Bernice Akamine
Honloulu, Hawai‘i

Transmigration
glass, copper, gold
10.5 x 10 x 13 cm
2002

____Selected exhibitions

  • Stories from the Circle: Science and Native Wisdom, The Ned Hatathli Museum, Tsaile, Arizona, 2002
  • No Ka Heke Wale No! Simply the Best!, Wailoa Center, Hilo, Hawai‘i, 2002
  • Who is the Virgin of Guadalupe? Women Artists Crossing Borders, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York, 2001-2002
  • People of the Rain, Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock, New York, 2001
  • Na Maka Hou: New Visions, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001
  • Artists of Hawai‘i, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1998

Bernice Akamine, born in Honolulu, 1949, has a MFA, 1999, and a BFA, 1994, from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Akamine received the Native Arts Research Fellowship from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York, 1999, and a Pilchuck Partners Scholarship to Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington, 1995.
We sat on the porch talking and laughing, Aunty Myrna, Kehau, and myself. War stories. A shared existence of lying on that table, cancer exposed, hoping for a miracle.