Q&A: 7 Questions with Mark Kadota
Learn more about the Hawai‘i artist and his latest performance for the Hawai‘i State Art Museum.
February 23, 2021
Active for many years in the Hawai‘i contemporary art scene, Mark Kadota has an impressive list of accomplishments that include exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as well as in museums and galleries locally, nationally and all over the world. He uses a diverse range of media in fields such as painting, costume making, film and music, poetry, photography and much more. On the West Side, you can see Kadota’s paintings at the Four Seasons in Ko Olina and a porcelain ceramic mural he created at the Wai‘anae Police Station. We had a few questions for him about his methods, motivation and most recent project, “N Viral Mental,” created in response to 2020 the year we are all still trying to process.