Education (formal and informal)
2005 | Artist in Residence, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
The International Jury of the XI Triennial India, New Delhi, India
Artist in Residence, United Sardine Factory, (U.S.F.), Bergen, Norway
Artist in Residence, Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance (A.I.A.A),
Byron Bay, Australia.

2004 | Workshop with DIDA Escola de Musica, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Sound Art Seminar, Kunst Akademiet, Bergen, Norway
Fellowship for Curatorial Work, IFA Institute, Stuttgart,
in Ethnology Museum, Berlin, Germany.

2003 | Artist in Residence in Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
Contemporary Asian Art Forum, "Links, Platforms, Networks",
Asian Art Archive, Hong Kong.

2002 | Artist in Residence in Western front, Vancouver, Canada
Artist in Residence in the Queensland College of Arts and
the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Artist in Residence in the National Institute of Education, Singapore

2000 | Artist in Residence in Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA

1999 | Cyfuniad International Artists Workshop, Wales, England
Artist in Residence in Queensland Art College, Brisbane, Australia
Artist in Residence in Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand

1996 | Artist in Residence in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
1995 | Artist in Residence in Museum of Modern Art Oxford with Institute of
International Visual Art, London, England

1994 | Artist in Residence in Canberra School of Arts, Canberra, Australia
1993 | Artist in Residence in 24 Hours Art Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia

1990-1991 | International Artists Exchange Program, Basel, Switzerland
1987-1988 | Studied Wayang Kulit with Sukasman in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1980-1987 | Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Projects
2008 | "The Dying King & I", Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

2007 | "Angels: Bang! Bang!", Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
"The Dream Republic", SASA Gallery, University of South Australia,
Adelaide, Australia.

2006 | "Heri WAR Dono", Soemardja Gallery, Bandung, Indonesia
"Civilitation of Oddness", Walsh Gallery, Chicago, US

2005 | "Free-D.O.M.", 3,14 Stiftelsen, Bergen, Norway

2004 | "Who's Afraid of Donosaurus", solo exhibition and book launching at
The National Gallery of Indonesia organized by Nadi Gallery,
Jakarta, Indonesia.

2003 | "Upside Down Mind", Circle Point Art Space, Washington DC, USA
"Heri Dono", Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
"Heri Dono a Spiritual Journey", Semarang Gallery,
Semarang, Indonesia

2002 | "Interrogation", Center A, Vancouver, Canada
"Heri Provokes Heri", Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Free-D.O.M.", Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Reworking Tradition I & II", Singapore Art Museum, Glass Hall,
Nan Yang Playhouse, National Institute of Education, Singapore

2001 | "Trap's outer Rim", Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"Fortress of the Heart", Gajah Gallery, Singapore

2000 | "Dancing Demons and Drunken Deities", The Japan Foundation Forum,
Tokyo, Japan
"Humor Rumor in the Republic of Cartoon", Nadi Gallery,
Jakarta, Indonesia

1999 | "Mythical Monsters in Contemporary Society", Gajah Gallery, Singapore
"Virtual Reality", Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Tirtara", French Cultural Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1997 | "Tanah dari Merapi", French Cultural Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1996 | "Blooming in Arms", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

1993 | "The Chair", Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australia

1991 | "Unknown Dimensions", Museum Der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland

1988 | Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mitra Budaya Indonesia Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Bentara Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Selected Group Exhibitions/Projects
2008 | "Expose #1 - A Presentation of Indonesian Contemporary Art
by Deutsche Bank & Nadi Gallery", Four Seasons Hotel,
Jakarta, Indonesia
"Manifesto" National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
"CIGE 2008" (China International Gallery Exposition),
Nadi Gallery, Beijing, China

