Agus Suwage Indonesia, b. 1959

Biography

 

 

Agus Suwage (b.1959, Purworejo, Indonesia) has participated in numerous international biennials, including the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1996), Gwangju Bienniale (2000), Singapore Bienniale (2006), Jogja Biennale (2007, 2013), and Prospect New Orleans (2014-15), amongst others. Recent institutional exhibitions include: Sights and Sounds, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA (2018); SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Mori Art Museum, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (2017); Manifesto V: Arus, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta (2016); After Utopia: Revisiting the Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum (2015); Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, Singapore Art Museum (2012); Beyond the East, Macro Museum, Rome, Italy (2011); Beyond the Self, National Portrait Gallery, Australia (2011). In 2009, Jogja National Museum, Indonesia presented Still Crazy After All These Years, a retrospective dedicated to the artist on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
Exhibitions
Works
  • Borneo - The Missionaries and The Hornbill
    Borneo - The Missionaries and The Hornbill
  • Sticky Fingers
    Sticky Fingers
  • Vox Mortis - Vox Orbis
    Vox Mortis - Vox Orbis
  • After Da Vinci (Droplet Series)
    After Da Vinci (Droplet Series)
  • Guardian Angel
    Guardian Angel
  • Pelajaran Anatomy - after Egon Schiele
    Pelajaran Anatomy - after Egon Schiele
  • Over Smiling
    Over Smiling