CONTACT wendyak@hawaii.edu
EDUCATION
MFA Studio Art, University of New Mexico, Magna Cum Laude
BFA Art History, Massachusetts College of Art
Professor of Art, Department of Art & Art History, University of Hawaii at Manoa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Grow in Light vol. V, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA https://sophia.smith.edu/art-oresman-gallery/portfolio/wendy-kawabata/
2018
Here Comes the Sun, Sanderson Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Practice for the Garden, Windward Gallery, Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, Hawaii
2017
Morning Light, Sanderson Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2016
Upland and Furrow, Sanderson Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Genre, Sanderson Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015
In the Land, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
2013
Grow in Light vol. 1, Sanderson Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
Acts, Haas Gallery of Art, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
2010
Outer Edge Project, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
Pull, Poke, Fold, Corban Estates Art Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
Frame 301, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Pull, Mark, Fold, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI
2005
Burning Green Wood, The Beall Park Art Center, Emerson Center for Art, Bozeman, MT
2004
Two Bodies, The Photography Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2002
Contested Space, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2001
Within, North and South Galleries, The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006
The Point of Loose Ends (two person with Lisa Solomon), Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
2001
Boundary Waters (two person with Joshua Larson), Albuquerque Contemporary Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Collage/Assemblage, SITE Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Pattern Recognition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fiber Hawai’i: In, Of, or About Fiber, Hawai’i Craftsmen, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI
2023
Faculty Exhibition Part “1”, Abstract Fragments, Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2020
Material Slip, University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, WY
Downtown Drawings, Honolulu Museum of Art at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI
2018
Material Slip, Commons Gallery, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
RESERVE, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
2017
Abstract Mind: International Exhibition on Abstract Art, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Cut & Paste: Contemporary Collage, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Abstract, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
DRAWN, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
Masur Museum 54th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
2016
Messing With Yarn, Textile Arts Factory & AKTO College, Thessaloniki, Greece
Summer Showcase, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
2015
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Sanderson Contemporary, The Carriageworks, Sydney, AU
20x20 Book Launch Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
195 x 195, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
Exquisite Corpse, John and Patches Damon Holt Galleries, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Summer Catalogue Show, Sanderson Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Aki Matsuri, The CLOE Project to benefit the New Mexico Japanese American Citizen League, The National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
2014
I AM: Money Matters, ArtPrize, The Fed Galleries at Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Advent 2014, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
2013
Advent 2013, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
New Collectors’ Series, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
Artist Book Launch Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
Auckland Art Fair, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
Faculty Exhibition, The University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2012
Restraint, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
Advent 2012, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
Cutting Edge: Contemporary Paper, Visual Arts Center at Boise State University, Boise, ID
Summer National Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
Gallery Selections, Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011
Paper, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL
SubStainability, Texas State University Art Gallery, Texas State University San Marcos, San Marcos, TX
Manufactured Organic, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Group 70, Pa’i Foundation Sustainability Center, Honolulu, HI
Advent 2011, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
150 x 150 x 150, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
Installation, The Arnes Museum, Skagastrond, Iceland
2010
Pool Art Fair, Frere Independent, New York, NY
Advent 2010, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand
A-HA, Galerie 103, Kauai, HI
2009
SmartArtSF “Trash to Treasure,” Lincart Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Beauty, Decoration, and Ornament, Gallery 117, Eastern New Mexico University, Roswell, NM
2008
Mapped, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI
Tattered Cultures, Mended Histories, The Linekona Gallery, Honolulu Academy of Art at the Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI
Triennial 2008, The Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Led By Thread, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
On, Of, and About Paper, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
der Zeitgenosse, Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art, Cheney, WA
Paperwork In, On, and Of Paper IV, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO
2007
Loyola National Works on Paper, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
Wish You Were Here: work by Ox-Bow Artists in Residence, Holland Arts Council, Holland, MI
Revisiting Portraiture, thirtyninehotel, Honolulu, HI
Labyrinth of the Ridiculous, Soullenz Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Essential Elements, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Absence/Excess/Loss, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
Island to Island, The University of Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, The University of Tasmania, and the University of Hawai’i Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Transgressions: Transgender, Transnational, Transsexual, Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
2006
Faculty Exhibition, UH Art Gallery, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
17th National Drawing & Print Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
