Arapeta Hākura is an Irāwhiti transgender artist, educator, curator, and director of Wāwata Gallery in Tămaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Working across sculpture, textiles, ceramics, installation, photography, sound, and performance, their practice explores takatāpui and Iräwhiti transgender storytelling through Indigenous material methodologies, artist personas, and queer world-building.

Hakura is an academic at Elam Te Waka Tuhura. Their doctoral research developed Whare Wawata and Dream Walking as Indigenous frameworks for transdisciplinary practice. Alongside their studio and directorial work, they teach Mãori material arts and contemporary Indigenous making.