leoleo ō measina ma viliata | pratique commissariale | curatorial practice
Reading Room, The Commute 2018, curated by the Visiting Curators (Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Freja Carmichael, Léuli Eshrāghi, Lana Lopesi, Tarah Hogue), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (Photo Markus Ravik)
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Léuli Eshrāghi (Tagata Sāmoa) est conservateurice des pratiques autochtones responsable d’enrichir la collection du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, de mener des projets de recherche, de médiation culturelle et d’exposition, ainsi que de favoriser les relations avec les nations autochtones. Iel a commissarié l’exposition Kent Monkman : L’Histoire est dépeinte par les vainqueurs avec John Lukavic, Soleils levants : l’art des Confédérations des fleuves et des grands lacs avec Katsitsanoron Dumoulin Bush, Glenn Gear : ulitsuak / marée montante, et ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik : essence de la vie sous la direction d’asinnajaq.
Eshrāghi a précédemment occupé le poste de commissaire de la TarraWarra Biennial 2023 : ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili, qui traitait de la renaissance culturelle du Monde majoritaire et des liaisons entre l’Asie et le Grand Océan, ainsi que celui de commissaire en résidence au Musée d’art de l’Université du Queensland, où iel a co-conçu des expositions, des résidences et des publications centrées sur l’océan : Oceanic Thinking, Mare Amoris / Sea of Love, How we remember tomorrow et Blue Assembly avec Peta Rake, Isabella Baker et Jocelyn Flynn. Iel est titulaire d’un doctorat en pratique commissariale de l’Université Monash, d’un certificat d’études supérieures en gestion culturelle autochtone de l’Université de Melbourne et d’une licence en études autochtones et francophones de l’Université du Queensland.
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Léuli Eshrāghi (Tagata Sāmoa) is the Curator of Indigenous Practices responsible for expanding the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal collection, initiating research, cultural mediation and exhibitions, and supporting relations with Indigenous nations. They curated Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors with John Lukavic, Rising Suns: Art from the Confederacies of the Great Lakes and Rivers with Katsitsanoron Dumoulin Bush, Glenn Gear: ulitsuak / marée montante / rising tide, and ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik: essence of life led by asinnajaq.
Eshrāghi previously served as curator of TarraWarra Biennial 2023 : ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili which engaged with Majority World cultural renaissance and connections across Asia and the Great Ocean, and as curator in residence at the University of Queensland Art Museum, where they codesigned ocean-centred exhibitions, residencies, and publications Oceanic Thinking, Mare Amoris / Sea of Love, How we remember tomorrow, and Blue Assembly with Peta Rake, Isabella Baker and Jocelyn Flynn. They hold a PhD in curatorial practice from Monash University, a GradCert in Indigenous arts management from the University of Melbourne, and a BA in Indigenous and Francophone Studies from the University of Queensland.
EN COURS | CURRENT
Best of 2025 Léuli Eshrāghi shares their Top Ten Art of the Year // 1 December 2025
Artforum, New York
Exposition Soleils levants : l’art des Confédérations des fleuves et des grands lacs commissariée par Léuli Eshrāghi avec la collaboration de Katsitsanoron Dumoulin Bush // jusqu’au 11 octobre 2026
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal
Présentation ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik essence de la vie commissariée par asinnajaq avec Jacques Des Rochers et Léuli Eshrāghi // En continu
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal
Exhibition Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors curated by John Lukavic and Léuli Eshrāghi // 11 April - 16 August 2026
Akron Art Museum, Akron
À VENIR | SOON
Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser, Piña, Why is the Sky Blue? (still), 2021. How we remember tomorrow curated by Peta Rake, Isabella Baker, Jocelyn Flynn, University of Queensland Art Museum, 2024
Mariquita ‘Micki’ Davis, Magellan doesn’t live here (still), 2017. Mare Amoris | Sea of Love curated with Peta Rake, Isabella Baker, Jocelyn Flynn, University of Queensland Art Museum, 2023-24
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Tanpa Sempadan (detail), 2023. TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili (Highly Commended, Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards 2023), TarraWarra Museum of Art. Courtesy of the artist and Moore Contemporary, Boorloo.
