Tiare Ribeaux

Tiare Ribeaux is a Kānaka ‘Ōiwi filmmaker, artist, writer and creative producer based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Her films disrupt conventional storytelling methods by employing magical realist explorations of spirituality, labor, and the environment to critique both social and ecological imbalances. Her work uses visual narrative and components of speculative fiction and fantasy to reimagine both our present realities and future trajectories of healing, queerness, lineage, place and belonging. Ribeaux’s work traverses between the mundane and dreamworlds - creating stories around transformation and how our bodies are inextricably linked to land and water systems. She integrates immersion within community, personal/ancestral narratives, and Hawaiian cosmology into her films, telling stories that include contemporary way-finding and resilience within both the lāhui and the Kānaka diaspora. COUSIN will be supporting her creative practice.

Her work often combines with installation elements to create immersive and expanded media experiences. She has also worked in the mediums of textiles/fashion, augmented reality, digital art/animation, and web-based artwork. As a community organizer, she has curated and helped organize various media arts festivals including Refresh Art and Technology, the Codame Festival, and the Soundwave Biennale. She founded B4BEL4B in Oakland 2014, and served as Artistic Director for 8 years. She has curated and produced various media arts and performance festivals including the Codame Festival and the Soundwave Biennial. She has given guest lectures at conferences and universities including ISEA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, USC, SFAI, SJSU, and the school of ATEC at UC Dallas. 

She has shown work both nationally and internationally, and has won numerous grants and awards for her artistic leadership including the NDN Radical Imagination Grant, the Sundance Native Lab Fellowship and the Indigenous Film Fund, two New and Experimental Works Grants from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Building Demand for the Arts Grant from the Doris Duke Foundation, and the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Innovation, among others. 

www.tiareribeaux.com