- Name
- Ngaahina Hohaia
- Iwi/Ethnicity
- Ngāti Moeahu/Taranaki/Māori
Ngāti Haupoto/Taranaki/Māori
Greece - Date of birth
- 1975
- Place of birth
- Parihaka Pa/Taranaki (region)/New Zealand
- Gender
- Female
- Biography
- Ngaahina Hohaia is from Parihaka, Taranaki. She graduated from Massey University with a Master of Māori Visual Arts in 2011.
Hohaia works across a range of media, including shell, wood, fibre and metal. Her relationship to Parihaka and its people is a significant influence on her work, which addresses the dispossession of Māori land and the continued impacts of colonisation.
Hohaia has received a number of awards, such as the Creative New Zealand Emerging Māori Artist Award in 2007 and the Arts Foundation New Generation Award in 2010.
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