Nadiah Bamadhaj (born 1968, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) resides permanently in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Trained as a sculptor in New Zealand at the Canterbury School of Fine Arts, she creates collaged drawings, sculpture, site-specific installation, digital video and print. She has lectured in Fine Arts in Kuala Lumpur, received grants from the Nippon Foundation’s Asian Public Intellectual Fellowship in 2002 and 2004, the Indonesian Directorate General of Culture and the Arts Council of New Zealand in 2022. In 2019, a survey book of 18-years of her artwork ‘Nadiah Bamadhaj’ was published by Italian-based SKIRA, and she was recently featured in ‘Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing’ published by London-based PHAIDON. She has exhibited work in Jakarta Biennale 2021, Bangkok Art Biennial 2022, National Gallery Victoria Triennale 2024, Asia Pacific Triennale 2024, and Sharjah Biennale 2025. Her artwork currently focuses on female mythological figures within Indonesian society.