⁠Dedi Sufriadi

(Palembang, Indonesia, 1976)

Dedy Sufriadi (b. 1976, Palembang, Indonesia) is the second of six siblings and began painting seriously at the age of 15 while still in Senior High School for the Arts (SMSR). From there, he went on to study at the prestigious Indonesian Institute of the Arts (Institut Seni Indonesia) in Yogyakarta, where he majored in painting. In 2013, he obtained his Masters degree from the same institution.

In the past few years, Dedy Sufriadi has also been creating large-scale installations that elaborate and elucidate the changing literacy landscape from analog to digital, an extension of his focus on text beyond the canvas. More recently a simulated rain installation, inundating thousands of books with water, became the centerpiece for his 18th solo exhibition “Superficial Readers” in 2020, this time a statement about the changing literacy habits of readers today as the shift from the analog to digital worlds occurs. The change in text delivery medium affects our reading intensity to becoming more casual and generally more superficial in what we absorb from our textual consumption.