2007 | "The Wind from the East", KIASMA Contemporary Art Museum,
Helsinki, Finland
"Indonesian Contemporary Art Now", Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Imagined Affandi", Gedung Arsip Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
"IVAA BOOKAID vol. 01/07”, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Soft Power, Asian Attitude", Zendai MOMA Museum, Shanghai, China
"Re-Kreasi 80", Class of 1980 ASRI, STSRI ASRI,
ISI Reunion, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2006 | "The Inoyama Donation: A Tale of Two Artists",
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2005 | "Exhibition of Indoor Collections",
Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
"About Beauty", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
"Eksodus Barang", Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
"B.E.T.A. 20", Post Electronic Art Performances,
Theatre Garasijn, Bergen, Norway
"Festival Inspirasi", Dewaruci, Performance,
Byron Bay, Australia
"Floating Legacies", Selasar Sunaryo, Bandung, Indonesia
"Licking the Ozone", Performance, Melbourne Fringe Festival,
Lithuanian Club, Melbourne, Australia
"Equatorial Heat", Edwin's Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

2005 | "2nd Enku Grand Award Exhibition", the Museum of Fine Arts,
Gifu, Japan
"Land Under the Rainbow", Cultural Olympiad,
Benaki Contemporary Art Museum, Athens, Greece
"4th Art Summit Indonesia 2004", Performing and Visual Arts,
The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
"On the Edge", Indonesia and China Avant-garde,
Pakubuwono Residence, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Reformasi", Sculpture Square, Singapore
"Olympics", The Pakubuwono Residence organized by
Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Artists are Making a House", Nijomachi Prefecture,
Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan
"The Angel Garden", Esplanade, Theatre on the Bay, Singapore
"Equatorial Heat", Indonesian Painters Exhibition,
Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, Peoples Republic of China
"Z.O.U., Zone of Urgency", in Regge Calabria (Villa Zenbi), Italy
"Frankenstein versus Gatotkaca", Performance, Stiftung
Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, Germany
"The Nature Machine: Contemporary Art, Nature and Technology",
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

2003 | "Summer Spectacular APT Kids", Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane, Australia
"Budaya Bumi Berbudaya", Museum Benteng Vredeburg,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"EPIC", Gajah Gallery, Singapore
"Imagining Prometheus", Palazzo della Regione e Loggia
dei Mercanti, Milano, Italy
"Crossing Boundaries", Bali: a Window to Twentieth Century
Indonesian Art, travel exhibition, Asia Society
Australasia Centre, Melbourne, Australia
"The Eye", Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Happiness", Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
"Public Art Project", Muza Concert Hall, Kawasaki, Japan
"Running Puppet", Performance, The Survival and Innovation
of Crafts, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Zaman Edan", Bentara Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"Kado", Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

2002 |
"Interrogation", shadow-play, Western Front Society,
Vancouver, Canada
"The Wild of Imagination", Langgeng Gallery, Magelang, Indonesia
Zwischen Tradition und Moderne Junge Kunstler aus Indonesien,
Staatliche
Museen zu Berlin Museen Dahlem, Kunst und Kulturen
der Welt Ethnologisches
Museum, Berlin, Museum Für Volkerkunde der Stadt,
Köln, Germany
"Awas", Recent Art from Indonesia, Pruss & Ochs Gallery,
Asian Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
"Asian Vibe", EAAC, Valencia, Spain
"EV+A 2002: Heroes + Holies", Limerick City Gallery of Art,
Limerick, Ireland
"ARCO", Madrid, Spain

2001 | "Floating Chimeras", Edsvik von Culture, Sollantuna, Sweden
"Sound and Vision", Gallery 400, UIC Chicago,
Chicago, USA
"Artists Commission", The Asia Society, New York, USA
"Membaca Frida Kahlo", Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Opening of New Art Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"Unpacking Europe", Museum Boijmann van Boningen,s
Rotterdam, The Netherland
"Awas", Recent Art from Indonesia, W 139 Amsterdam,
The Netherlands; traveled to Ludwig Forum Aachen
and Köln, Germany
"Pink Project", Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

