Kihara, Shigeyuki, 1975-

found: Salt 8 : Shigeyuki Kihara, 2014:Cover and last page (Shigeyuki Kihara, born 1975 in Samoa; lives in Auckland, New Zealand)

found: Wikipedia, September 15, 2016(Shigeyuki Kihara is a contemporary artist and the first New Zealander to hold a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Kihara is also a fa'afafine, the 3rd gender of Samoa. Born in Samoa, Kihara's mother is Samoan and her father Japanese. Kihara immigrated to New Zealand at the age of sixteen to further her studies)

found: Shigeyuki Kihara: undressing the Pacific, via University of Otago Library website, viewed September 15, 2016(exhibition of photographs and performance works by Samoan-born artist Shigeyuki Kihara; as a result of performing in her own work Kihara reoccupies the colonial gaze and as a Fa'a fafine, a 3rd gender individual with an accepted role within Samoan culture, she also questions notions of gender and sexuality) - http://www.otago.ac.nz/library/hocken/otago045210.html

found: Her blog, viewed September 15, 2016:home page (Shigeyuki Kihara, a leading Samoan-born interdisciplinary artist currently based between Apia, Samoa; Auckland, New Zealand; and Sydney, Australia) biography (A native of Samoa, Yuki Kihara is an interdisciplinary artist whose work engages in a variety of social, political and cultural issues. Often referencing Pacific history, her work explores the varying relationships between gender, race, culture and politics) - https://shigeyukikihara.com/

found: Quiet riot 1: 'Fa'afafine towards decolonization' moderated by artist Shigeyuki Kihara - 3 June 2015, via SoundCloud website, listened to on September 15, 2016(at 3:44 of audio, Shigeyuki Kihara speaking: "experiences that I've endured as a Sāmoan Fa'afafine trans woman"; at 4:08 of audio: "I had to disclose that I was a Sāmoan Fa'afafine ... loosely means transgender") - https://soundcloud.com/artgalleryofnsw/quiet-riot-1-faafafine-towards-decolonisation-moderated-by-artist-shigeyuki-kihara