Highlights and collections

Sinta Tantra’s artworks can be found in international private and public collections, including Government Art Collection UK; Karachi Biennale; Benetton Collection; Folkestone Triennial, Canary Wharf.  Tantra is a recipient of many awards including the Bridget Riley Drawing Fellow at The British School at Rome (2017); Shortlisted for the Jerwood Contemporary Painting Prize (2015); British Council’s International Development Award (2014); First Prize, Painting and Decorating Industry Award (2012);The Royal British Society of Sculptors AHRBS (2012);Shortlisted for the Jerwood Contemporary Painting Prize (2010); British Council Grant (2009); Courvoisir ‘The Future 500’ in partnership with The Observer Newspaper (2009); Arts Council England (2007);  and Deutsche Bank Award (2006), The Gordon Luton Award, The Worship Compnay Painters Stainers Trust (2006); Michael Moser Award (2005); Paul Smith Scholarship at the Royal Academy of  Arts (2003-2006) and the Henry Moore Sculoture Fund (2002). In 2018 she received an artist residency at the Stoneleaf Retreat, New York (2018). 

Public commissions include: Sunset Ombre, Mega Kunigan, Jakarta (2022); Pink Moon Rising, Seolhaewon, Gangwon-Do (2021); Temple of Flora, Ocean Flower Island, Hainan (2021); Illuminated, 22 Bishopsgate, London commissioned by Contemporary Art Society (2021); The Grand Tour, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (2020); The Crossing Mount Daemo, The H Honor Hills, Seoul commissioned by Hyundai (2021); Poins Square, Jakarta (2020); Horizon to Horizon, Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah (2019); Bright Dawn, Karachi Biennale, Karachi (2019); Compose Motions und Tasted Flight, Honer Hills, Seoul (2019); Sunset in Tanah Lot, Facebook, London (2018); Collaboration with Nick Hornby, Broadgate sites, London (2018); In the Mood for Love, Lee Tung Avenue, Hong Kong (2018); Paintworks, commissioned by Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (2018); 147, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (2017); Pailo Drappallone, Commune di Siena (2017); Diamond Minutes, Hana Bank, Incheon, Korea (2017); The Sound of Colour, St. Paul’s Way Medical Centre, London (2017); A Union in Partition, private commission, London (2016); A Means of Liberation, Newnham College, Cambridge University (2016); Songdo, Songdo, South Korea (2015); Sensory Garden, Bristol Royal Infirmary Hospital, Bristol (2015); The Eccentricity of Zero, Royal British Society Sculptors, London (2015); Greater Reality of Elsewhere, Locwus International, Swansea (2015); The Eccentricity of Zero, Royal British Society of Sculptors, Holland Park (2013); Together Yet Forever Apart, Liverpool Biennial (2012); A beautiful Sunset Mistaken For a Dawn, Canary Wharf, London (2012);  and A Good Time and a Half!, Southbank Centre (2007). Neon Tetra, CreateKX, Camley Street Natural Park, London (2007); Isokon Dreams, London Borough of Camden, Regents Park, Bridge, London (2007); Line Up, Platfrom Art Piccadily Tube Station, London (2007); Emporia, London Fashion Week’s On; Off 6 Burlington Gardens, London (2006); Party Sunrise, Christchurch University Canterbury (2006);  Tantra’s most notable public work includes a 300-metre long painted bridge commissioned for the 2012 Olympics, Canary Wharf, London.