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Education
1980-82, Pratt Institute, MFA Photography
1976-79, San Francisco Art Institute, BFA Photography
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2014, Historic Hawaii Foundation Preservation Media Award, "A Source of Light, Constant & Never Fading" Exhibit
2013, Ili Na Ho’omana’o o Kalaupapa: Casting Remembrances of Kalaupapa, Pacific Historic Parks, Hawaii Book Publishers Association,
Excellence in Photography and Honorable Mention for Excellence in Design
2006, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Individual Artists Fellowship
1998, Through a Liquid Mirror, Hawaii Book Publishers Association Hawaii Book of the Year, Best Design, Best Illustrative Book, Best Photography
1989, Ohio Arts Council, Photographers Fellowship
1986, Maine Photographic Workshop, Resident Work Grant
1984, National Endowment for the Arts, Photographers Fellowship
1979, San Francisco Art Institute, Publishing Grant
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virgina
Datz Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Tudor Investment Corp.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, Hawaii
Mokupapapa Discovery Center, Hilo, Hawaii
Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu
Honolulu Board of Realtors
Cavallo Point, San Francisco, California
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri
University of Wyoming
St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California
Progressive Art Collection, Ohio
Banana Republic
Pfizer, New York City, New York
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Noguchi Museum, New York
Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, Missouri
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu Advertiser Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
First Hawaiian Bank
Solo Exhibitions
2024, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
2023, Datz Press, South Korea
2023, Polu Gallery, Haleiwa, Hawaii
2017, Mumm Fine Art Photography Gallery, Napa, California
2016, Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, California
2016, Keck Center, Washington, D.C.
2015, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
2014, Molokai Museum and Cultural Center, Kalae, Hawaii
2013, Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
2013, M.I.A. Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2013, Kirsch Gallery, Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii
2012, Art Center Sarasota, Florida
2012, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Schaefer International Gallery, Hawaii
2012, Gallery `Iolani, Windward Community College, Kaneohe, Hawaii
2012, Mokupāpapa Discovery Center, Hilo, Hawaii
2011, East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii
2010, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
2005, Rosenberg and Kaufman Fine Art, New York City, New York
2004, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
2003, Discover Waikoloa Gallery, Hawaii
2003, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie
2002, San Francisco Airport Museum, California
2002, Spokane Falls Community College, Washington
2001, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, New York City, New York
2000, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
1999, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
1999, Volcano Arts Center, Hawaii
1998, Kansas State University Art Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
1998, The Landmark Tower Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1998, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Schaefer International Gallery, Hawaii
1998, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
1992, New York University, Tisch School of Art Gallery, New York City
1990, Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
1989, University of California at San Francisco
1989, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1989, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, California
1989, Tokyo Designer Space, Photo Gallery, Japan
1987, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
1985, Equivalents Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1985, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1984, Cityscape Gallery, Pasadena, California
1983, Arsenal Gallery, New York Dept. of Parks, New York City
1980, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California
Group Exhibitions
2024, `Iolani Gallery, Windward Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii
2024, Lo`i Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
2024, Insight/Incite 20/20 Bolinas Museum, California
2018, Surfing Hawaii, Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Hawaii
2018, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
2018, Beneath the Surface, Gallery 'Iolani, Windward Community College, Hawaii
2015, Liquid Light: Photographs from Beneath the Sea, The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
2015, Voyaging: The Art of Wayfinding, Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu
2015, National Exhibition, Flow Art Space, St. Paul, Minnesota
2014, Flow, Datz Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014, Image & Imagination, Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu
