Past exhibitions

Lauren Hana Chai: The Five Senses

Known for contrasting her traditional Korean upbringing with modern American life, Hawai‘i-based painter and ceramicist Lauren Hana Chai (b. 1991) includes a personal story or cultural narrative within each work of art. 

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Transformation: Modern Japanese Art

Inspired by a recent gift of more than 126 artworks by noted collector Terry Welch, this exhibition explores the dynamic modern period (1860s–1930s) in Japanese art, when dramatic changes in society were reflected in the arts, resulting in works of stunning vision and technical accomplishment.

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Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love

No Ordinary Love is Salman Toor’s (b. 1983, Pakistan) first museum exhibition in the Pacific region. The show features approximately 40 recent paintings and works on paper in the artist’s unique style of contemporary genre painting.

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A’aru // Field of Reeds

Sherin Guirguis' artworks in this gallery stem from her socially inspired exploration of the past, influenced by a 2020 lockdown reading of The Conference of the Birds with a collective of women and femme artists, poets, and activists.

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Moemoeā

Through fantasy and found materials, Maui-based Noah Harders’ first museum exhibition invites viewers to peer into another world.

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Navigating a Minefield: A Manga Depiction of Japanese Americans in the Second World War

Navigating a Minefield is the first manga exhibition at HoMA to address the internationalization of manga and its connection to Japan’s cultural diaspora—in this case, its usage by a Japanese American author to discuss the history of Hawaiʻi’s nisei community.

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Rebecca Louise Law: Awakening

Hawai‘i’s deep connection to pua—both endemic and imported flowers—was celebrated in a year-long art installation that transformed two museum galleries into immersive floral experiences.

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Cross Pollination: Flowers Across the Collection

Presented in conjunction with the immersive anchor installation Rebecca Louise Law: Awakening (Galleries 12 and 13), this exhibition unites a wonderfully diverse arrangement of floral artworks from HoMA’s permanent collection.

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30 Americans

Honolulu Museum of Art presents the celebrated exhibition 30 Americans, featuring works by 30 contemporary artists connected through their African-American cultural history.

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Hokusai's Mount Fuji

An in-depth exploration of one of the most famous ukiyo-e series in the museum’s collection: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c.1830–1832) by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

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Hawai‘i Triennial 2025: Aloha Nō

Bringing together the work of 49 artists and artist collectives across multiple sites on three islands, Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25) is the state’s largest thematic exhibition of contemporary art from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and beyond.

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