Robert Jahnke

Name
Robert Jahnke
Iwi/Ethnicity
Ngāi Taharora/Ngāti Porou/Māori
Te Whānau a Iritekura/Ngāti Porou/Māori
Te Whānau a Rākairoa/Ngāti Porou/Māori
Date of birth
1951
Place of birth
Gisborne (region)/New Zealand
Gender
Male
Biography
Robert Jahnke was raised at Waipiro Bay on the East Coast.

He went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, and a Masters in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts. In 2006, Jahnke was awarded a Doctor of Māori Studies from Massey University.

Jahnke employs a range of media to create work that tackles issues of identity, colonisation and intercultural exchange, and to explore Māori creation narratives in a multidimensional way.

Jahnke is Professor of Māori Visual Arts at Massey University, where he helped drive the establishment of the Toioho ki Āpiti arts programme in 1991.