Artist Statement
Jayanto Damanik Tan is an
emerging visual artist who was born and raised in a small village in North
Sumatra to a Chinese-Sumatran Christian mother and Chinese-Guandong Taoist
father. As a Chinese-Indonesian Peranakan immigrant living in
Sydney, who fled poverty and political repression in search of a better life,
his practice blends Eastern and Western mythologies with the reality of current
events.
He
draws on the identity politics of his diaspora to express personal experiences
of ‘otherness’ through interactive performance, installation, ceramics and
poetry. His practice shares autobiographical
experiences of loss, displacement, hope and offers a sentiment of mixed spirituality and sharing to
demonstrate a diverse culture bringing the timeless wisdom of meditation to a
contemporary world.
Represented by Art Atrium
https://artatrium.com.au
Educations
2017 - 2019 Masters of Fine Arts, Drawing, National Art School, Sydney
2014 - 2017 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Ceramics, National Art School, Sydney
2010 - 2013 Diploma of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Painting, Sydney Gallery School
Awards and Prizes
2021 Finalist - Western Sydney University Sculpture Award, Campbelltown (upcoming)
2020 Finalist - Sculptures @ Bayside Acquisition Prize, Cook Park, Kyeemagh (upcoming)
2020 Finalist - Incinerator Art Award - Art for Social Change, Aberfeldie, Victoria
2019 Finalist - Blacktown City Art Prize, Blacktown
2019 Finalist - Urban EDGE Art Prize, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Inner West Council
2019 Finalist - 10th Greenaway Art Prize, Inner West Council
2019 Finalist - Sculptures @ Bayside Acquisition Prize, Cook Park, Kyeemagh
2019 Finalist - Art on the GreenWay Art Prize, Lilyfield, Inner West Council
2019 Finalist - North Sydney Art Prize, Sydney
2017 Winner - Mentoring Arts Prize, Blooming Arts, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Inner West Council
2017 Finalist - HIDDEN, Rookwood Sculpture Walk Award, Rookwood Cemetery
2017 Finalist - The Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche, Paddington
2017 Finalist - For Art's Sake Prize, Sydney
2017 Finalist - Emerging Artist Craft Award, Rock
2017 Finalist - Sculptures @Bayside Acquisition Prize, Cook Park, Kyeemagh
2017 Finalist - Harbour Sculpture Prize, Woolwich, Sydney
2017 Finalist - North Sydney Art Prize, Sydney
2016 Finalist - Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
2016 Finalist - The 49th National Pottery Competition and Exhibition, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2016 Finalist - The Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche, Paddington
2015 Highly Commented - Women's Art Prize, See Street Gallery, Meadowbank
2015 Highly Commented - Interpretations Chinese New Year Exhibition, Gosford
2014 Finalist - Sculpture in the Vineyard, Wollombi Valley, Lower Hunter Valley, NSW
2014 Finalist - Utopia, Chippendale New World Art Prize, Sydney
2014 Finalist - Sculpture at Scenic World, Blue Mountain, NSW
2013 Finalist - Sculpture in the Vineyard, Wollombi Valley, Lower Hunter Valley, NSW
2013 Finalist - HIDDEN, Rookwood Sculpture Walk Award, Rookwood Cemetery
2013 Highly Commented - Revitalisation, Chippendale New World Art Prize, Sydney
2013 Finalist - 59th Hunters Hill Art Exhibition, Sydney
2012 Finalist - The Glebe Art Show, Glebe Library, Sydney
2012 Finalist - Greenaway Art Exhibition, Art Est Gallery – Leichhardt, Sydney
2009 Finalist - The Glebe Art Show, Glebe Library, Sydney
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Ritual My Beautiful Curse, Verge Gallery, Sydney (upcoming)
2021 Double Happiness, Edel Extra, Nuremberg, Germany (upcoming)
2021 Mantra, the Hungry Ghosts, Slot a Window Gallery, Sydney (upcoming)
2020 Happy Days, Cabinet of Curiosity, Ashfield Town Hall, Inner West Council
2019 Ritual Everywhere But Nowhere, Firstdraft, Sydney
2018 Offerings Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, University Western Sydney
2018 Heritage - Peranakan, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Inner West Council, Camperdown
2017 Journey - Merantau, Kensington Contemporary, Sydney
2014 Conversations, BRAND X, LT.3 Central Park, Central
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 mon amour, no here no there no where, PARI Gallery, Parramatta (upcoming)
2020 A Fresh Perspective, Graduation Exhibition, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown
2020 Rainbow Visionaries, Mardi Gras Exhibition, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown
2019 Summer Sojourn, Art Atrium 10th Anniversary End of Year Group Exhibition, Sydney
2019 MFA Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2019 Ritual Looking For The Enlightenment, MPavillion Monash University, Melbourne
2019 Suburban XTRA, The Bearded Tit, Redfern, Sydney
2019 Yes, Yes,
Nanette! Mardi Gras Exhibition, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown
2018 The Drawing Exchange, National Art School and Adelaide Central School of Art
2018 A Particular Portion of Space, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School
2018 Guide Dogs Installation, City of Sydney Chinese New Year, AMP Building, Sydney
2017 Creative Conversations, Sydney Fringe Festival, Annandale Creative Art Centre
