https://joshtengan.com JT Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:41:16 +0000 https://joshtengan.com en https://joshtengan.com/2026-9-Piliamo-o-NGA Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:24:24 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2026-9-Piliamo-o-NGA “Piliāmoʻo Creates Archives of Erasure and Currents of Return” West to East National Gallery of Art 2026-9 “In Kailua, Piliāmoʻo’s photographs do more than document transformation. They help Hawaiians reconnect to ʻāina, land (literally: “that which feeds”), and kūpuna. Meanwhile, they remind those who live there that these places are layered with stories—with lives that came long before them and will continue long after. This is one of the functions of Hawaiian photography: to preserve what is threatened and to make visible the obligations and relations that bind people to place.”Read More Filed under:ARTICLE <img width="2159" height="1440" width_o="2159" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aff32fc166ec63296a004d00033e35aab2717f16db315ecab9b393595c1920d6/piliamoo-hawaii_018_1.jpg" data-mid="253641008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aff32fc166ec63296a004d00033e35aab2717f16db315ecab9b393595c1920d6/piliamoo-hawaii_018_1.jpg" /> https://joshtengan.com/2026-01-SHIMA Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:41:16 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2026-01-SHIMA SHIMA, pt. I Aupuni SpaceArtists:&nbsp;Dane Nakama, Erin Nagamine, Emma Jane Chiyoko Oshiro, shō yamagushiku, Shalev &amp; Bambi 2026-1 “SHIMA is the first iteration of a new exhibition series exploring Okinawan life in relation to Hawaiʻi, Uchinā, and the Moana.&nbsp; Part 1 explores shima not only as an ʻisland’ or ‘village’ – but as a relational space and a psychic condition, being held by more than one place and time at once – as Okinawan identity in Hawaiʻi is shaped by plantation histories, U.S. militarization, community organizing and resistance, being local, and emergent conversations around Indigeneity.” &nbsp;Read More Filed under:EXHIBITION <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/feb1c1cf70e8654b9dd653cae00846dc98b99b8156540d89558c06caffe2db96/Aupuni-Space_Shima_Installation_Feb_12_26_For-Web-3.jpg" data-mid="253642040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/feb1c1cf70e8654b9dd653cae00846dc98b99b8156540d89558c06caffe2db96/Aupuni-Space_Shima_Installation_Feb_12_26_For-Web-3.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e17fd1fb4352f394370f377d3454763ea56784de489a940aaccdedebd65e2a3/Shima_Corner.jpg" data-mid="253642041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e17fd1fb4352f394370f377d3454763ea56784de489a940aaccdedebd65e2a3/Shima_Corner.jpg" /> https://joshtengan.com/2025-10-Confluence-Forge Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:12:55 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2025-10-Confluence-Forge Confluence Forge Project ew&nbsp; New ʻelmporary Ar 2025-10 Confluence is an International Indigenous Art Criticism Residency convened by Léuli Eshrāghi (Tagata Sāmoa), Curator of Indigenous Practices at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal @leulieshraghi, and Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini), Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project @sarahbiscarradilley, with co-facilitation and support from Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick (Kanaka ʻŌiwi). Filed under:RESIDENCY <img width="1206" height="1206" width_o="1206" height_o="1206" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/868780a8a0c2809b2ef055f9b18dfafe62e93a66ccdd6ddef50e1d36c6fd8a5a/IMG_4953.PNG" data-mid="253640278" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/868780a8a0c2809b2ef055f9b18dfafe62e93a66ccdd6ddef50e1d36c6fd8a5a/IMG_4953.PNG" /> <img width="1206" height="1206" width_o="1206" height_o="1206" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f669f5d49721fd165e92256ada1fc6426e3812b8abf8dabaa7d6c11cdf0f5f79/IMG_4952.PNG" data-mid="253640115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f669f5d49721fd165e92256ada1fc6426e3812b8abf8dabaa7d6c11cdf0f5f79/IMG_4952.PNG" /> https://joshtengan.com/2025-1-He-Pohaku-Eleku-Ka-Mea-Kanu Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:52:45 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2025-1-He-Pohaku-Eleku-Ka-Mea-Kanu He pōhaku ʻelekū ka mea kanu: New Perspectives on Uluhaimālama ew&nbsp; New ʻelmporary Ar 2025-01 “A lesser-known creative expression, both artistic and philanthropic in nature, was the establishment of Uluhaimālama, the queen’s charitable garden. I would like readers to reconsider Uluhaimālama as an early example of public art, established in October 1894, and conceived by Queen Liliʻuokalani