Suhaimi Fadzir is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is motivated by his non-traditional research-based practice driven by observing our history, culture, nature, context, and the intersections between science, art and architecture.
He studied art and architecture at Washington University, St. Louis, USA. He has won many art and architecture awards and grants and has exhibited worldwide, including the Venice Biennale (Architecture), Venice, Italy in 2010, 2012 & 2014, Meiji University Museum, Tokyo, Japan in 2011, the Dublin Biennial, where he won the Dublin Biennial Award of Excellence, Dublin, Ireland, in 2012, Art Basel Miami Week, and a
solo show organized by Saatchi Gallery London and M&C Saatchi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in
2013.
His art practice has displayed a consistent sculptural quality, and his hybrid term “Archipainting” has been used in reference to his artworks, a concept that he developed in the 1980s which, blends fine art with structural intricacies and special deconstruction of architecture. History, collective memory, personal experience, and environment are elements he woven into a non-linear story where distinctions between present, past, fiction, imagination, and reality are nullified. These overlapping points of reference run throughout all his works and his paintings resist easy interpretation but rather suggest alternative possibilities of seeing. The interaction with the landscape around him is also reflected in his work, which comments astutely on the nature of contemporary society.
