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June 06, 2022
Ms Lisa Reihana-Queen’s Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours 2022
Waatea Team
Posted On June 6, 2022
To be a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit: REIHANA, Ms Lisa Marie, MNZM
For services to the arts
Ms Lisa Reihana is a multi-disciplinary artist who was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018 for her services to art.
Ms Reihana’s large-scale video installation ‘In Pursuit of Venus [infected]’ represented New Zealand at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Her exhibition ‘In Pursuit of Venice [infected]’ was the most visited solo exhibition by a New Zealand artist at the Auckland Art Gallery since 1997, with 49,000 visitors. The exhibition has been displayed in several locations internationally including at the Honolulu Museum of Art in 2019 and in Tallin, Estonia in 2020. She created a large bronze sculpture of Ellen Melville which depicts the scales of justice but tipped in favour of women, displayed at the Ellen Melville Centre in Auckland. As part of Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts, she has been the artist in focus in honouring the story of legendary Polynesian explorer Kupe whose pursuit of the octopus Te Wheke a Muturangi led him to Aotearoa. A large installation of Te Wheke a Muturangi is currently on display in Wellington Harbour, as one of the places Kupe is credited to have named ‘Te Whanganui a Tara’. Ms Reihana has incorporated Wellington’s wind in her display of six waving mokomoko/geckos in Waitangi Park.
HONOURS
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, New Year 2018
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