Inaugural international artist solo exhibition
Lisa Reihana: Voyager
6 September - 9 November 2025
Ngununggula presents its inaugural international exhibition featuring acclaimed Aotearoa artist Lisa Reihana. Renowned as a leading Māori new media artist based in Auckland, New Zealand, Reihana's work has been extensively showcased in New Zealand, Australia, and internationally.
The exhibition reveals the spectrum of Reihana’s artistic practice, showcasing a suite of digital artworks and photography, including a new iteration of her digital artwork Māramatanga and a site-specific outdoor installation that will see the artist wrap the front of the gallery with hundreds of reflective discs, glistening and moving with the wind. Titled Belong, the newly commissioned work draws inspiration from the gallery's environment and local First Nations stories, and is an extension of her work Glisten (2025) for National Gallery Singapore.
Artist Biography
Lisa Reihana is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans film, sculpture, costume and body adornment, text and photography. Since the 1990s, she has significantly influenced the development of contemporary art and contemporary Māori art in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She has earned an outstanding reputation as an artist, producer and cultural interlocutor with her attention to the complexities of contemporary photographic and cinema languages expressed in myriad ways. Her ability to harness and manipulate seductively high production values is often expressed through portraiture, where she explores how identity and history are represented and the intersection of these ideas with concepts of place and community.
Lisa Reihana is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans film, sculpture, costume and body adornment, text and photography. Since the 1990s, she has significantly influenced the development of contemporary art and contemporary Māori art in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She has earned an outstanding reputation as an artist, producer and cultural interlocutor with her attention to the complexities of contemporary photographic and cinema languages expressed in myriad ways. Her ability to harness and manipulate seductively high production values is often expressed through portraiture, where she explores how identity and history are represented and the intersection of these ideas with concepts of place and community.
September 6, 2025
