🌟 Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25) artist and Kanaka ‘Ōiwi painter Al Lagunero explores his genealogical, geographical, and temporal realities through an artist-in-residency program at Mānoa Heritage Center. 

🌟 Join us for a special film screening and talk with Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 visiting artist Futoshi Miyagi. We'll screen the five-chapter film Flower Names (2015), which intertwines love stories from Greek mythology with contemporary romances in Okinawa.

🌟 Join us for a special screening of Hier. (2021) by visiting HT25 artist wendelien van oldenborgh, followed by a conversation between the artist and fellow HT25 artist Sung Hwan Kim, who lives in Honolulu and has known van oldenborgh for more than a decade.

Sketching Session » » HAYV KAHRAMAN

🌟 Join us for a morning sketching session at Foster Botanical Garden with HT25 visiting artist Hayv Kahraman. Meet the artist and talk story with fellow sketchers (all skill levels welcome). Kahraman’s work addresses radicalized gender and body politics, migrant consciousness, and the marginal spaces of diasporic life, drawing from her personal history as an Iraqi émigré first to Europe and then the United States. Her canvases often feature female figures, which she views as embodiments of a collective experience, juxtaposed with various botanicals. This sketch session is not instructional but, rather, an opportunity to gather and share space.

Artist Talk » » STEPHANIE SYJUCO

🌟 Join us for a special talk with visiting HT25 artist Stephanie Syjuco. Leveraging photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations, Syjuco investigates issues of economies and empire. In this program, the artist will present a behind-the-scenes look at her research practice and methodology of working with archives.

Artist Talk » » SALOTE TAWALE

🌟 Join us for a special talk with visiting HT25 artist Salote Tawale. The artist’s practice-led research — which spans performance, moving image, painting, photography, and installation — explores individual identity within collective systems from the perspective of her Indigenous Fijian and Anglo-Australian heritage.

06 JULY | 6PM–7PM

Arts & Letters Nuʻuanu

1164 Nuuanu Ave • Honolulu

Hawai‘i Contemporary Art Summit 2024 is a three-day, multi-site event that brings together prominent artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and around the world. A thematic precursor to Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25), Art Summit 2024 will consider the HT25 theme, ALOHA NŌ, through a series of insightful and compelling talks, film screenings, artist spotlights, and artist-led workshops that situates Hawai‘i at the center of high-caliber, global discourse around contemporary art and ideas.

Hawai‘i Contemporary Art Summit 2024 is a three-day, multi-site event that brings together prominent artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and around the world. A thematic precursor to Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25), Art Summit 2024 will consider the HT25 theme, ALOHA NŌ, through a series of insightful and compelling talks, film screenings, artist spotlights, and artist-led workshops that situates Hawai‘i at the center of high-caliber, global discourse around contemporary art and ideas.

Hawai‘i Contemporary Art Summit 2024 is a three-day, multi-site event that brings together prominent artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and around the world. A thematic precursor to Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25), Art Summit 2024 will consider the HT25 theme, ALOHA NŌ, through a series of insightful and compelling talks, film screenings, artist spotlights, and artist-led workshops that situates Hawai‘i at the center of high-caliber, global discourse around contemporary art and ideas.

On the eve of Art Summit 2024, have a drink and talk story with us in Waikīkī. Listen to the kick-back sounds of Aloha Got Soul, make beautiful lei with The Lei Bar, and tell us what aloha means to you in our confessional booth. Meet the Art Summit participants and some of our Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25) artists. Kindly co-hosted by Romer Waikīkī at The Ambassador with Hawai‘i Contemporary.

Join us this Friday for Art at the Capitol, as we gather in support and celebration of the arts in Hawai‘i. Check out a full program of performing and visual arts and take a self-guided tour of the Capitol Building, where visitors can view the art on display in more than 30 legislators’ offices.

Join us next week for a special First Friday at Capitol Modern (formerly Hawai‘i State Art Museum). We’re excited to share the title and theme for Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25), and we’re celebrating with music and lei-making.

FRI • 02 FEB
6pm–9pm
Capitol Modern
250 South Hotel St • Honolulu
Free and open to the public

FRI • JULY 21 • 5PM
Hale Hō‘ike‘ike at the Bailey House
2375 A Main St • Wailuku

Calling all Wailuku people! We invite you to pau hana with us to talk about the visual arts on Maui. 

THUR • JULY 20 • 5PM
Hui Noʻeau 
2841 Baldwin Ave • Makawao

Calling all Makawao people! We invite you to pau hana with us to talk about the visual arts on Maui. 

FRIDAY | JULY 14 | 6PM
Native Books at Arts & Letters
1164 Nuuanu Ave | Honolulu

An invitation to all who live, work, and care about Chinatown. Open to the public.

artXchange | PUBLIC VIEWING
Royal Hawaiian Center
12pm–6pm, daily

Don’t miss a public viewing of the artworks in the artXchange auction, featuring work by artists from Hawai’i, the Pacific, and beyond.

artXchange | PUBLIC VIEWING
Royal Hawaiian Center
12pm-6pm, daily

6pm | Closing Celebration

artXchange | PUBLIC VIEWING
Royal Hawaiian Center
12pm–6pm, daily

5pm | Gallery Tour with Hawai‘i Contemporary

Don’t miss a public viewing of the artworks in the artXchange auction, featuring work by artists from Hawai’i, the Pacific, and beyond.

artXchange | PUBLIC VIEWING
Royal Hawaiian Center
12pm–6pm, daily

5pm | Gallery Tour with Hawai‘i Contemporary

Don’t miss a public viewing of the artworks in the artXchange auction, featuring work by artists from Hawai’i, the Pacific, and beyond.

artXchange | PUBLIC VIEWING
Royal Hawaiian Center
12pm–6pm, daily

5pm | Gallery Tour with Hawai‘i Contemporary

Don’t miss a public viewing of the artworks in the artXchange auction, featuring work by artists from Hawai’i, the Pacific, and beyond.