Leilani Kake

Leilani Kake (born 1976) is a New Zealand videographer and artist. Her artistic practice has expanded over time to involve a variety of both practical and educational roles nationally and internationally. but lived in Papua New Guinea as a child, and later settled in Ōtara, Auckland, although other sources suggest she is based in Ōtāhuhu, South Auckland.

Career It is suggested that her artistic career in video-based mediums began in the early 2000s. and then progressing with her Certificate in Level 1 Te Ara Māori in 2003 with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa,

Exhibitions +Group exhibitions Date Title People Medium Location Source 2001 Red Earth Project - - - - - - Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland 10-31 January 2015 Between Wind and Water Leilani Kake, Luisa Tora, and Tanu Gago Video and multi-media installation Enjoy Contemporary Art Space 9 March - 1 April 2017 Swallow series in The Perpetual Flux of Transitional Otherness Leilani Kake, and others Five digital prints Olly, Mt Eden, Auckland December 2019 Woman of Colour in Finding Emory: A Poster Show Cypris Afakasi, Tanu Gago, Leilani Kake, Sean Kerrigan, Huriana Kopeke-Te Aho, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Siliga David Setoga and Tokerau Wilson Poster/Digital Image Vunilagi Vou August 2022 Putiputi in Vunilagi Vou's new site opening Nigel Borell, Ercan Cairns, Chris van Doren, Dr Sione Faletau, Antonio Filipo, Tanu Gago, Leilani Kake, and Niutuiatua Lemalu. Video Vunilagi Vou, East Tāmaki site, South Auckland 2018: A Maternal Lens x Tales from Water Margins - a curatorial project for the 4th International Biennale of Casablanca, funded by Creative New Zealand. The project included work by the following artists: Margaret Aull, Leilani Kake, Julia Mage'au Gray, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai, and Vaimaila Urale. In 2013 alongside Ema Tavola, Kake was invited to speak at the Pacific Art Association's 11th International Symposium in Vancouver, Canada. The two artists received the opportunity after their successful panel in 2009 to the Pacific Islands Students Association at Berkeley University in Los Angeles, and later lectures throughout multiple Californian universities when invited to speak at one of the most significant visual arts events in the US, the 97th College Arts Association Annual Conference. Kake and Tavola organised a fundraising campaign called 2 Girls, 1 Conference where they sold t-shirts and ran an art auction to raise the funds to travel to and present at the conference.

Awards

2007 winner of ARTsource from the Arts Regional Trust. 2008 Salamander Gallery Emerging Artist Award at Creative New Zealand's Arts Pasifika Awards.