Sione Monū (they/them) is an artist of the Tongan diaspora. They live between Canberra Australia and Auckland and work across the mediums of photography, moving-image, fashion and adornment, performance and drawing exploring identity, family and pasifika queer experience in the diaspora.
Recent exhibitions include:
2022
Matariki Fetu’u, Kaukau, Wellington
Volver, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington
Kindred: A Leitī Chronicle (w/ Manu Vaeatangitau), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
2021
’Ao Kakala Ōtautahi, SCAPE Public Art Season 2021, Christchurch Leitī, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Broken Embraces, The Lightship, Auckland
2020
Single bed/studio, play_station, Wellington 2018
Kahoa Kakala, Objectspace, Auckland
2017
Kahoa Kakala, Fresh Gallery Ōtara, Auckland