VAIMAILA URALE
Artist CV 2026
Education
2009 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Head of School Award - AUT
2006 Certificate in Glass Design & Production - Universal College of Learning
2004 Certificate in Art & Design – UCOL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 The Limits of Language, SCAPE Public Art, Christchurch, New Zealand
2025 Lanu Mamanu, Tauranga Art Gallery, NZ
2024 Interlaced, intl group exhibition, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, NZ
2022 Modern Pacific Art, Northart Gallery, Auckland
2022 Te Moana Meridian, Artspace Aotearoa, NZ
2022 Unweaving the Binary Code, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
2022 Heterodox Us, Franklin Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
2020 Koloa: Fafine, ‘Aati, Mo e Tekinolosia, Artspace, Auckland, NZ
2020 Wansolwara, Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney Arts Festival, AUS
2019 Here is Your Horizon, Cement Fondu, Sydney, Australia
2019 Koloa: Women Art & Technology, Para-Site Gallery, Hong Kong
2019 Two Oceans at Once, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2018 A Maternal Lens, Casablanca Biennale, Morocco
2017 Lei-Pa, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2015 Wallpaper II, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2015 Myths & Legends in My Veins, Papakura Art Gallery, NZ
2015 Tautai moving image exhibition, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision-NZ Archive
2013 Electronic Pacific - Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China
2013 Electronic Pacific – SOMArts, San Francisco
2013 Everyone Talks to Everyone – The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, NZ
2012 Earth, Wind & Fire – Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Offstage 4, Artspace, Auckland, NZ
2011 This is Not a Vitrine, This is an Ocean, Waikato Museum & Art Gallery, NZ
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Aniva - Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
2018 Tino Talk - Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
2018 Typeface: Enjoy - Installation & tattoo project with Andy Tauafiafi, NZ
2017 Typeface: Live Tattoo Session - CoCA, Christchurch, NZ
2017 Tatala - Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
2017 Embed - Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
Selected Collaborative & Community Art Projects
2017 Typeface Live Tattoo Interactive tattoo project with Julia Mage’au Gray
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair/Sanderson Contemporary
2017 Typeface Live Tattoo Interactive tattoo project with Penni Grigg, NZ
2015 Typeface Live Tattoo Interactive tattoo project with Chris Amosa, NZ
2015 Whau Mural Project Avondale Community Mural, Whau Arts Festival, NZ
2014 Mata Mata 2.0 Digital Art Live, Auckland Live, Auckland, NZ
2013 Mata Mata Exhibition new media exhibition by Rangituhia Hollis &
Vaimaila Urale, Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
2012 Typeface - Digital Art Live, Aotea Centre, Auckland, NZ
Selected Projects D.A.N.C.E. art club (Art Collective)
2017 LEI Project
2016 Noho All Goods, Auckland
2014 GWR (Guinness World Record Attempt) Welcome exhibition, Artspace, NZ
2014 Crockpot RM Gallery/David Dale Gallery - Scotland
2013 Puehu Exhibition, ‘Our Mum’s’ Short Film Premiere, The Suter Art Gallery,
2012 HOUSIE! Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
2012 D.A.N.C.E FM 106.7 - Erupt Festival, Letting Space Community Project, NZ
2011 Southern Gallery Auckland Art Week Express – Bus Tour Guides, NZ
2011 Vaka Performance Papakura Art Gallery, NZ
2010 Casual Romance Club, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington – Group Show
Selected Media/Press
The Spinoff, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-11-2025/the-toi-tauranga-art-gallery-reopening-has-brought-a-community-home
Metro Magazine, 2021
https://www.metromag.co.nz/arts/vunilagi-vou-and-moana-fresh-on-their-approaches-to-showcasing-pacific-art
Tagata Pasifika, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77wPBTEMo4
Radio NZ, 2018
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/360527/typeface-a-contemporary-take-on-samoan-tatau