Suhaidi Razi has a strange fascination for horses, which make up a large part of his creative expressions on canvas/paper and in bronze and found objects. His relocation back to the countryside in Kelantan, far from the madding crowd, has reforged his affinity with land. His works, though, ironically do rely on technology. Like Raduan Man, he keeps his equanimity by sustaining on agro-culture like goat-farming and rearing ayam kampung. While George Stubb rendered the faithful steed in full, Suhaidi prefers to dwell only on the head.
Suhaidi received his Master’s in Fine Art Technology at the University Mara Institute of Technology in 2003-2005, and BA in 1995-99.
He won the Grand Prize in the Traditional Malay Design competition in Malacca (2006), Historical Painting at Galeri Seni Johor (2008) and Historical Event in Terengganu. His Major Award accolades were in Nokia Arat Award (2002), Johor Historical Building (2004), Terengganu Museum Craft Design (2007) and the Pahang art competition in 2003 (Minor in 2001), while his Minor Awards were too many to mention. Since his first solo at the Rainforest in Sarawak in 1997, his recent Imagine The Imagination at White Box Publika organised by NN Gallery in 2013 was perhaps the grandest.