Contemporary Indonesian-born artist, Christanto works across the media of performance, installation, sculpture, video, painting and works on paper. He has exhibited extensively both in Australia and overseas and a recurring theme throughout his work is the disappearance of multitudes of Indonesian political dissidents during the mid-1960s purges, when his own father was lost and never seen again.
Art Lecturer (Art Lecturer 1999-2003: Lecturer, School of Art and Design, Northern Territory University, Darwin; 2004: Lecturer, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW)
Birth date
1957
Birth place
Java, Indonesia
Active Period
1991-
Residence
Brisbane, Qld
Darwin, NT
Indonesia
Training
Studied painting, 1980 - 1986 Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Studied painting, 1975 - 1979 Sekolah Menengah Seni Rupa (SMSR), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Studied painting, 1975 - 1977 Pawiyatan Sanggarbambu, Yogyakarta, Indonesia