Mikiʻala Souza is Native Hawaiian painter and printmaker from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Her work uses layers of color and symbolism to focus on landscape and identity. She received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Oregon and an MA from Western Oregon University. She has held teaching positions at Clatsop Community College, The Honolulu Museum, Astoria Visual Arts and more.

Mikiʻala has exhibited both nationally and abroad, at venues such as Capitol Modern (Hawaiʻi State Art Museum), Waikato Museum in Hamilton New Zealand, University of Hawaiʻi, and numerous art galleries around the Pacific and Pacific Northwest. Mikiʻalaʻs work is included in private and public collections and she has received awards from the Oregon Arts Commission and The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

She currently works out of her studio on the rural north Oregon coast, where she lives and works as an artist and art educator. She travels to her hometown in Hawaiʻi and throughout the Pacific as often as possible.

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Astoria, OR