Curriculum Vitae
2011
Diyan Achjadi uses drawing, print media, and animation to investigate the ways that the circulation and dissemination of mass-media images in popular culture contribute to the formation of knowledge. She has exhibited around the US and Canada, and her work has been published magazines such as The Vancouver Review, Fuse, and Front.
Diyan received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (1993) and an MFA in Print Media from Concordia University (2002). She is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Material Practice at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches courses in printmaking, drawing, and visual arts.
Diyan received a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (1993) and an MFA in Print Media from Concordia University (2002). She is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Material Practice at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches courses in printmaking, drawing, and visual arts.
Diyan Achjadi
Born: Jakarta, Indonesia, 1971
Lives and Works in Vancouver, BC.
EDUCATION
2002 MFA in Studio Arts / Print Media, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
1993 BFA with a concentration in Printmaking, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
1991 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, one-semester mobility program
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Public Art Projects
2011 Here is There is Here, No. 3 Road Art Columns / City of Richmond Public Art Program, Aberdeen Canada Line Station, Richmond BC
2011 Girl in the City, Commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program. Robson and Granville Screen, downtown Vancouver, BC
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 The Further Adventures of Girl, Lab Space, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2011 The Further Adventures of Girl, Definitely Superior Gallery, Thunder Bay, ON
2010 The Further Adventures of Girl, Oboro Gallery, Montreal, QC
2009 We Expected Hysteria, The Window Project, Victoria, BC
2009 The Further Adventures of Girl, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2006 See Girl (March, Girl, March!), Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC
2006 See Girl, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2005 See Girl, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Two-Person Exhibitions
2010 Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. Curated by Kristen Lambertson.
2009 Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang, Centre MAI, Montreal, QC. Curated by Kristen Lambertson.
2009 Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang. Kamloops Art Gallery, BC. Curated by Kristen Lambertson.
2007 Visiting Artist Exhibition: Diyan Achjadi and Scott Waters, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 Diyan Achjadi and Tanya Read, Forest City Gallery, London, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Who is that Body in the Window, Grunt Gallery Special Project, Grunt on Main, Vancouver, BC.
Organized by Lai Wan.
2010 Constructing Sites: Identity and Place, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2010 The Dig / Let’s Twist Again, Centre A, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Makiko Hara.
2009 A Little Distillery in Nowgong, City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, ON. Curated by Makiko Hara.
2009 A Little Distillery in Nowgong, Centre A, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Makiko Hara.
2008 A.I.R. - The History Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Carey Lovelace and Kat Griefen.
2008 Spatial Poetics VII, various locations in downtown Vancouver, BC. Curated by Miko Hoffman.
2008 Orientalism and Ephemera, Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. Curated by Jamelie Hassan.
2008 Orientalism and Ephemera, Centre A, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Jamelie Hassan.
2007 Orientalism and Ephemera, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON. Curated by Jamelie Hassan.
2007 Modes of Disclosure, Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Curated by Jim Dryden and Howard Oransky.
2007 A Printmaker’s Perspective, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Curated by Sam Romo.
2007 Curriculum, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Jude Greibel.
2007 Ricochet, BC Gallery of Ceramics, Vancouver, BC
2005 American Prints in Troubled Times, American University in Cairo, Egypt (Travelled to Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE, March 2006). Curated by Karen Kunc.
2005 Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, IL(catalog).
Selected Video Screenings
2011 2nd Amerasia Film Festival, Montreal, QC. GIV Award Winner in the National Video Portrait Competition.
2011 GIV Presents, Maison de La Culture de Mont-Royal, Montreal, QC.
2006 Transit: GIV 30th Anniversary Screening, Video In, Vancouver, BC.
2006 Classical / Digital part 2: New Developments in Animation Art, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS.
2006 International Women’s Day Screening, EdVideo, Guelph, ON.
2005 Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON. Curated by Monika Kin Gagnon
2005 22nd International Festival of Films on Art, Musee D’art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
Collaborations
2008 So Long We Miss You Forever. Public poster project as part of Spatial Poetics VII. With Vanessa Kwan.
2007 Mine. Cast ceramic multiple as part of Ricochet. With Jeremy Hatch
Web Projects
2002 Once Upon A Time, launched December 18, 2002, Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal, QC (no longer online)
2002 Pilgrim, launched Jan 27, 2002, , La Filature / Centre Daimon, Hull, QC (no longer online)
RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Published Work and Catalogs
2011 “Girl: An Aesthetic Amalagation” in Mathur, Ashok; Dewar, Jonathan; and DeGagne, editors, Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2011 (p 407-420). Download a pdf of the book here
2011 Jukkai / Documenting 10 years of Spatical Poetics, edited by Miko Hoffman and Cindy Mochizuki. Published by West Coast Line in partnership with the Powell Street Festival and the Asian Canadian Studies Society
2010 West Coast Line 64: Orientalism and Ephemera vol 43 no 4, Spring/Summer 2010, edited by Jamelie Hassan
2009 Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang, essay by Kristen Lambertson, Kamloops Art Gallery and Mendel Art Gallery
2009 Glen Lowry, “Further Further Adventures of Girl: Diyan Achjadi” Richmond Art Gallery
2009 |http:// thepopulation.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/diyan-achjadi-visual-artist/|“Diyan Achjadi: Visual Artist,”| The Population. Publish date July 11.
