We are truly a melting pot of cultures!  We are a country where people accept each other for what they are, better still, we are a country where people share and represent each other’s cultural riches.  We are rich because we are becoming one people without denying our cultural heritage.  And that makes me happy.  It confirms all I believe in!

The riches that Soeki Irodikromo experiences, Suriname’s riches, radiate throughout his art.  Details of Suriname’s varied cultural expressions, details that elude most of us in the rush of every day:  costumes and masks, crowns and women, animals and figures, jewels and wayang images.  Simple details, yet with very complex and rich histories.  People that move to the age old rhythms brought to Suriname from all over the world by our ancestors and tuned to fit our new beat, the beat that we are dancing to together.

Soeki Irodikromo is a very well known and much appreciated Surinamese artist who portrays his ideals in different types of art such as colorful paintings large and small, ceramics and also in Batik. In his artwork traces of Cobra-expressionism can be detected as well as those of the age old Indonesian mythology. Nevertheless, Soeki has undoubtedly developed his own unique recognizable style of fascinating compositions in lively colors.

Working experience:
- Founder of the Soeki Irodikromo Folk Academy for Art and Culture in Suriname
- Teacher in highschool
- Batik workshops
- Member of Artists collective "Waka Tjopu"
- Member of Federation for Visual Artists in Suriname (FVAS)
- Co-founder of the Association of Visual Artists in Suriname (ABKS)
- Teacher in Painting and Ceramics
- Monument for the commemoration of 100 years Javanese Immigration
- Monument regarding the New Millennium in 2002, Lelydorp, Suriname



Exhibitions:
2017 TNF of December "Special Gift Edition", Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname
2017 TNF of October "Beastly", Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname
2017 TNF of August "Pe un’ moksi kon na wan", Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname
2017 TNF of May "Open House", Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname
2016 National Art Fair, Paramaribo, Suriname
2016 Group exhibiton "Tri Murni", Gallery Alma Blou, Curaçao
2015 Solo exhibition "Bigi Yari" Readytex Art Gallery, Paramaribo, Suriname
2015 Art without Borders, from Suriname to Curaçao, Landhuis Bloemhof, Curaçao
2014 National Art Fair, Paramaribo, Suriname
2014 Unleashed, 30 years ABKS, De Hal, Paramaribo, Suriname
2013 National Art Fair, Paramaribo, Suriname
2013 Exhibition 20 years Readytex Art Gallery, De Hal, Paramaribo, Suriname
2012 National Art Fair, Paramaribo, Suriname
2012 Revealing our stored treasures, Readytex Art Gallery/De Hal, Paramaribo
2011 Heritage Festival, Ft. Nw. Amsterdam, Commewijne, Suriname