ABOUT WINNIE SIDHARTA

Winnie Sidharta works with painted tiles and raw handmade pigments to create her body of work that investigates collective cultural experience through the depiction of species of flora and fauna both native and sacred to Indonesian culture. She places an emphasis on the importance of the natural world in relation to the cultural consciousness she explores.

Her vibrant collages have the effect of lush foliage, extending a legacy of craftswomen and complex recollections of time, memory, and identity from her layered canvases. Most recently, Winnie Sidharta's work in Delft tiles allows the mutable, living quality of the painted image to carry emotive scenes of generational postcolonial trauma. Her paintings and tilework capture her own fleeting memories from childhood and the nature she observed and lived. Her paintings depict flowers and foliage native to East Java, preserving and uplifting their beauty and importance.

Based in Queens, NY, Sidharta has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, from Indonesia to China and across the United States, in California, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. She studied Visual Communication Design in Indonesia and Painting in Beijing, China. In 2010, she received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University and later taught there before settling in New York City in 2014.