ENTANG WIHARSO
Born in 1967, Tegal, Central Java, Indonesia
Lives and works in Rhode Island, USA and Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Education
Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Untold Stories, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
Never Say No, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (catalogue) Perfect Mirror, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece (catalogue) Entang Wiharso, Marc Straus, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
2014 Second Homeland, Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Trilogy, ARNDT, Singapore (catalogue)
2013 Geo-Portrait #2, Galeri Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue) Geo-Portrait, Primae Noctis, Lugano, Switzerland (catalogue) Crush Me, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China (catalogue)
Re-Play #2, Office for Contemporary Art International, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2012 Untold Stories, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
2011 Second Skin: Peeling Back the Layers, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan,USA (catalogue)
Love Me or Die, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 Love Me or Die, Galeri Canna at Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2008 Black Goat is My Last Defense, 5 Traverse Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (catalogue)
Black Goat, The Drawing Room Contemporary Art, Manila, Philippines (catalogue)
Black Goat Space, Ark Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
I Am Black Goat, SMU Concourse, Singapore (catalogue)
2007 InToxic, Rumah Seni Yaitu, Semarang, Indonesia (catalogue)
2006 Puppet Blues, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
2005 Inter-Eruption, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia
2004 Sublime Tunnel, Circle Point Art Space, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Hurting Landscape: Between Two Lines, Gallery Agniel, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Hurting Landscape, Chouinard Gallery, Hong Kong (catalogue)
2001 NusaAmuk, Galeri Nasional Indonesia and Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; Purna Budaya Art Center and Bentara Budaya Art Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Amuk, CP ArtSpace, Washington D.C. USA (catalogue)
2000 Entang Wiharso, Chouinard Gallery, Hong Kong (catalogue)
Melting Souls, Gallery Agniel, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Visit to Sacred Place: Cultural Interrogation, Installation, Taman Martani, Indonesia
1999 Melting Souls, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (catalogue)
The New God Series, Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Providence College, Providence, Rhode
Island, USA (catalogue)
The New God Series and Ceremony of the Souls, Java Gallery and Cemara 6 Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
1998 Evidence on Earth, CenterCity Contemporary Arts, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Strange Journey, Santi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
1997 Strange Journey, Native Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Strange Journey, Benteng Vrederburg Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1996 Idea is Form, National Gallery Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Idea is Form, Purna Budaya Art Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
1995 Conflict, Dreams and Tragedy, Purna Budaya Art Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Odyssey: Navigating Nameless Seas, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Manifesto, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Conversation: Endless Acts in Human History, Entang Wiharso & Sally Smart, Galeri Canna at Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2015 Langkah Kepalang Dekolonisasi, 70 Years Republic of Indonesia, Galeri Canna at Galeri
Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta , Indonesia ( Catalogue )
Six Degrees of Separation, Galeri Canna, Jakarta, Indonesia
Unveiling Fundamentals in Contemporary Art through Asia, OHD Museum, Magelang, Indonesia (Catalog)
Dies Natalis, Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Open Sea, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France (catalog)
The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), Peekskill, NY, USA
Love: The First of the Seven Virtues, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), Peekskill, NY, USA
Aku Diponegoro, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2014 Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans Biennale, New Orleans, LA, USA
Spirits and ritual transformations of modernity in South East Asia, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Mooi Indie– Beautiful Indies, Indonesian Art Now, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia
Xigue-Xigue, Marc Straus, New York, NY
Sculpture Triennale 2, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2013 The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Indonesian Pavilion, Arsenale, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Pressing, Centro VideoInsight®, Turino, Italy (catalogue)
Prague Biennale 6, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
All You Need Is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
On Deck, Marc Straus, New York, NY
Kindred by Choice I, ARNDT, Singapore
Locally Made, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI, USA
Souvenir, Project by Lucie Fontaine, Perrotin Gallery, Paris, France
Seeing Paintings: Conversations Before the End of History, Sangkring Art Space, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2012 2x2, Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation (ESKFF) at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Estate, Project by Lucie Fontaine, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Panorama, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (catalogue) Migration, Sidney/Melbourne, Australia, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany Insight, Kunstraum, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Contemporary Indonesian Art, Ben Brown Fine Art, London, England
Chimera: the collectors show, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (catalogue)
2011 Beyond the East, Indonesian Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), Rome, Italy, (catalogue)
Asia: Looking South, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Closing the Gap, Melbourne International Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue)
