BIOGRAPHY
1960 Born Jakarta, Indonesia
1980–87 Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1987–88 Studied wayang kulit (leather puppets) under Sukasman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2002 University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD
2004 Fellowship for Curatorial Work, IFA Stuttgart, Germany
2005 International Jury of the XI Triennale India, New Delhi, India
Lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Angels: Bang! Bang!, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Dream Republic, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
2006 Civilisation Oddness, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, US
The Broken Angels, Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne
2005 Free-D.O.M., 3,14 Stiftelsen, Bergen, Norway
2004 Who’s Afraid of Donosaurus?, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2002 Heri Dono A Spiritual Journey, Galeri Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
Heri Dono, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Up Side Down Mind, Circle Point Art Space, Washington DC, US
Re-working Tradition, Singapore Art Museum and Nanyang Technology University, Singapore
Free D.O.M., Bentara Budaya Jakarta, Indonesia
Heri Provokes Heri, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Interrogation, Center A, Vancouver, Canada
2001 Trap’s Outer Rim, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Fortress of the Heart, Gajah Gallery, Singapore
2000 Dancing Demons and Drunken Deities, Japan Foundation Asia Centre, 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, Alliance Français, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1998 Tanah Dari Merapi, Alliance Français, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1997 Blooming in Arms, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1993 The Chair (performance), Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
1991 Unknown Dimensions, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland
1988 Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mitra Budaya Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Bentara Budaya Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
The Inoyama Donation: A Tale of Two Artists, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2005 Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporania di Firenze, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy; Urban Culture, CP Biennale, Museum of Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; Licking the Ozone (performance), Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne; Floating Legacies, Selasar Sunaryo, Bandung, Indonesia; Festival Inspirasi, Dewaruci (performance), Byron Bay, NSW; About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; B.E.T.A.: 20 Post Electronic Art Performances, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway; Exodus Barang, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; Exhibition of Indoor Collections, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan; Belonging, Sharjah International Art Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
2004 The Nature Machine: Contemporary Art, Nature and Technology, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Frankenstein versus Gatotkaca Performance, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum of Ethnology, Berlin, Germany; Equatorial Heat, Indonesian Painters Exhibition, Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; Edwin Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; The Angel Garden, Esplanade, Theatre on the Bay, Singapore; Artists are making a House, Museum City Project, Nijomachi Prefecture, Fukuoka, Japan; 3rd Taipei Biennale: Do you believe in Reality?, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; On the Edge, Indonesia and China Avant-garde, Pakubuwono Residence, Jakarta, Indonesia; 26th Bienal de São Paulo: Territory Livre, São Paulo, Brazil; 4th Art Summit Indonesia 2004, Performing and Visual Arts, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; Land Under the Rainbow, Cultural Olympiad, Benaki Contemporary Art Museum, Athens, Greece; 2nd Enku Grand Award Exhibition, the Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan
2003 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003, Niigata, Japan
2002 Running Puppet, performance, Royal Palace Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kado, Nadi Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia; Zaman Edan, Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia; CP Open Biennale, National Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia; Public Art Project, Muza Concert Hall, Kawasaki, Japan; Country-bution, Yogyakarta Art Biennale, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; The Eyes, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; Crossing Boundaries, Bali: A Window to Twentieth Century Indonesian Art, travel ling exhibition, Asia Society Australasia Centre, Melbourne; Imagining Prometheus, Palazzo della Regione e Loggia dei Mercanti, Milan, Italy; EPIC, Gajah Gallery, Singapore; Budaya Bumi Berbudaya, Museum Benteng Vredenburg, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; 4th Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; The Wild of Imagination, Langgeng Gallery, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia; Interrogation (shadow play), Western Front Society, Vancouver, Canada; Telling Stories: Works from the Singapore Art Museum Permanent Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; 50th International Art Exhibition: Zone of Urgency, Venice Biennale, Italy; Der Rest Der Welt, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin / Beijing, Berlin; Heri Dono with Sutrisno Hartana and Friends (live Internet performance), Vancouver, Canada; Asianvibe, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain
2001 Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan; Floating Chimeras, Edsvik Konst Och Kultur, Sollantuna, Sweden; Artist’s Commission, The Asia Society, New York, US; Double Pink, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; Between Tradition and Modern Trend: Young Artists from Indonesia, Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany
2000 Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai, China; 7th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba;
Sonic Boom: The Art of Sound, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; 12 ASEAN Artists, Balai Seni Lukis Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Humanism in Art, Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, Delft, The Netherlands; Fuori Uso 2000: The Bridges, Pescara, Italy
1999 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; 6th Yogyakarta Biennial, Purna Budaya Art Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Knalpot, Fine Arts Exhibition, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; SoundCulture ’99, Auckland Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand; Makasar Art Forum ’99, Ujung Pandang, Indonesia; AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia, Museum Benteng Vredeburg, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Japan; Australia; The Netherlands; Germany;
Faret Tachikawa Art Project, Tokyo, Japan; Soul Ties: The Land and Her People: Art from Indonesia, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
