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exhibitions & publications
Dan Taulapapa McMullin

A R T I S T
Media: Painting, Sculpture, Electronic Media, Performance, Text

prizes
2010 Arts & Humanities Art Award, University of California, Irvine
2002 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival Best Short Film Award
1997 The Writers Loft Poets&Writers Award
1989 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences L.A. Area Emmy Nomination

group prizes
2003 Montana New Zealand Book Award
1999 Gustavus Meyers Humanitarian Book Award
1998 Lambda Literary Anthology Nomination

solo exhibitions
2011 Gorman Museum - University of California Davis
2010 San Francisco - De Young Museum
2010 Long Beach - Pacific Islander Ethnic Museum
2010 Parnell - McCarthy Gallery
2010 Ann Arbor - University of Michigan
2008 Manukau - Fresh Gallery Otara
2007 Auckland - Okaioceanikarts Gallery
2005 Lewiston - Bates College
2003 Apia - The Vineyard

group exhibitions
2012 La Verne - Harris Gallery
  Claremont - QRC Gallery
2011 Wellington - City Gallery of Wellington
  Auckland - Okaioceanikarts Gallery
2010 New York - United Nations
  Pasadena - Offramp Gallery
  Irvine - University Art Gallery
  Irvine - Catalyst Gallery
  Long Beach - PieAm Pacific Islander Ethnic Museum
  Long Beach - MOLAA Museum of Latin American Art 
  Suva - Oceania Centre for the Arts
2009 Auckland - Fresh Gallery Otara
2008 Auckland - Fresh Gallery Otara
  Sydney - Performance Space
  Hobart - Plimsoll Gallery University of Tasmania
  Sydney - Boomalli Gallery
  Pago Pago - Festival of Pacific Arts
  Tafuna - Samoa Arts Association Laufou Center
  Auckland - Manukau City Council Gallery
2007 Honolulu - Bishop Museum
  San Francisco - The Center Gallery
  Auckland - Art Station 
  Hilo - Wailoa Art Center
  Waimea - Isaacs Art Gallery
  Northridge - Cal State Northridge Gallery
2006 Cambridge - Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology University of Cambridge
  San Francisco - LGBT Center
  Wellington - Museum of the City of Wellington
  San Diego - University of California San Diego Gallery
2005 Salem - Peabody Essex Museum
  Pasadena - Friends Gallery
2004 Christchurch - Gallery Pasifika
2003 Berlin - Haus der Kulturen der Welt
  Normandie - Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie
2002 San Francisco - Galeria de la Raza
  Los Angeles - L.A. Freewaves
  San Francisco - Intersection for the Arts
2001 New York - /A/P/A Gallery New York University

collections
Bishop Museum
Gorman Museum
University of the South Pacific
University of Michigan
Keomailani Foundation
Manukau City Council

private collections
in Auckland - Beverly Hills - Christchurch - Honolulu - Laguna Beach - London - New York - Pago Pago - San Clemente - San Francisco - Sydney - Minneapolis

commissions
2012 painting commission for the Bishop Museum
2010-11 paintings for various private collections
2009 public poetry commission for City of St Paul and resident artist M. Young
2009-2007 various children's storybook commissions for South Pacific Press
2008 private painting commission for filmmaker CKW
2008 private painting commission for events planner RT
2007 private painting commission for poet DTA
2007 public poetry commission for City of St Paul and resident artist M. Young
2004 script commission for Pacific Islanders in Communications, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

feature articles, art catalogues and review publications
2010 San Francisco, Pacific Art Association Journal, Shigeyuki Kihara & Dan Taulapapa McMullin, by Tressa Berman
2009 Sydney, Art and Australia, feature interview with Taulapapa "Seabird Tales", by Sia Figiel
2008 Sydney, Art Asia Pacific, Almanac Edition, feature image in Samoa section
  Sydney, Hand in Hand, art exhibition catalogue by curators Shigeyuki Kihara and Jenny Fraser
  Otago, Pasifika Styles: Artists inside the museum, art exhibition book by curators Rosanna Raymond & Amiria Salmond
  Canberra, Art Monthly Australia, “Hand in Hand: Sexy and Dangerous”, review by Daniel Browning
  Nebraska, Studies in American Indian Literatures, "This Bridge of Two Backs: Making the Two-Spirit Erotics of Community", Sophie Mayer
2007 Oxford, Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania, survey includes Taulapapa, by Michelle Keown
  Buffalo, Slope, review of A Drag Queen Named Pipi, review by Craig Perez
2003 Los Angeles, USC's The Spectator, review by Peter Britos

