Education
2013 - 16 Studio Intensive Program, National Academy School of Fine Arts, New York
2007 - 10 Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Pacific Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Residencies/Awards/Fellowships
2023-24 BRIClab Artist in Residence, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Artist in Residence, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2023 Vā-moana research cluster, artist in residence, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, NZ
2022 Ideas in residence, Basement Theatre, Auckland, NZ
2020 Pacific Toa Award, Creative New Zealand Pasifika Award, NZ
2020 Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam, NY
2020 Choreo-Lab, AXIS Dance Company, Oakland, CA
2020 UCLA Disability Dance Lab, LA
2019 Disability Dance Artistry, Dance/NYC, NY
2019 The Laundromat Project Alumni residency, Denniston Hill, NY
2019 Disability Artists Network Taskforce , NY
2018 Invited Artist, Respite with Xaviera Simmons, Denniston Hill, Glen Wild NY
2018 Create Change Fellow, Laundromat Project, New York, NY
2018 Artist in Residence, Ana Pekapeka Studio, Corbans Art Estate, Auckland, NZ
2018 Lead artist, World Culture Festival: Our Future, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
2018 Member of Dance Immigrant Artist Taskforce, Dance/NYC, NY
2017 Residency, Performance Project, University Settlement, New York, NY
2017 Lead artist, Art and Lifewear event, Uniqlo, Soho Studios, NY
2017 Indigeneity in the Met, Lab, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
2017 Teaching Artist Development Lab, Lincoln Center Education, NY
2016 Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2016 Immigrant Artists Program: Social Practice, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY
Solo exhibitions/performances
2022 enter//return, commissioned by Queering The Crip, Cripping the Queer Performance Festival, Sophiensaele Theater, Berlin, Germany
2022 one must live it: enter//return, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NY (online)
2019 Excavātion: an archival process, Gibney, NY
2019 Excavātion (excerpt), Bruno Walters Auditorium, NYPL for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, NY
2019 down in the river, Judson Memorial Church, NY
2018 Excavātion, Denniston Hill, NY
2017 Reasoning on Paper: The Myth Of Herself, ORA Gallery, New York, NY
2017 In Conversation with Line, Sonia Gechtoff Gallery, New York, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2024 to hold a we: BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Aotearoa Contemporary: Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2023 Downbeat: Denniston Hill at Marian Goodman Gallery, NY
2023 Don’t Mind if I Do, Musuem of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2022 Cripping the Queer, Queering the Crip, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
2021 All That You Touch You Change, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland
2021 Sāmoan Hxstories, Screens, and Intimacies II, imagineNATIVE Festival and A Space Gallery, Canada
2020 PRESENTS: Vital Capacities, (online)
2020 here to lounge, Nook Gallery, CA
2019 Mana Moana, Mana Wāhine, Raven Row Gallery, London, UK
2019 Talk Back, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2018 Rendering Likeness, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Creative Mischief, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2016 Urban Indigenous X, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2016 Creative Mischief, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2015 FACE IT: The Face in Contemporary Art, Onsite:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Creative Mischief, National Academy Museum, Manhattan, NY
Selected Group Performances
2022 C h a n n e l s, commissioned by Open Call, The Shed, NY
2021 CultureHub, “GlitchRealm,” NY, (Online)
2020 Allied Media Conference, “Witches n Glitches,’ Detroit, MI, (online)
2020 Tanzplattform, “WITH,” Munich, Germany
2019 down in the river commissioned by Gibney, Gibney NY
2017 Opening>Speed, University Settlement, New York, NY
2017A Remedy for a Constitutional Crisis, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2017 Boogie on the Boulevard, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2016 Tell me the parts of myself that I might not yet be able to name, AIR Open Studio Sessions, BAX, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Gender/Power Composition IV, JACK, Brooklyn, NY
Published Writing
2024 Disability Intimacy, edited by Alice Wong, Vintage Books,
2024 Katūīvei, Anthology of Oceanic Pacific Aotearoa Poets, Massey University Press
2023 ‘What if Maui was disabled? Pacific Arts Legacy Project, edited by Lana Lopesi, Penguin Random House
2023 Breaking Protocol. California and New York: Inventory Press and Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School
2022 All You Can Eat: A Review of Rituals of Destruction, Pantograph Punch (online)
2021 Rotations: Crips and Care During Covid-19, Winter 2021, Wordgathering, curated by Kenny Fries
2021 Out Here, an anthology, edited by Chris Tse and Emma Barnes, Auckland University Press
2020 She returns” as part of the CNZ Pacific Arts Legacy, Pantograph Punch (online)
2020 Shaping Mauri, Interview with Cat Ruka Pantograph Punch (online)
2020 Spinning, Pulling, Stretching with Tempo Dance Festival, Pantograph Punch (online)
2019 The year according to Pelenakeke Brown, Walker Art Centre (online)
2019 “A Traveling Practice.” Sovereign Movements: Native Dance and Performance Transiting Territories, “Ed.” Rosy Simas & Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, New York, MRPJ, Fall 2019
2017 “Leaking.” Occupying Va: Transformations, “Ed.” Henry Wei Leung, Issue 86, Hawaii, Hawai’i Review, Spring 2017
2016 “8 April 2016.” #NoDAPL #StillHere: Native and Anti-Colonial Craft Against Dispossession, “Ed.” Sarah Clark, Apogee Journal, online
Press
Meet Pelenakeke Brown, The Art Paper, 2 August, 2024
New Anthology ‘Katūīvei’ Celebrates the Vibrant Diversity of Pasifika Poetry in Aotearoa, Tagata Pasifika, May 10. 2024
Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer, Art Agenda, Octobert 14, 2022
Celebrating a landmark anthology of queer New Zealand writing, The Spinoff, November 14, 2021
‘Cripping Choreography’ Art in America, March 9 2021
Making Art Accessible, The Big Idea, 14 May 2020
Featured Artist, Lutte Collective, September 2019
New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now, The New York Times, May 23, 2019
Selected Panels/Lectures/Teaching/Curatorial
2024 Pacific Arts Aotearoa, Auckland Writers Festival, Auckland, NZ
2023/24 Curator: Deepen* partnership with The D*List and Auckland Pride, Auckland, NZ
2023 Material Goods Conference, hosted by Kampnagel and University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2022 Dance Umbrella Festival, London, UK
2021 Pacific Basin Institute: Sensory Ecologies of the Pacific Series, Pomona College, CA (online)
2021 Asian and Pacific Heritage Month Performance and Storytelling, St John’s University, NY (online)
2021 Guest lecturer, ‘Knowing Disability, Differently’ course, University of Auckland Medical Humanities (online)
2021 Key note speaker, Tiny Festival, Otatauhi/Christchurch, NZ
2021 Panel: What do we want from leadership, Making a Difference Conference, Germany (online)
2020 grasp+ release, two-week workshop with Movement Research/Gibney, NY
2020 Guest lecturer, ‘Knowing Disability, Differently’ course, University of Auckland Medical Humanities (online)
2020 International Conference in Disability Studies. and the Arts and Education NY (online)
2020 Aotearoa Creative Sector Online Hui in Response to the Covid-19 Crisis, PANNZ, NZ (online)
2019 Access Check: Mapping Accessibility 2.0, The 8th Floor, Rubin Foundation, NY
2019 Organizing and Managing Your Practice, NYFA Immigrant Arts, Newark, NJ
2019 Disability Arts, Artistry and Aesthetics: Ideas in Practice, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2019 modes of embodiment: expressive toolkit for chronically ill/disabled bodies, Movement Research, NY
2019 Curator for the Artists of Color Council Movement Research at Judson Church Spring season
2019 mmigration and Disability: Examining the Nexus of Movement Making, New York Public Library of Performing Arts & Dance/NYC
2019 Mentor for the NYFA Immigrant Artists Program, NY
2018 Closing Keynote: Immigrants. Dance. Arts. — Stories from the Field, Dance NYC Conference, NY
2018 Immigrant and Foreign-Born Artists in the NYC Dance Workforce, Dance/NYC Symposium, NY
2018Expanding Perspectives: Immigrant Artists panel, Dance/USA Conference, CA
Bibliography
Amanda Cachia, “Art History’s Co-Inhabitants: Disabled Artistic Approaches to Indigeneity” in Routledge Companion to Art and Disability edited by Keri Watson and Timothy W. Hiles, London and New York: Routledge, 2022