Iwalani Kaluhiokalani is a painter and interdisciplinary installation artist whose practice explores movement as subject and process. She holds a BFA in Painting with Distinction and Departmental Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design 2003, where she also studied dance and performance art in the Studio for Interrelated Media program. She later trained in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis through the Laban Institute of Movement Studies, New York.

Kaluhiokalani is represented by Kingston Gallery, Boston USA. Her paintings, small paper sculptures , video art and collaborative performance work has been exhibited widely, including at Emerson Contemporary Boston MA, The Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, and La Traverse/Catherine Bastide Projects Marseille, France. Her work is held in private and corporate collections internationally ands he has been awarded residencies and grants from Vermont Studio Center, the ACTivate residency at Boston Center for the Arts, and the Un-Monument Video Mapping Program (a collaboration with Emerson College and the City of Boston).

Alongside her visual art practice, Kaluhiokalani is a dedicated movement educator—a teacher of teachers in Classical Pilates and the GYROTONIC® method, disciplines she has practiced since 1997.

Born in Massachusetts to Hawaiian-Scottish and Dutch-Indonesian parents, she currently works between Boston, USA, and Marseille, France.