Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT22) is Hawai’i’s largest, thematic exhibition of contemporary art from Hawai‘i, the Pacific, and beyond the shores, on view for 78 days across collaborating sites of exhibition on O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i Island.

The theme, “ALOHA NŌ” is a call to know Hawaiʻi as a place of rebirth, resilience, and resistance; a place that embraces humanity in all of its complexities — with a compassion and care that can only be described as aloha. Contrary to its ubiquitous and over-commodified presence, aloha is an action that comprises a profound love and truth-telling, a practice that has been kept and cared for by the people of Hawaiʻi for generations. This practice of aloha engenders a deep connectivity to the ʻāina (land), oceanic environment, elements, and each other. By collapsing two, seemingly opposite, notions — “no” in English with “nō,” an intensifier in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) — ALOHA NŌ reclaims aloha from a colonial-capitalist historicity and situates it as a transformative power that is collectively enacted through contemporary art. While specific to Hawaiian and Pacific environments, ALOHA NŌ resonates across other cultures and geographies, especially sovereign lands with similar histories and struggles against colonial occupation and capitalist violence.