2012, Figures, Andrew Rose Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
2012, Ke ike o ka Moana: The Knowledge of the Ocean, Honolulu Hale, Hawaii
2009, Clic Gallery, New York City, New York
2005, VIP room of the American Pavilion at the World’s Fair, Japan
2005, Reflecting Hawaii, Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu
2004, In Focus, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
2003, Reflecting Buddah, Pasadena Museum of Art, California
2002, Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing, Laguna Art Museum, California; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii;
The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; The San Jose Museum of Art, California
2002, Obsession, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002, Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
2002, Kahoolawe: Rebirth of a Sacred Hawaiian Island, Arts and Industries Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2002, Mysterium Photographicum, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida
2000, ConTempo RARITIES 2000, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1999, Spatial Relations, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, New York City, New York
1998, Paradise/Paradox, Contemporary Photography in Hawai`I, Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center, Maui, Hawai`I
1997, Visions, 30th Anniversary of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
1997, He’e Nalu: Wave Riding, Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, California; North Terminal Gallery, San Francisco International Airport, California
1996, Kaho’olawe Exhibit, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1993, First Biennial Exhibit, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1992, This Sporting Life, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, and traveling exhibition
1991, Ohio Arts Council Exhibition, Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, Columbus
1989, Crossings 1989, Paris, France
1988, Swimmers, Burden Gallery, New York City, and Aperture traveling exhibition
1986, Maine Photographic Workshop Annual Show, New York City
1986, Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, New York
1986, Crossings 1986, Gallery Picture, Osaka, Japan
1985, New Photographics, University of Central Washington, Washington
1985, Contemporary Photographers of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts
1984, Current Works 1984, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1984, Water, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Publications
2023, Insight/Incite 20/20 Photo Alliance, California
2017, Living, Hawaii, 9.2
2016, Palm, Hawaii, Winter
2015, FLUX Hawaii, Winter
2015, Islands, Jeju (a portfolio/book of my photographs from Jeju Island) Datz Press, Seoul Korea
2015, Able Muse, Poetry, Prose & Art, Summer
2014, PhotoDOT, December Vol. 13, THE photography magazine from Korea
2014, Flowing, (a book of my black & white photographs) Datz Press, Seoul Korea
2014, Poems and Essays from an Ordinary Room, El León Literary Arts (a book by Lawrence Levin)
2014, Harper’s, August
2014, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XXX, No. 4, Summer
2013, LensWork, No. 107 July/August
2012, Ili Na Ho’omana’o o Kalaupapa: Casting Remembrances of Kalaupapa
(A book of my photographs of the residents and descendants of Kalaupapa) Pacific Historic Parks
2012, Honolulu Magazine, August
2012, Conde´Nast Traveler, June
2010, Akule, (a book of my black & white underwater photographs of fish schools) Editions Limited
2010, Why Photographs Work, Rocky Nook
2010, Papahanaumokuakea: Recent Photographs by Wayne Levin, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
2008, LensWork, No. 77 July/August
2006, Hana Hou! June/July, Hawaiian Airlines in-flight Magazine
2005, Art News, June
2004, Camera Arts, February/March
2003, Hemispheres, November, United Airlines in-flight magazine
2003, Outside Magazine, July
2002, The Threepenny Review, Fall
2002, Oceans, published by Natural Resources Defense Council
2001, Other Oceans (a book of my black & white underwater and aquarium photographs) University of Hawaii Press
2000, Hana Hou, June/July, Hawaiian Airlines in-flight Magazine
2000, Photo Techniques, May/June
2000, Zoom, May/June
1998, Orion Magazine, Autumn
1997, Through a Liquid Mirror (a book of my black & white underwater photographs) Editions Limited
1997, Pacifica, Feb/March, June/July, Continental Micronesia in-flight Magazine
1996, Ocean Realm, Autumn
1995, Kaho`olawe: Na Leo O Kanaloa, `Ai Pohaku Press
1994, Hemispheres, March, United Airlines in-flight Magazine
1993, Discovery The Hawaiian Odyssey
1991, Manoa Fall Vol. #3, #2, & 1989 Fall Vol. #1, #2
1989, Kalaupapa: A Portrait, (a book of my photographs of the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement) Arizona Memorial Foundation and the Bishop Museum
1989, New Art Examiner, January
1988, Aperture Swimmers Book Publication #111
1988, Nippon Camera, June
1986, Photo Japan, June
1984, American Photographer, August
1984, Day in the Life of Hawaii
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