2000 | "Sonic Boom", Hayward Gallery, London, UK
"12 Asian Artists", National Art Gallery,
Kualalumpur, Malaysia
"Humanism in Art", Volkunkundig Museum Nusantara,
Delft, The Netherlands
"Fuori Uso", Pescara, Italy
"Awas", Recent Work from Indonesia, Museum in Hokkaido,
Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan

1999 | "Media dalam Media", National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Cities on the Move: Urban Chaos and Change", Louisiana Museum of Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, Denmark and Hayward Gallery,
London, England; traveled to Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, Siam Centre,
Bangkok
"Knalpot", Fine Arts Exhibition, Cemeti Art House,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Sound Culture, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
"Makasar Art Forum '99", Ujung Pandang, Indonesia
"Awas", Recent Work from Indonesia,
Museum Vredeburg, Yogyakarta;
traveled to CCA., Melbourne and Canberra, Australia
Tachikawa Art Festival, Tachikawa Perfecture, Tokyo, Japan

1998 | "Resurrection of Topos 3", collaboration between artists and architects,
Toyama Shimin Plaza, Toyama, Japan
"Images of Power", Expressions of Cultural and Social Awareness in
South East Asia, Jakarta International School, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Tradition/Tension", Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Cultural
Center, Perth, Australia; traveled to Taipei Museum of Modern Art,
Taipei
50th Anniversary of Human Rights, Boijmann Museum of Art,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1997 | Sounding Sphere, Harima Science Garden City Opening,
Hyogo Perfecture, Japan
"Innensite", Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Kassel, Germany
Biennial Yogyakarta V, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Wayang Gepuk Wayang Alternatif, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Exploring the Future of the Imagination", The Intercommunication
Center, Tokyo, Japan
Asian Contemporary Art, Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Cities on the Move", Secession Vienna, Austria
"A Gift for India", New Delhi, India

1996 | "Modernity and Beyond", National Museum of Modern Art, Singapore
"Orientation", Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
"The Huid van De Witte Dame", Arctic Foundation,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"Drawing", Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England
"Resurrection of Topos 3", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Surabaya Art Festival/Pesta Seni Surabaya, Dewan Kesenian
Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia
"Tradition/Tension", Contemporary Art in Asia, The Asia Society,
New York, USA
"The Spiritual and The Social", Nine Artists from Thailand, Indonesia
and The Philippines, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
(touring exhibition), Australia

1995 | "Vision of Happiness", The Japan Foundation Art Forum,
ASEAN Culture Center, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Unity in Diversity: Contemporary Art of the Non-Align Countries,
The National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Kurbis", Museum Für Volkurkunde, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries, Galeri Utama,
TIM, Jakarta, Indonesia

1994 | Adelaide Installations, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of
South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
"Kuda Binal", Performance 24-HR Art Gallery, Northern Territory
Center for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
The Jakarta International Art Exhibition 1994, The Indonesian
Fine Arts Foundation (catalogue), Indonesia
9th Asian International Art Exhibition, National Museum of History,
Taipei
"Realism as an Attitude", 4th Asia Art Show Fukuoka,
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
"Super Suburb", Museum City Tenjin '94, Fukuoka, Japan

1993 | Indonesian Modern Art: Indonesian Painting since 1945,
Gate Foundation, De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
International Festival of Puppetry in the World, Taman Budaya,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1992 | Sanggar Dewata: Indonesian Art Exhibition,
Museum Nyoman Gunarsa, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
7th Asian International Art Exhibition,
Gedung Merdeka, Bandung, Indonesia
"Kuda Binal", Performance, Alun-Alun Utara, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
New Art from Southeast Asia 1992, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space;
traveled to Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Osaka, Japan

