SUN • FEB 20, 2022
5 - 7 p.m.

Join us for the opening of Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 (HT22) at Royal Hawaiian Center and celebrate the artists taking part in the largest periodic showcase of contemporary art in Hawaiʻi. Open to the public and free to view. Standard parking rates apply.

SUN • FEB 20, 2022
4 - 5 p.m.

Join HT22 curators and artists in a walkthrough introducing the contemporary art installations activated at Royal Hawaiian Center. This conversation will be held within the exhibition space.

FEB 18 - 28, 2022

Daily 12pm - 7pm

Global Free Store (2009–) is a non-commercial pop-up shop where visitors can give or get useful things like clothes, books, and household items. The project also invites curatorial and performative participation, with the artists hand-crafting items to pay contributors to the free-store economy. For HT22, Global Free Store is situated at the Royal Hawaiian Center, one of Hawaiʻi’s largest outdoor shopping malls in the heart of Honolulu’s tourist mecca, Waikīkī.

SUN • FEB 20
1-2PM

City and County of Honolulu and the Friends of Honolulu Botanical Gardens invite you to an opening reception for Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022, a citywide exhibition of contemporary art from around the world.

SUN • 20 FEB 2022

HoMA opens its doors to Hawai‘i residents free of charge on Family Sunday, offering a vibrant program of community-focused art activities, entertainment, and other family-friendly fun themed around museum programming or exhibitions. Museum admission is free for kama‘āina from 10am–6pm.

SUN • FEB 20 • 11AM
Honolulu Museum of Art
Luce Courtyard
900 S Beretania Street

Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 artist Dan Taulapapa McMullin directs a musical and dance performance based on Samoan fāgogo (traditional stories), reflecting on themes of artificiality, reality, life, death, and resurrection.

SAT • 19 FEB 2022

A new, fun-filled, family-friendly, free event at Hawaiʻi State Art Museum! Hands-on art activities, live music, and photo booth. Super Saturday is for the whole family! Spend quality time together making art and learning something new. Enjoy the air-conditioned museum galleries or run around on the front lawn!

FRI • FEB 18
9-5PM

Experience the opening day of Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 (HT22) at Bishop Museum and celebrate the artists on view at Bishop Museum’s Castle Memorial Building Galleries. Open to the public with general Museum admission or HT22 All-Access Pass.

FRI–SAT • 18–19 FEB 2022 • 9:00AM–10:30AM

Richard Bell's Embassy is a fluid, conceptual artwork around the idea of sharing space and creating a platform for conversation with invited guest speakers. Beyond the Embassy’s presence as a tent, the work also collects video archives of the conversations that occur in the space, connecting each iteration of Embassy to previous ones (held around the world), creating a sort of global solidarity amongst Indigenous Peoples.

WED • FEB 16, 2022 | THURS • FEB 17, 2022 | FRI • FEB 18, 2022
7PM & 8:15PM
Timed-entry tickets are required. | $45 per person

Join 88 BLOCK WALKS x Exhibition Grid on a journey through Pacific Century - E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea. Led by Adele Balderston and Brian Linares, this walking tour illuminates intersections of history and contemporary art along the streets of Downtown Honolulu, culminating at Iolani Palace with a large-scale outdoor digital media installation by Jennifer Steinkamp.

WED • FEB 16, 2022 | THURS • FEB 17, 2022
6PM | 7PM | 8PM
Iolani Palace

For two nights only! Featuring docent-led tours of the Palace and royal collection, a special appearance by Galliard String Quartet performing music by Queen Liliʻuokalani, and insights from Hawai'i Contemporary featuring a large-scale outdoor digital media installation by Jennifer Steinkamp.

WED • FEB 16 • 6pm–8pm (start anytime)

Iolani Palace
364 S King St
Honolulu, HI 96813

All are welcome to partake in a personal procession around Apahu’a, a time of reflection and intention.

WED • FEB 16, 2022
11AM

Every Wednesday, the Royal Hawaiian Center offers free lauhala weaving lessons with Kumu Bill Keoua Nelson! The lesson will cover the basic skills, technique, preparation and crafting of hala leaves into wearable Hawaiian art, such as a bracelet.

Join the Hawaiʻi Symphony in a series of concerts celebrating the Triennial theme of Pacific Century: E Hoʻomau no Moananuiākea. Featured works include the premiere of Vivian Fung’s Violin Concerto, Dane Lam conducting Maria Grenfell’s piece Clockwork, Leilehua Lanzilotti’s work koʻu inoa, and Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Symphony of “Birds & Angels.”

THUR • 28 JULY 2021 • 12pm HST

Join us as Taiji Terasaki, a Japanese-American artist based on Honolulu; Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, board chair of Hawai‘i Contemporary and US-Japan Council member; and Katherine Don, executive director of Hawai‘i Contemporary engage in an enlightening discussion on how art is used to explore social (in)justices.

TUE • 18 MAY 2021 • 12pm HST

Artistic Directors Diana Nawi and Naima J. Keith (Prospect New Orleans, P.5) join Associate Curators Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick and Miwako Tezuka (Hawai‘i Triennial 2022) in a panel discussion to explore the role of the contemporary art biennial/triennial in a dramatically altered social, cultural, and political landscape.

February 16 – March 9, 2021
5:30pm – 7pm

Interactive seminars for Hawai‘i’s Creative Artist Network, presented by the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance, East-West Center, and Hawai‘i Contemporary. Register on the Hawai‘i Arts Alliance’s website.

WED • 09 DEC 2020 • 4pm (HST)

Join Dr. Miwako Tezuka, associate curator for Hawai‘i Triennial 2022, in conversation with Katherine Don, executive director of Hawai‘i Contemporary. A noted specialist of post-war Asian art, Miwako will discuss her transnational approach to curating, drawing examples from her rich and diverse curatorial practice as both an independent and institutional curator, working across foundations and museums.

MON • 26 Oct 2020 • 4pm (HST)

In celebration of Filipino American History Month, associate director Sara Raza moderates a lively panel discussion with contemporary practitioners Paul Pfeiffer (HB19), James Clar, and Ara Laylo (HB19).

Hawai‘i Contemporary, in collaboration with Hawai‘i Arts Alliance, is excited to launch a Professional Development Program for Artists. Designed for emerging and mid-career artists and cultural practitioners in Hawai‘i, this series of live-streamed online workshops will be led by established professionals in the global arts community. The program offers participants the opportunity to interact with arts industry experts in a casual, yet informative setting.