Kapwani Kiwanga: (In) Practice

February 27, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Building Auditorium (ART132), 2535 McCarthy Mall Honolulu, HI 96822 Add to Calendar

Kapwani Kiwanga is a French and Canadian artist, living and working between Paris and Berlin. Kiwanga studied Anthropology and Comparative Religion at McGill University in Montreal and Art at l’École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Kiwanga’s work traces the pervasive impact of power asymmetries by placing historic narratives in dialogue with contemporary realities, the archive, and tomorrow’s possibilities. Kiwanga has been shortlisted for the 2025 Joan Miró Prize. In 2022, she received the Zurich Art Prize (CH). She was also the winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize (FR) in 2020, Frieze Artist Award (USA) and the annual Sobey Art Award (CA) in 2018. She represented Canada at the 60th International Venice Art Biennale in 2024. Kiwanga will serve as Spring 2025 the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguised Chair in Democratic Ideals. Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals Kiwanga is the Spring 2025 Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals. The program was chartered by the late senator and his wife to bring scholars, artists, and public intellectuals to Hawai‘i to share their life experiences and discuss their work on behalf of democratic ideals. The Inouye chair is administered jointly by the Department of American Studies in the College of Arts, Languages & Letters and the William S. Richardson School of Law.

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Robert Perkinson, (808) 351-8976, btss@hawaii.edu, https://manoa.hawaii.edu/speakers/

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