Jumaadi

Jumaadi was born in Indonesia and migrated to Australia in 1996. He completed a BFA majoring in painting at the National Art School, Sydney in 2000 and a Masters in 2008. Jumaadi works across a range of mediums, including drawing, painting, installation and performance.

His practice is informed by personal experience as well as the political and aesthetic lineages of his homeland, including wayang kulit, a tradition of shadow-puppet plays. Some of his most recognisable works are large-scale paintings on cloth, sculpted buffalo hide, bronze casting and paper cutouts.

Jumaadi has exhibited and performed his work in Australia and internationally, including 34 solo exhibitions, such as the Jakarta Biennale 2011, Moscow Biennale 2013, the Halsey institute of Contemporary Art, SC, USA, 2014,  SEA Focus, Gillman Barracks, Singapore, 2019 and 2023, the National at Campbelltown Arts Centre in 2023, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney in 2016 and 2024, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Museum Macan, Jakarta. In 2021 he represented Australia at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea and was an exhibition artist at the Asia Pacific Triennale 10 in Brisbane. He had major solo exhibitions, My love is in an island far away at Mosman Art Gallery in Sydney, 2019-20 and Ayang-Ayang at Bundanon Art Museum in 2024.