LEONARD SURYAJAYA
Date: September 18th, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM CT
Cost: FREE
Location: Columbia College Chicago Student Center | 754 S Wabash Ave
In conjunction with the 2025 Filter Photo Festival, Filter Photo is pleased to present an artist talk with Leonard Suryajaya. Suryajaya (Chicago, IL) uses his work to test the boundaries of intimacy, community and family. He uses photography, video, performance and installation to show how the everyday is layered with histories, meanings and potential.
Leonard Suryajaya has a BA in Theatre Arts and BFA from California State University, Fullerton (2013), an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015), and completed a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2017).
Selected exhibition venues include Art Institute Chicago; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago; Benaki Museum, Greece; Photoforum Pasquart, Switzerland; National Library, Singapore; Wrightwood 659, Chicago; Now Gallery, London; Aperture Gallery, NY; Barney Savage Gallery, NYC; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
His work is included in collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Block Museum, Vontobel Art Collection, Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Mana Contemporary and Center for Photography at Woodstock.
He has been awarded the Chicago DCASE Esteemed Artist Award, Aaron Siskind Foundation Award, Artadia Awards, Robert Giard Foundation Fellowship, CENTER Excellence in Multimedia Award, New Artist Society Award, James Weinstein Memorial Fellowship, Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Prize for Emerging Artist, and The Santo Foundation Fellowship.