Exhibitions
2008
Kiridesa The Gallery, Singapore2007Solo exhibition at Komaneka Fine Art Gallery, Bali
2006
Group exhibition of SDI Yogyakarta in BaliExhibition at Sawah Art Gallery, Singapore
2005Pre Bali Biennale exhibitionTrio exhibition at Sika Gallery, BaliBazar exhibition in YogyakartaGroup exhibition in Museum Ullen Sentalu, YogyakartaGroup exhibition in Hotel Possesio, JakartaGroup exhibition of SDI in Gallery Langgeng, Magelang
2004
Exhibition “Perjalanan Seni Lukis Indonesia” at Bentara Budaya, JakartaGroup exhibition at Kedai Kebun, YogyakartaGroup exhibition Benang-Benang 96 in Santi Art Gallery, JakartaGroup exhibition Benang-Benang 96 in Puri Art Gallery, MalangDrawing Exhibition at Sekretariat SDI in Yogyakarta.
2003
Group exhibition SDI at Neka Museum, BaliGroup exhibition at Regent Hotel, JakartaExhibition Pratisara Affandi Adi Karya in YogyakartaExhibition “6 Rupa 6 Warna” at One Gallery, JakartaGroup exhibition SDI Yogyakarta in Yogyakarta
2002
Group exhibition Detik 96 in YogyakartaGroup exhibition Jarak Bang in Bali
2001
Group exhibition Benang-Benang 96 in Yogyakarta.Exhibition “Mister!!!” in Yogyakarta.Exhibition “Identitas” in Bentara Budaya, Yogyakarta Group exhibition at Santi Gallery, JakartaGroup exhibition SDI at Gallery Nasional, JakartaExhibition “Bali Kontemporer” Bentara Budaya, JakartaExhibition Dies Natalis ISI in YogyakartaGroup exhibition Jarak Bang in Bali
2000
Group exhibition Benang-Benang 96 in BaliExhibition Philip Moris Art Award in JakartaExhibition “Indonesia Expression” at Soabian Gallery, SingaporeExhibition Five Young Artists at Embun Gallery, Yogyakarta and JakartaExhibition Young Artist at Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta Exhibition Asia Pacific Nokia Art Awards in Singapura
1999
Exhibition Nokia Art Awards in Jakarta Exhibition Prastisara Affandi in YogyakartaGroup exhibition SDI 6 in BaliGroup exhibition Detik 96 in YogyakartaGroup exhibition Benang-Benang in Yogyakarta.
1998
Group exhibition SDI in YogyakartaExhibition Philip Morris Art Award in JakartaExhibition “Refleksi Zaman” in YogyakartaExhibition Dies Natalis ISI in YogyakartaExhibition FKY Yogyakarta
Awards
1998
Finalist of Philip Morris Art Awards, Jakarta1999 Big five of Nokia Art Awards, Jakarta2000 Merit Awards of Asia Pacific Nokia Art Awards, Singapore2003 Big ten of Pratisara Affandi Adi Karya
[Description]
Growing up in the agrarian region of Bali, within the neighborhood of Bali's one and only hospital for the mentally ill, Sujana traveled to complete his studies in art at Yogyakarta, where he choose to continue to live as an artist.
Sujena returned to his ancestral home in order to go back into his self. Forced to uproot from Yogyakarta by the July 2006 earthquake, he instead found a restlessness that greeted him day by day, he found that his work soon became a kind of self-therapy. Not familiar with meditation techniques, he chose to paint the Buddha as his meditation. Upon the canvas he provided space for a flower, his symbol of purity.
A leaf is his symbol of peace, of the coolness one would feel under the canopy of a mountain forest. In the heat of an anxious moment, he would paint a leaf to refresh his mind.
Between anxiety attacks, he would find brief calm: quiet spaces of solitude filled with golden silence. It is to this tune that he would like his heart to sing, manifesting as strokes of fresh green and white, the occasional strong black or red, and accents of gold.
Still, like most of us, every day Sujena would have bouts of negative energy expressed in his feelings, emotions and thoughts. He chooses not to dwell on these because he believes that if we all harboured such dark thoughts, the world would be a terrible place.
Sujena himself is always surprised with the art that manifests upon his canvas, then Sujena paints everyday to keep his sanity.
