Header Image: Shout Whisper Wail! The 2017 Chartwell Show (installation view), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2017.
Janet Lilo b.1982
Ngāpuhi, Samoan & Niuean (Auckland, New Zealand)
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Making art and raising good, solid, feminist men.
PLEASE NOTE: Website is under construction
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2019
- Man in the Mirror, Honolulu Biennial, Hawaii State of Art Museum
2018
- Co-member Whau Arts Festival 2018, Riversdale Park, Avondale
- Toi Art/ Top16, Te Papa Museum, Wellington
- BTR + ROW, Seeing Moana Oceania, Auckland Art Gallery
- Hand, AKL Festival of photography @ Tokyo Institute of Photography gallery
- Hand, Yours Sincerely, All Press Gallery / c.M.Parker & M.Jones
2017
- Social Matter, c.Louisa Afoa, RM Gallery, Auckland
- You’re my number one, c.Talia Smith, firstdraft, Sydney
- Karangahape Rd Light poles, K-RD Business Ass + Auckland Council Commission
- Silo 6, Auckland Festival of Photography/ Baker+Douglas Annual Commission
- Shout Whisper Wail, Auckland Art Gallery Commission/ Chartwell Trust
2016
- On a social matter, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
- Painting: A Transitive Space, St Paul St Gallery 3
- LABOUR ZERO LABOUR Friday 26 August / 18h CET Stream here
- Welcomed Manaia Lilo Morrison to the family
- Status Update, survey-remix exhibition, Te Uru Gallery, Auckland (solo)
- Status Update publication with texts by Ioana Gordon-Smith (curator), Monique Redmond, Caterina Riva, Ema Tavola & Nina Tonga. Editor: Tessa King / Designer: Julia Gamble-Vale
- May 5 – June 11: FRESH 10 x 10, Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland
- ALL GOODS | Whau Arts Space | Avondale (Whau the People member)
- Tautai Navigate (30 year anniversary) Studio one, Auckland
2015
- The Normandy Research Project, Rouen + Le Havre
- Whau Arts Festival, Avondale, Auckland (co-organiser)
- I’m a star / TCC The Curatorial Collective, Kings ARI, Melbourne
- Avondale Market Project / FAM BAM! with Mr Jew, Auckland
- One’s own Trade, Viaduct, Auckland
- Imaginary Date Line (ArtspaceNZ), Pane per poveri, Venice
- #Islandtime (2) Common Ground Hutt City Festival
2014
- Making Visible, Franklin Arts Centre, Franklin
- #Islandtime, Mangere/ Otara Town Centre, Manukau
- Whau Arts Festival, Avondale, Auckland (co-organiser)
- Edinburgh Art Festival Film Club II with Dog Park Art Project space & North Projects
- Residents in Residence, Lopdell House (Offsite New Lynn), Auckland
- Entangled Islands, Auckland War Memorial Museum
- Fam Bam 2! + Fam Bam Floral, Papakura Art Gallery + Fresh Gallery Otara
- The Suburban Floral Association, Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland
- saturate every atom, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland
- Pacific Moving Image, Film Archive Wellington
2013
- Teu Le Va film, Auckland War Memorial Museum
- Parlour group, Otahuhu, Manukau
- Offstage 5, Artspace, Auckland
- Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Remix, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington (solo)
- Hit Me With Your Best Shot, The Physics Room, Christchurch (solo)
- Right Of Way, 5th Auckland Triennial, Artspace, Auckland
- Rosebank Road Art Walk, Avondale, Auckland Festival
- Collaboration with Leilani Tamu / Metro Magazine & Hawai’i Review
2012
- Michael, The Engine Room, Wellington
- LOOK, Artweek, K Rd Business Association window, Auckland
- Contact, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
- In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary, The Dowse, Lower Hutt
- Present | Corbans Estate 10 year anniversary, Henderson, Auckland (solo)
- Home AKL, Auckland Art Gallery
- Girls Who Shoot / Boys Who Draw, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland (curator)
- Identi-tee film, Tamaki gallery, Auckland War Memorial Museum (solo)
2011
- Welcomed Harry Lilo to the family
- Documentaries, St Paul Street Gallery 3 Symonds St, Auckland
- Rituels, Tjibaou Cultural Center, Noumea, New Caledonia (Residency)
