Cynthia Delaney Suwito (b. 1993, Jakarta, Indonesia; lives and works in Singapore) is an artist who bends everyday norms to understand and relook at our surroundings. Taking many forms, including sculpture, installation, and digital media, her work is noted for its quiet humour and laborious impracticality. Knitting Noodle (2016), a video showing the artist knitting instant noodles, was featured on BBC Asia in 2017. Other subjects explored include the misfortunes of plastic bags, the misuse of clothes pegs, and the perpetual turning of toilet paper rolls.
She has staged her solo exhibition, while we wait, at The Substation (Singapore, 2020). Notable group exhibitions are Biophilia: Exquisite Corpse (ISA Art and Design, Jakarta, 2026), Sama Sama (Whitestone Gallery, Singapore, 2025), Singapore International Photography Festival (Peace Centre, Singapore, 2022), Superfluidity: The Parallel Universes Daily Mimicry (FreeS Art Space, Taipei, 2022), and Bandung Contemporary Art Award Assemblage (Lawangwangi, Bandung, 2019). She was amongst the 2017 FORBES 30 under 30 Asia in the Arts. She has a BA Fine Arts (with First Class Honours) delivered at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, and conferred by Goldsmiths, University of London.
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EDUCATION
2013 – 2016
BA Fine Arts (1st Class Honours), Goldsmith, University of London, delivered by LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020
while we wait at The Substation, Singapore
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Pulse 2, Haridas Contemporary, Singapore
Biophilia: Exquisite Corpse, ISA Art and Design, Jakarta, Indonesia
2025
Towards Happiness, Prosperity and Progress: Reflections on the Singapore Spirit, at The Private Museum, Singapore
The Other Singaporeans at JW Projects, Singapore
Sama Sama at White Stone Gallery, Singapore
Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear at Con-temporary Art Gallery, Singapore
CANVAS/S: Tale as New as Time at Jurong Regional Library, Singapore
2024
The Collectable Experience at Art Outreach, Singapore
Press Play at The Plaza, National Library Board, Singapore
Keys Under the Sofa at Hock Siong & Co., Singapore
Eat Play Love at C-1 Holland Park, Singapore
Crafty? by Critical Craft Collective at GR.ID, Singapore
2023
Process Roving Ideas as part of Singapore Art Week
Strange Tools at Punggol Regional Library, Singapore
Leave Nothing but Footsteps at Starch, Singapore
Yogyakarta Komik Weeks 2023 at Sangkring Art Project, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2022
Hawker! Hawker! at Lau Pa Sat, Singapore
Reflection at Artotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
Workshopables at Supernormal, Singapore
Waiting for Your Text Back, at dblspce, Singapore
8th Singapore International Photography Festival 2022 at Peace Centre, Singapore
Superfluidity: The Parallel Universes Daily Mimicry at FreeS Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2021
Things/Stuff/Objects at Jalan Besar Salon as part of Walk Walk Don’t Run by Grey Projects, Singapore
Arts in Jetlag – Floating in Buffering at Stanford Art Centre, Singapore
Suksesi at ISA Art and Design, Jakarta, Indonesia
A Blip in Time at Jurong Regional Library, Singapore
The Hours After at Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Re-thinging Materiality - Contemporary Sculpture 2021 at Lim Hak Tai Gallery, Singapore
2020
Power Play 2020: Invisible Lines at The Arts House, Singapore
You May Enter at SOTA Gallery, Singapore
2019
Media Art Globale 2019 – Transhuman Code at Salihara Community, Jakarta, Indonesia
Bandung Contemporary Art Award Assemblage at Lawangwangi Creative Space, Bandung, Indonesia
The Only Paradise is Paradise Lost at Stamford Art Centre, Singapore
2018
Earth Hour 2018 at The Float at Marina Bay, World Wide Fund for Nature, Singapore
2017
Bandung Contemporary Art Award 5 as a top 3 award winner at Lawangwangi Creative Space, Bandung, Indonesia
Body - Out at Galeri Cipta III, Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia
Undescribed #2 at DECK, Singapore
NOISE Art Mentorship Showcase: Proposals for Waterloo at Waterloo Centre, Singapore
2016
UNTAPPED Discovery 2016 at Shophouse 5, ChanHampe Gallery, Singapore
Affordable Art Fair 2016 Autumn edition at F1 pit building, Singapore
when meaning collapse at 9 Winstedt Road, Singapore
Harper’s Bazaar Art Prize 2015 as award finalist at The Robinsons at the Heeren, Singapore
What if we… at Praxis and Project Space, Institute of Contemporary Art (Singapore), Singapore
AWARDS
2017
Forbes 30 under 30 Asia in the Arts 2017
Awarded top 3 at Bandung contemporary art award #5 2017
2015
Finalist at Harper’s Bazaar Art Prize 2015