Diyan Achjadi

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Diyan Achjadi
Born
Jakarta, Indonesia
EducationBachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union and Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University
Known forprintmaking
Notable work
Girl in the City, The Further Adventures of Girl, Java, Toile, Drift, Coming Soon, How Far Do You Travel

Diyan Achjadi is a Vancouver-based printmaker, drawer and animator whose practice explores themes of cross-culture imaginings, influences and contaminations. She was born in Jakarta, Indonesia to a West-Javanese father and English-Canadian mother. [1]

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Early life and education

As a child and teen Achjadi lived in Hong Kong, London, Jakarta and Washington, DC before moving to New York for ten years. Her formative years involved navigating different educational, political and cultural systems, which influenced her art work. She received a BFA from the Cooper Union (New York, NY) and an MFA from Concordia University (Montreal, QC). After teaching at the University of Maryland, she moved to Vancouver in 2005. She has exhibited her work in galleries and film festivals across Canada and beyond. [1]

Career

Diyan Achjadi is currently an Associate Professor of Print Media at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, BC. [2]

Art

Achjadi's work explores cross-cultural narratives through printmaking, drawing and animation. The following are some examples of her work:

Girl

In this series of animations; web projects; large-scale, ink-jet prints; and multimedia installations, a cartoon girl depicted in bright colours plays in war-torn areas and environmental disaster sites, or parachutes into cities. The works investigate the impacts of militarism and war on children, and consider gender roles and violence in children's media. [1] In Further Adventures with Girl, the character Girl is transposed into scenes of environmental disaster. [3]

Coming Soon

Coming Soon is a public art project that consists of a series of prints published each month from 2018 to 2019. The prints were installed monthly on buildings and fences around Vancouver, BC. The prints depict construction sites with pylons, construction netting and other construction materials to explore the impact of rapid urban development on residents and visitors to the city. [4]

How Far Do You Travel

Achjadi's artwork, NonSerie (In Commute), which reconfigures historical Indonesian illustrations, covered a Vancouver TransLink bus as part of a year-long project curated by the Contemporary Art Gallery. [5]

Selected exhibitions

2006
2009
2010
2011
2015
2016
2017
2018

Awards and grants

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  2. ↑ "Diyan Achjadi". Emily Carr University of Art + Design. 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
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  4. ↑ Mushet, Mark (2018-10-22). "Diyan Achjadi: Coming Soon!". Galleries West. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  5. ↑ Sandals, Leah. "New Project Turns Vancouver Buses Into Moving Public Art". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  6. ↑ "Diyan Achjadi: See Girl (March, Girl, March!)". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 2006-11-15. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  7. ↑ Diyan Achjadi & Brendan Tang : Sugar Bombs. Kamloops, BC: Kamloops Art Gallery. 2009. ISBN   9781895497762.
  8. ↑ "Construction Sites: Identity and Place". Kamloops Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  9. ↑ "The Further Adventures of Girl". Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  10. ↑ "Residue: Tracing the Lore | Malaspina Printmakers" . Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  11. ↑ Griffin, Kevin (2016-11-18). "Shawn Hunt and Diyan Achjadi mix cultural and visual traditions". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  12. ↑ "Diyan Achjadi & Brendan Tang: Residue: Tracing the Lore : Open Studio" . Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  13. ↑ "Pattern Migration". The Art Gallery of Mississauga. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  14. ↑ "Carleton University Art Gallery". www.cuag.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  15. ↑ "At Façade Festival, size matters as projected artworks animate the Vancouver Art Gallery". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 2017-08-29. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  16. ↑ Low, Joni. "Diyan Achjadi and Cindy Mochizuki". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  17. ↑ "Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang: Surface Handling". www.reginalibrary.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
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