Hoʻākea Source 2025 Grant Awardees
Colleen Kimura
Nā Leo o Kapa
Avalon Paradea
OUR JOY iS SACRED
Lani Punani
Babaeng Babae Na
Hercules Goss-Kuehn
The Renkon Project
Noe Tanigawa
I OLA KANALOA
Davianna McGregor & Craig Neff
RESIDENT ARTIST VEHICLE 4000
Cody Anderson2025 Grant Recipient
RESIDENT ARTIST VEHICLE 4000 (RAV4000) is a 2002 Toyota Rav4 turned multipurpose mobile art toolkit designed and created by 5 artists for ‘āina based creative research projects. The mobile studio supports place-based and site-specific artist projects which respond to, collaborate with, and require access to the land. Participating artists: Cody Anderson, Kainoa Gruspe, Nanea Lum, Amber Khan, and Alec Singer will plan projects then design and fabricate the necessary (or unnecessary but awesome) vehicle modifications to complete their work and offer community workshops and presentations. The vehicle will then be used to complete each artist’s project during a 2-month residency period in which they also offer community events relating to their various skill sets and practices. RAV4000’s formula can then be repeated with more artist contributions in the future, an ever-evolving sculpture, toolkit, resource, and residency by Hawai‘i artists, for Hawai‘i artists.
Cody Anderson is a conceptual artist who can’t seem to give up drawing. He uses his art practice to engage with, learn about, and better understand the world around him. Using invented parameters like prolonged durational observations, repetitive actions, and absurd cataloging, he focuses his attention on a particular subject. These subjects vary widely but topics generally concern time and value, scale and pace, as well as drawing and the internet.
Cody currently lectures in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Born and raised in Gillette, Wyoming, he received his BFA in 2016 from the University of Wyoming, and MFA in 2020 from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Recent exhibitions and publications include MARK: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing at Artlink Gallery, Folder: MATERIAL RESEARCH>08.charcoal, a solo show at Aupuni Space, and Drawing Discourse: UNC Asheville's 12th Annual Juried International Drawing Exhibition.