CV
Exhibitions
2026
Kaiao Space (forthcoming)
Niu Systems - Ryan Lee Gallery (forthcoming)
A Poi Dog’s New Trick - UCLA New Wight Gallery (solo)
Dear Uncle Tani, - Grand Central Art Center (solo)
Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within - Honolulu Museum of Art (museum commission)
Shima - Aupuni Space (group)
2025
Dear Uncle Tani - Kaiao Space (solo)
Something to Hold - KITA gallery (group)
Fractured Reverie - KITA gallery (group)
Checked Baggage - ONTOPO - Arrival Art Fair (group)
2024
Bumbai - Kaiao Space (solo)
2023
Hawaii Contemporary ArtXchange - Waikiki (group)
Hawaii Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition (group)
2022
NeNe Time - Kaiao Space (solo)
hanabada: once before, again - Aupuni Space (solo)
Naturally Curious - Group Show - Kaiao Space (group)
QASI fest - Group Show - Hawai’i State Art Museum (group)
WORK - Group Show - Los Angeles, California (group)
2021
Talk Story - Family Show - Box Jelly Artist in Residence show (solo)
むかしむかし once upon a time - Hawai’i Theater Center (solo)
Affection Artifacts - Group Show - Coaxial Arts gallery (group)
For Freedoms AAPI month Billboard Campaign
2020
BFA Show 2020, Serving the People, www.stp.world (group)
CalArts student exhibition - Imagine Entertainment - Beverly Hills, California (group)
dunno - CalArts - Valencia, California (solo)
Wut? - Mori Hawai’i (solo)
2019
Open Studio - Pearl City, Hawaii (solo)
Nomad Pavilion - Group Show - Venice Beach, California (group)
Ellipses - Design Festa Gallery, Harajuku, Japan (group)
2018
Satellite Art Fair - Miami, Florida (group)
Curatorial Experience
2025
something to hold - Ceramic Group Show - KITA Gallery
2024
Co-Curator of the UCLA New Wight Theme exhibition: Social Sediment
Residencies
2020-21 Box Jelly Hawaii
Publications
2026
Carla Magazine - Fading Stripes, Falling Stars - Issue #44
2025
ALOHA NŌ: A Tribute to the Art of Unfiltered Love and Unapologetic Truths - Flux Hawai’i
New American Paintings - Issue #177
2024
For Freedoms: Where Do We Go from Here?
Okaeri Coming Home book Publication
2022
Magazine B issue 91 - Hawai’i Edition
Anthology for Unseen
Cut Fruit Collective interview
2021
An Artful Dialogue with Dane Nakama Flux Hawaii
Loochoo nu Kwa Podcast - Art and Indigeneity/ Cultural Identity
2020
Art History In The Age Of TikTok - Artland Magazine
Super Smash Hoes Podcast
Figuring it Out Podcast
It's Lit with PHDJ Podcast - Episode 117
Homes and Homeys - Mori Hawaii
Art in a Time of Pandemic: How Artists and Institutions Stay Connected
Nakama’s ‘WUT?’ Explores Unknown - MidWeek Hawaii
2019
The Satellite Experience - Chapman University Magazine
Work Experience
UCLA teaching assistant - 2024 - 2026
fishschool Hawai'i Director - 2021- 23
Gallery Assistant - 2018, Chapman University
Painting and Drawing Studio Assistant- 2017- 2018, Chapman University
Education
UCLA - Ceramics (2023-) - MFA - Los Angeles, California
California Institute of the Arts (2019 - 2021) - BFA - Valencia, California
Chapman University (2017-2019) - Orange, California
Temple University (Study Abroad, Spring 2019) - Tokyo, Japan