Artist
Yuki Kihara
b. 1975 · Samoan-Japanese
Yuki Kihara is a Sāmoan-Japanese interdisciplinary artist whose photography, performance and video examine colonial representation, gender and Pacific history. As a fa’afafine artist, Kihara frequently turns ethnographic and art-historical imagery back onto the systems that produced it.
Photography; performance; video
Major Works
- 2005Fa’a fafine: In the Manner of a Woman →
- 2008Shigeyuki Kihara: Living Photographs →
- 2006Taualuga: The Last Dance →
- 2013Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? →
- 2014Samoa Mo Samoa →
- 2015A Study of a Samoan Savage →
- 2012Culture for Sale →
- 2018First Impressions: Paul Gauguin →
- 2022Paradise Camp →
- 2010sVava’u: Tales from the Homelands →
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
