CV
Solo Exhibitions
Dear Uncle Tani - Kaiao Space - 2025
Bumbai - solo Show - Kaiao Space - 2024
NeNe Time - solo Show - Kaiao Space - 2022
Hanabada - family show - Aupuni Space - 2022
Talk Story - family show - Box Jelly Artist in Residence show - 2021
むかしむかし once upon a time - Solo- Hawaii Theatre Center - 2021
Select Group Exhibitions
Fractured Reverie - KITA gallery - 2025
Checked Baggage - ONTOPO - Arrival Art Fair - 2025
Hawaii Contemporary ArtXchange - Waikiki - 2023
Hawaii Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition - 2023
Naturally Curious - Group Show - Kaiao Space - 2022
QASI fest - group Show - Hawaii State Art Museum - 2022
WORK - group show - Los Angeles, California - 2022
Nomad Pavilion - Venice Beach, California - 2019
Open Studio - Pearl City, Hawaii - 2019
Ellipses - Design Festa Gallery, Harajuku, Japan - 2019
Satellite Art Fair - Miami, Florida - 2018
Curatorial Experience
Co-Curator of the UCLA New Wight Theme exhibition: Social Sediment - 2024
Residencies
2020-21 Box Jelly Hawaii
Publications
ALOHA NŌ: A Tribute to the Art of Unfiltered Love and Unapologetic Truths - Flux Hawai’i - 2025
For Freedoms: Where Do We Go from Here? - 2024
Okaeri Coming Home book Publication - 2024
Magazine B issue 91 - Hawai’i Edition - 2022
Anthology for Unseen - 2022
Cut Fruit Collective interview - 2022
An Artful Dialogue with Dane Nakama Flux Hawaii - 2021
Loochoo nu Kwa Podcast - Art and Indigeneity/ Cultural Identity - 2021
Art History In The Age Of TikTok - Artland Magazine - 2020
Super Smash Hoes Podcast - 2020
Figuring it Out Podcast - 2020
It's Lit with PHDJ Podcast - Episode 117 - 2020
Homes and Homeys - Mori Hawaii - 2020
Art in a Time of Pandemic: How Artists and Institutions Stay Connected - 2020
Nakama’s ‘WUT?’ Explores Unknown - MidWeek Hawaii - 2020
The Satellite Experience - Chapman University Magazine - 2019
Work Experience
UCLA teaching assistant - 2024 -
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