Ridi is born in 1965. He lives and works outside of Yogyakarta on Java.

Ridi completed a formal art education at the Indonesian Institute of Art in Yogyakarta.

His artweok consists of a mixture of acrylic paint, pencil and oil pastels. He experiments with a playful, naïve and simplistic style with which he creates colorful animals, phantasy creatures and objects of the daily life.

Ridi has been carried in various galleries in South East Asia and beyond.