selected exhibitions and projects

‘Darwin in Paradise Camp: Yuki Kihara’
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
United Kingdom
3 October 2025 – 1 March 2026
https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk 

‘Oceania’
Gow Langsford Gallery
Aotearoa New Zealand
2 - 26 July 2025
https://gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz 

‘Tala o le tau: stories from the weather’ (2025) by Yuki Kihara 
Supported by the Guss Fisher Gallery | Te Whare Toi o Gus Fisher and Creative New Zealand
Guss Fisher Gallery | Te Whare Toi o Gus Fisher
Aotearoa New Zealand 
6 June –30 August 2025
https://gusfishergallery.auckland.ac.nz/ 

‘Gauguin and Kihara: First Impressions’
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Denmark
8 May 2025 – 6  December 2026
https://www.glyptoteket.com 

‘What thrives on these soils’
Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery
Aotearoa New Zealand
26 April – 26 July 2025
https://www.hastingscityartgallery.co.nz/

‘Presence in Absence’ by Yuki Kihara 
Milford Galleries Dunedin
Aotearoa New Zealand
12 April - 12 May 2025
https://www.milfordgalleries.co.nz 

‘Project Banaba – Dance Protest’ by Katerina Teaiwa
Curated by Yuki Kihara
Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
Australia
5 April 2025 – 25 January 2026
https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/ 

‘Darwin in Paradise Camp: Yuki Kihara’
Sainsbury Center, University of East Anglia
United Kingdom
15 March – 3 August 2025 
https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk 

‘CAMP’
Ota Fine Arts
Japan
15 March - 26 April 2025
https://www.otafinearts.com 

‘Rebordering the Archipelago: Asia Pacific Exchanges’ – Book launch
Asia Pacific Triennale of Performing Arts
Australia
8 March 2025
https://www.asiatopa.com.au/event/book-launch

‘There Are Other Skies’
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Turtle Island, United States of America
22 February – 1 June 2025
https://smoca.org

‘Photosynthesisers: Women and the lens’ 
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
Aotearoa New Zealand
15 February – 25 May 2025 
https://www.teuru.org.nz 

‘Bloom’
Milford Galleries Queenstown
Aotearoa New Zealand 
30 January – 31 March 2025
https://www.milfordgalleries.co.nz


‘A Kaleidoscope of Stories: Narrating the KMFA’s Collections’
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
Taiwan
28 December 2024 – 15 June 2025
https://www.kmfa.gov.tw/ 


‘Queer Histories’
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Brazil
13 December 2024 – 13 April 2025
https://masp.org.br 


‘Dummies and Doppelgangers’
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Aotearoa New Zealand
2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025
https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz 

Permanent and long-term exhibitions:

‘Motuihe Island’ (from ‘Quarantine Islands’ 2021 series) lenticular photograph by Yuki Kihara presented at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Aotearoa New Zealand. 
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com 

 

‘Maui Descending a Staircase’ (2015) video work by Yuki Kihara as part of ‘Our Colonial Heritage’ exhibition presented at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
https://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ 


‘Fa’afafine: In the Manner of a Woman’ (2005) triptych by Yuki Kihara presented at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
https://maa.cam.ac.uk