DAC presents
ARTISTS OF HAWAI'I 2023
- A JURIED EXHIBITION -
On Display November 3-25, 2023 at Downtown Art Center
With Juror Tyler Cann
Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
at Honolulu Museum of Art
Downtown Art Center presents ARTISTS OF HAWAIʻI 2023, an updated version of the state's largest, longest-running all-media juried exhibition designed to showcase the best of Hawaiʻi's contemporary art. The exhibition, slated for Downtown Art Center’s Main Gallery from November 3-25, will include art in a variety of media created by artists living in the state of Hawaiʻi, and will be juried in 2023 by guest juror Tyler Cann, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at HoMA. Artists of all ages living in the state of Hawaiʻi, working in all media are eligible to submit artwork.
JUROR: Tyler Cann
Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA)
Tyler Cann joins HoMA from the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) in Ohio, where he served most recently as acting chief curator, director of exhibitions and Pizzuti family curator of contemporary art. Prior to that, he served as curator of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in Aotearoa (the Māori name for New Zealand). Originally from Los Angeles, he holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of California at Berkeley, and a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture, where he is also a doctoral candidate.
2023 Juror’s Statement
“To make art is to enter an ecosystem that has all kinds of branches, categories, and functions. Every niche has its own history, implied values, and measures of success. As a juror for an exhibition like this, I try to take these shifting criteria into account. What I do enjoy seeing is work that has a clear voice and an elegant relationship between form and idea. I suppose that people make art because they have a drive to put something into the world that wasn’t there before. The only advice I can give is to find the idea that drives you, be responsive to your materials, and take whatever risk you need to put it out there. Then keep practicing.”
Mahalo to Howard Hughes Foundation and Ward Village for generously sponsoring $15,000 in artist prizes!
Exhibiting Artists
Congratulations to the artists whose work has been accepted into the exhibition! Out of over a thousand pieces submitted, juror Tyler Cann’s final selection consists of 114 works by 104 artists across the state of Hawaii.
Calen Adams - "373 N Market St"
Juanita Aguerrebere - "View From The Safe House #1 & #2"
Kara Almonte - "Wahine Hāpai"
Clayton Amemiya - "Winter Storm Mauna Kea"
Pamela Andelin - "Keokea, Maui"
Gabrielle Anderman - "Queen Liliʻuokalani"
Bunky Bakutis - "Firestone"
Enrico Battan - "Welcome to Paradise"
Derek Bencomo - "Feeling of Movement, Koa"
Carol Bennett - "Pau Hana Swim"
PF Bentley - "Greg Solatorio, Taro Farmer"
PF Bentley - "Kumu Pa'a Kawika Foster, Hawaiian Cultural Practitioner"
PF Bentley - "Taro Farmers Anakala & Greg Solatorio"
Hawkins Biggins - "Shadows of Time"
Jake Boggs - "Is Are Was Became"
Jisoo Boggs - "Cohabitation"
Holly Braffet - "Lunch at 7-11"
Hunter Buck - "Holualoa 10"
Pratisha Budhiraja - "Déjà vu"
Evelin Caris - "Red #3"
Lauren Hana Chai - "Souls In Motion 4"
Lauren Hana Chai - "The Land of the Morning Calm"
Spencer Chang - "Kaohikaipu"
Yvonne Cheng - "Untitled"
Joseph Chiarello - "Innate Wisdom"
Kainoa Chong-Gangl - "Lava Wall Dresser"
Rosie Connelly - "Opening"
Amber Coppings - "Glimmer"
Samara Couri - "Looking Through Looking In"
Dexter Doi - "Flower Shawl"
Mary Downes - "Blue Niu (Coconut)"
Mary Downes - "Wayfinding"
Sara Dziadik - "picks me up, puts me down (anxiety drawings)"
Sara Dziadik - "picks me up, puts me down (anxiety drawings)"
Jodi Endicott - "Netted Seals"
Nena Evans - "Neural Plasticity"
Simone Fromen - "3153"
Cyan Garma - "Entering the Garden"
Malia German - "Nimitz Angel"
Leslie Gleim - "Life of the Land"
Jennifer Goya - "A Tree, a Fern, a Flower: localhost"
Bro Halff - "Waimea River Bridge, Kaua'i"
Jada Harris - "A Thin Line"
Jordan Hasley - "Wanted"
Snowden Hodges - "Welcome"
Caroline Holmes - "Listen Closely"
Tanya Ibarra - "Us"
Lowell Ing - "Eggs"
Eduardo Joaquin - "Bantayan Mo Kami"
Mark Kadota - "The Nature of Nurturing"
Fatiha Kheddaoui - "In Transit , Debris Series"
Diane Kim - "Silent Scream"
Chelsea Kinch - "I'm Not Anybody's Anything"
Bryzane Lagmay - "Azekah Rocks in Sky"
Zenobia Lakdawalla - "Line Formations"
Wilton Leauanae - "Passing Through the Storm"
Karen Lee - "Conscious Flow"
Forest Leonard - "Styro-TV"
Lynn Liverton - "Sentinel"
Warren Loos - "Kaka'ako #1"
Katherine Love - "Reward of Merit"
S.A.M. - "AirBall"
S.A.M. - "The Sundress"
johnny macas-freire - "Retrato de Don Manini"
Jenna Macy - "Quilt"
Rodrigo Diego Manzano Pérez - "Mestizo of Souls: The Eternal Bond"
Aashish Maskey - "Circumstellar Habitable Zone"
Mari Matsuda - "E Aloha E"
Dennis McGeary - "The Tempest"
Madeleine McKay - "Cacao Pods"
Maya McKivett - "Momentum"
Maya McKvett - "Eddie Crowd"
Ashley Michini - "Wrought"
Alisa Mills - "Hihimanu"
Rick Mills - "From the Land of Misplaced Connections"
Daniel Moe - "Fish Hook"
Charley Myers - "John and Mary Osorio"
Deborah Nehmad - "shattered"
Emillia Noordhoek - "If my uterus were a gun but more like a uterus..."
Avalon Paradea - "Iwakālua hāhālua liʻiliʻi"
Junco Pollack - "Space/Time Series, Sky Cloud Wind"
Nicholas Keola Potash - "Scholar's object #2 - Scavenger"
Madalyn Purcell - "You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone"
Jana Purington - "The Other Island"
Margo Ray - "Hono'apo Pier"
Chris Reiner - "Please Be Patient"
Philip Rosenberg - "Frozen Cacao"
Hiroko Sakurai - "Squirms 2023 Gray"
Kamran Samimi - "Rainstorm (Hamakua)"
Kamran Samimi - "Mended Stone II"
Samuel Schryver - "Infamous Stars and Straps"
Ryan Schulz - "End Times Pour Over Set"
Michelle Schwengel-Regala and Lisa Asagi - "Treasure or Trouble (Polymetallic Nodules XI-XIII)"
Lawrence Seward - "The Promised Gift"
Teresa Shea - "Autumn Kailua Beach Park"
Daniel Sheinfeld Rodriguez - "Void #2"
Hannah Shun - "Transcending"
Juvana Soliven - "Control"
Mark Stewart - "Hawaiian Plantation Worker No.1"
Mark Stewart - "Hawaiian Plantation Worker No.2"
Faith Stone - "From the Ashes"
Sophia Storch - "Degradation"
Bruna Stude - "The Time That Remains. Asio Flammeus Sandwichensis. Pueo"
Michael Takemoto - "Kovid Kreatures Tondo"
Linh Tang - "Beauty Beyond Words Series- Hamakua Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary"
Marc Thomas - "Untitled"
Burton Uhr - "Boys Crew (Kailua Beach)"
Ivan Wentland - "Body Wave"
Mark White - "Cruel Tea"
Mike Williams - "Department of Transportation, Hawaii"
Mike Williams - "Diamond Head from Kapahulu Shopping Center"
Justin Yates - "A Hui Hou"
Dana Anne Yee - "Waimānalo Carnival"
Mia Zheng - "Self-portrait, 2023"
Award Winners
First Prize (Best in Show), Sponsored by the Ward Village Fund of Hawaiʻi Community Foundation: $10,000
Jenna Macy, "Quilt"
Ceramic, acrylic paint, thermochromic paint with accompanying video
Oʻahu
Surprise Award for Excellence, from an Anonymous Donor: $10,000
Kamran Samimi, "Mended Stone II"
Basalt, sumi ink, wood
Maui
Second Prize, Sponsored by the Ward Village Fund of Hawaiʻi Community Foundation: $5,000
Karen Lee, "Conscious Flow"
Oil, permanent marker on canvas
Oʻahu
Surprise Award, Sponsored by an Anonymous Donor: $5,000
Gabrielle Anderman, "Queen Liliʻuokalani"
Acrylic, oil stick and charcoal on canvas
Maui
Emerging Artist Award In Honor of Thurston Twigg-Smith: $2,000
Kainoa Chong-Gangl, "Lava Wall Dresser"
