Arham Rahman is an Indonesian curator and visual art researcher who lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He graduated from Magister Program of Religious and Cultural Studies, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. At Sanata Dharma University, he worked with several art and cultural communities, such as Erupsi (Academia of Psychoanalysis, Art, and Politic), Colliq Pujie Art Movement, Study on Art Practices (SOAP), and SPASI, a curatorial studies and art criticism group. Besides doing research on art and cultural issues, he writes and curates exhibitions in Yogyakarta.
From 2014 to 2016, he worked as Managing Editor of The Equator, Yogyakarta Biennale Foundation’s Newsletter, and in 2015 worked as Makassar Biennale Director. Now, he is the Curator of the Lorong Gallery in Yogyakarta, an art space which makes craft discourse as a platform.
He is interested in Lacanian psychoanalysis discourse, post-colonial criticism, and other approaches to cultural studies. In art studies, he is interested in discourse about Indonesian art history, the political economy of art, digital art, and contemporary craft.
Last Updated: 2018