2008 “21st Century Prints: Reappropriating Technology,” Chop Volume 33 Issue I pp23-25
2007 Fuse Magazine 30th Anniversary Issue Poster Project
2007 Catherine Osborne, “Achjadi: Urban Explosions”, Toronto: Open Studio
2007 Art World Digest, Seed Issue
2007 Urban Traveller, featured artist May 25-31, www.theurbantraveller.com
2007 Vancouver Review Visual Art Centerfold, Winter 2007
2006 Jesse Gray, “Show Me Something to be Afraid Of,” Vancouver: Access Artist Run Centre
2006 Vanessa Kwan, “The Eve of Destruction: Diyan Achjadi’s See Girl,” Kelowna: Alternator Gallery
2005 Kathe Gray, “C’est La Guerre,” Toronto: Open Studio
Selected Reviews and Articles
2011 Griffin, Kevin. “Public Art: New Diyan Achjadi Video at Robson and Granville,” The Vancouver Sun , March 8.
2010 Walker, Valerie, interview for XX Files: Women and Technology, CKUT 90.3 fm Montreal, air date March 3
2010 Gazolla, Bart, “ Sweet and Sexy Sugar Bombs,” The A Word, March 5
2010 Jansen, Gail, “ Mendel’s Sweet Pop Art: Sugar Bombs has Bright Visuals, Dark Themes” Verb Saskatoon, February 26-March 4
2010 http://www.mendel.ca/wordpress Gronsdahl, Troy, “Diyan Achjadi: Artist Feature,”| February 22nd, 2010, Mendelog Podcast,
2009 Delgado, Jérome, “De Visu: Une Année de hauts et de bas,” Le Devoir, 31 December
2009 Delgado, Jérome, “Bombes Multiculturelles: L’exposition Sugar Bombs Réunis au Centre Mai les travaux de Diyan Achjadi et de Brendan Tang autour des questions d’identité,” Le Devoir, 28-29 November
2009 Redfern, Christine . “Menace Surfaces in the Sweet Images,” Montreal Gazette, December 6
2009 Blank, Karianne. “Conversation: Diyan Achjadi Uses Vectors, Toxic colors, Repetitiion” Front Magazine, Winter 09/10
2009 Kwan, Vanessa and Dayna Macleod, ”See Girl Has Got to Have It: Diyan Achjadi and the Military Industrial Complex,” No More Potlucks , November
2009 De Wolfe, Stacey, “War in Candy Color,” The Montreal Mirror, November 19
2009 Carpenter, Kyle, “Totalitarianism Never Tasted So Sweet: Sugar Bombs exhibit at the MAI combines pop art and politics,” The McGill Daily, November 17
2009 Laurence, Robin, “Works by Diyan Achjadi and Barbara Zeigler turn the dire riveting,” The Georgia Straight, June 11
2009 Johnson, Mia, “Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang: Sugar Bombs,” Preview: The Gallery Guide, April 12
2007 Vogl, Rhiannon ,“Reorienting Orientalism,” Ottawa Xpress, November 29
2007 Laurence, Robin, “Meditations on the Unsettling Idea of Home: Two very different Vancouver artists use photographs, installations, and craft-based arts to explore the workings of past and place,” The Georgia Straight, September 13
2007 “A-List Picks: Modes of Disclosure at Form+Content Gallery,” Minneapolis City Pages, July
2007 Stiras, Elizabeth ,“Original Spin,” Lavender: Minnesota’s GLBT Magazine, June
2007 Cramp, Beverly ,“ British Columbia: Curriculum at Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver,” Galleries West Magazine, March
2006 Selk, Jen, “Pop Goes The World,” Ion Magazine, Vol 4 No 10 Issue 35 December/January, p2
2006 Robin Laurence, “Diyan Achjadi: See Girl (March, Girl, March!),” The Georgia Straight November 16
2006 Priegert, Portia “No Victims Among These Females,” Kelowna Daily Courier eVent Magazine August 9
2005 RM Vaughan, “Art of War: Pretty Persuasion,” The National Post, Canada, January 22
2005 “All Things Nice?” Capital Xtra Toronto Jan 6
RESIDENCIES
2008 Printmaking residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2007 Artist-in-residence, Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
2007 Imaginary Places, Thematic Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB
2006 Open Studio Visiting Artist Program, Toronto, ON
Born: Jakarta, Indonesia, 1971
Lives and Works in Vancouver, BC.
EDUCATION
2002 MFA in Studio Arts / Print Media, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
1993 BFA with a concentration in Printmaking, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
1991 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, one-semester mobility program
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Public Art Projects
2011 Here is There is Here, No. 3 Road Art Columns / City of Richmond Public Art Program, Aberdeen Canada Line Station, Richmond BC
2011 Girl in the City, Commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program. Robson and Granville Screen, downtown Vancouver, BC
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 The Further Adventures of Girl, Lab Space, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2011 The Further Adventures of Girl, Definitely Superior Gallery, Thunder Bay, ON
2010 The Further Adventures of Girl, Oboro Gallery, Montreal, QC
2009 We Expected Hysteria, The Window Project, Victoria, BC
2009 The Further Adventures of Girl, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2006 See Girl (March, Girl, March!), Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC
2006 See Girl, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2005 See Girl, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Two-Person Exhibitions
2010 Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. Curated by Kristen Lambertson.
2009 Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang, Centre MAI, Montreal, QC. Curated by Kristen Lambertson.
2009 Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang. Kamloops Art Gallery, BC. Curated by Kristen Lambertson.
2007 Visiting Artist Exhibition: Diyan Achjadi and Scott Waters, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 Diyan Achjadi and Tanya Read, Forest City Gallery, London, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Who is that Body in the Window, Grunt Gallery Special Project, Grunt on Main, Vancouver, BC.
Organized by Lai Wan.
2010 Constructing Sites: Identity and Place, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2010 The Dig / Let’s Twist Again, Centre A, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Makiko Hara.
2009 A Little Distillery in Nowgong, City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, ON. Curated by Makiko Hara.
2009 A Little Distillery in Nowgong, Centre A, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Makiko Hara.
2008 A.I.R. - The History Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Carey Lovelace and Kat Griefen.
2008 Spatial Poetics VII, various locations in downtown Vancouver, BC. Curated by Miko Hoffman.
2008 Orientalism and Ephemera, Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. Curated by Jamelie Hassan.
2008 Orientalism and Ephemera, Centre A, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Jamelie Hassan.
2007 Orientalism and Ephemera, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON. Curated by Jamelie Hassan.
2007 Modes of Disclosure, Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Curated by Jim Dryden and Howard Oransky.
2007 A Printmaker’s Perspective, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Curated by Sam Romo.
2007 Curriculum, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Curated by Jude Greibel.
2007 Ricochet, BC Gallery of Ceramics, Vancouver, BC
2005 American Prints in Troubled Times, American University in Cairo, Egypt (Travelled to Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE, March 2006). Curated by Karen Kunc.
2005 Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, IL(catalog).
Selected Video Screenings
2011 2nd Amerasia Film Festival, Montreal, QC. GIV Award Winner in the National Video Portrait Competition.
2011 GIV Presents, Maison de La Culture de Mont-Royal, Montreal, QC.
2006 Transit: GIV 30th Anniversary Screening, Video In, Vancouver, BC.
2006 Classical / Digital part 2: New Developments in Animation Art, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS.
2006 International Women’s Day Screening, EdVideo, Guelph, ON.
2005 Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON. Curated by Monika Kin Gagnon
2005 22nd International Festival of Films on Art, Musee D’art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
Collaborations
2008 So Long We Miss You Forever. Public poster project as part of Spatial Poetics VII. With Vanessa Kwan.
2007 Mine. Cast ceramic multiple as part of Ricochet. With Jeremy Hatch
Web Projects
2002 Once Upon A Time, launched December 18, 2002, Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal, QC (no longer online)
2002 Pilgrim, launched Jan 27, 2002, , La Filature / Centre Daimon, Hull, QC (no longer online)
RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Published Work and Catalogs
2011 “Girl: An Aesthetic Amalagation” in Mathur, Ashok; Dewar, Jonathan; and DeGagne, editors, Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity Aboriginal Healing Foundation Research Series. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2011 (p 407-420). Download a pdf of the book here
2011 Jukkai / Documenting 10 years of Spatical Poetics, edited by Miko Hoffman and Cindy Mochizuki. Published by West Coast Line in partnership with the Powell Street Festival and the Asian Canadian Studies Society
2010 West Coast Line 64: Orientalism and Ephemera vol 43 no 4, Spring/Summer 2010, edited by Jamelie Hassan
2009 Sugar Bombs: Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang, essay by Kristen Lambertson, Kamloops Art Gallery and Mendel Art Gallery
2009 Glen Lowry, “Further Further Adventures of Girl: Diyan Achjadi” Richmond Art Gallery
2009 |http:// thepopulation.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/diyan-achjadi-visual-artist/|“Diyan Achjadi: Visual Artist,”| The Population. Publish date July 11.
