Siliga David Setoga (Samoan), Faa Samoa sleeps with the fishes, 2008. Digital print on archival paper.
Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoan), Afa tasi: Half of One, Black Sunday series, 2002. C print on dybond aluminium.
MARLAINA KEY (Samoan), So Long, Farewell, 2007. Digital print.
Terry Koloamatangi Klavenes (Tongan), Untitled I, South Auckland, 2009. Digital print on archival paper.
Niu Pasifik:
Exhibition Subtitle
Urban Art from the Pacific Rim
- Taryn Beri
- Kiwi Biddle
- Quinton Carrington
- Joanne Currie Nalingu
- Matt Dowman
- Jenny Fraser
- Ian George
- Kay George
- Goroka bilum Festival PNG
- Bilum Makers Cooperative
- Niki Hastings McFall
- Alfred Haure
- Michael Haure
- Lonnie Hutchinson
- John Ioane
- Anita Jacobsen
- Juse One
- Robyn Kahukiwa
- Leilani Kake
- Chris Kauage
- Richard Kereopa
- Marlaina Key
- Shigeyuki Kihara
- Taylor Kingi
- Terry Kolomatangi Klavenes
- Lily Laita
- Andy Leleisi'uao
- Janet Lilo
- Lina Marsh
- Tracey Moffatt
- Martin Morububuna
- Herman Pi’ikea Clark
- Diane Prince
- Shona Pitt
- Rosanna Raymond
- Marlon Rivers
- Siliga David Setoga
- John Suine
- Taniela Taniela
- Ema Tavola
- Tracey Tawhiao
- Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi
- Michel Tuffery
- Niwhai Tupaea
- Thomas Umba
- Glenda Vilisoni
NIU PASIFIK is an exhibition of contemporary art by 46 artists and designers from New Zealand and the Pacific Rim from the personal collection of Guest-Curator Giles Peterson.
NIU PASIFIK features multimedia work including graffiti art, painting, drawing, animation, embroidery, textile, street fashion and tattoo. The artists come from New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Niue, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
The show celebrates over 16 years of independent curating, including landmark exhibitions Island Crossings (2000) – the first exhibition of Contemporary Maori and Pacific art to tour to Australia, Out of the Blue (2001), Urban Pacific (2007) and Spirit of the People – New Melanesian Art (2009); all of national and international significance.
The mix of work by new generation and established artists and designers create an exhibition reflecting the diversity of creative expression and talent in a charged space where a polyphonic discourse is exchanged: a platform where the artist’s voice is heard and given primacy.
NIU PASIFIK marks more than 40 independent, curated exhibitions. The NIU PASIFIK artists explore a range of issues and concerns such as identity and identification, spirituality, the environment, globalisation, technology, representation, colonisation, survival and of what it is to speak from the position of different cultures. It’s a forum for interaction, discussion and exchange.
-- Giles Peterson, April 2010
- UC Davis Humanities Institute
- Chancellor's Committee on LGBTI Issues
- Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance
- UC Davis Office of Campus Community Relations