Jocelyn
Kapumealani
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Queer third-generation paniolo and multi-dimensional creative of Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese descent. The fluidity of her art blends award-winning spoken word poetry, special effects makeup, theater performance, photography, and fabrication to navigate themes of queerness, Indigenous culture, and underrepresented narratives.
Born and raised on the island of Oʻahu, she centers her work in collaboration. Her multimedia spoken word experience She Who Dies to Live was published in 2024 in An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic of the Pacific (University of Hawaiʻi Press), and has been performed at the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane (2019) and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's Culture Lab ‘Aʻe Kai in Honolulu (2017).
As a member of the dynamic collective Art25, her work has been featured in exhibitions by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Ori Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, and in forthcoming projects with Delisted.
She is the Inaugural 2025 Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI Fellow, recognized for her groundbreaking work at the intersection of Indigenous knowledge, emerging technology, and interdisciplinary art.
Jocelyn encourages you to explore the rest of her website to learn more about her creative journey and the community that helped to cultivate such a rich artistic practice.