Dadang Christanto b. 1957

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Video Artist),
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Painter)
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.
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Name
Dadang Christanto
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
  • Artist (Video Artist)
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • 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
Cultural Heritage
  • Indonesian
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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