Curatorial
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Artist's Résumé
Born in Samoa, 1975
Lives in Auckland
Diploma in Fashion Design and Technology,
Wellington Polytechnic (1995); Advanced Diploma in Fashion
Design and Technology, Massey University, Wellington (1996)
Selected solo exhibitions
| 2002 |
Black Sunday, Watermark
Gallery, Wellington |
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| 2001 |
Black Sunday, Oedipus Rex Gallery,
Auckland |
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| 2000 |
Teuanoa'I - Adorn to Excess, Halo
Hiebahn Hairdressing, Wellington |
Selected group exhibitions
| 2003 |
You are my sunshine: recent
figurative art, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington |
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The Rim, Span Galleries, Melbourne |
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Traffic: cross currents in indigenous
photo media, Australian Centre for Photography,
Sydney
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Shi Ane, John Ioane and Shigeyuki Kihara,
Whitespace Gallery, Auckland |
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Another day in Paradise, The Den,
Auckland
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20 / 20 Site Specific, Centre of
Contemporary Art, Christchurch |
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'In Transit' Festival (performance
with the Pasifika Divas), Haus der kulteren der welt,
Berlin, Germany |
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| 2002 |
Dolly (W)rapper Mix, Waikato
Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
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Fashion Now, Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington |
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Gauguin is dead, there is no paradise,
The Edge / Aotea Centre, Auckland |
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Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art 2002 (performance with the Pasifika Divas),
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
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| 2001 |
More or Less, Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington |
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Ceviche, The Lane Gallery, Auckland |
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Matou atoa - We are, The Edge /
Aotea Centre, Auckland |
Awards
| 2003 |
Creative New Zealand Arts
Pasifika Award (Emerging Artist) |
Selected bibliography
Aaron Lister, 'Wellington review', Art New
Zealand 99, 2001, pp. 50-51
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
2002, (exhibition catalogue), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane,
2002
Caroline Vercoe, 'The Many Faces of Paradise'
in Melissa Chiu (ed) Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the
Pacific, (exhibition catalogue), Asia Society Museum, New
York, 2004, pp. 35-47
Jim Vivieaere, 'Melding boundaries in a liminal
space: the art of Shigeyuki Kihara', Object 43, 2003,
pp. 30-33
Ian Wedde, More or Less, (exhibition
catalogue), Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington,
2001
Additional links
http://www.bartleyneesgallery.co.nz/
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