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Juvana Soliven

Honolulu, Hawai'i

Know we are who can lead/must struggle (Ready) is a sculpture hanging on a white wall from two hooks. On one, a loose mask form made of intricate gridded seed beads in tones of brown, peach and gold hangs from a ribbon on the hood, which drapes over to the other attached to metal carabiner clips.

Know we are who can lead/must struggle (Ready)

2025

Body Weaponized No. 8 is a sculptural object resembling a tool of uncertain purpose. 4 radial arms of bent metal extend from a center cup, each with a mesh spoon covered with enameled disc beads.

Body Weaponized No. 8

2021

Reclining Nude is a sculpture composed of two thin scaffold-like chairs in different heights, between which is draped a long mesh form of delicate filigree, with its separated strips draping down to touch the floor.

Reclining Nude

2020

An Unwelcome is a sculpture made of very fine filigree copper chainmail extending from a square center form in variable linear and grid patterns forming a loose square frame.

An Unwelcome

2020

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Juvana Soliven

In a black and white photo, Juvana Soliven smiles slightly, wearing a black turtleneck. She has short bangs, and dark hair pulled up into two buns, and wears winged eyeliner.

Juvana Soliven is a visual artist and educator from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Soliven holds an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2016) and a BFA in Studio Art with a Sculpture Focus from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (2013). Soliven teaches as a Lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the areas of Glass & Metal and Sculpture & Expanded Arts. Her work is in the collections of Cranbrook Art Museum, Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Williams College Museum of Art, Honolulu Museum of Art, and private collections. Soliven has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Netherlands, Germany, Iceland, Finland, Japan, and Argentina.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2025

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“ I believe the objects we make respond to the cultures we exist with and within. How may the objects we make speak to our identities and cultures in flux? What responsibility do we have to the objects we make, and what they communicate, and to what audience?”