Arista and Aata DeVera, The British Library
Artist Talk, Encounters Exhibition for the Captain Cook Festival as commissioned from Invisible Dust, Whitby Library
The Cookbook Project Artist Talk, Sewerby Hall & Gardens, Bridlington
Guest lecture: What is Curating? Chelsea College of Arts - UAL, London, United Kingdom
2017
Contributor, Imaginary Frontiers, Humans of the Institution Symposium, Amsterdam;
Surroundings, you are what you eat Arts Residency, Invisible Dust in partnership with the Wellcome Trust and the Humber Museums Partnership, Yorkshire, England
Studio Residency, Strange Haven, Auckland, New Zealand
Indigenous Arts Journal Residency, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff Treaty 7 territory, Canada
2016
The Asia Pacific Century Noho & Exhibition, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Four Waves of Feminism, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Plastic Paradise Hui, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, Wellington, New Zealand Art and Environmental Activism, ArtBank, BFM Radio, New Zealand
2015
Curatorial Strategies, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
D.A.N.C.E. art club Artist talk, ELAM School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
2014
Curatorial Symposium, ST Paul St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Curatorial Hui, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Collectives & Collaboration, ELAM school of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 17, CIRCUIT Podcast, New Zealand
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019
Mana Moana Mana Wahine, Raven Row Gallery, London, UK
2017
lai- pā, ST Pauls St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Story Telling as Koha, an archival project from artist Tuafale Tanoa'i aka Linda .T
2016
lei-pā, Curatorial research trip, Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai, China
2014
W e l c o m e, Artspace (Aotearoa Trust), Auckland, New Zealand
2013
Close to Home, ST Paul St Gallery, Auckland. New Zealand
Scraps, Cellblock, Art Station, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Earth, Wind & Fire, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
Lift Off, Hawai’i Triennial 2022, Hawaii
Twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Mālo’elo’e (to Stand firm), Short film screening, Wairoa Māori Film Festival, Wairoa, New Zealand
2021
Forecast, Invisible Dust Online Events Programme, UK
2020
Into The Open, Te Papa, New Zealand Arts FesYval, Wellington, NZ
Transits & Returns, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
2019
Transits & Returns, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Mana Moana Mana Wahine, Raven Row Gallery, London, UK
2018
The Commute, IMA Brisbane, Australia
Oceanic Reading Room, Encounters by Invisible Dust, Whitby Library, UK
2018
The Cookbook Project, Sewerby Hall & Gardens, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2017
You are what you eat, Hull Museums Quarter, Yorkshire, United Kingdom; Cold Islanders, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
2013
Ho’o huli, Silo Park, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Drinking From The Firehose, Artspace (Aotearoa) Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
Trololol, TCB Art Inc. Melbourne, Australia
2008
SHMIKEA, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
The Waffle Shop, In association with CMU, East Liberty, USA
We Wanna Hula, Ina Nui Gallery, Rarotonga
Dateline Returns, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ
SELECTED D.A.N.C.E. ART CLUB PROJECTS
2017
LEI, selected locations, Auckland, New Zealand
2015/ 16
NOHO 2016, All Goods Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Long Distance Relationship, Mixtape series 1, England, Japan, New Zealand
2014
Guinness World Record Attempt, Artspace (Aotearoa) Trust, Auckland, NZ
Crockpot Recipies, International Artists Initiated, Commonwealth Games, RM/ David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2013
Our Mums, Suter Theatre, Nelson, New Zealand
ART UTE with Alex Monteith, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
Production Studios, RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
D.A.N.C.E. Documentary, Triangle T.V, Auckland, New Zealand
D.A.N.C.E. art club presents Housie, Fresh Produce, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne. Australia
D.A.N.C.E. FM 106.7, Letting Space & Erupt Festival, Taupō, New Zealand
2010
Casual Romance Club 3, Cassette #9, Auckland, New Zealand
Casual Romance Club 2, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Casual Romance Club 1, Albert Park Rotunda, Auckland, New Zealand