Taloi Havini

Taloi Havini
Artist, Brisbane, Australia

Taloi Havini (b, 1981, Arawa, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea; lives and works in Brisbane, Australia) is an interdisciplinary artist working across media from sculpture, photography, moving image, installation and sound. A descendant from the Nakas clan of the Hakö (Haku) people of northeastern Buka, her research practice is shaped by her matrilineal ties to her land in Bougainville and studies surrounding Indigenous Knowledge Systems and museum collections. Havini creates immersive and site-specific experiences, often reflecting on ideas of transmission, mapping, and representation. She continues to work collaboratively on cultural heritage projects with communities in Bougainville.

Havini’s artwork is held in public and private collections including TBA21–Academy, Sharjah Art Foundation; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA); National Gallery of Victoria; and KADIST, San Francisco, CA, USA. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions exhibiting at Artspace, Sydney; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE; 3rd Aichi Triennial, Nagoya; 8th & 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA, Brisbane; TBA21’s Ocean Space, Venezia; Barbican Centre, London; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, NZ; the Honolulu Biennial, HA; and ARTES Mundi, 10 Wales.