2017 A Fresh
Perspective, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown2018 Guide Dogs Installation, City of Sydney Chinese New Year, AMP Building, Sydney
2017 Creative Conversations, Sydney Fringe Festival, Annandale Creative Art Centre
2017 Proximity,
Articulate Project, Parramatta Road, Sydney
2017 Colors, La Place Suisse des Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland2017 Nobody Passes, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2017 Hiver, La Place Suisse des Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2017 Get Amongst It, Gaffa, Sydney
2017 BFA Exhibition, National Art School Sydney
2016 Mix Mud, Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2016 TWENTY TWENTY, Chinese New Year Exhibition, Kensington Street, Chippendale
2015 ART+NATURE+SCIENCE, Accelerator Gallery, Pyrmont
2015 Vital Push - Regard Studio Gallery, Darlington, Sydney
2015 Cadavre Exquis, Accelerator Gallery, Pyrmont
2015 Art Month - Sydney's Smallest Sculpture, Nauti Studio, Stanmore
2014 Small Sculpture, The Old Fire Shed Gallery, Wollombi Valley Cultural Centre, NSW
2014 Underground Exhibition, Croydon Park Festival, Car park MacDonald , Sydney
2014 This is not Art (TiNA) - Monuments of the Everyman, NANA art space, Newcastle
2014 Utopia, BEAMS arts festival, Chippendale, Sydney
2014 Crossing Boundaries – A Celebration of Asian Australian Art in the Year of the Horse, City of Sydney, Sydney Town Hall
2013 BEAMS arts festival, Chippendale
2013 Sydney Design - design.re.play, dna projects | contemporary art Chippendale
2013 Interactive, Rainbow in Beijing, 798 Art District, Yuanfen - Flow, Beijing
2013 Open Studio Exhibitions, BG Studio Red Gate, Beijing
2013 蛇 rắn 뱀 A Celebration of Asian Australian Art, City of Sydney, Sydney Town Hall
2013 Australian Identity and Beyond, Muse Gallery Ultimo, Sydney
2013 Sydney Gallery School Graduate Exhibition, Sydney
Collaborations
2019 Peranakan Ritual Gathering, EDGE Leichhardt Town Hall, Inner West Council
2019 Warung Peranakan Waginem, Tony Twigg, Slot - a window gallery, Alexandria, Sydney
2018 EDGE Spring Festival,Video and Photograph, Esem Projects, Ashfield Civic Centre
2016 Complacency, Lesley Weber, Art Studio Gallery, Gosford
2016 Garden Arrangement, Tony Twigg, Slot - a window display, Alexandria, Sydney
2016 Celebrate Diversity Together, IWA and Community Hub Ryde, City of Ryde Civic Hall
2015 World Mental Health Day, Indonesia Welfare Association and Sydney South Community Aids
2014 Conversations, performance with victims Riot May 1998, TPU Pondok Ranggon, Indonesia
2014 Born as a Wooden Horse, video work, Mayu Kanamori, City of Sydney, Sydney Town Hall
2013 World Mental Health Day, Indonesia Welfare Association and Sydney South Community Aids
Commissions
2020 Ceng Beng (Felix Gonzalez-Torres), Knox St Window Gallery, Chippendale
2019 Caterer Jajan Pasar - Leyla Steven's closing Exhibition, Their Sea is Always Hungry, UTS Art
2019 Ritual Red Chandeliers, Warringah Aquatic Centre Public Art, Northern Beaches Council
2019 Moon Garden, EDGE Ashfield, Inner West Council
2019 Ritual Looking For Enlightenment, Newtown ArtSeat, Inner West Council
2019 Ritual Tea Tree, Art on the GreenWay Art Prize, Lilyfield, Inner West Council
2018 EDGE Spring Festival, Inner West Council, Ashfield, NSW
2018 Eden Unearthed, Eden Gardens - Macquarie Park, NSW
2017 Eden Unearthed, Eden Gardens - Macquarie Park, NSW
Workshops - Commissions
2020 Paper Lantern, Lunar New Year - Reserve Garbage, Henley Road, Homebush West
2019 Paper Lantern, Monash University, Melbourne
2019 Paper Lantern, EDGE Activations, Leichhardt Town Hall, Inner West Council
2019 Paper Lantern, North Sydney Art Prize, North Sydney Council
2019 Paper Lantern, Lunar New Year - Kensington Street, Sydney
2018 Paper Lantern, Mittelschule am Aschberg in Weisingen, Bavaria, Germany
2018 Paper Lantern, Edge Spring Festival, Inner West Council, Sydney
2018 Paper Lantern, Lunar New Year - Kensington Street, Sydney
2017 Paper Lantern, Lunar New Year - Kensington Contemporary, Sydney
2016 Paper Lantern, Lunar New Year - Kensington Contemporary, Sydney
2015 Pinch Bowl, Disability Regens Wagner, Glott, Germany
2015 Paper Lantern, Children's Hospital Les Ateliers Du Coeur, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 Mental Health Month with SSC and IWA, Alexandria Town Hall
2015 Paper Prayers installation, papers and found object, Ashfield Park, Sydney
2014 Drawing, Panti Social Tresna Werdha Bali, Indonesia
2014 Folding Papers, Festival, Croydon Park Festival, Sydney
2014 Drawing on egg foam, children aged 6-9, Sculpture at Scenic World, Blue Mountain
2013 Painting workshop, Sydney South Community Aids, Alexandria Town Hall, Sydney
Art Grants
CITY OF SYDNEY's Art Grant, NAVA Artists' Benevolent Fund, Inner West Council Newtown ArtSeat, Inner West Council EDGE Ashfield, Inner West Council Art on the GreenAway.
Mittelschule am Aschberg in Weisingen, Bavaria, Germany
Inner West Council - Ashfield, Australia
Tanteri Pottery - Bali, Indonesia
Private Collections Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France Indonesia and China
2017 Tanteri Pottery, Bali, Indonesia
2013 Red Gate Gallery Beijing, China
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