About
I’ve spent much of my life making things.
For nearly three decades, I worked as a designer, where my job was often to find clarity—to take something complicated and help it make sense.
Painting taught me something different.
Sometimes the interesting part happens when I don’t know the answer. I start with color, shape, a memory, an ordinary object, or something that catches my attention, and follow where it goes.
That balance between intention and discovery has become a big part of how I work. There’s enough structure to hold things together, but enough room for surprise, awkwardness, mistakes, and change.
Food often finds its way into my paintings as a metaphor. Different ingredients remind me of people—distinct, sometimes clashing, sometimes unexpectedly good together.
I don’t want to tell you exactly what to see in the work. I’d rather leave enough room for you to bring something of your own to it.
The same idea carries into how I teach. I’m not interested in teaching artists to make work that looks like mine. I want to help them pay attention to what keeps pulling at them, trust their curiosity, and discover a visual language that feels like their own.
Maybe that’s what all of this is really about: making something, staying curious, and seeing what happens.
Bio
I’m an Indonesian-born abstract artist and designer based in Seattle. My background in design naturally finds its way into my paintings through color, shape, composition, playful marks, and plenty of room for surprise.
My work is held in private and public collections in the U.S. and internationally, including Nordstrom in Bellevue and Tigard, Oregon, and Atlantis The Royal Residences in Dubai. I was awarded First Place in the 2020 Art2Life International Art Award.
Alongside my studio practice, I teach workshops and lead SPICE Art Club, a community supporting artists in building sustainable creative practices through curiosity, experimentation, and play.
Education
1997 Art Center College of Design (B.F.A)
1994 Art Institute of Seattle (A.A)
Exhibitions
2025 Meant to share - Nino Studio & Gallery, Pionner Square
2025 Pit Stop & On Diet - Nino Studio & Gallery, Pionner Square
2025 The Garden Show - Museo Gallery, Whidbey Island
2024 From My Kitchen - Nino Studio & Gallery, Pioneer Square
2024 Have you Eaten Group Exhibition - Nino Studio Gallery Pioneer Square
2024 Abstraction Group Exhibition - Museo Gallery, Whidbey Island
2023 Seattle Art Fair - Ryan James Fine Arts
2023 Have You Eaten? Group Exhibition - Slip Gallery, Belltown
2022 Seattle Art Fair - Ryan James Fine Arts
2022 Julie Nester Gallery, Park City Utah
2022 Art & Light Gallery, South Carolina
2022 Museo Gallery, Whidbey Island
2021 Leftovers, Ryan James Fine Arts, Belltown
2021 Leftovers - Museo Gallery, Whidbey Island
2021 Leftovers - Art & Light Gallery, South Carolina
2020 Melting Pot - Ryan James Fine Arts, Belltown
2020 Bellevue Arts Museum Annual Gala Auction
2020 Beauty of our Minds - Storefronts, Shunpike Arts Seattle
2020 Space Craft, Seattle
2019 Miro Tea, Ballard
2018 Sugar High, San Francisco. Invitational Group Exhibition
2018 Visual Impressions Juried show Ryan James Fine Arts
2017 Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas Auction (Saving Salmon)
2011 Cake Spy (Sugar Rush )
2011 RAW Pulse Seattle at iMusic, Seattle WA (Chaosmatic & Sugar Rush)
2010 Retrofit Home, Capitol Hill WA (Sugar Rush)
2010 The Other Coast, Ballard WA (Sugar Rush)
2010 Trophy Cupcakes Wallingford, Seattle WA (Sugar Rush)
2009 Atlas, Seattle WA (Sugar Rush)
2003 Art With Heart Holiday Shindig Auction, Seattle WA (Rush)
2003 Firehouse Cafe, Ballard WA (Blindspot)
2002 Artemis Gallery, Seattle WA (Rush & Blindspot)
2001 Northwest Asian American Theater RAW Gallery, Seattle WA (Rush)
2000 Atlas, Seattle WA
1999 Coastal Kitchen, Seattle WA
1998 The 1998 Art Fest Gallery, Seattle University
1989 Sanggar Sang Timur, Jakarta, Indonesia
Mentorship
Spice Art Club
Speaking / Collaborations
Art2Life Podcast Episode 138 with Nicholas Wilton: Building Momentum
Creative mornings - Seattle Chapter
NAST Podcast
Artist guest series with Adele Sypesteyn
Paige's Podcast
Artist guest with Vickie Marsango
Tap into your Creativity with Sandra Felemovicius
Open studio with Jen Tough
Intersection of food and life. Collaboration with itsbitesize.com
Publication
Uppercase Magazine #64
Bold Journey: Generosity
Visionary Art Collective
https://thejealouscurator.substack.com/p/art-delivery-042321
Award
Seattle Restored 2023 Recipient
ITSLIQUID Int'l Contest 10th Edition 2021 Art Exhibition in Barcelona
3rd place, 2021 Art Fluent Abstracted Juried Exhibition
1st place, 2020 Art2Life International Juried Art Exhibition
Community Involvement
2023 Oct - May 2024: Seattle Restored Gallery Activation Curator
2020 Panel Juror for Shunpike Storefronts, Seattle, WA
2020 - 2022: Board of Trustees for Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA.
Partial Collections / Collaborations
Silver Sea: Silver Ray Cruise
Nordstrom, Tigard OR
Liquitex
Nordstrom, Bellevue WA
Atlantis The Royal Residence, Dubai
Overlake Medical Center, Bellevue, WA
Amazon.com, Inc. Seattle, WA
Jill Lewis Architecture, San Francisco, CA
Mike Mariano & Grace Kim of Schemata Workshop, Seattle, WA
Rebecca Lyman of The Garrigan Lyman Group, Seattle, WA
Trophy Cupcakes, Seattle, WA
GroupHealth Cooperative, Seattle, WA