10-13 February 2021

The inaugural Hawaiʻi Contemporary Art Summit 2021 is a multi-day event that brings together renowned keynote speakers, artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i and around the world for educational programming focused on art and ideas. A thematic precursor to the Hawai‘i Triennial 2022 (HT22), Art Summit 2021 is a series of insightful and compelling talks, performances, film screenings, and workshops that situates Hawai‘i at the center of high-caliber, global discourse around contemporary art and ideas to local and international audiences.

This multi-day event will premiere online and will be available to registered viewers for on-demand viewing. A full schedule for Art Summit 2021 will be released in January 2021.

Hawaiʻi Contemporary Art Summit Participants (list to date)

Ai Weiwei

Homi K. Bhabha

Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick

Melissa Chiu

Eating in Public (Gaye Chan)

‘Elepaio Press (Mark and Richard Hamasaki)

Léuli Eshrāghi

Theaster Gates

Karrabing Film Collective (Elizabeth A. Povinelli, founding member)

Nā Maka o ka ‘Āina (Joan Lander)

Navid Najafi

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio

Piliāmo‘o (Mark Hamasaki and Kapulani Landgraf)

Kawika Pegram

Mika Tajima

Miwako Tezuka