Recent & selected texts
Visit past scholarly essays, articles, reviews, chapters & press releases here
‘The Eye of the Beholder’ by Zoé Whitley. 2026. P.16-17. Published in Harper’s Bazaar, UK.
‘Yuki Kihara: Queering Evolution’ by Fi Churchman. 2026. ArtReview, UK.
'Darwin in Paradise Camp' Paul Gauguin and Charles Darwin get a lesson 'how to recognize the third sex' by Nell Westerlaken. 2026. Published in de Volkskrant (The Netherlands).
‘From the Pacific we learn: Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp and a critical pedagogy of queer joy’ by Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh. 2026. Published in Waka Kuaka | The Journal of the Polynesian Society. P.498-510. The Polynesian Society, University of Auckland (NZ).
‘Saltwater Healing: Yuki Kihara's Darwin in Paradise Camp’ by Karen Jacobs. 2026. Published In ‘Hidden Stories, Entangled Spaces: Contested Island Heritage and Contemporary Art Curation’. Eds. A. Sol Gonzalez Rueda and K. Brown, pp. 46-72. Paris: Icofom.
‘Victories – Yuki Kihara at Wedd’s Wellington Gallery’ by Yuki Kihara and Virginia Woods-Jack. 2026. Published in ‘In Work of Art Catalogue’. P. 40-43. Webb’s (NZ).
‘Tūlī's Flight’ by Grace Gassin. 2026. Published in ‘In Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa’. Eds. Grace Gassin. Te Papa Press (NZ)
‘Artistic Redress’ by Rebecca Fox. Thursday 13th August 2026. Otago Daily Times (NZ).
‘Transcending Boundaries Yuki Kihara in Conversation with Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua’ by Yuki Kihara and Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua. 2026. Published in Art New Zealand. Number 196. Summer 2025-2026.