EKO NUGROHO
Born 1977 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Education
2006 MFA, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 1997 BFA, Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 We are Concern About Nothing, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea We Are What We Mask, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore 2012 Temoin Hybride, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 2011 The Eko Chamber: Recent Works by Eko Nugroho, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Snobs Behind Ketchup, Lombard Freid Projects, New York The Republic Needs More Semeleh, ARK Galerie, Jakarta, Indonesia 2009 Solo Exhibition Of Eko Nugroho, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands Under The Shadow, Pekin Fine Art, Beijing, China In The Name Of Pating Tlecek, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia Hidden Violence, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2008 Multicrisis Is Delicious, Galeri Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia The Pleasures Of Chaos, ARK Galerie, Jakarta, Indonesia 2007 In Wonderland, Valentine Willie Fine Art Project Room, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2006 Merdeka Atoe Sms, Toimoi, Jakarta, Indonesia 2005 Sorry I Am Late To Celebrate, Artnivora Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia Eko Nugroho, Artoteek Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands 2004 Welcome Back Mayonnaise, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2003 Fight Me, Via-Via Café Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2002 Bercerobong (Like a Chimney) Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Burning Down the House, 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Art for Cancer, Venice Biennale, Venice 2013 California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach Sakti, The Indonesian Pavilion, The 55th Venice Biennale, Venice Jogja Biennale, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Writings Without Borders, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong Sip! Indonesian Art Today/Seni Rupa Indonesia Kini: The past three
generations of Indonesian Contemporary Art, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany 2012 Rally, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Home WHERE?, Lombard Freid Projects, New York Fantasy Islands, Louis Vuitton Singapore Migration, Museum Art Contemporary, Sydney, Australia Negari Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2011 Beyond the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe , Germany Asia: Looking South, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany Beyond The Self: Contemporary Portraiture From Asia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia. The exhibition will travel to McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Victoria; Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, Adelaide; Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Northern Territory, Australia Transfiguration - Indonesian Mythologies, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France Close The Gap: Indonesia Art Today, Melbourne International Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia Isles Of A City Named Jogja, Primo Marella Art Gallery, Milan, Italy Decompression #10: Ruangrupa Anniversary, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia 2010 Beacons Of The Archipelago: Contemporary Art From South East Asia, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea Ni 50 Jar, Part 1, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands Contemporaneity: Contemporary Art In Indonesia, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China Heat Wave, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York The Comical Brothers, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia Lihat! Video Art From Indonesia, Galería Jesús Gallardo, Léon, Mexico 2009 Biennale Jogja X: Jogja Jamming, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia International Festival For Arts And Media – Cream, Yokohama, Japan X Biennale De Lyon: The Spectacle Of The Everyday, Lyon, France Beyond The Dutch, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands Tales From Wounded-Land, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York Dorodoro, Doron –The Uncanny World In Folk And Contemporary Art In Asia, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Fluid Zone: Jakarta Biennale 2009, Grand Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia 2008 Mask/Gemaskerd, Heden Contemporary Art, The Hague, Netherlands Expenditure: 2008 Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea Dari Penjara Ke Pigura, Salihara Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia Manifesto, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia Something From Nothing, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans(CACNO), New Orleans, Louisiana 2007 Geopolitical Of Animation, The Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain Militia: Ok Video Festival, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia 100 Tahun Affandi (100 Years Of Affandi), National Archives Building, Jakarta, Indonesia
