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Nadiah Bamadhaj

Nadiah Bamadhaj (born 1968) is an artist born in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, and residing in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

She is a prolific artist with expansive artistic practices, a lecturer in fine art and also a writer who writes about human rights in Indonesia and Malaysia. She has created artworks focusing on both Malaysia and Indonesian histories and politics and worked in non-governmental organisations working among the HIV-positive.

Her works have engaged with various sociopolitical histories, more specifically focusing on Malaysia and Indonesia's nationalist social and forgotten histories, as well as gender and identity.

She was also the recipient of various grants, including the Nippon Foundation's Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship between 2002 and 2004. Provided by Wikipedia