Iwalani Kaluhiokalani is an American painter and interdisciplinary artist living and working in Boston, USA, and Marseille, FRANCE. Her dynamic practice spans painting, performance, dance, and a wide range of mediums, including paper cut-outs, installations, repeat-motif printmaking, and video projection with partial AI generation. These elements interweave, reflecting her deep-rooted background in movement and her personal diasporic journey, which grounds her artistic exploration. Anchored by a sense of the body as home and shaped by her family's trans-oceanic narratives, Iwalani draws inspiration from Polynesian mythology, sensory ethnography, psychedelia, and synesthesia. Her work critically engages with the historical intersections of European colonization in Oceania and explores utopian visions of a borderless global society. Iwalani’s distinctive visual language unfolds over time, performing like choreography—simultaneously recording and transmitting her movements across surfaces. She intentionally reshapes nature and figuration into collaborative experiences with her process itself and the environments in which her work is installed. Through her use of tactile materiality, repurposed objects from her painting process, and rhythmic compositions, she seduces viewers into “imagined futures” and other-worldly spaces where sight and touch intersect haptically. Her immersive installations of "accidental artifacts" bridge the past and present, transmitting evocative, sensory-rich experiences and explorations of the body’s connection to nature.