Nia Gautama (b. Jakarta, 1973) is an independent artist resides in Bandung and a full time lecturer in Visual Art at Telkom University Bandung. She gained her Bachelor degree in Economic Management in 1996, then worked for some advertising agencies. Her curiosity and passion in art led her to leave that permanent job with a promising career in advertising to be seriously focus in arts. She continued her studies in Visual Art in 2014 and gained her Master of Fine Art Degree, graduated Cum Laude from Faculty of Art and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung in 2016.
Since early 2000, she has actively exhibited both at home and abroad, to name a few : “The Ceramic View Bangkok - Symposium for Modern Ceramic Arts”, Bangkok Thailand (2016); “Present Continuous, APA Artspace, Jakarta (2015) ; “SELSIUS-USM International Ceramic Festival, Penang, Malaysia (2014)”, “Challenging the Boundaries”-Martell Contemporary Art, Kuningan City, Jakarta (2014); “The Meeting Place-Asian Century”, Gold Coast City Gallery, Australia (2013); “Homoludens#4”, Bali (2013); “3 x 3 projects”, National Gallery,Chaofa Road, Bangkok, Thailand (2013); “Clay Unity Celebrating the Diversity of Southeast Asia”, FLICAM, Fuping, Shaanxi, China (2012); “Indonesian Contemporary Ceramic Art—A Progress Report”, Art & Ceramics Museum, Jakarta (2012); “Indonesia Craft: Reposition”, Indonesian National Gallery (2012); “Jakarta Biennale: Maximum City” (2011-2012); “2nd Shanghai Modern Pot Art Biennale”, Shanghai, China (2010); “The First Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale (JCCB#1)” (2009); and “The Ceramic Road of Southeast Asia”, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan (2009).
She gained some travel grants to do a residency and exhibition overseas from The Ministry of Economic and Creative Industry (2012) and Department of Education and Culture (2013). Some of her ceramic works were collected permanently by FLICAM Ceramic Museum, China. She is also a finalist for Gudang Garam Indonesia Art Award 2015. Since her presentation at a conference in Yingge Museum in 2009, she has started to contribute art-related articles to arts and lifestyle magazines. Her first book “Ceramic for Hobby and Career” was published in 2011 by a leading Indonesian publisher.
Started in early 2015, she encourage herself to curate and organize a group exhibition, TETAS : a practice, exhibited in April 2015, at Platform#3. The exhibition is part of Stimulation Project, a regular base project she created early 2015. The purpose of the project is to stimulate artists’ and creative practitioners’ mind, when they meet idea blocking. She is also active involves as organizer for a non-profit international art exhibition.
Nia Gautama (b. Jakarta, 1973) is an independent artist resides in Bandung and a full time lecturer in Visual Art at Telkom University Bandung. She gained her Bachelor degree in Economic Management in 1996, then worked for some advertising agencies. Her curiosity and passion in art led her to leave that permanent job with a promising career in advertising to be seriously focus in arts. She continued her studies in Visual Art in 2014 and gained her Master of Fine Art Degree, graduated Cum Laude from Faculty of Art and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung in 2016.
Since early 2000, she has actively exhibited both at home and abroad, to name a few : “The Ceramic View Bangkok - Symposium for Modern Ceramic Arts”, Bangkok Thailand (2016); “Present Continuous, APA Artspace, Jakarta (2015) ; “SELSIUS-USM International Ceramic Festival, Penang, Malaysia (2014)”, “Challenging the Boundaries”-Martell Contemporary Art, Kuningan City, Jakarta (2014); “The Meeting Place-Asian Century”, Gold Coast City Gallery, Australia (2013); “Homoludens#4”, Bali (2013); “3 x 3 projects”, National Gallery,Chaofa Road, Bangkok, Thailand (2013); “Clay Unity Celebrating the Diversity of Southeast Asia”, FLICAM, Fuping, Shaanxi, China (2012); “Indonesian Contemporary Ceramic Art—A Progress Report”, Art & Ceramics Museum, Jakarta (2012); “Indonesia Craft: Reposition”, Indonesian National Gallery (2012); “Jakarta Biennale: Maximum City” (2011-2012); “2nd Shanghai Modern Pot Art Biennale”, Shanghai, China (2010); “The First Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale (JCCB#1)” (2009); and “The Ceramic Road of Southeast Asia”, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan (2009).
She gained some travel grants to do a residency and exhibition overseas from The Ministry of Economic and Creative Industry (2012) and Department of Education and Culture (2013). Some of her ceramic works were collected permanently by FLICAM Ceramic Museum, China. She is also a finalist for Gudang Garam Indonesia Art Award 2015. Since her presentation at a conference in Yingge Museum in 2009, she has started to contribute art-related articles to arts and lifestyle magazines. Her first book “Ceramic for Hobby and Career” was published in 2011 by a leading Indonesian publisher.
Started in early 2015, she encourage herself to curate and organize a group exhibition, TETAS : a practice, exhibited in April 2015, at Platform#3. The exhibition is part of Stimulation Project, a regular base project she created early 2015. The purpose of the project is to stimulate artists’ and creative practitioners’ mind, when they meet idea blocking. She is also active involves as organizer for a non-profit international art exhibition.