Winnie Sidharta: Parallel Encounters On view at 230 Mulberry St New York, NY 10012 September 8th - October 20th Weds-Sat: 10:30am-6:30pm Sun-Tues: By Appointment Winnie Sidharta is a Chinese Indonesian painter based in Queens, New York. Sidharta works with handmade paper, raw pigments, and sculptural substrates to create her body of work that investigates collective cultural experience. Her collage, painting, drawing, and site-specific installation consider themes of assimilation, immigration, and how the parallel experiences inform each other. Most recently, Winnie Sidharta's work in Delft tiles allows the mutable, living quality of the painted image to carry emotive scenes of generational post-colonial trauma. Sidharta has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, from Indonesia to China and across the United States, in California, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York. She studied Visual Communication Design in Indonesia and Painting in Beijing, China. In 2010, she received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University and later taught there before settling in New York City in 2014. Winnie Sidharta’s solo show, Parallel Encounters on view from September 8th to October 20th, 2022, is a powerful ode to the strength of cultural memory in the wake of colonial violence. Sidharta accesses personal history and cultural consciousness to construct a hybrid Dutch-Chinese and Javanese image. The resulting body of work raises questions around the intersection of individual experience versus the record of history, and how these parallel encounters are subsequently understood across cultures. #inidiplomasi #indonesianway #rintiskemajuan #winniesidharta #winniesidhartaparallelencounters #indonesiainnewyork