hONOLULU BIENNIAL

2019

TO MAKE WRONG / RIGHT / NOW

Honolulu Biennial 2019 title is drawn from the poem Manifesto by participating Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) artist 'Imaikalani Kalahele.

Click here to read it in its entirety.

HB19 IMPACT REPORT

Golden Hibiscus Award 2019

Pio Abad x Frances Wadsworth Jones (Philippines | United Kingdom)

Bernice Akamine (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaiʻi)

DB Amorin (Azores, Sāmoa (born Hawaiʻi) | United States)

Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri People | Australia)

Ei Arakawa (Japan | United States)

James Bamba (Chamorro | Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)

Raymond Boisjoly (Haida | Canada)

Bradley Capello (United States | Hawaiʻi)

Central Pacific Time (Kānaka Maoli, United States | Hawai’i)

Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico)

DAKOgamay (Philippines, Netherlands)

Demian DinéYazhi´ (Naasht’ézhí Tábąąhá, Tódích’íí’nii | United States)

Solomon Enos (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaiʻi)

Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit, Unangax̂ | United States)

Andy Graydon (United States |born Hawaiʻi)

Taloi Havini (Hakö People | Autonomous Region of Bougainville | Australia)

Hoʻoulu ʻĀina Artist Collective (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaiʻi)

ʻImaikalani Kalāhele (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaiʻi)

Florence Jaukae Kamel (Papua New Guinea)

Misaki Kawai (Japan)

Lee Kit (Hong Kong | Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Mat Kubo (United States |born Hawaiʻi)

Kapulani Landgraf (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaiʻi)

Chenta Laury (African-American | Hawaii)

Ara Laylo (Philippines | Hawaiʻi)

Jeremy Leatinu’u (Ngāti Maniapoto, Sāmoa | Aotearoa)

Mario Lemafa (Sāmoa |born Hawaiʻi | United States)

Ellen Lesperance (United States)

Janet Lilo (Niue, Ngā Puhi, Sāmoa | Aotearoa)

Mata Aho Collective (Te Atiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangātira, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Rangitāne ki Wairarapa | Aotearoa)

Leland Miyano (Okinawa | Hawaiʻi)

Marianne Nicolson (Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw | Canada)

Paul Pfeiffer (Philippines (born Hawaiʻi) | United States)

Postcommodity (Cherokee, Mestizo | United States)

Rosanna Raymond, SaVAge K'lub (Samoa, Tuvalu | Aotearoa)

Natalie Robertson (Ngāti Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh | Aotearoa)

Chiharu Shiota (Japan | Germany)

Bruna Stude (Croatia | Hawaiʻi)

Taupōuri Tangarō (Hawaiʻi)

Cory Taum (Kānaka Maoli | Hawai’i) 

Maika’i Tubbs (Kānaka Maoli | United States)

Kalisolaite ‘Uhila (Tonga | Aotearoa)

Marie Watt (Seneca | United States)

Guan Xiao (China)

Amy Yao (United States)

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (South Korea, United States)

NINA TONGA

CURATOR

Tonga is an art historian and Curator Pacific Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She is from the villages of Vaini and Kolofo’ou in Tonga and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She holds a Master of Arts specializing in contemporary Pacific art and is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Auckland. Her current research focuses on contemporary Pacific art in New Zealand and the Pacific with a particular interest in internet art from 2000 to present. Tonga has been involved in a number of writing and curatorial projects with Pacific artists from New Zealand and the wider Pacific. In 2012 she was an associate curator for the exhibition Home AKL, the first major group exhibition of contemporary Pacific art developed by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Other curatorial projects include Koloa et Al at Fresh Gallery Otara, Tonga ‘i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary at Pātaka Art + Museum and most recently the major retrospective exhibition, Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists, Toi Art, Te Papa.

JOSH TENGAN

ASSISTANT CURATOR

Tengan is a Honolulu-born and based curator and arts project manager. Since 2015, he has worked with local and Native Hawaiian artists, through the arts non-profit Puʻuhonua Society, to deliver Hawaiʻi’s largest annual thematic contemporary art exhibition, CONTACT, which offers a critical and comprehensive survey of local contemporary visual culture. He is the recently appointed Assistant Curator of the 2019 Honolulu Biennial. He is a professional arts manager at Nā Mea Hawai‘i, managing public art installations in Honolulu for the past four years. He holds a Curatorial Studies MA with Distinction from Newcastle University (UK) and a BA in Fine Art from Westmont College.

DEVON BELLA

CURATORIAL CONSULTANT

Bella is an independent curator and arts advocate based in San Francisco, California. Her practice centers on the belief that art is a form of civic engagement, community development, and can mobilize social change. Previously Bella was director of KADIST, San Francisco where she conducted local and international exhibitions, public programs, artist residencies, and art publishing. Bella received a Master of Arts in Exhibition and Museum Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009.

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Distinguished Donors Gloria Lau and Robert Burkhead, Dr. Michael and Kristen Chan, Dr. Shim Ching and Candice Naylor-Ching, Jonathan Kindred, Yusaku Maezawa

Benefactors The Conley Family Foundation Soichiro Fukutake, Elizabeth Grossman, Brian Lam, Yoshiko Mori, Wayne Pitluck and Judith Pyle, Cathy and Ed Schultz, Sharon Twigg-Smith

Patrons Katherine Don and Daniel Touff, The Growney Family Fund, Mike and Lia Watanabe

Fellows Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, Maile Meyer, KD Segura, Heather Shimizu, Kelly Sueda, Brett Zaccardi

Donors Claudia Albertini and Massimo de Carlo Gallery, DeeAnn Yabusaki and Donelle Gregory, Lisa Gainsley, Shaunagh Guinness Robbins, Inna Rodchenko-Highfield

Supporters Carol Abe, Trever and Susan Asam, William Avedon, Jennifer Barrett, Robert Becker, Cailin Broere, Brian and Lauren Buck, Donnie Cervantes, Christopher Chang, Eric Chang, KaiChin Chang,

Patricia Cheung, Caroline Chiu, Jean Dickinson, Meagan Dietz, Edith W. Don, Charles Donohoe, Sunny Dupree, Christopher Edwards, Devin Ehrig, Will Espero, Carol Fox, Randall Fujiki, Sonny Ganaden, Akarin Gaw, Ori Gratch, Stephen Green, Ben Grenier, Lori and Bob Harrison, Kagari Hashimoto, Hawaii Community Foundation on behalf of Trever Asam, Isabella Hughes, Jamie Jackson, Andrea Jepson, Jhamandas Watumull Fund, Jonathan Johnson, Lori Komer, Eddie Lam, Melissa Lee, Yi Fawn Lee, Shari Lett, Pamela Lichty, James Lie, Michael Lin, Wilson Lo,

Li Lundin, Yvonne Manipon, Ryan Manuel, Alison Marriott, Dvorit Mausner, Heidi Meeker, Alison MF, Joyce Mitsunaga, Rebecca Moux, Janetta Napp, Deb and Robert Nehmad, Elaine Ng, Thaddeus Pham, Rosina Potter, Zsuzsa Rastegar, Lisa Reinke, William Rinehart, Suzanne Sato, Alexandra Seno, Bob Oaks and Fred Sheng, Teri Skillman, Katherine Stallings, Sawako Takemura, Michael Touff, Gan Uyeda, Stephan Van Vliet, Jerry Vasconcellos, Jeffrey Weigele, Betti Wilson, Gary Wong, Sara Wong