The Nancie Mattice Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Dangenart Gallery, Nashville, TN
2005
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, New York City, NY, represented by The Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
3rd Drawing Biennale, Steps Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2005 and the Benalla Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Topographics, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
Paperwork, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2004
The Art of Living, The Danforth Gallery, Livingston, MT
MSU School of Art Faculty Exhibition, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
Pleasurework, SCA Gallery, Pomona, CA, 2004 and Fort 508 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Small Works, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL
Women In the Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2003
Consecrated, The Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
Influence, Helen C. Copeland Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Pre-occupation, Wright Art Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
2002
The Herron 100, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
2001
Dirty Weekend, University Lodge, Albuquerque, NM
Memory and In(ter)vention: An Exhibition of Found and Original Photographic Images, with Photographic Works From the Collection of Professor Geoffrey Batchen, The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Contemporary Art 2001, The Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM
The 7th Annual Graduate Juried Exhibition, Raymond Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2000
National Small Oil Painting Competition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
The Window Project, Future Central Market Building, Albuquerque, NM
Art on ’66, Fort 105 Studios, Albuquerque, NM
The 6th Annual Graduate Juried Exhibition, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS
2024
Temari Award, Fiber Hawai’i: In, Of, or About Fiber, Hawai’i Craftsmen, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI
2023
OVPRS Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research & Creative Work, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2018
SEED IDEAS Award, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2015
Travel Award, University Research Council, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2013
Travel Award, University Research Council, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2012
Pollock-Krasner Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
Travel Award, University Research Council, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2011
Travel Award, University Research Council, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2009
Award for Innovative Creative and Scholarly Work, University Research Council, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Travel Award, University Research Council, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Unexpected Beauty Award, Beauty, Decoration, and Ornament Exhibition, Gallery 117, Eastern New Mexico University, Roswell, NM
2008
Purchase Award, der Zeitgenosse exhibition, Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art, Cheney, WA
2006
Award for Innovative Creative and Scholarly Work, University Research Council, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Travel Award, University Research Council, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Purchase Award, 17th National Drawing & Print Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD
2005
Support the Artist Scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2002
Raymond Jonson Painting Award, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2001
Juror’s Prize, Contemporary Art 2001, Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM
1999
Vera Nolan Foundation Award, University of New Mexico in conjunction with the Guild of St. John, of St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Albuquerque, NM
Lucille Reed-Lattaner Brock Foundation Scholarship, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Arts and Technology Center Creative Work Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2011
Nes Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland
2007
Oxbow School of Art & Artist Residency, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Saugatuck, MI
MEDIA APPEARANCES
2018
Krysa, Danielle. 'Paintings, Pinholes, and Pina Coladas'. Episode 123. The Jealous Curator. February 2,2018. http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2018/02/02/paintings-pinholes-and-pina-coladas/
CATALOGUES
2009
Pull, Mark, Fold, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Inger Tully, Curator of Exhibitions, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2008
Mapped, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Inger Tully, Curator of Exhibitions, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
Book and Paper Arts Triennial, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Mex Yela, Head, Special Collections, UW at Milwaukee Libraries, Adjunct Associate Professor, Book Arts, UWM Department of Visual Art, Published by The Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
On, Of, and About Paper, Exhibition Catalogue, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2007
Absence, Excess, Loss, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Patricia Mathews, Associate Professor of Art, Oberlin College, Published by Rochester Contemporary Gallery, Rochester, NY
Island to Island Exhibition Catalogue, The University of Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, The University of Tasmania, and the University of Hawai’i Art Gallery
Transgressions: Transgender, Transnational, Transsexual Exhibition Catalogue, Reynolds Gallery and the University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
2004
MSU School of Art Faculty Exhibition Catalog, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
Women in the Middle: Borders, Barriers and Intersections Exhibition Catalogue, Walker Point Center for the Arts and the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Small Works Exhibition Catalog, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL
2002
Contested Space Catalog, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
PUBLICATIONS
2019
INPA 9 (International Painting Annual), Manifest Gallery and Creative Research Center, Manifest Press, Cincinnati, OH
Murze Magazine, https://www.murze.org/gallery
2017
Studio Visit Magazine, Summer 2017, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
Under the Gum Tree, Issue 22, January 2017, Davis, CA
2015
"What's New at Sydney Contemporary?", Art Collector Magazine, Sydney, Australia, October 2015
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
2014
“PromptPress 1”, Prompt Press, Iowa City, IA
2013
“The Artists: 21 Practitioners in New Zealand Contemporary Art c. 2013-2015,” edited by Jane Apperly, Tamara Darragh, and Kylie Sanderson. Beatnik Publishing. Auckland, New Zealand.
