12 Facts About Lisa Reihana

Lisa Marie Reihana was born on 1964 and is a New Zealand artist.

Lisa Reihana graduated with a masters in design from Unitec Institute of Technology Department of Design and Contemporary Arts in 2014.

In 2006, Lisa Reihana was one of fifteen New Zealand artists, most of Maori and Pacific Island descent, who were invited to take part in the Pasifika Styles exhibition by making site-specific works throughout the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge that responded to objects in the museum's collection.

In 2008, Lisa Reihana completed a major commission for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

In 2014, Lisa Reihana received an Arts Laureate Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.

In March 2016 Lisa Reihana was named as a nominee in the biennial Walters Prize for her work in Pursuit of Venus [infected].

Lisa Reihana was the 2022 Artist in Focus at the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts where she curated a programme of work.

Lisa Reihana worked with theatre director Rachel House, actors and students from the Pacific Institute of Performing Arts to create this 32-minute film installation.

Lisa Reihana represented New Zealand at the 2017 Venice Biennale, where she showed an updated version of In Pursuit of Venus [Infected] and a new suite of photographic works.

Lisa Reihana's work is represented in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

In 2015 Lisa Reihana was recognised with the Te Tohu Toi Ke award from Creative New Zealand for "making a positive difference to nga toi Maori".

Lisa Reihana was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts, in the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours.