AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

Rosanna Raymond, born in Aotearoa (New Zealand) in 1967, has a multifaceted practice that encompasses performance, institutional critique, fashion, writing, curation, and pedagogy. Her work mediates Urbanesian culture between museum and living tradition, academy and lived experience. Raymond received the Creative New Zealand 2018 Senior Pacific Artist Award, and is a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. She has exhibited and presented her work in many institutions and communities around the world. Raymond’s acti.VĀ.tions not only expose and critique the colonialism of traditional Western museum practices of conservation, collecting, and display, but also propose other methods for keeping culture alive, through inherited tradition, personal innovation, and embodiment.

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