Maria Tiwi is an Indonesian painter who was born in the small town of Boyolali in 1966, she is the 5th of 6 children and her parents work at the university as lecturers. Born to a family that always prioritized education, Maria had the opportunity to study art in college until she graduated with a bachelor of art education.

Maria had a passion for drawing from junior high school and her joy in the arts continued to university. Before being totally active in the painting field, Maria had worked as a graphic designer in several advertisements in Jakarta, Solo and Semarang. Maria has been actively painting again since 2014 until now, has joined the painting community in Jakarta and Tangerang, and is active in joint exhibition activities in Jakarta, Jogja, Semarang, Purwokerto.

Not only exhibiting in her country, Maria also spreads her wings to exhibitions in other countries, Turkey, Korea, India and Japan. Likewise, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Maria remained active in online exhibition activities in several countries such as Nigeria, Argentina, Turkey, Korea, India. 2018 was Maria’s first solo exhibition in Jakarta, since the solo exhibition has given her confidence to be more daring to explore herself with a style that tends to be impressive and there is a touch of cubism in Maria's work, her tenacity in work has won several awards at the international level.

Maria’s tireless persistence to provide support to women around the world through her paintings depicting women who are brave to be themselves, have strong principles, never give up and are gentle and full of love. In painting, Maria prioritizes freedom of expression through small dialogues with her brush strokes on the canvas, a very strong cubism style that depicts strong characters through layers of colour and false texture impressions.

Maria’s work represents personal feelings as well as the feelings of women in the world to fight for the rights of women who are still oppressed in many countries.

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