Kapulani Landgraf is a kupa of Pūʻahuʻula, Kāneʻohe. Landgraf ’s books, Nā Wahi Pana o Koʻolau Poko (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1994) and Nā Wahi Kapu o Maui (ʻAi Pōhaku Press, 2003) received Ka Palapala Poʻokela awards for Excellence in Illustrative Books in 1995 and 2004, respectively. She published Ē Luku Wale Ē with Mark Hamasaki in 2015.
Kapulani participated in the 9th Annual Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art and will be in the 16th Sharjah Biennial in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates in 2025. Kapulani received a 2013 Visual Arts Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and the 2014 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 1996, the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts awarded her an Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography.
Her artworks are included in the collections of the Bishop Museum, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Heard Museum (Phoenix, Arizona), The Kamehameha Schools, Landesmuseum (Hannover, Germany), Linden Museum (Stuttgart, Germany), Queensland Art Gallery of Contemporary Modern Art (South Brisbane, Australia) and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery (Washingron, D.C.)
She was a Professor of Art and Title III Project Director at Kapi‘olani Community College and is currently a Professor of Art at Windward Community College.
Piliāmoʻo is the collective name of Mark Hamasaki and Kapulani Landgraf. Collaboratively they have documented the construction of the H-3 freeway, the water struggle of Waiāhole and the ahupuaʻa of Kailua. Their photographs are in the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.