[1] Her work is part of the permanent collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
[3][4] Tanuvasa was born and raised in New Zealand; her parents had migrated to the country from Tonga and Samoa.
[6] In 2012 and 2013, she was awarded the NICAI Summer Scholarship and worked with Fiona Jack on the Rosebank Art Walk and with Jim Speers on a project in Shanghai.
[5] In 2014, Tanuvasa's film work Expensive Moments was exhibited at a solo show at Gaffa in Sydney.
[5] She had her first solo dealer show in 2018 with Tim Melville Gallery, titled In a Midnight Hour.