Jumaadi (Courtesy of Watters Gallery, Sydney)

EDUCATION

2008 Master of Fine Art – National Art School, Sydney
2000 Bachelor of Fine Art – National Art School, Sydney

SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2014 Displaced Goddess, Video Performance, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
2013 Australia Council, New Work Grant for Mid Career Artist, for Moscow Biennale project.
2012 Rimbun Dahan Artist in Residence, Hotel Penaga, Penang, Malaysia.
2011 Xuchun Inaugural International Contemporary Art Workshops, Shanxi Province, China. 2008 Jumaadi Next Generation, Art Melbourne 08, Melbourne.
2007 Winner John Couburn Art Prize for Emerging Artists (Blake Art Prize).
2006 Highly Commended (Emerging Artist), Westpac Redlands Art Prize, Sydney
2005 Winner of Small Painting Prize, Soda Gallery Avalon, NSW
2003 Inaugural Scholarship –  Friends of the National Art School Sydney.
2002 Winner of the Waverley Art Prize – Open Prize.

RESIDENCIES, COMMUNITY PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS

2014 Djilpin Arts, Walking with Spirits Festival, Beswick (Wugularr) Community, Northern Territory. Cowra Civilian Internment Arts Program, Cowra NSW. 2013
No Boundaries International Art Colony, Bald Head, North Carolina, USA. Artist in Residence, The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, South Carolina, USA.
2012 Penang State Museum, shadow puppet performance and workshops, Malaysia.
2010 Museum of Memory, Asia Study Centre, Flinders University, SA. Artist in Residence at Hill End, Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW.
2009 Letter to the Moon, community art project with mud victims, East Java, Indonesia. Indonesia in the Bush, Port Macquarie and surrounds, NSW.
2008 Co-director, Ose Tara Lia, a collaborative project with Heri Dono, OzAsia Festival, Adelaide. Grass sculpture weaving workshops in collaboration with Aboriginal Tjumpi weavers, Art Space, Adelaide.
2007 Facilitator and Interpreter, The Eyes of Marege, OzAsia Festival Adelaide and Sydney Opera House.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2015 Diary of Dust, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
2014 FORGIVE ME NOT TO MISS YOU NOT, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Weighted, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne.
I Have Travelled a Long Way to Find Your Beauty, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
2013 Figural Poetry Of Jumaadi, Art One Museum and Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Cry Baby Cry, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane.
2012 PAUSE, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
2011 Landscape of Memory, Expansionist Art Empire Gallery, Leiden, the  Netherlands.
Travelling Light, Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2010 Rain Rain, Come Again, Watters Gallery, Sydney.
2009 Unsent Letters, Legge Gallery, Sydney
2008 Home Sweet Home, Art Space, Adelaide Festival Centre. Home is not sweet home, Gallery 4A, Sydney.  Museum of Memory, Project Space, National Art School, Sydney.
Story from Cloud, Sky and Rain, Legge Gallery, Sydney.
2007 Jumaadi World Created, French Cultural Centre, Surabaya, Indonesia.
2006 Works on Paper, Legge Gallery, Sydney.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2016 The Life and Death of a Shadow for exhibition ‘Telling Tales’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
2016 Close to Home, Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2014 Re:Visited, Riga Contemporary Art Centre, Latvia. A Special Arrow was Shot in the Neck…, David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), London. Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School, Sydney.
2013 Loneliness was part of it, The 5th Moscow Biennale Of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. Middle Head Project 33° 50′ S, 151° 14′ E, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
Cultivating the Garden, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide College of the Art, Adelaide. Platform 2013, Metro Art, Brisbane.
2012 Snake Snake, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney. Contemporary Work on Paper from Indonesia, DNA Project Space, Sydney.
2011 Bali Artist Camp, Made Budiana Gallery, Lod Tunduh, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.
Who Is Afraid of the Wood, Jakarta Biennale 2011, Indonesia.
Xuchun Inaugural Contemporary Art Workshops, Shanxi province, China.
My Australia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei. Frank’s Flat, Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW.
The Sin City, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta.
Buka Jalan Performance Festival, National Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
2010 Museum of Memory, Flinders University Pendopo, Adelaide. Istanbul Student International Triennale, Turkey.
2010, National Art School Gallery, Sydney.
2009 Common Sense, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta.
Perang Kata Dan Rupa, Gallery Salihara, Jakarta.
Theatre Of Grass, Blue Poles Gallery, Byabarra, NSW.
Without Boundaries: Artist Books, AGNSW Research Library, Sydney.
2007 Painted Bridges, University Of Southern Queensland Gallery, Queensland
2005 The Song Of Grass, Garden of Government House, Sydney Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Nan Tien Temple, Wollongong NSW.

(Courtesy of Watters Gallery, Sydney)