1991 | "Sama-Sama", Centrum Beeldende Kunst Oosterpoort, Groningen,
The Netherlands; traveled to Tilburg, The Netherlands,
Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Indonesia
"Wayang: From Gods to Bart Simpson",
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
"Man and Human Expression", Tropen Museum, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
"Wayang Top", Performance, International Culture Camp Desa Apuan,
Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia
"Destructive Images", Performance, Seni Sono Gallery
and Malioboro, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1990 | "Modern Indonesian Art: Three Generations of Change", 1945-1990,
Festival of Indonesia 1990, Sewall Gallery, Rice University, Houston;
traveled to San Diego, Oakland, Seattle and Honolulu, USA

1989 | "Wayang Imaginative", Performance, Mendut Temple, Indonesia
Competitive Exhibition of Young Indonesian Artists,
Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Bandung, Indonesia

1988 | "Wayang Legenda" (shadow play), Seni Sono Gallery,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Hedendaagsde Indonesische Kunst, Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara,
Delf, The Netherlands

1987 | "Sandiwa", Kulay-Diwa Art Galleries/Cultural Center of the Philippines,s
Manila, The Philippine
Three Indonesian Artists, De Schone Kunsten,
Heemstede, The Netherlands

1986 | Experimental Music and Visual Art, Seni Sono Gallery,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1985 | 3rd ASEAN Youth Artists Exhibition, ISI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1982 | Art on the Environment, Parangtritis Beach, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Biennials/Triennials
2007 | "Neo-Nation", 9th Yogya Biennial, Jogja National Museum,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2006 | "Gwangju Biennale", Gwangju, South Korea

2005 | "Belonging", Sharjah International Biennial, Sharjah,
United Arab Emirates
"Urban/Culture", CP Biennial, Museum of Bank Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia
Biennale Internazionale Dell' Arte Contemporania di Firenze,
Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy

2004 | "Do You Believe in Reality?", 3rd Taipei Biennial,
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
"26th Sao Paulo Biennale, Territory Livre",
Sao Paulo, Brazil

2003 | "Zone of Urgency", Venice Biennial, Italy
"2nd Echigo Tsummari Art Triennial", Niigata, Japan
"Country-bution", Yogyakarta Art Biennial, Taman Budaya,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"CP Open Biennial", National Gallery of Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia

2002 | 4th Asia Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

2001 | Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan

2000 | Havana Biennial, Pavillion de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai,
Peoples Republic of China

1996 | "Jurassic Technologies", 10th Biennial of Sidney 1996,
Art Gallery of South Wales Sidney, Australia
"Universalis", 23rd Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo, Brazil

1995 | Beyond the Border", 1st Kwangju Biennial 1995, Kwangju, Korea

1994 | Yogyakarta Biennial, Purna Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1993 | 1st Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane, Australia
9th Jakarta Biennial, Taman Ismail Marzuki,
Jakarta, Indonesia

1986 | 5th Biennial of Indonesian Young Artists, Taman Ismail Marzuki,
Jakarta, Indonesia

1984 | 4th Biennial of Indonesian Young Artists, Taman Ismail Marzuki,a
Jakarta, Indonesi

Honors and Award
2002 | 2nd Annual Enku Grand Awards, Gifu Perfectural Government, Japan
Yogyakarta Art Prize, Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X,
Indonesia

2000 | Unesco Prize for the International Art Biennial, Shanghai,
Peoples Republic of China

1998 | Prince Claus Award

1992 | I Gusti Nyoman Lempad Prize, Sanggar Dewata Indonesia,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1989 | Young Indonesian Artists, L'Alliance Francaise and Institute ofa
Technology Bandung (ITB), Bandung, Indonesi

1981-1985 | The Best Painting Awards, Indonesia Institute of Arts,a
Yogyakarta, Indonesi

Public Collections

• Artoteek Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
• Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
• Indonesian Institute of Arts, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland
• Museum für Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland
• Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
• Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• Stedelijk Museum de Lakenthal, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Okinawa Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
• The Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
• National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
• Kirishima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan

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