Artist Lisa Reihana has been selected to represent New Zealand at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Under the title Emissaries, Reihana’s exhibition will include her panoramic video in Pursuit of Venus [infected], expanded and augmented with a series of new photographic works. It will be shown in the Tesa dell’Isolotto, the oldest Biennale building in the Arsenale.
Lisa Reihana (b 1964) lives and works in Auckland. Her work has held exhibitions internationally including at the Museum van Loon, the Netherlands; the Amsterdam Film + Media Arts Festival; the Samstag Museum in Toronto; the Havana Biennale; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Liverpool Biennale, UK; the Asia Society Museum, New York; the Noumea Biennale, New Caledonia; the 12th Biennale of Sydney; and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane.
22 March 2016.
