Ioane Ioane

Ioane Ioane (born 1962 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand artist of Samoan descent. His work is informed by his Samoan heritage and includes performance, film, painting, installation and sculpture. Ioane's art often depicts the coexistence of contemporary New Zealand and traditional Samoan cultures.

In conversation about his work Fale Sā with art historian Caroline Vercoe, Ioane states, Sacred places are not necessarily a church, but it's a place where one likes to be in, a place of affirmation. Curator Ron Brownson writes, Ioane's attitude to sculptural process is cosmological – his carvings bind present reality with a representation of the past. In 2009 Whangarei Art Museum presented the first major survey of Ioane’s work, John Ioane – Journeyman Artist and the Pacific Paradox: A 25 Year Selective Survey Exhibition, curated by Museum Director, Scott Pothan. In 2016, Ioane was the Artist in Residence at the University of Canterbury's Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. In 2018, he was the Creative New Zealand Sāmoa Artist in Residence.

Education In 1985 Ioane received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University.

Selected exhibitions 2015 Te Wā Tōiri: Fluid Horizon Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 2013 Mannequin, Lopdell House Gallery 2012 Home AKL, Auckland Art Gallery 2012 Poly Wants a Cracker, City Gallery Wellington. 2008 Samoan Contemporary, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua. 2006 Pasifika Styles, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge 1999 Fale Sā Auckland Art Gallery. 1992 Bottled Ocean, Auckland Art Gallery 1990 Te Moemoea no Iotefa, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Whanganui. 1990 3 Polynesian Artists, McDougall Art Annex Christchurch