About the artist:
In Entang Wiharso’s work the artist’s own personal experiences are embedded with a strong examination of the predominant socio-political conditions of his home country. To him, creating work is a way of understanding the human condition, of heightening our ability to perceive, feel and understand human problems like love, hate, fanaticism, religion, and ideology.
“I depict the condition of humans who are often divided by complex, multilayered political, ethnic, racial, and religious systems: they co-exist yet their communication is limited and indirect. Figures are interconnected by intuitive as well as intellectual linkages, including ornamental vegetation, tongues, tails, intestines, animal skin patterns, fences and detailed landscapes.“ (Entang Wiharso, 2011).
Born in Tegal, Central Java, Indonesia, Entang Wiharso lives and works in Rhode Island, USA and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Wiharso is a graduate of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (1994). Wiharso has had more than 45 solo gallery and museum exhibitions since 1995 across Asia, Europe and the United States and participated in numerous biennale exhibitions including the 2019 Kunming Art Biennale, Yunnan, China; Indonesian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; Prospect.3 New Orleans, Prague Biennale 6 as well as in many prestigious international institutions including Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; National Gallery of Australia; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Jeonbuk Museum, Jeonbuk, South Korea; Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia; Singapore Tyler Print Institute; Gunma Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan; Hilger Brotkunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; Singapore Art Museum; Galeri Nasional Indonesia; Lyon Musée d’art contemporain; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Gallery of Victoria; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY; and most recently at the Asia Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA.