Sonja Dahl

Sonja Dahl is an independent artist and researcher with a fluid, travelling, and collaboration-focused practice. She is a member of several ongoing collaborative projects including Craft Mystery Cult (US) and The Poetic Everyman Project (Indonesia and Australia). Her 2012-2014 research projects in Indonesia, supported by the Fulbright Foundation and Asian Cultural Council, focused on the culture of collaboration, artist collectives, and participatory projects in Yogyakarta, Java’s contemporary arts, as well as in-depth study of textile and indigo dye production in Java, Bali, Sumba, and Flores. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2012. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Bezirksmuseum Neubau, Vienna; The Darwin Visual Arts Association, Darwin NT; and The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR. Her writing is published with Carets and Sticks Contemporary Arts online, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, and Dilettante.