Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo 

(b. 1978 in Bandung, Java, Indonesia)

Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo is an artist based in Bandung, Indonesia. He studied painting at Institut Teknologi Bandung (2001) and Central Saint Martins, London (2005). Arin works with painting as expanded medium. In it, his practice pertains to qualitative difference carried by both the imagerial and the material in painting.

Working often with resin and pigments, but also canvas and paint, Arin explores in them the plasticity of how pictures are painted. His practice can be associated with the almost choreographic aspect of action painting. His choice of colouring, however, is collected from various materials associated to everyday life and occurring issues.

Things are ground down to become pigment: ash from an erupting volcano, palm-oil fruits of converted lands, but also instant ramen, deep-fried egg, and montages of prints. Afloat the paintings, they depict the multiplicity and mobility of matter. Arin’s paintings come together not as mere frozen movement of colour spectra, but as narratives relational to the formation of our vision in the now-time.

Arin’s works have been presented in numerous exhibitions, including No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia (2013, group exhibition) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where his work later entered the museum’s public collection. Other exhibitions include “Manifesto” at the Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (2008,group exhibition) and ArtJog, Jogja National Museum, Indonesia (2018, group exhibition). In 2016, Arin received the Best Emerging Artist award from the Prudential Eye Awards. His works are also held in private collections including the Tumurun Museum, Bank Indonesia, and the collection of Uli Sigg in Switzerland.