herself. ” Digital&nbsp;PDF Filed under:ESSAY <img width="4328" height="3756" width_o="4328" height_o="3756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cabad46613aa414b4e85eb95d93938f96ee1aec63ef77172e7e2457658dae70/Survey-Notes--1891-06-23--Record-consists-of-surveyor-notes-pertaining-to-Uluhaimalama---Hawaii-State-Archives.jpg" data-mid="239526872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6cabad46613aa414b4e85eb95d93938f96ee1aec63ef77172e7e2457658dae70/Survey-Notes--1891-06-23--Record-consists-of-surveyor-notes-pertaining-to-Uluhaimalama---Hawaii-State-Archives.jpg" /> https://joshtengan.com/2024-12-AP-Publication Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:19:58 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2024-12-AP-Publication ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters: Native Hawaiian Contemporary Art in Hawaiʻi 1976–2023Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Josh Tengan, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu, eds.&nbsp;Soft-cover 808 pages9x12”Edition of 1500 2024-12 “The 808-page publication, ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters: Native Hawaiian Contemporary Art in Hawaiʻi, 1976–2023, is a landmark resource documenting the exhibition ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters (2023) and its broader historical and cultural context. ” Digital&nbsp;PDF Physical Filed under:BOOK, PUBLICATION <img width="1500" height="2000" width_o="1500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6d0db7a730b6b429ffdc29beb92e5cbe73cdaeb5eb02b138ac43da9facb2c47/AP_PUB.jpeg" data-mid="230607454" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6d0db7a730b6b429ffdc29beb92e5cbe73cdaeb5eb02b138ac43da9facb2c47/AP_PUB.jpeg" /> https://joshtengan.com/2023-12-ANZJA Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:36:59 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2023-12-ANZJA ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone Eaters: Affirmation, Defiance, and Kānaka ʻŌiwi Visual Culture TodayAustralia and New Zealand Journal of Art &nbsp;| &nbsp;Vol. 23 Issue 2 (2023) Te Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean Joins Us All.&nbsp; Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte, eds.Co-authored with Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick. 2023-12 “Through a detailed discussion of the exhibition at UH Mānoa, the ‘flagship’ campus of the UH System, as well as the stakes of the project as a whole, we consider the critical ways in which Indigenous contemporary art, exhibition-making, and public programming have the potential to move through institutional critique and embrace the needs of communities—those established and those in the making.” PDF Filed under:ARTICLE <img width="1206" height="1206" width_o="1206" height_o="1206" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c560cf0f2f305d3273953c5562e9e76869fc273555f59d76a5b90b66ccb65df/ANZJA_2.PNG" data-mid="230540769" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c560cf0f2f305d3273953c5562e9e76869fc273555f59d76a5b90b66ccb65df/ANZJA_2.PNG" /> <img width="1206" height="1203" width_o="1206" height_o="1203" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb5507374eeb6252ec7cedd22c8497c2ec8ca8b0de1cb3ce528900874fdb398d/ANZJA_1.PNG" data-mid="230540768" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb5507374eeb6252ec7cedd22c8497c2ec8ca8b0de1cb3ce528900874fdb398d/ANZJA_1.PNG" /> <img width="1206" height="1204" width_o="1206" height_o="1204" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95a5650be9d1646c157b533f45548033de86c85e44d7e64506bb31b3c33ee4ef/ANZJA_3.PNG" data-mid="230540770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95a5650be9d1646c157b533f45548033de86c85e44d7e64506bb31b3c33ee4ef/ANZJA_3.PNG" /> https://joshtengan.com/2023-01-AP Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:05:04 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2023-01-AP ʻAi Pōhaku, Stone EatersThe Art Gallery and Commons Gallery at UH-Mānoa; Koa Gallery, Kapiolani CC; Gallery ʻIolani, Windward CC; Hōʻikeākea Gallery Leeward CC, East-West Center Gallery. Co-curated with Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu 2023-01–08 “‘Ai Pōhaku, Stone Eaters addresses the exclusion of Kānaka worldviews from academia, specifically within the UH Mānoa Department of Art and Art History, and an overall lack of institutional support for Kānaka art across the Islands.” &nbsp; -&gt; Filed under:EXHIBITION, CURATORIAL <img width="1206" height="1204" width_o="1206" height_o="1204" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95a5650be9d1646c157b533f45548033de86c85e44d7e64506bb31b3c33ee4ef/ANZJA_3.PNG" data-mid="230560306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95a5650be9d1646c157b533f45548033de86c85e44d7e64506bb31b3c33ee4ef/ANZJA_3.PNG" /> https://joshtengan.com/2023-01-Open-Space Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:45:30 