Wood (ash and sapele)
Oʻahu
Dr. Timothy Y.C. Choy Award: $500
Zenobia Lakdwalla, "Line Formations"
Relief Print on Gampi, hand cut lines, collaged onto BFK
Maui
Marcy and Robert Katz Award for Ceramics: $500
Clayton Amemiya, "Winter Storm Mauna Kea"
Anagama wood fired ceramics
Hawaiʻi Island
HoMA Awards
The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) is honored to support Downtown Art Center’s (DAC) Artists of Hawai‘i 2023 exhibition. In recognition of the incredible support DAC provides Hawai‘i’s local arts community, HoMA is honored to extend awards from its Artists of Hawaiʻi-related endowed funds to directly support local artists featured in the Artists of Hawai‘i 2023 exhibition juried by Tyler Cann, HoMA Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
HoMA's John Young Award from the John Young Foundation: $9,000
Mari Matsuda, "E Aloha E"
Relief print
Oʻahu
HoMA’s Jim Winters Award for 3-Dimensional Design: $1,500
Joseph Chiarello, "Innate Wisdom"
Stoneware clay, underglazes, glazes and gold luster
Oʻahu
HoMA’s Reuben Tam Award for Painting: $2,000
Margo Ray, "Honoʻapo Pier"
Gouache, layered papers, hand-cut kozo prints on canvas
Hawaiʻi Island
HoMA’s Melusine Award for Painting: $5,000
Juanita Aguerrebere, "View From The Safe House #1 & #2"
Oil & Graphite on Canvas
Oʻahu
HoMA’s Roselle Davenport Award for Artistic Excellence: $4,000
Juvana Soliven, "Control"
Glass beads, thread, nylon cord, bronze, steel
Oʻahu
HoMA’s Violette Wong Hu Award (to support an amateur artist): $5,000
Avalon Paradea, "Iwakālua hāhālua liʻiliʻi"
Kapa (barkcloth), indigo, charcoal, hematite, spirulina
Hawaiʻi Island
HoMA’s Cynthia Eyre Award: $2,000
Mike Williams, "Diamond Head from Kapahulu Shopping Center"
Pigment print photography
Oʻahu
HoMA’s Ellen Choy Craig Endowed Fund Award: $4,000
Lawrence Seward, "The Promised Gift"
Acrylic paint and wood
Oʻahu
Additional Information:
Hawaiʻi Statewide Open Call Period: August 14 - September 20, 2023
Eligibility: Only professional and amateur artists living in the State of Hawaiʻi are eligible.
WORKS ELIGIBLE FOR SUBMISSION AND CONDITION:
-Works in any medium or combination of media: painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, sculpture, film and video, light works, sound, ceramic, glass, wood, fiber, and metal/jewelry.
-Works that have never been shown previously in a juried exhibition on Oʻahu.
-Multimedia/Installation pieces: You must submit a specific list of objects to be included, and this cannot be altered. Provide your own equipment and software.
-Film and video: Provide your own equipment and software.
-AI-generated works (any form of digital art created or significantly altered with AI tools) will not be accepted into this exhibition.
-Maximum submissions per artist: 4 artworks.
Participation Fee: $25 for first entry, $10 for additional entries up to 4 artworks.
- DATES TO KNOW: -
-Exhibition Installation: Sunday, Oct. 29 - Thursday, Nov 2
-Soft Opening and First Friday Reception: Friday, November 3 from 5:30 - 8 p.m.
-Award Ceremony and Opening Reception: Saturday, November 4 from 5:30 - 8 p.m.
-Pick up of artwork: Sunday, November 26 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Exhibition Inquiries: exhibition@downtownarthi.org
*The Updated (9/20/23) Participation Guidelines Can be Found HERE.
Sponsors
A warm mahalo to the sponsors who have generously supported Artists of Hawaiʻi 2023:
Priscilla Growney
Elizabeth Rice Grossman
Flora Ling
Noreen Mulliken
Linda and Robert Nichols
Anonymous Donor
Cherye & Jim Pierce
Judith Pyle & Wayne Pitluck
Marcia Roberts-Deutsch
Ruedi Thoeni & David Franklin
Sharon Twigg-Smith
Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA)
Ward Village Fund of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation