Agus Wijaya: Artist Statement & Bio

Wijaya’s practice questions the construction of both the personal and cultural self through 3D abstraction, experimental sculpture and new media.

He draws on the beliefs and elements from his home country as he seeks to reconnect with the cultural heritage – that he stayed away from, but came to realise – that despite everything, helps explain his perception of things.

His recent works are a multi-medium exploration of identification and dis-identification, of personal and cultural histories, of the bridges and glitches between ways of knowing and seeing.

Born in Cianjur, a small town in West Java, Agus Wijaya is an Indonesian artist of Chinese background who now lives and works in Sydney. His practice questions the constructedness of both personal and cultural self through digital abstraction, experimental sculpture and installation.

With reference to manifold cultural dimensions, he interrogates strategies of identification and dis-identification, power dynamics within socio-economic and political frameworks and the bridges and glitches between ways of knowing and seeing.

His works have been exhibited at the Insitute of Modern Art as part of the churchie and selected as finalists in Dobell Prize, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, North Sydney Art Prize, Fisher’s Ghost, Incinerator Art Award and the 68th Blake Prize at the Liverpool Powerhouse.

Agus Wijaya: CV November, 2025 Download