Dadang Christanto is an internationally recognised artist who has been curated into major art events worldwide including the Sydney Biennale (2010), the Venice Biennale (2003), Yogyakarta Biennial, Indonesia (2003), Kwangju Biennale, South Korea (2000), the Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (1998) and the first and third Asia-Pacific Triennials of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (1993 & 1999). His work is held in major public and private collections around the globe including Yuz Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia, Fukuoka Museum of Modern Art, Fukuoka, Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, Magdeburg Museum, Magdeburg, Germany, and the following institutions in Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory in Darwin, National Gallery of Australia, and the Australian National University in Canberra. He currently divides his time between the south coast of Queensland and Central Java.
Read MoreBorn in Central Java in 1957, Christanto has spent his career honouring the countless victims of political violence and crimes against humanity. His work expresses the suffering of victims and lays bare the anguish and grief that is endured in silence by those left behind. The sincerity and rawness of emotion is due in part to the circumstances of his own father’s disappearance when Christanto was a boy, yet he continues to produce art which pleads for compassion regardless of differing faiths and political beliefs.
