Jumaadi (b. 1973, Sidoarjo in East Java) is a multidisciplinary artist who works with a wide range of mediums - painting, drawing, installation and performance. He was trained at the National Art School in Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2000 and a Master of Fine Art in 2008 as the recipient of the inaugural John Coburn Emerging Artist Award. He currently lives between Yogyakarta and Sydney.
Jumaadi’s work is deeply Influenced by Indonesian local traditions and cultures such as the Wayang Kulit (shadow puppetry), traditional Balinese paintings, rituals and textiles. Merging these with his personal experience to produce his own unique set of visual vocabularies, he ex- amines social, political and environmental issues ranging from deforestation, overpopulation, death, sustainability and colonialism, in his works.
Jumaadi has exhibited widely across Australia, Asia and Europe, including Superfluous Things: Paper in Singapore Art Museum, Singapore in 2022, The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contem- porary Art (APT10) in QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia in 2021, the 13th Gwangju Biennale – Minds Rising, Spirits Turning in Gwangju, South Korea in 2021, My Love Is In An Island Far Away, in Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, Australia and Comes from the Shadow, in Lismore Regional Gal- lery, Lismore, Australia in 2019. Jumaadi is the winner of Mosman Art Prize, the longest-running and prestigious regional art prize from Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, New South Wales, Aus- tralia in 2017. His works are also featured in public and private collections include Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art in Australia and Halsey Institute, in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.