Dr Lana Lopesi (MNZM) is an Assistant Professor in the department
of Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon. There
she teaches across her research areas of Pacific Islander studies,
Indigenous feminisms and contemporary art.
She is the author of False Divides (2018- BWB) and Bloody Woman
(2021- BWB), which was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book
Awards. Lana is co-editor of Towards a Grammar of Race- In Aotearoa
New Zealand (2022- BWB) and Pacific Spaces- Translations and
Transmutations (2022- Berghahn Books).
Lana was Editor-in-Chief for the Creative New Zealand Pacific Art
Legacy Project, a digital-first Pacific art history told from the
perspective of the artists. Lana is also co-editor of the Marinade-
Aotearoa Journal of Moana Art. Previously Lana was Arts Editor
Metro Magazine (2020) and at The Pantograph Punch she was
Editor-in-Chief (2017-2019) and Interim Director (2021), and now is
a Pantograph Punch board member. Before that, she was Founding
Editor of #500words (2012-2017) and Editor of Design Assembly
(2018).
Lana received her PhD in 2021 from the Auckland University of
Technology, with a thesis titled Moana Cosmopolitan Imaginaries-
Toward an Emerging Theory of Moana Art.
Previously Lana was part of a global Indigenous Curatorium who
first formed to curate the exhibition The Commute at the Institute
of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018) with subsequent projects including
Layover at Artspace Auckland (2019) followed by Transits and
Returns at Vancouver Art Gallery (2019).
Lana was honoured in the 2023 New Year's Honours, becoming a member
of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts.
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