Masa Lalu Masa Lupa (The Past The Forgotten Times): Six Indonesian Artist Interpret Indonesian History, 1930 – 1960, Traveling Exhibition: Artoteek Den Haag,The Hague, Netherlands; Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta; Erasmus Huis, Jakarta; Yaitu Gallery, Semarang; Biz Art, Shanghai, M1- Fringe Festival, National Museum of Singapore. Wind From The East: Perspectives On Contemporary Asian Art, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki 2006 5th ASIA-PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Taipei Biennale 2006: Dirty Yoga, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2005 Sub / Version: Ok Video Festival, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia SHADOW AND SPACES: Contemporary Art From South East Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures), Berlin, Germany Three Young Contemporaries, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia Bali Art Biennale: Space And Scape, Denpasar, Indonesia 2004 MOVE ON ASIA: Animation And Single Channel Video Art Festival, Remo Gallery, Osaka, Japan Reformasi: Contemporary Indonesian Artists In The Post-Suharto Era, Sculpture Square, Singapore Have We Met?, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan Equatorial Heat, Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China 2003 Countrybution: Yogyakarta Biennale Vii, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia Ok Video, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia Exploring Vacuum, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2002 Tali Ikat: Fiber Connections, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia Sama-Sama: City Mural Project, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2001 Gelart, Gelaran Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Kabinet Komik Indie, Gelaran Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Awards
2010 Best Illustration, Kompas Short Stories 2009 2008 Academy Art Award for Emerging Artist, Indonesian Institute of Arts
Selected Residencies
2013 Singapore Tyler Print Institute 2011 ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (Aug – Sept 2011) SAM Art Projects, Villa Raffet, Paris (Sept 2011 – Jan 2012) 2009 Veduta-Biennale de Lyon, France 2008 Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (CACNO), New Orleans National Museum of Singapore, Singapore 2007 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland 2006 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 Artoteek Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 2004 Amsterdam Graphics Atelier (AGA), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Selected Commissioned & Special Projects
2013 Louis Vuitton Foulards d’ Artistes 2010 The Strategies Of Ya Ampunn! Mural to cover the façade of Taman Budaya Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta Cultural Center) for Indonesian Art Now: The Strategies of Being, Art Jogja 2010 2009 Open City Jakarta 12 contemporary wayang characters for the exhibition design of Open City Jakarta at the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) commissioned by Dr. Stephen Cairns and Daliana Suryawinata, curators of Open City Jakarta 2008 It’s All About Coalition A pair of bronze sculptures and mural at the Glass Atrium commissioned National Museum of Singapore 2006 It’s All About Destiny! Isn’t It! & What Do You Want? A mural for the foyer of the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and for the Children’s Art Center in conjunction with APT5 commissioned by Queensland Art Gallery
Selected Artist Books
Eko(Space)Nugroho Daging Tumbuh Studios 2011 Mooi Weer The Hague: Artoteek & Cemeti Art House 2005 The Tram Amsterdam: Amsterdam Grafische Aterlier 2004. Made possible by Prince Claus Foundation, Cemeti Art House, HIVOS, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst
Bibliography
2013 Kolesnikov-Jessop. “Indonesian Street Artist Mixes Pop With Questions of Identity,” The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2013. "Authentic Centre Stage," Pipeline, Issue 36: May/June 2013, 72,74-75. 2012 Levene, Arianne. "Voyage of Discovery," Lux, Issue 3, 42. “RALLY: Contemporary Indonesian Art- Jompet Kuswidananto & Eko Nugroho”, Fluoro Digital. December 2012. RALLY Interview, Acclaim. October 2012. 2009 “Eko Nugroho”. C Arts. September-October 2009:109-110. “Eko Nugroho”,Biennale de Lyon. 2009: 372-374. 2008 Ooi, Adeline. “Profile: Artist”, Theme, Issue 12: Winter 2008, 16-17. “The Artful Eko Nugroho”. Pacific Place. Volume IV: 32-34. 2007 “Eco Nuguroho”. Kiasma, No. 34, 2007:53-60. 2005 “Eco Nugroho”. Raume Und Schatten Spaces and Shadows HDW. pg.126,146,159.
Selected Collections
Akili Museum of Art, Jakarta, Indonesia Arario Collection, Cheonan, South Korea Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Artnow International A3 Collection, San Francisco, California The Asia Society and Museum, New York Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, France Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia (MAGNT) OHD Museum of Modern & Contemporary Indonesian Art, Indonesia Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia SAM Art Projects Collection, Paris, France Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands