Eko Nugroho1977 -

Born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. One of the most acclaimed Indonesian artists. He creates wall paintings and drawings in collaboration with other media such as books, comics and video animations. He also produces artworks under the theme of social issues based upon his engagement with student movement in late 1990s. He has run his solo exhibitions and presented artworks at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (Singapore, 2013), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland, 2008), and Artoteek (Den Haag, the Netherland, 2005). He has also participated in Lyon Biennale (France, 2013) and The 55th Venice Art Biennale (Italy, 2013). Participated in Lyon Biennale (France, 2013) and Venice Art Biennale (Italy, 2013).

Biography

1977　Born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1993 – 1997, High School for Fine Arts (SMSR) Yogyakarta
1997 – 2006, Painting Department, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta

More

Solo Exhibitions

2023 “CUT THE MOUNTAIN AND LET IT FLY”, ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia
2023 “EKO NUGROHO”,The Columns Gallery, Singapore
2022 “HEADS FULL of EMPTY VIEWS”, Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
2020 “LOST IN PARODY”, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2019 “NOWHERE IS MY DESTINATION”, Artfront Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 “PLASTIC DEMOCRACY”, Arndt Art Agency, Berlin
2017 “SEMELAH”, Asia Society (Commission Project), New York, USA
2016 “UH-OH UH-OH UH-OH (THE WORLD COMPLAINING)”, Arario Gallery Shanghai, China
2016 “LOT LOST”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia.
2015 “LANDSCAPE ANOMALY”, Salihara Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2013 “WE ARE CONCERN ABOUT NOTHING”, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 “WE ARE WHAT WE MASK”, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2012 “THREAT AS A FLAVOUR”, Arndt Fine Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012 “TEMOIN HYBRIDE”, Musee d’Art Moderne Paris, France
2011 “THIS REPUBLIC NEED MORE SEMELEH”, Ark Galerie, Jakarta, Indonesia
2009 “SOLO EXHIBITION OF EKO NUGROHO”, Galerie Nouvelles Image, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2009 “UNDER THE SHADOW”, Pekin Fine Art, Beijing, China
2009 “IN THE NAME OF PATING TLECEK”, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2009 “HIDDEN VIOLENCE”, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2008 “MULTICRISIS IS DELICIOUS”, Semarang Gallery, Semarang, Indonesia,
2008 “THE PLEASURES OF CHAOS” Ark gallery, Jakarta,
2007 “IN WONDERLAND” Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur,
2006 “MERDEKA ATOE SMS”, Toimoi, Jakarta,
2005 “SORRY I AM LATE TO CELEBRATE”, Artnivora Gallery, Jakarta,
2005 “EKO NUGROHO”, Artoteek, Den Haag, Netherland
2004 “WELCOME BACK MAYONAISE”, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2003 “FIGHT ME”, Via-via cafe, Yogyakarta
2002 “BERCEROBONG” (Like A chimney) Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta

More

Group Exhibitions

2024 "ART SG 2024" Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre / Singapore
2023 "Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2023" Marine Messe Fukuoka / Fukuoka
2023 "Dystopia: Transition from Memory" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2022 "ART HANKYU 2022" Hankyu Umeda Main Store / Osaka
2021 "Survival Nature" GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS / Tokyo
2021 "Summer Selection：Drawing Nature" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2020 "Art Front Selection 2020 autumn" Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2019 “Setouchi Triennale 2019”, Ibukijima Japan
2018 “IN SEARCH OF SOUTHEAST ASIA THROUGH M+ COLLECTIONS”, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
2018 “ARTJOG11: ENLIGHTENMENT”, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2018 “ART FROM THE STREET”, Art Science Museum, Singapore.
2017 “MATERIAL CONNECTION”, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, USA
2017 “INSTANT REPLY: ARNDT SINGAPORE’S HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA”, ARNDT Fine Art, Singapore
2017 “IMAGINARIUM: TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH”, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2017 “LUTHER AND THE AVANTGARDE – CONTEMPORARY ART IN WITTENBERG BERLIN AND KASSEL”, Wittenberg Old Prison. Germany
2017 “SUZU 2017: OKU-NOTO TRIENNALE”, Suzu-shi, Ishikawa, Japan
2017 “TRIENAL SENI PATUNG INDONESIA #3: SKALA”, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2016 “LOVE ME IN MY BATIK: MODERN BATIK ART FROM MALAYSIA AND BEYOND”, Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2016 “ARTJOG9: UNIVERSAL INFLUENCE”, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2016 “CONCEPT CONTEXT CONTESTATION: ART AND THE COLLECTIVE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA”, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2016 “OZ ASIA FESTIVAL”, Art Gallery of South Asia, Adelaide, Australia
2015 “ENCOUNTERS PROJECT”, Art Basel Hong Kong,
2015 “TAPISSERIE? DE PICASSO A MESSAGER”, Musees d’Angers, France
2015 “ARTJOG8: INFINITY IN FLUX”, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta
2015 “ROOT: INDONESIAN CONTEMPORARY ART”, Frankfurter Kuntstverein, Kunst Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.
2014 “10th GWANGJU BIENNALE: BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE”, Gwangju, South Korea.
2014 “INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN”, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2013 “JOGJA BIENALE: EQUATOR #2”, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2013 “JAKARTA BIENALE: SIASAT”, Jakarta, Indonesia
2013 “SIP! INDONESIAN ART TODAY. The past three generations of Indonesian Contemporary Art”, ARNDT Gallery, Singapore / Germany
2013 “CALIFORNIA PACIFIC TRIENALE”, Orange County Museum of Art, USA
2013 “INDONESIA PAVILION FOR VENICE BIENALE: SAKTI”, Venice, Italy
2012 “ARTJOG12”, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2012 “NEGARI NGAYOGYAKARTA HADININGRAT”, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2012 “FANTASY ISLANDS”, Louis Vuitton Singapore
2012 “MIGRATION”, Museum Art Contemporary, Sidney, Australia
2012 “RALLY: CONTEMPORARY INDONESIAN ART, JOMPET KUSWIDANANTO & EKO NUGROHO”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2011 “BEYOND THE EAST”, MACRO (Rome Museum of Contemporary Art), Rome, Italy
2011 “TRANSFIGURATION & CONTEMPORARY MYTHOLOGIES”, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2011 “CLOSING THE GAP: INDONESIA ART TODAY”, Melbourne International Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia. Curated by Bryan Collie, Mikala Tai, Anita Archer, Santy Saptari.
2011 “THE ALLEY OF A CITY NAMED JOGJA”, Primo Morella Art Gallery, Milano, Italy. Curated by Jim Supangkat.
2011 “DECOMPRESSION #10: Ruang Rupa Anniversary”, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2010 “SOUTHEAST ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART”, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
2010 “NI 50 JAR, part 1”, Galerie Nouvelles Image, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2010 “CONTEMPORANEITY”, MOCA Shanghai, China.
2010 “HEAT WAVE”, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, USA.
2010 “THE COMICAL BROTHERS”, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2010 “LIHAT! VIDEO ART FROM INDONESIA”, Galería Jesús Gallardo, Leon Mexico.
2009 “BIENNALE JOGJA X: JOGJA JAMMING”, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2009 “CREAM” International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama, Japan
2009 “LYON BIENNALE X: THE SPECTACLE OF THE EVERY DAY”, Lyon, France.
2009 “BEYOND THE DUTCH”, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2009 “TALES FROM WOUNDED-LAND”, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA
2009 “DORODORO, DORON!”, Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
2009 “FLUID ZONES”, Jakarta Biennale 2009, Grand Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2008 “MASK/GEMASKERD”, Heden, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2008 “EXPENDITURE” Busan Biennale 2008, Busan, South Korea.
2008 “DARI PENJARA KE PIGURA”, Salihara Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008 “MANIFESTO”, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008 “SOMETHING FROM NOTHING”, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA
2007 “GEOPOLITICAL OF ANIMATION”, The Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art, Sevilla, Spain.
2007 “MILITIA” OK Video, National Gallery, Jakarta.
2007 “100 TAHUN AFANDI”, Gedung Arsip Nasional Jakarta.
2007 “THE PAST THE FORGOTTEN TIMES”: Six Indonesian Artist Interpret Indonesian History,”Traveling Exhibition: Artoteek , The Hague, Netherlands; Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta; Erasmus Huis, Jakarta; Yaitu Gallery, Semarang; Bliz Art, Shanghai- Fringe Festival, Singapore.
2007 “WIND FROM THE EAST”, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland.
2006 “ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNALE 5” Queensland Art Gallery, Australia.
2006 “DIRTY YOGA”, Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan.
2005 “SUB / VERSION”, OK Video, National Gallery, Jakarta.
2005 “SPACES AND SHADOWS: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM SOUTH EAST ASIA”, HKW, Berlin, Germany.
2005 “THREE YOUNG CONTEMPORARY”, Valentine Willie Gallery, Malaysia.
2005 “BALI ART BIENNALE”, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
2004 “MOVE ON ASIA”, Animation and Single Channel Video Art Festival, Remo Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
2004 “REFORMASI”, Contemporary Indonesian Artist Post 1998, Sculpture Square, Singapore.
2004 “HAVE WE MET”, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan.
2004 “EQUATORIAL HEAT”, Sichuan Museum, Cina.
2003 “COUNTRYBUTION”, Yogyakarta Biennale, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta.
2003 “OK VIDEO”, National Gallery, Jakarta.
2003 “EXPLORING VACUUM”, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta.
2002 “TALI IKAT”, Fiber Connections, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta.
2002 “SAMA-SAMA”, City Mural Project Flyover, Yogyakarta.
2001 “GELART”, Gelaran Budaya, Yogyakarta.
2001 “KABINET KOMIK INDIE” Gelaran Budaya, Yogyakarta.

More

Awards

2017 Indonesia’s Influential Person in Creative Industry (Visual Art) by Idea Fest x Samsung Galaxy Note 8
2013 Power 100 A ranked list of the contemporary artworld’s most powerful figures by ArtReview
2013 Icon of tHe Year 2013 in Art and Culture, Gatra Magazine, Indonesia
2010 Best Illustration Kompas Short Stories 2009
2008 Academy Art Award for Emerging Artist, Indonesian Institute of Arts
2005 Best Artists of the Year, Tempo magazine

More