Multidisciplinary artist, Tomi Heri, explores socio-cultural contexts by documenting events, objects, spaces, people and circumstances - the encounters in his daily life environment - translating his thoughts into a journal and rendering his ideas into digital media, sculpture and installation works.

Geometric symbolic patterns carved out or stenciled onto wooden panels are some of his techniques to illustrate episodes of his life in a representational manner. Traditional motifs are then manipulated into digital media coalescing heritage with technology creating a contemporary language.

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Tomi graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Technology and Heritage degree from University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) and has participated in various group exhibitions across Malaysia, including at the National Visual Art Gallery and at the Terengganu State Museum. On a regional scale, he has shown his work in Indonesia and in South Korea.

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Tomi has received several awards from both Malaysia and China; he was placed second in the ‘International Collegiate Snow Sculpture Contest’ in Harbin, China consecutively in 2013 & 2014. He has also received the Sembilan Art Residency (2018) in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia as well as the Khazanah Nasional Berhad Artist Fellowship (2019) at Acme Studios in London, UK.