Sekarputi Sidhiawati is a visual artist who raises stories about the empowerment of women in domestic and intersection culture to give them and herself the drive to continue working. She is mainly working with ceramic, the material that highly represents house and women in general.
She was born in Jakarta 1986. Taking formal education at the Faculty of Art and Design ITB-Ceramic Art studio. She is now known as the founder of the studio Arta Derau, while consistently working in the art world. After working in Bandung, in 2018 she moved to Bali to expand her ceramic studio business. With woman related issues, Puti had been a finalist of several fine art awards such as the Soemardja Art Award (2010) and the Bandung Contemporary Art Award 2013. She had join several prestigious exhibition include Jakarta Contemporary Ceramic Biennale, National Gallery of Indonesia (2014); Temperature Affect, Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics Jakarta (2017); Manifesto, National Gallery of Indonesia (2017); Termasuk, Darren Knight Gallery Australia (2018); Southern Constellations: The Poetics of the Non-Aligned, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljublana-Slovenia (2019); SOLO Exhibition: The Home Inside Our Mind, The Back Room Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2023).
Solo Exhibition
2023
“The Home Inside Our Mind”, The Back Room Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
2019
“Your Existence Gives Me Hope”, Uma Seminyak, Bali.
2018
“Derau/Tinggal (Noise/Stay)”, Studio Eksotika, Bali.
Group Exhibition
selected
2024
“No, But Yes!”, RUCI Art Space, Jakarta
“FOCUS NY 2024”, D Gallerie, New York
“The Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Sun Contemporary, Bali
“Art Jakarta Garden 2024”, RUCI Art Space & D Gallerie, Jakarta
2023
“Tutur Bentuk”, ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta
“Under the Sun”, Art Agenda, Jakarta
“The Growth”, Ruang Arta Derau, Bali
“Tudung Sudung”, Omah Budoyo, Yogyakarta
2022
“Our Grandfather’s Road”, 16Albermarle, Sydney, Australia
“RUCI ART”, ArtJakarta, Jakarta
“Laki-laki Jangan Menangis”, Titik Dua Ubud, Bali
“Titicara”, ISA ART, Jakarta
“TITICARA”, Selasar Sunaryo, Bandung
2021
ARTJOG MMXXI "Time (to) Wonder”, Jogjakarta
“Special Presentation”, Kohesi Initiatives, Jogjakarta
“Melekat”, Titik Dua, Bali
2020
“Scope vol.1”, virtual exhibition by Bale Project.
“Indonesian Calling”, 16Albermarle, Sydney, Australia
“Raga Rhythm”, Titik Dua Ubud, Bali.
2019
“Three Artist From Indonesia”, 16Albermerle, Sydney, Australia
‘Today, Tomorrow, Future; 13th artniversary of Senayan City’, Senayan City, Jakarta
“Rice Paddy Field Forever;collaborative project with Agugn”, Artjakarta, Jakarta
‘I … Therefore I Am’, Can’s Gallery, Jakarta
2018
“South Constelation: The Poetics of the Non Aligned” , Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana.
“Manifesto 6, Multipolar”, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta.
“Temperature Affect”, Indonesian Art and Ceramic Museum, Jakarta.
2017
“Small Universe in a Field of Meaning-Martel”, Edwin’s Gallery, Jakarta.
“Re-emergence”, Selasar Sunaryo Artspace, Bandung.
“Museum of the Broken Heart”, Plaza Indonesia, Jakarta
Award
2012
Finalist at ‘BaCAA:Bandung Contemporary Art Award’, Lawangwangi, Bandung.
2011
Finalist at ‘Soemardja Art Award’, Galeri Soemardja, Bandung.