Originally from Bougainville Island, the artist and curator Taloi Havini is a guest of the Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Palais de Tokyo’s creation laboratory for the year 2016 – 2017. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and ANU Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Canberra School of Art at the Australian National University.
She has exhibited in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region since 2002. Recent exhibitions include: Sharjah Biennial 13 (United Arab Emirates, 2017), 3rd Aichi Triennial: Homo Faber: A Rainbow Caravan (Nagoya, 2016), 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Queensland Art Gallery | GoMA, Brisbane, 2015) and Meleponi Pasifika (iCAN Indonesian Contemporary Art Network, Yogyakarta, 2014).