Akiq Abdul Wahid was born in 1976 in Kediri, East Java. Akiq is known as an artist and curator. Akiq AW, Yogyakarta based artist and curator, is a member of MES 56 artists collective and The Trengginas, a punk rock wannabe band based also in Yogyakarta. His works mostly talk about the tactics of everyday life by everyday people. His first exposed photo series, The Order of Things, was a story on how people live on their own creativity and imagination; he took photos of “installation” made by common people.

His solo exhibitions include “The Order of Things” (2010) at Mes 56, Yogyakarta and “One Man Different God” (2011) at The Goods Dept, Jakarta. He had been shown in Jogja Biennale 13 in 2011 “Shadow Lines”. With Mes 56, he was part of the exhibition in CCP Melbourne (2013), Song Eun in Seoul, South Korea (2016). He exhibits his works in special focus in Art Dubai (2012), and in Amsterdam (2017). He participated in 38th EVA International Ireland’s Biennale 2018 and Dak’Art 2018, The Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal. He was Artistic Director for ‘Kuasa Ingatan’ Archive Festival Exhibition organized by Indonesian Visual Art Archive (2017) and Co-Curator of 15th Edition of Jogja Biennale 2019.