- The Interface Project, http://www.youtube.com/user/InterfaceProject (solo)
- Crowning Glory, The Suter Art Gallery, Nelson
- Papa Atawhai, Nathan Homestead, Manukau
- The taro & the octopus, The Edge Gallery, Auckland
2010
- – Art week Auckland, Whitespace (window) Ponsonby, Auckland
- – Welcomed Milo Lilo Morrison to the family
- – Top16, Beachcomber Contemporary Art Gallery, Rarotonga, (solo)
- – Casual romance club (with D.A.N.C.E), Enjoy Gallery, Wellington
- – TIAHO, Instiuto de Latino Mexico, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyacoan, Mexico City
- – Niu Pasifik: C.N Gorman Museum, University of California
- – Offstage 2, Galatos, Auckland
- – Collaboration with Kiyoshi Takahashi, Snow white Gallery, Unitec, Auckland
- – Niue Arts, Avondale Community Center, Auckland New Zealand
- – Gahua Lima, The Edge Gallery, Aotea Centre, Auckland City New Zealand
2009
- – Nonsense, CAI02 Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- – OYOYO Vision, Tokyo Hands projection, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- – Small Axe, New Artists show (Producer), Artspace, Auckland
- – It’s a draw, Artstation, Auckland New Zealand
- – Sapporo short fest, Hokkaido Japan
- – Man in the mirror, ICC building, Higashi Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (solo)
- – MYFACE, Fresh Gallery Otara, Manukau City (solo)
- – MoveMe, Webbs Gallery, Newmarket, Auckland
- – Take40: Giles Peterson, Fresh Gallery Otara, Manukau City
- – Language People, Artstation, Ponsonby Auckland (curator)
2008
- Top16 x 2, Fresh Gallery Otara, Manukau City New Zealand (solo)
- Le Folauga, Kaohsiung Museum, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
- Pule Fakamotu, Artstation, Auckland
- Nuku Tu Taha, Fresh Gallery Otara, Manukau City
- Meat & Lollies, Fresh Gallery Otara, Manukau City (Co-Curator with Ema Tavola)
- Feleti Barstow Public Library, 10th Pacific Arts Festival, Pago Pago, America Samoa
- Dateline Returns: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
- PENG! Video Block 3, Mannheim & Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
2007
- – Top16, St Paul St Gallery 3, Auckland (solo)
- – Pacific Vocation, Corbans Estate, Henderson, Auckland
- – Funky Razors, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland
- – Funky Razors 2, Te Tuhi Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland
- – Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand, Wellington City Art Gallery
- – Hetero Utopia: Mapping the Urban Terrain, Soemardja Gallery, Institute Technology of Bandung, Indonesia
2006
- For Rent: Copeland Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland
- Silver Clouds & Cuckoo, Order and Progress, Melbourne, Australia
- Silver Clouds, Next Wave Festival container village, Melbourne, Australia
- JAM: Antipodes Video Exposition, Strasbourg University, France
- Shot! K5 Studio, Lorne Street, Auckland (solo)
2004 – 2005
- Ignite St Paul St Gallery 2, AUT, Auckland, New Zealand (2005)
- Back to Beige, Creative New Zealand Offices, High Street, Auckland (2005)
- TAKE 001, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (2004)
- Touching Base, Rakinos, High St. Auckland, New Zealand (2004)
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES + GRANTS:
- Arts grant, Creative New Zealand / Pacific Arts 2015
- Arts grant, Creative New Zealand / Pacific Arts 2014
- Residency, Massey University Wellington (August 2012)
- Creative New Zealand Contemporary Pacific Art Award 2011
- Residency, Tjibaou Cultural Center, Noumea, New Caledonia (Oct – Nov) 2011
- Arts grant, Creative New Zealand / Pacific Arts 2010
- Residency, Sapporo (S-AIR) Hokkaido, Japan (May – July) 2009
- New Zealand delegate to the 10th Pacific Art Festival, America Samoa 2008
- Post-Graduate Fellowship Award, Auckland University of Technology 2007
- National Peace Federation Award 2005
EDUCATION:
- Master of Art & Design (Visual Arts) Auckland University of Technology, 2006
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