Ioane Ioane
{{Short description|New Zealand artist}}
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.{{cite book| last1=Brownson| first1=Ron| last2=Māhina-Tuai| first2=Kolokesa| last3=Refiti| first3=Albert| last4=Tavola| first4=Ema| last5=Tonga| first5=Nina| title=Home AKL: Artists of Pacific Heritage in Auckland| date=2012| publisher=Auckland Art Gallery: Toi o Tāmaki| location=Auckland| isbn=9780864632906}} 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.{{cite book| last1=Vercoe| first1=Caroline| title=Fale Sa| date=1991| publisher=Auckland Art Gallery| location=Auckland| isbn=0864632347}} Curator Ron Brownson writes, Ioane's attitude to sculptural process is cosmological – his carvings bind present reality with a representation of the past.{{Rp|43}}
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In 2005 Ioane won the Creative New Zealand Pacific Innovation and Excellence Art Award.{{cite web| title=Arts Pasifika Awards| url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/results-of-our-work/award-winners/arts-pasifika-awards| website=Creative New Zealand| accessdate=11 July 2015}} 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.{{cite web |title=Whangarei Art Museum: JOHN IOANE {{!}} Scoop News |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0907/S00447/whangarei-art-museum-john-ioane.htm?from-mobile=bottom-link-01 |website=www.scoop.co.nz |access-date=28 September 2024}}
His work is held in both private and public collections, including the Auckland Art Gallery; the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, England; the National University of Samoa; the Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia; the Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland; and the University of Auckland Art Collection.{{cite web| title=Ioane Ioane| url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/592843| accessdate=11 July 2015}}{{cite web| title=Poly Wants a Cracker| url=http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/the-collection/browse-artists/254/ioane-ioane| website=Te Papa Tongarewa| accessdate=11 July 2015}}{{cite web| title=Poly Wants a Cracker| url=http://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/poly-wants-cracker| website=City Gallery Wellington| accessdate=11 July 2015}}
Education
In 1985 Ioane received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland University. In 1986 he earned a diploma in teaching from the Auckland College of Education. In 1996 he received a post graduate diploma in fine arts from Elam.{{cite book| last1=Stevenson| first1=Karen| last2=Vercoe| first2=Caroline| last3=Mason| first3=Ngahiraka| last4=Chiu| first4=Melissa| last5=Vivieare| first5=Jim| title=Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific| date=2004| publisher=Asia Society| location=New York| isbn=0878480951}}
Selected exhibitions
- 2015 Te Wā Tōiri: Fluid Horizon Auckland Art Gallery{{cite web|title=Te Wā Tōiri: Fluid Horizon|url=http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/whats-on/events/2015/march/te-wa-toiri-fluid-horizons|website=Auckland Art Gallery|accessdate=11 July 2015}}
- 2013 Mannequin, Lopdell House Gallery{{cite web|title=Ioane Ioane|url=http://www.tautai.org/artist/ioane-ioane/|website=Tautati Guiding pacific Arts|accessdate=11 July 2015|archive-date=7 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107113814/http://www.tautai.org/artist/ioane-ioane/|url-status=dead}}
- 2012 Home AKL, Auckland Art Gallery
- 2012 I will sea you in Hawaiki Mangere Arts Centre, Nga Tohu O Uenuku{{cite web|title=I will sea you in Hawaiki, Mangere Arts Centre|url=http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2012/i-will-sea-you-in-hawaiki/auckland/mangere|website=Event Finder|accessdate=11 July 2015}}
- 2012 Poly Wants a Cracker, City Gallery Wellington.
- 2009 John Ioane: journeyman artist and the Pacific paradox : a 25 year selective survey, Whangarei Art Museum.{{cite web |title=Whangarei Art Museum: JOHN IOANE {{!}} Scoop News |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0907/S00447/whangarei-art-museum-john-ioane.htm?from-mobile=bottom-link-01 |website=www.scoop.co.nz |access-date=28 September 2024}}
- 2008 Samoan Contemporary, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua.
- 2008 Te Tataitanga / Bind Together, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas, USA
- 2007 Le Folauga Auckland War Memorial Museum{{cite web|title=Le Folauga|url=http://www.lefolauga.co.nz/Auckland/John_Ioane.html|website=Le Folauga Exhibition|accessdate=11 July 2015}}
- 2006 Pasifika Styles, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 2004 Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Asia Society Museum, New York
- 2002 Pacific Notion, Whitespace Gallery Auckland{{cite news|last1=Webster|first1=Kathryn|title=Making Waves|agency=Sunday Star Times|date=15 September 2002}}
- 1999 Fale Sā Auckland Art Gallery.{{cite web|title=Pacific Arts in New Zealand|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/object/44236/ioane-ioane-fale-sa|website=Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage|accessdate=11 July 2015}}
- 1992 Bottled Ocean, Auckland Art Gallery
- 1990 Te Moemoea no Iotefa, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Whanganui.
- 1990 3 Polynesian Artists, McDougall Art Annex Christchurch
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Category:21st-century New Zealand artists
Category:20th-century New Zealand male artists
Category:21st-century New Zealand male artists
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Category:20th-century New Zealand painters
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Category:New Zealand people of Samoan descent