Master printmaker Juhari Said explored three-dimensional printmaking using found objects and merchandise such as detergent box, coffee cups and paper money, after his Baju Kurung Series (1995). It was also back to basics when he incorporated simple techniques such as drubbing and tracing.
Juhari Said has set his niche as an innovative printmaker par excellence, like in his graphic sculptures Okir, and attested by his winning the Major Award (Printmaking) in Salon Malaysia in 1991 for his work, Tiga Cawan Kopi, besides winning the Anugerah Karyawan Seni by the Unity, Culture and Arts and Heritage Ministry in 2009.
He graduated from the University Mara Institute of Technology in 1979-1983 and was a Creative Fellow at Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2008, and a resident artist at Universiti Malaya. In 1993, he received a French Government research grant and in 1994, a Japan Foundation grant, where he trained under Yoshisuke Funasaka. He set up an art camp cum residence-studio called Akal Di Ulu in Hulu Langat. He had taken part in several prestigious events such as the Asean Symposium and Workshop in Aesthetics in Manila (the Philippines), Osaka Triennial, French Print Triennial (Chamalieries), Bangladesh’s Asian Art Biennale and the Tuzla Portrait Drawing Biennale.