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2023-01-Open-Space Wayfinders Curatorial Residency Open Space Lekwungen Territory Victoria, BC 2023-01 “Wayfinders, the ones we breathe with,&nbsp;recalls ancient way finding practices utilizing the stars, wind, water and land markers to find paths across the sea and, through the work of artists from coastal neighbours and nations across the Pacific Ocean, considers intertwined histories, practices, migrations and contemporary lives of adjacent homelands. Breathing together across the shared ocean in cultural, environmental and molecular exchange.” &nbsp; Read More Filed under:RESIDENCY &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="2500" height="1485" width_o="2500" height_o="1485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc34e1cb67565e0af72e2e593338529b30ce88e6eb24512536b8d27447bd2082/Open-Space_Tim-Soutar_1970-edited.jpg" data-mid="230541265" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc34e1cb67565e0af72e2e593338529b30ce88e6eb24512536b8d27447bd2082/Open-Space_Tim-Soutar_1970-edited.jpg" /> https://joshtengan.com/2021-10-CONTACT-2014-2019 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:38:29 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2021-10-CONTACT-2014-2019 CONTACT 2014-2019Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Marika Emi, Maile Meyer, Josh Tengan, eds.Softcover310 pages8 x 10.5&nbsp; inchesEdition of 1500Puʻuhonua Society x Tropic EditionsISBN 978-1-7376872-0-7 PDF Physical 2021-10 “From 2014–2019, the annual exhibition CONTACT was a fixture in the contemporary art scene in Hawai‘i. From its arrival in 2014, to the most-recent Acts of Faith at the Hawaiian Mission Houses in 2019, CONTACT has become the most comprehensive, thematic exhibition of contemporary art made in Hawai‘i by Hawai‘i artists. The show has been thoughtfully curated by individuals in/out of our root culture, to deepen the dynamic of contact and to widen our understanding of our lived experiences here.” Filed under:PUBLICATION <img width="1400" height="1000" width_o="1400" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7b1b1bb376fb4b21519f21c2e073b6b5b53e0ff8b616d2d35c3cd0ae42cb6a5/Contact_2.jpg" data-mid="230482238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7b1b1bb376fb4b21519f21c2e073b6b5b53e0ff8b616d2d35c3cd0ae42cb6a5/Contact_2.jpg" /> <img width="1400" height="1000" width_o="1400" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8a102b27edd55dbab4fcbad07ea9676c0cf3e7249db6ccb7d83124164ef5026/Contact_1.jpg" data-mid="230482237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b8a102b27edd55dbab4fcbad07ea9676c0cf3e7249db6ccb7d83124164ef5026/Contact_1.jpg" /> <img width="1400" height="1000" width_o="1400" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/159aee1d762388d1cf7156ea6bec66c7497a92c7f1c7fa809d573cd4afb102f4/Contact_3.jpg" data-mid="230482241" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/159aee1d762388d1cf7156ea6bec66c7497a92c7f1c7fa809d573cd4afb102f4/Contact_3.jpg" /> https://joshtengan.com/2021-05-Bernice-Akamine Sat, 19 Apr 2025 22:49:07 +0000 JT https://joshtengan.com/2021-05-Bernice-Akamine Bernice Akamine FLUX&nbsp; S/S 2021 Issue 2021-05 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; “Kalo, like much of the work in Akamine’s oeuvre, connects communities across the paeʻāina, across time, and generations, in aloha ʻāīna and ongoing resistance to American annexation and occupation in our islands.” -&gt; Filed under:ARTICLE, PUBLICATION, FLUX <img width="1200" height="800" src="//freight.cargo.site/w/600/q/75/i/3f723c3d22d67cab07a7dad5c7f68842d133f5465f3480fe48787cdef6b5e8c8/Flux-Bernice-Akamine-HiRes-Dino-Morrow-Photography-1.jpg" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f723c3d22d67cab07a7dad5c7f68842d133f5465f3480fe48787cdef6b5e8c8/Flux-Bernice-Akamine-HiRes-Dino-Morrow-Photography-1.jpg"> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57a8e0d1266a8922f8732eb33e542ec55670a408fd1c92582c723c85ec603803/Flux-Bernice-Akamine-HiRes-Dino-Morrow-Photography-57.jpg" data-mid="230482262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57a8e0d1266a8922f8732eb33e542ec55670a408fd1c92582c723c85ec603803/Flux-Bernice-Akamine-HiRes-Dino-Morrow-Photography-57.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57a8e0d1266a8922f8732eb33e542ec55670a408fd1c92582c723c85ec603803/Flux-Bernice-Akamine-HiRes-Dino-Morrow-Photography-57.jpg" data-mid="230482265" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57a8e0d1266a8922f8732eb33e542ec55670a408fd1c92582c723c85ec603803/Flux-Bernice-Akamine-HiRes-Dino-Morrow-Photography-57.jpg" />