Notes from Hawaiʻi: Haoles, Kapa, and Kuleana

August 24, 2023, 6PM ET
Virtual Event

As part of the AICA-USA 2023 Annual Meeting, a special presentation was given by AICA-USA member Dr. Maika Pollack. Maika presents “Notes from Hawaiʻi: Haoles, Kapa, and Kuleana.”

Maika Pollack is a critic and curator, and for the last four years she has served as Director and Chief Curator at the John Young Museum of Art & University Galleries at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. As a curator there she has recently organized exhibitions of works by Tadashi Sato, Ken Okiishi, Dorothea Lange, Stephanie Syjuco, Liz Train, and Tetsuo Ochikubo, among others. Her focus on archival projects about Hawaiʻi-born artists, and interest in changing gallery and museum policies to open exhibition opportunities to the living artists of Hawaiʻi, including Native Hawaiian artists, have marked her time at the University of Hawaiʻi. As a critic, she has recently written about art in the Pacific region for Frieze, Aperture, and Artforum. She previously lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY where she co-founded and directed the art gallery SOUTHFIRST from 2000-2018. She also worked at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, NY and earned a BA in art history from Harvard University and a PhD in art history from Princeton University. Staring in the fall she will become Executive Director and Chief Curator at Syracuse University Art Museum.