IWALANI KALUHIOKALANI

Lives and works in Boston, MA, USA, and Marseille, France

EDUCATION

2003 BFA Painting with Distinction and Departmental Honors, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Laban Bartenieff Movement Studies, Lesley College, Cambridge, MA

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Mer Sea, Kingston Gallery, Boston MA

2023 Archipels Again and Again, Kingston Gallery Project Space, Boston MA

2020 UNBOUND, Gallery 1832 at Lab Central and Pfizer Building, MIT, Cambridge, MA

2020 M A G I C, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2018 I See a Landscape In You, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2016 I Felt Your Presence, Brickbottom Studios, Somerville, MA

2016 GATHERINGS, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 UPCOMING OCTOBER: M/Othering Resistance with Feminist Futurists, Piano Factory, Boston MA

2025 Echoes of the Heart / New England Media Biennial, Emerson Contemporary, Boston MA

2025 M/Otherhood with FeministFuturist, Parish Center for the Arts, Westford MA

2024 300 by Design, Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, Boston MA

2024 BCA 27TH DRAWING SHOW Yušká: Uncoil curated by Erin Genia, Mills Gallery Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA

2024 Visions of Trane, New Art Center curated by Terry Jenoure, Newton, MA

2024 Tin Soldier, Villa Paradis at LaTraverse /Catherine Bastide Projects, Marseille France

2022 Celebrate Renewal, Kingston Gallery, Boston MA

2021 Women in Abstraction, curated by Destiny Palmer, New Art Center, Newton, MA

2020 Leaps of Imagination, curated by art_works, Artfare app (digital show)

2020 SIZZLE, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

2020 Songs of Innocence, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2020 Hello World (TransCultural Exchange), Dorchester Art Project, Boston, MA

2020 Modern Love, Assemblage Gallery, 70a Sleeper St, Boston, MA

2019 WET!, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA

2018 GIMME SHELTER, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2017 Fresh Forward, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA

2017 UNVEILED/Hallspace Drawing Project, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA

2017 Makers Love Company, Island Copper Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA

2017 Bodies In Motion, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA

2017 TIME, Brickbottom Studios, Somerville, MA

2017 Myth and Magic, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2016 ONE NIGHT ONLY, Wareham St., Boston, MA

2016 Fun A Day Boston, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

2015 ReSearch, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2014 Hallspace Drawing Project, Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA

2014 CRFT SHW, Vineyard Haven, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

2010 Recollect, Repeat, Retrieve then Reapply, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI

PROJECTS/COLLABORATIONS

2024 Resonant Currents: Iwalani Kaluhiokalani x Lani Asuncion, Kingston Gallery Boston MA

2024 Seaspeak: Iwalani Kaluhiokalani x Slamber Slusser x Maya Waves, Kingston Gallery Boston MA

2024 Scenography for BEAUTY with Soulskin Dance, Mark Morris Dance Center

2024 Fountain Dance Mele for ‘Tabi Tabi Po’ (May I Pass) a performance part of SONG/ LAND/ SEA: WAI Water Warnings, a public art installation by Lani Asuncion on the Rose Kennedy Greenway on view through Summer 2025.

2024 Interiorisation IV, vocalisation performance and video by Vera Martynov, La Traverse, Marseille, France

2014 Self-Medication, endurance performance by Marni Kotak, UNTITLED art fair, Miami Beach

2010 Welcome to My House, MyHouse Art Space/ Marni Kotak, Brooklyn, NY

2008 The Slumber Party, endurance performance by Marni Kotak, English Kills Gallery, Brooklyn NY

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/GRANTS

2025 Un- Monument Video Mapping Grant, Emerson Contemporary, Boston MA

2023 Vermont Studio Center Residency

2023 Mass Cultural Council Grant

2021 ACTivate Residency, Boston Center for the Arts: Cyclorama Building, Boston MA

2021 The Denis Diderot Artist-in-Residence Award, Château D' Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France

2002 Lawrence Kupferman Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2001 Lawrence Kupferman Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

COLLECTIONS

GI Partners Boston Massachusetts

Private Corporate Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Michelle L. Morby Collection, San Francisco, California

Elizabeth D. Rowe Collection, Boston, Massachusetts