selected exhibitions and projects
‘Sovereign Stitches + Wild Weaves’
McCord Stewart Museum
Canada
16 October 2026 - 18 April 2027
https://www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca/
‘Victories’
Solo exhibition by Yuki Kihara
Webb’s
Aotearoa New Zealand
21 September to 17 October 2026
https://www.webbs.co.nz/wellington-gallery
‘Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives’
Museum of Modern Art
Turtle Island United States of America
20 September 2026 – May 2027
https://www.moma.org
‘BredaPhoto Festival’
The Netherlands
11 September – 25 October 2026
https://bredaphoto.nl
‘Aotea’ula’
Solo exhibition by Yuki Kihara
Milford Galleries Dunedin
Aotearoa New Zealand
31 July – 28 August 2026
https://www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
‘Family Album: Queer Aotearoa’
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Aotearoa New Zealand
4 July 2026 – 28 February 2027
https://www.aucklandartgallery.com
‘Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in Aotearoa’
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Aotearoa New Zealand
30 May 2026 – 30 May 2027
https://www.aucklandartgallery.com
‘Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific’
Victoria & Albert Museum
United Kingdom
16 May 2026 – January 2027
https://www.vam.ac.uk/
‘Darwin in Paradise Camp’
A solo exhibition by Yuki Kihara
Wereldmuseum Leiden
The Netherlands
7 May 2026 – 3 January 2027
https://amsterdam.wereldmuseum.nl/
‘Dresstories: Yuki Kihara’
Aotearoa Art Fair
Aotearoa New Zealand
30 April – 3 May 2026
https://artfair.co.nz
‘High Tide’
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Australia
18 April – 28 June 2026
https://4a.com.au
‘A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art’
Museum Rietberg
Switzerland
17 April – 6 September 2026
https://rietberg.ch
‘Spectrosynthesis Seoul’
Art Sonje Centre
South Korea
20 March – 28 June 2026
https://artsonje.org/
‘Worlds within Worlds: Baroque traditions, Contemporary Visions’
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Australia
14 March – 16 August 2026
https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au
‘Floating Worlds’
Milford Galleries Dunedin
Aotearoa New Zealand
14 March – 13 April 2026
https://www.milfordgalleries.co.nz
‘Picture Perfect: Beauty through a contemporary lens’
Bozar Centre for Fine Arts
Belgium
7 March – 16 August 2026
https://www.bozar.be/
‘Salome: An Angel of History’
Solo exhibition by Yuki Kihara
New Zealand Portraiture Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata
Aotearoa New Zealand
19 February – 10 May 2026
https://www.nzportraitgallery.org.nz
‘Take Me Home!’
Ota Fine Arts Tōkyō
Japan
3 February – 7 March 7 2026
https://www.otafinearts.com
‘Darwin in Paradise Camp’
Solo exhibition by Yuki Kihara
The Whitworth, University of Manchester
United Kingdom
3 October 2025 – 1 March 2026
https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk
‘Gauguin and Kihara: First Impressions’
Solo exhibition by Yuki Kihara
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Denmark
8 May 2025 – 6 December 2026
https://www.glyptoteket.com
‘Dance Protest: Project Banaba’ 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/
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