Open Call for Submissions

+ Call For Exhibition & Publication Reviewers

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 journal’s 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 an abstract to pacificarts@ucsc.edu by March 1, 2025. If accepted, we will ask for full-length submissions by April 1, 2025. Contributions should follow the Pacific Arts style guide and include a metadata document (see the guide). Pacific Arts is a peer reviewed, open access online journal published by the University of California/eScholarship and encourages broad participation and circulation. 

Pacific Arts is also accepting reviews of books, media, events, and exhibitions that relate to visual and material cultures of Oceania. The journal specifically invites reviewers for the recent publications and exhibitions listed below. Please email pacificarts@ucsc.edu by February 14, 2025 if you are interested in writing a review for an upcoming volume of Pacific Arts. Authors, artists, curators, and publishers interested in having their work reviewed and anyone interested in writing a review should contact pacificarts@ucsc.edu.

 Exhibitions & Catalogs:

11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, 30 November 2024 – 27 April 2025

 13th Festival of Pacific Arts, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, 6–16 June 2024

 ALOHA NŌ: Honolulu Triennial 2025, O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i Island, 15 February – 4 May 2025

 Ka ʻUla Wena: Oceanic Red, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 25 May 2024 – 12 January 2025

 Lopesi, Lana, Ruth McDougall, Ruha Fifita, Moale James, and Enily Nguyen-Hunt. Sis[ters]: Pacific Art 1980-2023. Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, 2024

 Nuku, Maia. Oceania: The Shape of Time. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, 2023

 Sharjah Biennale 16: to carry (Pacific portion curated by Megan Tamati-Quennell), Sharjah City and other venues, United Arab Emirates, 6 February–15 June 2025

 Books:

 Cochrane, Susan. Living Art in Papua New Guinea. Melbourne: Melbourne Books, 2025.

 Hammond, Catherine and Shaun Higgins. Images of A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2024

 Higginson, Francis (Peter) and Philippe Lair. Samoa's Iconic Fale: How Culture Informs Architecture. Montigny-sur-Loing: La Loingtaine Publishing, 2023

 Hirschbichler, Michael. Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea: Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene. Routledge Research in Architecture Series. New York: Routledge, 2024

 Royer, Michelle, Nathalie Ségeral, and Léa Vuong. Francophone Oceania Today: Literature, Visual Arts, Music, and Cinema. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024