Kaili Chun

Kaili Chun (b. 1962, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) is a sculptor, installation artist, and educator. An Assistant Professor of Kanaka Maoli, Native Hawaiian Visual Art at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Chun earned her BA in Architecture from Princeton University—where she studied with ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu—and her MFA from the University of Hawaiʻi. She apprenticed with master canoe builder Wright Elemakule Bowman Sr. Her immersive installations and sculptures explore Native Hawaiian identity, memory, and sovereignty, transforming physical spaces through process and material. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), the Honolulu Museum of Art, and Osage Gallery (Hong Kong). She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.