1998 Resurrection of Topos 3, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Art In Freedom, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Rupa Seni-Seni Rupa, Museum Benteng Vredeburg, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1997 Exploring the Future of the Imagination, InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, Japan; Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna, Austria; France; Denmark; UK; Finland; Gift for India, Lalit Kala Akademi Galleries, New Delhi, India; New Generation of Asian Art, Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago, Japan; Sounding Sphere, Harima Science Garden City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan; Innensite, Projektgruppe Stoffwechsel, Kassel, Germany
1996 Universalis: XXIII Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Traditions/Tensions, Asia Society Galleries, New York, US; Canada; India; Singapore; Korea; Australia; Taiwan; The Huid van De Witte Dame, Arctic Foundation, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;The Spiritual and the Social: Nine Artists from Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, Brisbane; Jurassic Technologies Revenant: 10th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; The Drunkenness of Semar, Freud's Arts Cafe, Oxford, UK
1995 Visions of Happiness, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan; Contemporary Art of the Non-Aligned Countries, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; Orientation, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; The Netherlands; InfoART: 1st Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea; Pameran Gambar, Di Mata Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1994 9th Asian International Art Exhibition, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan;
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Beyond the Material World, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Kuda Binal (performance), 24 HR Art, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin; 9th Asian International Art Exhibition, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan; 4th Asian Art Show Fukuoka 1994: Realism As An Attitude, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan; Museum City Tenjin ’94: Super Suburb, Fukuoka, Japan
1993 Indonesian Modern Art, De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; International Festival of Puppetry, Taman Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia;1st Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Biennale Seni Rupa Jakarta 9, Jakarta, Indonesia
1992 Sanggar Dewata, Museum Nyoman Gunarsa, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; 7th Asian International Art Exhibition, Gedung Medeka, Bandung, Indonesia; Kuda Binal (performance), Alun-Alun Utara, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; New Art from Southeast Asia, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo, Japan; Sama Sama: 15 Artists from Indonesia and The Netherlands, Erasmus; Huis Jakarta, Indonesia; The Netherlands
Pameran Internasional Seni Rupa Asia 7, Bandung, Indonesia
1991 Wayang: From Gods to Bart Simpson (performance), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Man and Human Expression, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Wayang Top (performance), Desa Apuan, Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia; Unknown Dimensions, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland; Indonesian Contemporary Art: From Origins to Distant Shores, The IMF Visitors' Center, Washington DC, US; Destructive Images (performance), Seni Sono Gallery and Malioboro, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1990 Modern Indonesian Art: Three Generations of Tradition & Change 1945–1990, Sewall Gallery, Rice University, Houston, US
1989 Wayang Imaginative (performance), Mendut Temple, Java, Indonesia
1988 Wayang Legenda (shadow play), Seni Sono Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara, Delft, The Netherlands
1987 Sandiwa, Kulay-Diwa Gallery, Paranaque, The Philippines; Three Indonesian Artists, De Schone Kunsten, Heemstede, The Netherlands
1986 5th Biennial of Indonesia Young Artists, TIM, Jakarta, Indonesia; Experimental Music and Visual Art, Seni Sono Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1985 3rd ASEAN Art Awards, Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1984 4th Biennial of Indonesia Young Artists, TIM, Jakarta, Indonesia
1982 Art on the Environment, Parangtritis Beach, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

PRIZES, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2005 Artist residencies: Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance (A.I.A.A.), Byron Bay, NSW; United Sardine Factory, (U.S.F.), Bergen, Norway; Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2003 Artist residency, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2002 Artist residencies: International Institute of Education, Singapore; Queensland College of Arts, Brisbane; Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2000 UNESCO Prize for Promotion of the Arts (3rd Shanghai Biennale)
Artist residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, US
1999 Cyfuniad, International Artists Workshop, Wales, UK
Artist residencies: Queensland College of Art, Brisbane; Elam School of Art, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
1998 Prince Claus Award, Prince Claus Fund for Culture & Development,
The Netherlands
1996 Artist residency, Umbrella Studio, Townsville, QLD
1995 Artist residency, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1994 Artist residency, Canberra School of Art, Canberra
1993 Artist residency, 24 HR Art, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
1992 Gusti Nyoman Lempad Prize, Sanaggar Dewata, Indonesia
1990–91Christoph Merian Foundation International Artists' Exchange Programme, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland
1985 Best Painting Award, Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1981 Best Painting Award, Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Artoteek den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands; Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; InterCommunication Centre, Tokyo, Japan; Kirishima Contemporary Open-Air Art Museum, Japan; Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland; Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland; Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; Okinawa Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jim Supangkat, ‘Odyssey in the space of change’; Pamela Zeplin, ‘Winged horse dreaming: Heri Dono in Adelaide The Dream Republic, exhibition catalogue, South Australian School of Art Gallery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2007
Jim Supangkat, 'Breaking through twisted logic: Heri Dono's critical eye', Art AsiaPacific, issue 32, 2001, pp. 56–63
Jim Supangkat et al. Outlet: Yogyakarta Within the Contemporary Indonesian Art Scene, Cemeti Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, 2001
M. Dwi Marianto, 'Heri Dono: Colonialism and the remaining splinters', in Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading, exhibition catalogue, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, NAI Publishers, Berlin; Rotterdam, 2001, pp. 320–25
Iola Lenzi, ‘Heri Dono’, Art AsiaPacific, issue 26, 2000, pp. 89–90
Hans-Ulrich Obrisht, ‘Heri Dono: the ever-increasing colonization of time’, Flash Art, vol. 33, no. 213, summer 2000, pp. 94–96
Esmeralda & Marc Bollansee, Masterpieces of Contemporary Indonesian Painters, Times Edition, Singapore, 1997
M. Dwi Marianto, ‘The experimental artist Heri Dono from Yogyakarta and his “visual art” religion’, Australian Art Monthly, no. 64, October 1993, pp. 21–24