Dr Lana Lopesi, MNZM, of Eugene, Oregon, United States of America, for services to the arts
Dr Lana Lopesi is an author, editor, art critic and multidisciplinary researcher who has published extensively on New Zealand art and culture, nationally and internationally. She has written the books ‘False Divides’ and ‘Bloody Woman’ and co-edited ‘Transits and Returns’, ‘Towards a Grammar of Race: In Aotearoa New Zealand’, and ‘Pacific Spaces: Translations and Transmutations’. She is an Assistant Professor with the University of Oregon’s Department of Race, Indigenous and Ethnic Studies. She is the Editor-in-Chief for Creative New Zealand’s Pacific Art Legacy Project. Dr Lopesi was founding Editor of ‘#500words’ and is Board Co-Chair and former Editor-in-Chief of ‘The Pantograph Punch’.