Iriantine Karnaya

Iriantine Karnaya (19502022) was an Indonesian sculptor and lecturer at the University of Indonesia and the Jakarta Institute of Fine Arts. She is considered to have been the first female Indonesian sculptor to have had a solo exhibition, in 1996.

Biography Iriantine Karnaya was born in Rangkasbitung, Banten, Indonesia on 9 January 1950. She did a bachelor's degree in art and design at the Bandung Institute of Technology, finishing it in 1975. She then completed a master's degree in architecture at the University of Indonesia. Her next solo exhibition was at the Soemardja Gallery at the Bandung Institute of Technology in 1997. She also participated in a number of joint exhibitions in Indonesia and abroad, the latest of which was in 2017 at the Soekarno–Hatta International Airport. Among her international exhibitions were in Siena, Italy in 2005; in Japan in 2007 and in the Netherlands in 2008.

She died at age 72 on 28 January 2022, at Gatot Soebroto Army Central Hospital in Jakarta. She was buried in the San Diego Hills Cemetery in West Java. Fellow sculptor Dolorosa Sinaga described her as being focused on form rather than style in that work, and as an open minded and sensitive artist. She explored themes of growth and spread, but also attempts to control and limit rapid spread and contagion.