2008 “21st Century Prints: Reappropriating Technology,” Chop Volume 33 Issue I pp23-25
2007 Fuse Magazine 30th Anniversary Issue Poster Project
2007 Catherine Osborne, “Achjadi: Urban Explosions”, Toronto: Open Studio
2007 Art World Digest, Seed Issue
2007 Urban Traveller, featured artist May 25-31, www.theurbantraveller.com
2007 Vancouver Review Visual Art Centerfold, Winter 2007
2006 Jesse Gray, “Show Me Something to be Afraid Of,” Vancouver: Access Artist Run Centre
2006 Vanessa Kwan, “The Eve of Destruction: Diyan Achjadi’s See Girl,” Kelowna: Alternator Gallery
2005 Kathe Gray, “C’est La Guerre,” Toronto: Open Studio
Selected Reviews and Articles
2011 Griffin, Kevin. “Public Art: New Diyan Achjadi Video at Robson and Granville,” The Vancouver Sun , March 8.
2010 Walker, Valerie, interview for XX Files: Women and Technology, CKUT 90.3 fm Montreal, air date March 3
2010 Gazolla, Bart, “ Sweet and Sexy Sugar Bombs,” The A Word, March 5
2010 Jansen, Gail, “ Mendel’s Sweet Pop Art: Sugar Bombs has Bright Visuals, Dark Themes” Verb Saskatoon, February 26-March 4
2010 http://www.mendel.ca/wordpress Gronsdahl, Troy, “Diyan Achjadi: Artist Feature,”| February 22nd, 2010, Mendelog Podcast,
2009 Delgado, Jérome, “De Visu: Une Année de hauts et de bas,” Le Devoir, 31 December
2009 Delgado, Jérome, “Bombes Multiculturelles: L’exposition Sugar Bombs Réunis au Centre Mai les travaux de Diyan Achjadi et de Brendan Tang autour des questions d’identité,” Le Devoir, 28-29 November
2009 Redfern, Christine . “Menace Surfaces in the Sweet Images,” Montreal Gazette, December 6
2009 Blank, Karianne. “Conversation: Diyan Achjadi Uses Vectors, Toxic colors, Repetitiion” Front Magazine, Winter 09/10
2009 Kwan, Vanessa and Dayna Macleod, ”See Girl Has Got to Have It: Diyan Achjadi and the Military Industrial Complex,” No More Potlucks , November
2009 De Wolfe, Stacey, “War in Candy Color,” The Montreal Mirror, November 19
2009 Carpenter, Kyle, “Totalitarianism Never Tasted So Sweet: Sugar Bombs exhibit at the MAI combines pop art and politics,” The McGill Daily, November 17
2009 Laurence, Robin, “Works by Diyan Achjadi and Barbara Zeigler turn the dire riveting,” The Georgia Straight, June 11
2009 Johnson, Mia, “Diyan Achjadi and Brendan Tang: Sugar Bombs,” Preview: The Gallery Guide, April 12
2007 Vogl, Rhiannon ,“Reorienting Orientalism,” Ottawa Xpress, November 29
2007 Laurence, Robin, “Meditations on the Unsettling Idea of Home: Two very different Vancouver artists use photographs, installations, and craft-based arts to explore the workings of past and place,” The Georgia Straight, September 13
2007 “A-List Picks: Modes of Disclosure at Form+Content Gallery,” Minneapolis City Pages, July
2007 Stiras, Elizabeth ,“Original Spin,” Lavender: Minnesota’s GLBT Magazine, June
2007 Cramp, Beverly ,“ British Columbia: Curriculum at Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver,” Galleries West Magazine, March
2006 Selk, Jen, “Pop Goes The World,” Ion Magazine, Vol 4 No 10 Issue 35 December/January, p2
2006 Robin Laurence, “Diyan Achjadi: See Girl (March, Girl, March!),” The Georgia Straight November 16
2006 Priegert, Portia “No Victims Among These Females,” Kelowna Daily Courier eVent Magazine August 9
2005 RM Vaughan, “Art of War: Pretty Persuasion,” The National Post, Canada, January 22
2005 “All Things Nice?” Capital Xtra Toronto Jan 6
RESIDENCIES
2008 Printmaking residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2007 Artist-in-residence, Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC
2007 Imaginary Places, Thematic Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB
2006 Open Studio Visiting Artist Program, Toronto, ON