literary publications
solo publications with asterik*
2011 Lincoln, Sovereign Erotics, indigenous fiction
  Lincoln, Queer Indigenous Studies, critical studies
  Suva, Dreadlocks, journal of University of the South Pacific
  Honolulu, Nafanua, Ala Press special editorial
2008 San Francisco, Achiote Seeds, poetry journal
2007 Auckland, Out of the Deep, story anthology
  Detroit, Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450
2006 Leeds, Journal of Francophone Literature, translation journal
2005 Wellington, My Name is Laloifi, children's book*
  Lincoln, Sovereignty Matters, essay anthology
  New York, New Voices in Gay Fiction, story anthology 
2004 Honolulu, A Drag Queen Named Pipi, poetry chapbook*
  San Francisco, The Other Half of the Postcard, poetry anthology
  San Francisco, Hyphen Magazine, literary journal
  Toronto, Without Reservation, erotica anthology
2003 Auckland, Whetu Moana, poetry anthology
2002 New York, One Story Magazine #10*
  Honolulu, Historic Waikiki, art/literary website
2001 New York, Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America, literary anthology
  New York, Best American Erotica, short story anthology
1999 Berkeley, Unfaithing U.S. Colonialism, essay anthology
1998 Philadelphia, Resistance in Paradise: Rethinking 100 Years of U.S. Involvement in the Caribbean and the Pacific, essay anthology
  San Francisco, Best Gay Erotica, short story anthology
  San Francisco, Queer Papi Porn, short story anthology
  Honolulu, Bamboo Ridge 20th Anniversary Issue, literary journal
  Wellington, Folauga, Samoan literary journal
  London, Wasafiri, literary journal
1997 Wellington, Folauga, Samoan literary journal
  Auckland, Trout, online literary journal
1996 Saint Paul, Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, literary journal
1995 Minneapolis, Bowling Alley, online collaborative art installation
  Minneapolis, Evergreen Chronicles, literary journal
  Minneapolis, Colors, literary journal
1993 San Francisco, Lavender Godzilla, literary journal
1981 Pasadena, Artists News, arts journal

film festivals
Ula: The Garland
2011 Pacific Arts Summit Square Eyes Film Festival
Sinalela
2003 New York, New Festival
  Los Angeles, Visual Communications Film Festival
  Sydney, Mardi Gras
2002 Seattle, Homo-a-Gogo
  Los Angeles, Outfest
  San Francisco, International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  Honolulu, Rainbow Film Festival

residencies, fellowships, grants
American Samoa Arts & Humanities Artist Residencies, Asian American Theatre Company Playwright in Residence, Bates College Artist-in-Residence, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Writers Guild of America Indigenous Screenwriters Lab, De Young Museum Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Artist Colony, Gay Games Indigenous Arts Festival, Jerome Playwrights Fellowship, Jerome McKnight Travel Fellowship, Keomailani Foundation PIKO Artist Residency, Mid-Atlantic Millennium Residency, California Arts Council Artist Residency, Pacific Islanders in Communications Screenwriting Fellowship, University of the South Pacific Writers Residency and Artist Residency at Oceania Centre for the Arts USP, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies Research Scholar Residency University of Canterbury, University of California Irvine Summer Undergraduate Research Program, University of Michigan Pacific Island Studies, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Writers Guild of America Indigenous Screenwriters Lab, Waiariki Institute of Technology Artist-in-Residence

performances
Pacific Islander Ethnic Museum, De Young Museum, Highways Performance Space, Soho Theatre, Intermedia Arts, Red Eye Theatre, Southern Theatre, Walker Art Center, UCLA, UCSD Gallery Theatre, Festival of Pacific Arts, Hero Festival, Devotions Festival, Gay Games Sydney, San Francisco LGBT Festival

talks
University of California Berkeley, Bates College, Canterbury University, College Art Association, Columbia University, Kapi'olani College, LGBT Center of San Francisco, National University of Samoa, New York University, Peabody Essex Museum, San Francisco State University, University of California Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, University of California Santa Cruz, University of Hawai'i Hilo, University of Hawai'i Manoa, University of Michigan Pacific Islands Studies, University of Minnesota, University of the South Pacific, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Southern California, University of California Irvine