Dr Tintin Wulia is an internationally exhibiting artist and a Senior Researcher at HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. She is PI of the Swedish Research Council-funded Protocols of Killings: 1965, distance, and the ethics of future warfare (until end of 2024), with several outputs providing insights that informed the framework of an SSHRC of Canada-funded project Rethinking Declassification: Dis/closure, infrastructure, aesthetics in collaboration with PI William Walters (2024-10). Wulia is also PI of the EU-/ERC-funded Things for Politics’ Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change (ERC, THINGSTIGATE, 101041284, 2023-28).
Dr Wulia’s interdisciplinary practice spans over two decades. Her artistic work ranks in the top 1% globally and has been acquired by prominent private and public collections, including the Van Abbemuseum, Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, and He Xiangning Art Museum. As of late 2024, her portfolio includes over 50 invited talks across Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific, as well as nearly 100 sole-authored works featured in more than 200 peer-reviewed exhibitions and publications in 31 countries. Wulia’s recent notable publications include the solo pavilion Tintin Wulia: 1001 Martian Homes at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), a chapter contribution to the award-winning Routledge publication Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (2022), and the retrospective exhibition Tintin Wulia: Things-in-Common—which explores a concept being developed as part of her ERC-funded project—at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2024-25). She also recently contributed to Susie Protschky’s workshop Digitised Visual Archives, AI and the Uses of the Past at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Wulia was born in Denpasar, Bali, where she co-founded minikino in 2002 (serving as director until 2010) after the Australian TV channel SBS began acquiring her short films in 2001. Prior to receiving her PhD in art (RMIT University, 2014), Wulia's practice and research branched out of her trainings as a film composer (BMus, Berklee College of Music, 1997) and architecture engineer (BEng, Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, 1998). Her Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship (2014-16) expanded her work in diverse public spaces, focusing on a mobile ethnography of objects within urban environments. She was the Transcultural Art Network artist-in-residence (2015) at UCL The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, and a Jackman Goldwasser Residency artist (2016) at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, US. Her Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2018) at the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, NMNH(SI), Washington DC, USA, explores mosquitoes and migration, and wartime specimen collection. Wulia is also a co-founder and member of transnational relay/research collective 1965 Setiap Hari (since 2015). She initiated the Make Your Own Passport network during her Postdoctoral Fellowship in design, crafts and society with a focus on migration, working interdepartmentally with HDK-Valand and the School of Global Studies, at the Centre on Global Migration (2018-20). She was also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL The Slade School of Fine Art (2022-23). Between 2015 and 2022 Wulia served on the editorial board of the American Association of Geographers journal, GeoHumanities.