NU'A BON
"My artistic journey is pausing to reflect on the catalog of injustices people over the years have inflicted on each other, driven by some dark side within us, that chokes us from seeing how we are all the same." - Nu’a Bon
A child of diasporic peoples from Asia and the Pacific, Nu'a Bon was born in Hawai'i in 1954. A former photojournalist and arts educator, Bon is an interdisciplinary artist focused on diasporic societal, climate, and spiritual concerns.
He has worked with photography, painting, sound, and sculpture throughout his thirty-year career, with past studios in Beijing, Honolulu, New York, and Providence.
Nu'a Bon Studied at the University of Hawai'i, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and the University of East Anglia, UK.
He has participated in group and solo art exhibitions in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, the Hayward Gallery in London, Milan, and the Honolulu Museum of Art, and in art residencies in Shanghai, Paris, and New York.
He is a former educator of the City University School of Media and the School of Journalism at the Baptist University in Hong Kong; he also lectured at other art universities in China and Asia.
In 2019 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, O'gha Po'oge, the White-Shell-Water-Place because the austere Southwest desert, with its rich native cultures, tugged at his heart after many years traversing the continent from coast to coast on painting journeys in a purpose-built mobile art expedition vehicle.
"I've had the typical deep dive into Western university education. But for several years, during sabbaticals and after leaving the teaching profession, I've lived and studied with plant spirit healers in the High Andes, the Amazon Basin of South America, and the San People of Africa. Giving me a new vision outside of the academy, outside of western art and thought, and outside of the contemporary age praxis."
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