Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi is Intersections featured artist in residence for the Spring Session, in collaboration with the Center for Pacific Island Studies, and Pasifika Foundation, Hawai'i. His visit will be from April 6th to April 28, 2010. He will give a lecture on April 7th at 6pm in the Art Auditorium.
Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi was born in Ngeleia Nuku'alofa Tonga, and emigrated to Aotearoa/ New Zealand in 1978. He has been a full time artist and sculptor since 1992 and is firmly established as one of the leading contemporary Pacific visual artists. Working across a range of media, including stone, wood, steel and digital imagery, he seeks to expand upon and delve deeper into the mysteries of the ancient Tongan art of lalava. His work transforms technology of the past into modern representations of identity and experience.
