Call For Exhibition & FestPac Reviewers

+ Open Call for Submissions

Pacific Arts, the journal of the Pacific Arts Association, invites reviewers for the following recent/upcoming exhibitions:

The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

30 November 2024 – 27 April 2025

Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art

ALOHA NŌ: Honolulu Triennial 2025

15 February – 4 May 2025

O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i Island

Ka ʻUla Wena: Oceanic Red

25 May 2024 – 12 January 2025

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

We are also inviting contributors interested in reviewing or reflecting upon the recent FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS that took place in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi in June 2024.

Please email pacificarts@ucsc.edu ASAP if you are interested in reviewing one of these exhibitions for an upcoming volume of Pacific Arts, to be published in 2025–2026.

Pacific Arts is also accepting reviews of books, media, and other exhibitions that relate to visual and material cultures of Oceania. Authors, artists, curators, and publishers interested in having their work reviewed and anyone interested in writing a review should contact pacificarts@ucsc.edu.

In addition to reviews, Pacific Arts has an ONGOING OPEN CALL for submissions on the arts of Oceania and its diasporas focusing on visual arts, material cultures, and heritage arts. The scope is temporally broad, highlighting both historical and current topics while engaging with a wide range of creative mediums, forms, and subject matter. Pacific Arts encourages interdisciplinary approaches to examining the political, social, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and environmental stakes in the production and study of Indigenous visual and material cultures in Oceania, past and present. Please send full-length submissions and an abstract to pacificarts@ucsc.edu. Submissions should follow the Pacific Arts style guide. Pacific Arts is a peer reviewed open access online journal published by the University of California/eScholarship and encourages broad participation and circulation.