WINNIE SIDHARTA

Winnie Sidharta is a Chinese Indonesian painter based in Queens, New York. Sidharta works with handmade paper, raw pigments, and sculptural substrates to create her body of work that investigates collective cultural experience. Her collage, painting, drawing, and site-specific installation consider themes of assimilation, immigration, and how the parallel experiences inform each other.

Her vibrant collages have the effect of lush foliage, extending a legacy of craftswomen and complex recollections of time, memory, and identity out from her layered canvasses. Most recently, Winnie Sidharta's work in Delft tiles allows the mutable, living quality of the painted image to carry emotive scenes of generational post-colonial trauma.

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.

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