Dialogist: Quarterly Poetry and Art, Vol. I issue III, 2013
2012
Piecrust Magazine, Etiquette issue, Fall/Winter 2012/13
2011
“Prompt123,” Online Journal, collaboration with Iowa Writers Workshop, www.prompt123dotcom.wordpress.com
2010
Transvoirie Helvetia Environment 2010 Calendar, G Marketing Creativity Group, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2008
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
REVIEWS
2015
Goldberg, David. "Altered Perception." The Honolulu Star Advertiser, December 6, 2015, F7, illus.
Griffith, Lesa, 'Wendy Kawabata on her installation "In the Land"', Honolulu Museum of Art Newsletter, September 28, 2015. http://blog.honoluluacademy.org/wendy-kawabata-on-her-solo-show-%CA%BBin-the-land%CA%BB/
Arons, Rachel, “Internet Book Fetishists versus Anti-Fetishists.” The New Yorker, July 8, 2013.http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/07/internet-book-fetishists-versus-anti-fetishists.html#slide_ss_0=3
2012
McNamara, T.J. “From the Sublime to the Meticulous.” The New Zealand Herald. March 4, 2012.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=4666&objectid=10789993
Masterson, Sarah. “Cutting Edge Explores The Fold Between Paper Fine Art and Craft.” Boise Weekly, Feb 1, 2012.
2011
Weathers, Chelsea. “SUBstainability: Texas State University Galleries, San Marcos.” …Might Be Good. Issue 163: February 8, 2011, https://goo.gl/aXuP7A
2010
“Take a Leaf Out of These Books.” The Aucklander. September 8, 2010.http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/living/news/take-a-leaf-out-of-these-books/3921766/
“Withdrawn from Circulation.” NO Magazine. Fall 2010. http://www.nomagazine.co.nz/good/withdrawn-from-circulation
2009
Morse, Marcia. “Wendy Kawabata: The Contemporary Museum.” Art in America. September 2009, p. 156, illus.
Morse, Marcia. “A Different World.” Honolulu Weekly. April 8-14, 2009, p. 23.
Oshiro, Joleen, “Women Artists Share the Spotlight.” Honolulu Star Bulletin. February 17, 2009
Heimbuch, Jaymi. “Rethinking Trash into Inspired Art.” Treehugger. June 3, 2009.www.treehugger.com/files/2009/06/rethinking-trash-into-inspired-art-slideshow.php
2008
Morse, Marcia. “Tattered Cultures.” Honolulu Weekly. September 17, 2008.
Weinberg, Lauren. “5th International Book & Paper Arts Triennial,” exhibition review. Time Out Chicago. Issue 183: Aug 28-Sep 3, 2008.
Merjian, Ara. “Mapped,” exhibition review. Modern Painters. July/August 2008. P.83
Mellema, Kevin. “The Thread as Line: Contemporary Sewn Art.” Art Beat, Falls Church News Press, May 2008.
Morse, Marcia. “Mapquest: The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center Shows A Unique Path.” Honolulu
Weekly. Vol. 18, #20, p. 18, May 14-20, 2008.
