Alfi Jumaldi was born 1972 in Lintau, West Sumatra, Indonesia. After studying at the Indonesian Institute of Arts in Yogyakarta in 1999, he co-founded and became a member of Jendela Art Group, a prominent contemporary artist collective. Most of the members were experiencing the early phase of their careers, creating work which surprised art audiences in Indonesia as the subject matter were far removed from socio-political themes and realistic painting. Instead, the Jendala Art Group showed inclination for extreme naïvism in the form of meaningless ‘doodles’ or formalism – that was also extreme – by drawing exclusively on minimal visual elements of line, color and texture. In 2010, he co-founded the Artists Collective, Office: For Contemporary Art International in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Alfi Jumaldi was nominated for the 10th Indonesian Art Awards (2003, Finalist) and the 5th Indonesian Art Awards, The Best Painting Awards, Indonesian Insitute of Art (ISI), Yogyakarta, Indonesia (1998, Finalist). He currently lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Education
- 1999 | Graduated from FSR Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 1993 | Graduated from SMSR Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2016 | Jumaldi Alfi, Sanata Dharma University Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2014 | Melting Memories: Rereading Landscape – Mooi Indies, ARNDT, Singapore
- 2011 | Melting Memories, STPI Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
- 2011 | Nightswimmer, Metis Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2010 | Life/ Art # 101: Never Ending Lesson, Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2006 | Mediation, Recent Works by Alfi, iPreciation, Singapore
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2014 | Mooi Indie – Beautiful Indies Indonesian Art Now, Group Exhibition at Gordon & Susan Samstag Museum of Art Adelaide, Australia
- 2013 | The Window of Jendela, OHD Museum, Magelang, Indonesia
- 2012 | Legacy, A Trace of Civilization, Esa Sampoerna Art Museum, Surabaya, Indonesia
- 2011 | Bayang, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2009 | Jendela-A Play of the Ordinary, NUS Museum, Singapore
- 2008 | Manifesto, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2007 | COMMON GROUNDS, The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- 2005 | Indonesian Contemporary Art, iPreciation, Singapore
Awards
- 2003 | Finalist of Indonesian Art Award X
- 1998 | The Best Painting Work, FSR ISI Yogyakarta
- 1998 | Finalist of Indonesian Art Award V
For full list of exhibitions and awards, please contact the gallery at enquiry@ipreciation.com
Images of artworks
