Nadiah Bamadhaj (b. 1968, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) resides permanently in Yogyakarta. Trained as a sculptor in New Zealand at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts, she creates collaged drawings, sculptures, site-specific installations, digital videos and print works. She has lectured on fine arts in Kuala Lumpur and written publications on human rights in Malaysia and Indonesia. In addition, the artist has received grants from the Nippon Foundation’s Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship (2002, 2004), the Indonesian Directorate General of Culture (2022) and the Arts Council of New Zealand (2022). Bamadhaj is currently on the board of Yayasan Kebaya, an HIV/AIDS homeless shelter in Yogyakarta. In 2019, a survey book covering 18 years of her artwork, Nadiah Bamadhaj, was published by Skira. She co-curated ARTJOG MOTIF: LAMARAN 2023, an annual arts festival based in Yogyakarta, in 2023. Her practice currently focuses on the social intricacies of life within Indonesian society.