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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

Hawaii Contemporary ArtXchange - Group Show - 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

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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

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​

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