Background
Dono was born in Jakarta on June 12, 1960.
Dono was born in Jakarta on June 12, 1960.
He presented his work worldwide in a great number of solo and group exhibitions. He is mainly active as an installation artist, and works with materials that come from varying places in the world. In his work, known influences can be noticed, like the life of the ordinary man, wayang kulit, becak driver and tau tau sculptures of the Toraja in Sulawesi.
Dono, who lives and works in Yogyakarta, mixes humoristic comments in his work on political and social problems in Indonesia.
1988: Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Mitra Budaya Indonesia Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Bentara Budaya Gallery, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
1991: Unknown Dimensions, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel, Switzerland. 1993: Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT, Australia
1996: Blooming in Arms, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England.
2000: Dancing Demons and Drunken Deities, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Jepang
2001: Trap’s outer Rim, Cemeti Art House, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
2001: Fortress of the Heart, Gajah Gallery, Singapore
2002: Interrogation, Center A, Vancouver, Canada
2002: Heri Memprovokasi Heri, Nadi Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
2002: Free-DOM, Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia
2002: Reworking Tradition I & II, Singapore
2003: Upside Down Mind, Communist Party Artspace, Washington, VS
2003: Heri Dono, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
2003: Perjalanan Spiritual Heri Dono, Galeri Semarang, Indonesia
2004: Who’s Afraid of Donosaurus?, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta
2006: Broken Angels, Gertrude Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2009-2010: Critical Art from Indonesia, Tropical Museum, Amsterdam
2011: "Madman Butterfly", Rossi & Rossi, London.
His style is often placed in the art form of new internationalism, which is a recent art form of artists in the world that challenge the Western hegemony of art, in contrast with the New Art Movement in the seventies and eighties that chose in favor of a Western expressions in art, with it taking leave of local traditions.