Installation Art: Indonesia, Albertine Monroe - Brown Gallery, Richmond Art Centre, Western
Michigan University, MI, USA
Documenting Now, APT Gallery, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2010 The Private Museum. The passion for contemporary art in the collections of Bergamo,
Galleria d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy
And_Writers, 1st Nanjing Biennale, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China (catalogue)
Rainbow Asia, Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea (catalogue) Pleasures of Chaos: Inside New Indonesian Art, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
Contemporaneity-Indonesian Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art,Shanghai, China (catalogue)
Vault Portrait Series, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA (catalogue)
The Birth of Colors, Syang Art Space, Magelang, Indonesia (catalogue)
Indonesian Art Now – The Strategies of Being, ArtJog 2010, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Percakapan Masa, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Collectors’ Turn, Lawangwangi, Bandung, Indonesia (catalogue)
Crossing and Blurring the Boundaries: Medium in Indonesian Contemporary Art, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Sign and After: Contemporary Islamic Art, Lawangwangi, Bandung, Indonesia (catalogue)
2009 Expanded Painting 3, Prague Biennale 4, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
A Transversal Collection: From Duchamp to Nino Calos, from Cattelan to Entang Wiharso, Arte Contemporanea ALT - Arte Lavoro Territorio, Bergamo, Italy
Viewing and Viewing Points, Second Asian Art Biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (catalogue)
Common Sense, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
South East Asia B(l)ooming, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
Exposign, JEC, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Jogja Jamming, Jogja Biennale X, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Living Legends, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2008 Highlights from ISI, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Self Portrait: Famous Living Artists of Indonesia, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
E-motion, Galeri Nasional Indonesia and Visual Art Magazine, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Manifesto, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
The Third Space: Cultural Identity Today, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, US
Grounded in Space, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, MA, USA
A New Force of South East Asia, Edwin Gallery - Asia Art Centre, Beijing, China (Catalogue)
2007 Wind from The East, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
The Big Picture Show, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (catalogue)
The International Print Portfolio: Artists’ Expression of Universal Human Rights, Michigan
State University Museum, Michigan, USA
Neo-Nation, Yogyaqkarta Biennale XI, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
2nd Open Terra Cotta Biennale, Dumaguete, Philippines (catalogue)
Indonesian Contemporary Art Now, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Fetish, Biasa Art Space, Bali, Indonesia (catalogue)
(Un)Real, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
2006 Interpreting, Semar Gallery, Malang, East Java, Indonesia (catalogue)
2005 Actualizing Insight Virtuality, Indonesian Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Taboo and Transgression, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, New York, USA (catalogue)
Second Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China (catalogue)
Jakarta Biennale XIII, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue) Urban/Culture, CP Biennale, BI Building, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue) Discourse: Scope and Space, Bali Biennale, Bali (catalogue)
Here and Now, Yogyakarta Biennale VIII, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
After the Affair Art Project, Puri Art Gallery, Malang, Indonesia (catalogue)
Olympiade, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Still Life, Raka Gallery, Bali, Indonesia (catalogue)
Face, Chouinard Gallery, Hong Kong
Disini akan Dibangun MALL, Public Art Project, Bunderan Gajah Mada University and Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Barcode, FKY, Yogyakarta Art Centre, TBY, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Reading the World of Widayat, Museum H. Widayat, Magelang, Indonesia (catalogue)
Wings of Color, Wings of Words, Kyai Langgeng Art House, Magelang, Indonesia
2003 Contemporary Perspectives: Highlights from the Singapore Art Museum Permanent
Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (brochure)
Passion: Etno-Identity, traveling exhibition to Capital Library Gallery, Beijing, China; Leu Hai
Su Art Museum, Shanghai, China; and Galeri Canna, Jakarta, Indonesia
Interpellation, CP Open Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Five Years of Reform, Dewan Kesenian Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Borobodur Budweiser, Kyai Langgeng Art House, Magelang, Indonesia
2002 Eye Witness, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Opera, Kyai Langgeng Art House, Magelang, Indonesia
Mata Hati Demokrasi, Taman Budaya Surakarta, Surakarta, Indonesia
Reading Raden Saleh, Semarang Gallery, Semarang, Indonesia (catalogue)
2001 Not I. Am I?, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Not Just the Political, Museum H. Widayat, Magelang, Indonesia (catalogue)
The Problematic Desire, Casa de Cantabria, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
Modern Art Exhibition from the Archipelago: Works of 90 Artists from 20 Provinces, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Reflection of Our Time, One Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2000 Indonesian Contemporary Art: A Cultural Journey, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (catalogue)
2nd Abstraction, Andi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
One Hundred Years of Modern Indonesian Art, One Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (catalogue)
Performances
2013 Borderless, Centro Videoinsight®, Turino, Italy
2012 Being Guest, Estate, a Project by Lucie Fontaine, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011 My Cake is Sweeter than My Neighbor's Cake, Documenting Now, APT Gallery, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2010 Lost and Found, Ciputra World Gallery, Jakarta
Don’t be Afraid of Your Desire, Casa Golinelli, Bologna, Italy
2009 Desire: Eating Identity, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
2007 Eating Identity, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
I Kill the Sign, Rumah Seni Yaitu, Semarang, Indonesia
Your Pleasure is My Pleasure, Rumah Seni Yaitu, Semarang, Indonesia
Being Javanese, Rumah Seni Yaitu, Semarang, Indonesia
2006 Nude Within, Gadani, Pakistan
2005 Behind Space: Forbidden Exotic Country, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy
2004 Behind Space, Puri Art Gallery, Malang, Indonesia
7 Senses: Wall of Nations Series, Festival Kesenian Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2003 Buah Kuldi (Kuldi Fruit), Vaduz City and Tangente Gallery, Liechstenstein
Buah Kuldi: Kuldi Fruit Translation, Warsawa, Sonosewu, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2002 Polluted by Norm, Kyai Langgeng Art House, Magelang, Indonesia
2001 Kulahirkan untuk tidak menjadi Bebek (I Gave Birth not to be a Follower), collaboration with members of Pendopo Theater, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; Bentara Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
From Watermelon Country, Pacific Bridge Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Oakland, CA, USA
About Flag, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
1994 Conflict, Dreams and Tragedy, Yogyakarta Art Centre, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Awards, Residencies & Grants
2014 Residency, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY, USA Residency, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2013 Art Sector Culture Award, Governor of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Residency and Grant, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Copeland Fellowship, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA Pollock–Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA
2006 Vasl International Artists’ Workshop, Karachi, Pakistan
Ford Foundation Travel Grant, Jakarta Indonesia
2003 Residency, Galerie Tangente, Eschen, Liechtenstein
1999 Residency, Pacific Bridge Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, Oakland, CA, USA
1998 Residency, CenterCity Contemporary Arts, Providence, RI, USA
1996 Top Ten Painters, Indonesian Art Awards, Philip Morris Group of Companies and Indonesian Fine Art Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
Top 36 Indonesian Artists in 1996, Gatra Magazine, Indonesia
1995 Top 100 Artists, Indonesian Art Awards, Philip Morris Group of Companies and the Indonesian Fine Art Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
Best Artist Prize, Sultan’s Palace, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1994 Juror’s Award, 4th Yogyakarta Biennial Exhibition, Purna Budaya Art Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1992 Best Work, Annual Art Institute of Indonesia’s Anniversary Art Competition, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Best Painting, Art Institute of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1988 Best Painting, Art Institute of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
First Prize, Yogyakarta Calligraphy Painting Competition, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Best Still Life Drawing, Art Institute of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1987 Best Watercolor Painting, Art Institute of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Speaking Engagements
2014 Southeast Asian Shows Go Global, Art Stage Singapore 2014, Singapore
2013 Two Decades of Indonesian Contemporary Art, Art Basel Hong Kong
Fish Table, Re-Play #2, Office for Contemporary Art International, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Aesthetics, Academic Seminar, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2012 Indonesian Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Indonesian Pavilion, Yuz Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
Artist Talk - All You Need is Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Artist Talk - Documenting Now, APT Gallery, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2010 Artist Talk - Love Me or Die, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Artpreneurship, Ciputra World Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2008 Studio Practice, Richmond Center for the Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Becoming the Other, NeoNation, Jogja Biennale, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2007 Cultural Identity Today, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
Intoxic, Exhibition Discussion, Rumah Seni Yaitu, Semarang, Indonesia
2006 Toxic Art & Political Subjectivity: a conversation with Indonesian artist Entang Wiharso, Asia Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Voices from the Stomach, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA
Voices from the Stomach, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA Artist Talk, VM Gallery (ZVMG Rangoowala Trust), Karachi, Pakistan Graduate Program, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2005 Yogyakarta Biennale VIII, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2004 Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
2002 Gelaran Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2001 Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
1999 San Francisco Museum of Asian Art, San Francisco, California, USA Carnegie Mellon University, Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA Providence College, Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Providence, USA Cemara 6 Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Selected Public and Private Collections
- Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Centro Videoinsight, Turino, Italy
- Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
- Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland
- Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- MaGMA Collection, Singapore
- Marino and Paola Golinelli, Bologna, Italy
- Mariyah Gallery, Dumaguete City, Philippines
- Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- MG Arte, Torino, Italy
- Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- OHD Museum of Modern & Contemporary Indonesian Art, Magelang, Indonesia
- Olbricht Collection, Germany
- RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA
- Rudi Akili Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
- Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Taguchi Art Collection, Japan
- Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- The Tiroche DeLeon Collection and Art Vantage PCC Limited
- University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia