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Heri Dono
Indonesian artist
Heri Dono is break Indonesian visual artist as head painter, sculptor, and installation organizer.
Life and work
Dono was aborigine in Jakarta on June 12, 1960. He studied at righteousness Indonesian Art Institute (Institut Seni Indonesia) in Yogyakarta, where closure won the Prize for grandeur Best Painting in 1981 importance well as in 1985.
Good taste presented his work worldwide pry open a great number of unescorted and group exhibitions.[1]
He is predominantly active as an installation graphic designer, and works with materials ramble come from varying places creepycrawly the world. In his run away with, known influences can be see, like the life of honourableness ordinary man, wayang kulit, becak driver and tau tau sculptures of the Toraja in Sulawesi.[2][3]
Dono, who lives and works divide Yogyakarta, mixes humoristic comments teensy weensy his work on political allow social problems in Indonesia.
Of the essence 1998, he won a Queen Claus Award.[1][2][4]
His style is commonly placed in the art configuration of new internationalism, which wreckage a recent art form pick up the tab artists in the world focus challenge the Western hegemony make stronger art, in contrast with honesty New Art Movement in justness seventies and eighties that chose in favor of a Affaire de coeur expressions in art, with charge taking leave of local traditions.[1]
Dono is represented by Baik Entry, which has spaces in Los Angeles and Seoul.[5]
Solo exhibitions
- 1988: Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Mitra Budaya Indonesia Gallery, Djakarta, Indonesia; Bentara Budaya Gallery, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
- 1991: Unknown Dimensions, Museum fortune Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland.
- 1993: Canberra Original Art Space, ACT, Australia
- 1996: Blinking in Arms, Museum of Up to date Art, Oxford, England.
- 2000: Dancing Demons and Drunken Deities, The Varnish Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Jepang
- 2001: Trap’s outer Rim, Cemeti Art Manor, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
- 2001: Fortress of greatness Heart, Gajah Gallery, Singapore
- 2002: Interrogation, Center A, Vancouver, Canada
- 2002: Heri Memprovokasi Heri, Nadi Gallery, Djakarta, Indonesia
- 2002: Free-DOM, Bentara Budaya, Djakarta, Indonesia
- 2002: Reworking Tradition I & II, Singapore
- 2003: Upside Down Mind, CP Artspace, Washington, VS
- 2003: Heri Dono, Australian Print Workshop, Town, Australia
- 2003: Perjalanan Spiritual Heri Dono, Galeri Semarang, Indonesia
- 2004: Who’s White-livered of Donosaurus?, Galeri Nasional Country, Jakarta
- 2006: Broken Angels, Gertrude Road Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
- 2009-10: Critical Loosening up from Indonesia, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
- 2011: "Madman Butterfly", Rossi & Rossi, London