Oshiro, Joleen. “Glass and Maps.” Honolulu Star Bulletin. Vol. 13, Issue 118 - April 27, 2008
Ho, Lorraine, and McCoy, Cynthia. “Mapped Features UH Faculty and Local Artists.” Ka Lamakua: The Creative
Element. January 28, 2008. http://www.kalamakua.org/art/mapped.html.
Hamilton, Jaimey. “Before GPS, There Was… The Art of Cartography.” Honolulu Advertiser. February 3, 2008, D5.
2007
Norris, Doug. “What’s ‘Essential’ is in the eye of the beholder at Hera Gallery.” South County Independent – North East Independent. August 9, 2007.
Dawson, Shirley. "Visual arts review: Meditations on mourning. Rochester Contemporary exhibit features women's works that emphasize repetition." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, May 6, 2007, illus.
Reed, Victoria. “Wendy Kawabata and Lisa Solomon at Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College.” Artweek. February 2007, vol. 38, issue 1, 22, illus.
2006
McIntosh, Linda. “Exhibit Features Works That Have Familial Roots.” San Diego Union-Tribune. November 22, 2006.
Bowers, J. “17th National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition.” Baltimore City Paper. April 12, 2006.
2004
“Kent Place Gallery Maps an Exhibit.” The Independent Press. December 29, 2004.
Cho, Jennifer. :Exploring the Divine Mysteries of Female Desire.” The LA Daily News, May 8, 2004.
2003
Cheh, Carol. “Reviews – Southwest: Albuquerque, New Mexico.” Art Papers. July/August 2003: 48.
Allen, Steven Robert. “Cultureshock.” The Weekly Alibi, 2003.
2001
Pulka, Wesley. “Snapshot of Art History.” The Albuquerque Westside Journal. June 22, 2001: 6.
Pulka, Wesley. “Graduate Student Exhibit Exceeds Previous Shows.” The Albuquerque Journal. April 22, 2001: F3, illus.
Carver, Jon. “Wendy Flory and Joshua Larson: Boundary Waters.” THE Magazine. August 2001: 56, illus.
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
The Howard Hughes Corporation, Honolulu, HI
Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Art in Public Places Collection
CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington
College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, Maryland
Stuart & Carlyon Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand
Westin Hapuna Beach Hotel, Kohala, Hawai’i
Four Seasons Resort Lanai, Lanai, Hawai’i
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Kohala, Hawai’i
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Visiting Artist Talk (virtual), Smith College, October 18, 2021
Visiting Artist Talk (virtual), Western Kentucky University Department of Art & Design, March 3, 2021
Visiting Artist Talk (virtual), “Reading Textiles”, University of Wyoming Department of Art & Art History, February 22, 2021
Artist Talk, “Material Slip,” University of Wyoming Department of Art & Art History, February 20th, 2020
Docent Talk, "In the Land," Honolulu Museum of Art, September 30, 2015
Artist Talk, "Grow in Light," Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, The Carriageworks, Sydney, AU, September 11, 2015
Artist Talk, “Withdrawn from Circulation,” Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, November 5th, 2009
Artist Talk, “Contemporary Drawing and Painting,” The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, April 6th, 2009
Artist Talk, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI, April 3rd, 2009
Artist Talk, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI, March 7th, 2008
Artist Talk, “The Art of Wendy Kawabata,” Pacific New Media Lecture Series, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, August 30th, 2007
Artist Talk, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI, 2007
Artist Panel, “Absence, Excess, Loss and the Vernacular in Contemporary Installation Art,”
Rochester Contemporary Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2007
Panelist, Transgressions: Transgender, Transnational, Transsexual,” Reynolds Gallery, Universityof the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 2007
Artist Talk, Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA, 2006
“Why Art? Art and Social Change,” Northern Rockies Bioneers Annual Conference, Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, MT, 2004
Foundations Lecture Series, Department of Art, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 2004
Foundations Lecture Series, Department of Art, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 2003
“Contested Space,” John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2002
ARTIST FILES
The Painting Center, New York, NY