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Christine Ay Tjoe (born 27 September 1973) is an Abstract Expressionist painter from Bandung, Indonesia. In 1997, she graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design of the Bandung Institute of Technology. She started her career as an assistant fashion designer before actively working as an artist. In 2007, she was awarded one of the top five winners of the Philips Morris Indonesia Art Award.[1]

Christine Ay Tjoe
Born	Christine Ay Tjoe (1973-09-27)27 September 1973 Bandung, West Jawa, Indonesia
Nationality	Indonesian
Known for	Painter, Fashion Designer

In 2008, she received an award for her performance in the solo role of Interiority of Hope at the Emitant Gallery in Surabaya. In the same year she became an artist residency at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery in Singapore. In 2009 she was awarded the SCMP Art Futures Prize Winner at the Hong Kong Art Fair, and in 2015 she received the Prudential Eye Award.[2]

Her contemporary paintings have received high appreciation abroad, especially in Asia. In 2017 her painting entitled Small Flies and Other Wings was sold for HK$ 11.7Mio by the Phillips auction house in Hong Kong, which placed her works among the most expensive living Indonesian artists. The painting depicts life and death visualized by a swarm of flies.[3] The prices for paintings of Christine remain high, in 2021 her painting Second Studio from 2013 was sold by Sotheby's for HK$ 7.4Mio in Hong Kong.[4]

List of Solo Exhibitions [5]

Year	Title	Lokation
2001	Buka Untuk Melihat	Redpoint Gallery, Bandung, Indonesia
2002	At The Day of German Unity	German Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia
2003	Reach Me	Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
	Aku / Kau / Uak	Edwin's Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia[6]
2006	Eksekusi Ego	Edwin's Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2007	Silent Supper	Ark Galerie, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008	Wall Prison (part two)	Scope Miami Art Fair, Miami, United States
	Interiority of Hope	Emmitan CA Gallery, Surabaya, Indonesia
2009	Panorama Without Distance	Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
	Eating Excess	Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2010	Lama Sabahktani Club	Lawangwangi Art & Science Estate, Bandung, Indonesia
	Symmetrical Sanctuary	Sigi Art Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2015	Perfect Imperfection	SongEun ArtSpace Seoul, South Korea
2018	BLACK, KCALB, BLACK, KCALB[7]	White Cube London, United Kingdom
2021	Spinning in the Desert	White CubeHong Kong[8]

External links

Youtube, 2010: An interview with artist Ay Tjoe Christine
Youtube, 2015: Christine Ay Tjoe interview for the 2015 Prudential Eye Awards
Youtube, 2018: Christine Ay Tjoe - Black, kcalB, Black, kcalB ex - White Cube Bermondsey - London - December 2018
Youtube, 2018: Christine Ay Tjoe on 'Wall Prison' | White Cube

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