Amrita Hepi, The Anguilla Pursuit (still), 2021. Oceanic Thinking (Season Two) curated with Peta Rake, University of Queensland Art Museum, 2022
Kite and Devin Ronneberg, Ínyan Iyé (Telling Rock), 2019. Pasapkedjinawong: La rivière qui passe entre les rochers—The river that passes through the rocks curated with John G Hampton, Musée d’art MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2021
Brian Fuata, a house besieged (preposition tweaked) (still), 2020. Sāmoan Hxstories, Screens and Intimacies II, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and A Space Gallery, 2021
Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Sinalela (still), 2001. Sāmoan Hxstories, Screens and Intimacies I, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and A Space Gallery, 2020
Virginie Tetoofa, Pari Pari Fenua - Tautira (still), 2017. Écrans autochtones: entre temporalité et mouvement curated with Mylène Guay, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, 2020
asinnajaq, Rock Piece (Ahuriri) (still), 2018. ʻO le ūa na fua mai Manuʻa, part of the Wansolwara: One Salt Water season, University of New South Wales Galleries, 2020
BC Collective (Cora-Allan Wickliffe and Daniel Twiss) with Louisa Afoa, Hākari as guests (detail), 2019. Transits and Returns, curated with Tarah Hogue, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Lana Lopesi and Freja Carmichael, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2019-2020
Layover curated with Lana Lopesi, Freja Carmichael, Sarah Biscarra Dilley and Tarah Hogue, Artspace Aotearoa, 2019
Artists and curators on opening night. The Commute curated with Freja Carmichael, Lana Lopesi, Sarah Biscarra Dilley and Tarah Hogue, Institute of Modern Art, 2018
Angela Tiatia, The Liberators, 2017. Pōuliuli (Faitautusi ma Faʻāliga), West Space and Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2017
Lydia Balbal, Martakulu, 2010. First Languages of the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, 2016-17
Atong Atem, Dit, 2015. Ua numi le fau, Gertrude Contemporary, Next Wave Festival, 2016
Vai Niu Wai Niu Coconut Water, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, 2015-16
Tala mamao mai | Presse | Press
Artsy, “8 Curators on LGBTQ+ Artists to Celebrate this Pride Month 2024”, Artsy, May 30, 2024
Erin Mathews, “Love as an active force, as fierce as the ocean,” Art Guide Australia, October 2023
Lily Eather, “Mare Amoris | Sea of Love,” Art Almanac, September 2023, pp. 32-34
Emma-Kate Wilson, “TarraWarra Biennial: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili,” Art Almanac, June 2023
Luce Nguyễn-Hunt, “TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili,” Memo Review, June 2023
Art News Aotearoa, “Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi on interconnectedness,” Art News Aotearoa, June 2023
Tim Stackpool, “Dr Léuli Eshrāghi at TarraWarra,” Inside the Gallery, May 2023
Amelia Winata, “TarraWarra Biennial,” The Saturday Paper, April 2023
Rebecca Coates, “Léuli Eshrāghi on Curating the TarraWarra Biennial,” Ocula, April 2023
Antoine Aphesbero, “Interview de Léuli Eshrāghi,” Palais de Tokyo, mai 2022
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, “Rewriting The Script,” Art Guide Australia, January 2022
Julia Lum, “Transits and Returns”, C Magazine, 145: Criticism, Again, Spring 2020, pp. 58-59
James Gatt, “ʻO le ūa na fua mai Manuʻa curated by Dr Léuli Eshrāghi”, Running Dog, April 2020
Amina Creighton-Kelly,“Knowledge Exchange across the Pacific Ocean”, Rungh Magazine, March 2020
Vanessa Low, “Wansolwara: One Salt Water”, Art Almanac, February 2020
Gina Fairley, “Review: Wansolwara: One Salt Water, UNSW Galleries (NSW)”, ArtsHub, February 2020
Moe Kirkpatrick, “Transits and Returns: Does Context Make Art?”, The Ubyssey, January 2020
Emma Joyce, “Wansolwara: One Salt Water”, Concrete Playground, January 2020
Jessica Johns, “Indigenous World-Building at the Vancouver Art Gallery”, Canadian Art, December 2019
Tania Willard, “What's for - Decolonial - Dinner?”, Contemporary Hum, December 2019
Dorothy Woodend, “Home and Away”, Galleries West, October 2019
Michaela Bear, “The Commute,” ArtAsiaPacific, November 2018
Soo-Min Shim, “The Commute,” Art Almanac, October 2018
Megan Cope, “The Commute,” un Magazine - Online Reviews, October 2018
Tristan Harwood, “Love and decolonisation in actu”, un Magazine, 10.2, October 2016
Emily Cormack, “Postcard from Melbourne”, Frieze Magazine, August 2016
Catherine Clover, “Next Wave Festival: complex selves and cultures”, RealTime, June 2016