Cynthia Delaney Suwito’s practice explores the subtleties of everyday life and the experience of time. Based in Singapore, this Indonesian-born artist takes inspiration from simple materials, such as instant noodles, and everyday situations, such as filling out forms. As we pause in front of her works, seemingly ordinary items, the meanings we attach to them, the stories we involve them in, all slowly unravel. Her works breathe life into these familiar objects, enabling people to see and value the beauty and significance that is overlooked in their daily lives. She hopes that her works can invite people to reflect on their own daily activities and see things with different perspectives and new approaches of thinking.
Cynthia completed her Bachelor in Fine Arts, First Class Honours at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. Internationally, Cynthia was featured on BBC Asia and Channel News Asia, and was in the 2017 FORBES 30 under 30 Asia in the Arts. In Indonesia, she exhibited at 2017’s Body-Out and 2019’s Media Art Globale, both in Jakarta, as well as the Bandung Contemporary Art Award Assemblage in 2019. In Singapore, Cynthia was a finalist at the Harper’s Bazaar Art Prize 2015, exhibited at Hawker! Hawker! 2021, Singapore International Photography Festival in 2022 and had a solo presentation while we wait at The Substation in 2020.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020
while we wait at The Substation, Singapore
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Process Roving Ideas as part of Singapore Art Week
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
2021
Things/Stuff/Objects at Jalan Besar Salon, 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
Cynthia completed her Bachelor in Fine Arts, First Class Honours at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. Internationally, Cynthia was featured on BBC Asia and Channel News Asia, and was in the 2017 FORBES 30 under 30 Asia in the Arts. In Indonesia, she exhibited at 2017’s Body-Out and 2019’s Media Art Globale, both in Jakarta, as well as the Bandung Contemporary Art Award Assemblage in 2019. In Singapore, Cynthia was a finalist at the Harper’s Bazaar Art Prize 2015, exhibited at Hawker! Hawker! 2021, Singapore International Photography Festival in 2022 and had a solo presentation while we wait at The Substation in 2020.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2020
while we wait at The Substation, Singapore
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Process Roving Ideas as part of Singapore Art Week
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
2021
Things/Stuff/Objects at Jalan Besar Salon, 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