THE ARTIST IS PRESENT

A sculpture artist, a creative director and, now, a film producer, Nicole Naone is on fire. Nicole Naone is a Renaissance woman for the modern era, able to move seamlessly through a broad range of creative roles with a style so intuitive, she is not always fully aware of its impact.

TAKE ON THE WORLD

Nicole Naone is a Renaissance woman for the modern era, able to move seamlessly through a broad range of creative roles with a style so intuitive, she is not always fully aware of its impact. She’s a creative with more on her mind than meets the eye.

THE HUMAN IMAGINATION PRESENTS

Nicole Naone’s art is born of confusion — in her own words, she seeks to construct a language. Nicole Naone‘s art is born of confusion — in her own words, she seeks to “construct a language that shows both the supple illusions of womanhood and the crude reality of the natural world.”

PRODUCER. FOUNDER. CREATIVE

Nicole Naone is by all definitions — a producer. No truer statement could begin to define a woman who is composed of visionary approaches in the fields of fine art, marketing, and cinema, while representing the forefront of cultural storytelling through modern mediums.

A part of our “Artists of Hawai‘i Now” public programming, this series of artists talks are inspired by the artists' individual practices, exchanging questions with each other for a creative dialogue about artistic process and community building. Hear from three featured artists from the exhibition: Christopher Kahunahana, Lanakila Mangauil, and Nicole Naone. Moderated by exhibition co-curator Taylour Chang and special guest Mahina Paishon Duarte.

MENTAL HEALTH IN FILMMAKING

This panel orbits around some of the ethical, culturally informed practices that directors dealing with trauma and mental wellbeing must consider in seeking to prevent further harm as they use their craft as a site for repair. With Michèle Stephenson, Lyric Cabral, Gessica Généus, and Nicole Naone; moderated by Yolo Akili

COMING TO BEING

Somewhere among the chaos tht is 800 blocks of timber, artist NIcole Naone sees the forest for the trees. Her latest sculpture, Being, is her most audacious to date—cutting, shaping, piecing together a complex vision of disparate shapes and sizes to create a whole and discernable form, as if carving through the confusion toward a more tangible clarity.

NICOLE NAONE IS A BAD ASS.

Her good looks started to get her modeling gigs when she was a mere 14 years old. After graduating from the Kamehameha schools she did what every young adult wants to do - she traveled.

ARTISTIC BODIES

Artist Nicole Naone, a recent graduate of the University of Hawaii-Manoa’s fine art department, with one of her fiberglass sculptures.It’s hard to imagine a towering wooden horse described as voluptuous, but in the case of sculptor Nicole Naone’s horse, it is.