Arts Pasifika Awards


The Arts Pasifika Awards celebrate excellence in Pacific arts in New Zealand. The annual awards are administered by Creative New Zealand and are the only national awards for Pasifika artists across all artforms.
The Arts Pasifka Awards include the awards for: Emerging Pacific Artist; Iosefa Enari Memorial Award; Pacific Heritage Art Award ; Contemporary Pacific Art Award; Senior Pacific Artist Award; and Special Recognition Award.

List of award recipients

Emerging Pacific Artist

This award began in 2004.
This award began in 2013 to "recognise special contribution to the standing, and standard, of Pacific arts in Aotearoa and/or internationally".