(b. 1993, Padang, Indonesia)
Ridho Rizki pursued his art education at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakjarta (The Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta). In 2017, he received the Emerging Artist Award at Bakaba #6, held at the Sakato Art Community, Yogyakarta. He was also selected as a finalist for the Young Artist Award by Redbase Yogyakarta in 2016, and awarded Best Drawing Fundamental II at ISI Yogyakarta in 2014 and 2015.
While rooted in the quietude and tension of still life, Rizki’s practice departs from its conventional symbolism. He constructs perceptual fields where memory and matter intermingle and objects appear to flicker between presence and disappearance. Working with CMYK pigments and an airbrush technique, Rizki creates immersive surfaces that challenge the stability of form. What emerges are shifting atmospheres beyond representation––illusions built from particles of color.
Ridho compels the audience to sift through the remnants of memories, seeking to identify an enigmatic yet intimate object and inviting his audience to rediscover it time and again.
— Subliminal Remnant, 2023
Eka Novrian & Hidayatul Azmi
Untitiled (A25a)
2025
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 130 cm
A luminous burst radiates from the center––at once floral, cosmic, and abstract. In Untitled (A25a), Rizki engages with the fragility of visual memory: what begins as recognition slowly recedes into impression. From afar, the shape coheres into a delicate bloom; up close, it breaks into clusters of dots and chromatic dust. The work becomes a meditation on distance––both visual and emotional.
Untitled (A25b)
2025
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 130 cm
In Untitled (A25b), Rizki presents a near-monolithic form, evoking a stack of sheets, slabs, or accumulated thoughts. The vertical composition commands attention while remaining mute, inscrutable. Here, illusion is not decorative, but structural––light and shadow shape a form that is as psychological as it is visual.
Untitled (Jn24A)
2024
Acrylic and Ink on 300gsm Cold Press Arches Paper
75 x 53 cm, Framed: 88 x 66 cm
An orb hovers under a floating canopy of light. Untitled (Jn24A) is a study in subtlety: a suspended moment caught between architecture and atmosphere. The image invites contemplation rather than interpretation, drawing attention to the play of mass, shadow, and void.
Untitled (Jn24B)
2024
Acrylic and Ink on 300gsm Cold Press Arches Paper
75 x 53 cm, Framed: 88 x 66 cm
A beam cuts through the pictorial plane, dividing the unknown. With Untitled (Jn24B), Rizki transforms the page into a quiet theatre of absence and presence. The forest-like form, reduced to line and volume, evokes a landscape at once familiar and impossible to name.
Untitled (Jn24D)
2024
Acrylic and Ink on 300gsm Cold Press Arches Paper
75 x 53 cm, Framed: 88 x 66 cm
A path recedes into a shadowed space––its edges marked by blurred geometries. In Untitled (Jn24D), Rizki evokes spatial memory: the kind that lingers faintly neither image nor idea. It is a space remembered more by feeling than form.
Untitled
2024
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 130 cm, Framed: 105 x 135 cm
A single sphere rests on an open surface––illuminated, isolated, stage-like. The composition is sparse, theatrical, and intentional. This work becomes a reflection on the nature of focus: what it means to see one thing, and nothing else.
Untitled (Study of Light Transition) A3
2022
Acrylic on 300 gsm
Cold Press Arches Paper37.5 x 53 cm
A single sphere floats in stillness and subtle light. This work explores the fine gradations of tone that allow volume to emerge from flatness. As with all pieces in this series, the object itself is less important than the transition around it––the fade, the blur, the edge.
Untitled (Study of Light Transition) B5
2022
Acrylic on 300 gsm Cold Press Arches Paper
37.5 x 53 cm
In B5, the edge softens almost to disappearance.
What remains is a trace—a memory of a volume
once seen, now fading.
Untitled (Study of Light Transition) B4
2022
Acrylic on 300 gsm Cold Press Arches Paper
37.5 x 53 cm
B4 holds tension in stillness. A soft shadow curves beneath the form grounding it gently in space. The illusion is quiet but exacting.
Untitled (Study of Light Transition) B2
2022
Acrylic on 300 gsm Cold Press Arches Paper
37.5 x 53 cm
A shift in position creates new balance. In B2, the sphere tilts slightly, altering the rhythm of the space around it. These variations, though minor, accumulate into meaning:
how difference is built through repetition.
Untitled (Study of Light Transition) A4
2022
Acrylic on 300 gsm Cold Press Arches Paper
37.5 x 53 cm
The work draws the eye inward. The sphere, rendered in meticulous pointillism, emerges from a haze of soft speckles casting a broad, dense shadow that anchors it in place. While weight and volume remain, a lightness comes in how the form dematerializes on a closer look. The illusion teeters on the edge of vanishing, reminding us that perception is always provisional.
Untitled (Objek 2 / Object 2)
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 120 cm, Framed: 105 x 125 x 7 cm
Soft, undulating, Object 2 reads like a reclining figure or a folded terrain. It suggests the body without depicting it, allowing sensation to lead. The image holds tension and gentleness in equal measure.
Untitled (Flower 4)
2023
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 120 cm, Framed: 105 x 125 x 7 cm
A radial explosion of white and blur, Flower 4 flirts with figuration before dissolving into pure sensation. It is a bloom, a flare, a burst of recollection––a flower not held in hand but in memory.
