Marie Watt: 2019 Honolulu Biennial
ARTNEWS
November 02, 2018
Here’s the List of Artists for the 2019 Honolulu Biennial
by Annie Armstrong
The second edition of the Honolulu Biennial, titled “To Make Wrong / Right / Now,” will be held from March 8 to May 5, 2019, bringing together 19 artists and artist groups from Hawaii and 29 artists and artist groups from the Pacific, Asia. They’ll exhibit work at over a dozen locations across O’ahu, such as the Ali’iolani Hale, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Foster Botanical Garden, and Honolulu Museum of Art, with the hub located at Ward Village. Co-curated by Scott Lawrimore and Nina Tonga, the programming is tied to a poem by participating artist Imaikalani Kalahele called “Manifesto,” which is the source of this year’s title.
Tonga said in a release, “To Make Wrong / Right / Now can be read as a critical intervention into the biennial model and prevailing modes of the global art market. It can also be understood as a call for action, encouraging revisionist and corrective gestures. By foregrounding existent enactments of relationality and genealogy, the biennial is reimagined as a platform that empowers aesthetic sovereignty and the artistic freedom to make what is right for this place and time.”
The full list of artists follows below.
ʻImaikalani Kalāhele (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaii)
Bernice Akamine (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaii)
Leland Miyano (Okinawa | Hawaii)
Bruna Stude (Croatia | Hawaii)
Florence Jaukae Kamel (Papua New Guinea)
Natalie Robertson (Ngāti Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh | Aotearoa)
Taupōuri Tangarō (Hawaii)
Kapulani Landgraf (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaiʻi)
Paul Pfeiffer (Philippines (born Hawaiʻi) | United States)
Hoʻoulu ʻĀina Artist Collective (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaii)
Marie Watt (Seneca | United States)
Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico)
Marianne Nicolson (Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw | Canada)
Brook Andrew (Wiradjuri People | Australia)
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (South Korea, United States)
Ellen Lesperance (United States)
Postcommodity (Cherokee, Mestizo | United States)
Andy Graydon (United States (born Hawaii))
Chiharu Shiota (Japan | Germany)
Chenta Laury (United States | Hawaii)
Rosanna Raymond, SaVAge K’lub (Samoa, Tuvalu | Aotearoa)
Meiro Koizumi (Japan)
Amy Yao (United States)
Ei Arakawa (Japan | United States)
Matt Kubo (United States (born Hawaii))
Solomon Enos (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaii)
Lee Kit (Hong Kong | Hong Kong, Taiwan)
Misaki Kawai (Japan)
Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit, Unangax̂ | United States)
Bradley Capello (United States | Hawaii)
Maika’i Tubbs (Kānaka Maoli | United States)
Ara Laylo (Philippines | Hawaii)
Mata Aho Collective (Te Atiawa ki Whakarongotai, Ngāti Toa Rangātira, Ngāti Awa,
Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Rangitāne ki Wairarapa | Aotearoa)
DAKOgamay (Philippines, Netherlands)
Raymond Boisjoly (Haida | Canada)
Taloi Havini (Hakö People | Autonomous Region of Bougainville | Australia)
Kalisolaite ‘Uhila (Tonga | Aotearoa)
Janet Lilo (Niue, Ngā Puhi, Sāmoa | Aotearoa)
James Bamba (Chamorro | Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands)
Guan Xiao (China)
Pio Abad (Philippines | United Kingdom)
Demian DinéYazhi´ (Naasht’ézhí Tábąąhá, Tódích’íí’nii | United States)
Jeremy Leatinu’u (Ngāti Maniapoto, Sāmoa | Aotearoa)
DB Amorin (Azores, Sāmoa (born Hawaii) | United States)
Central Pacific Time (Kānaka Maoli, United States | Hawaii)
Mario Lemafa (Sāmoa (born Hawaii) | United States)
Cory Taum (Kānaka Maoli | Hawaii)