Representative work by Lisa Reihana
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Artist

Lisa Reihana

b. 1964, Auckland, New Zealand · Māori / New Zealander

  • Elam School of Fine Arts
  • Unitec Institute of Technology

Lisa Reihana creates moving-image installations and photographs that revisit colonial encounters, Māori and Pacific histories, and the conventions of ethnographic representation. Her panoramic video in Pursuit of Venus [infected] reimagines an eighteenth-century French wallpaper through staged Pacific perspectives.

Video; photography; installation

Major Works

  • 2015–17in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
  • 2001 onwardDigital Marae
  • 1997Native Portraits n.19897
  • 2017Tai Whetuki
  • 2020Ihi
  • 2000sNomads of the Sea
  • 2000sHe Tautoko
  • 1990sMaui One Thousand Tales
  • 1990Wog Features
  • 2002Groundloop

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