Artists
Muhammad Fatchurofi
b.1990
Illustration artist working and living in Semarang, Central Java - Indonesia. He is interested in using illustration as a mindful way to contemplate thoughts, experiences and interests in his daily life. This form of journaling is a continuous personal project that helps him process emotions and see life in a more positive outlook.
His personal illustration projects have led him to work with some notable clients worldwide mainly for media editorials, brands and music with clients like The New York Times, Vox, Google, Louis Vuitton, Chobani, Bandcamp, Khruangbin, The National to name a few.
He is currently working on exploring possibilities in bridging his illustration works into different fine art mediums.
Muhammad Yakin
(b. 1992)
Born in Bukittinggi, works and lives in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Muhammad Yakin is an artist who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Indonesia Institute of The Arts in
Yogyakarta. His works result from his observations of what he calls the gray area, a realm filled with
vagueness and ambiguity that allows him the freedom to explore and express various perspectives. These
observations presently lead to a metaphorical exploration of humanity's quest for truth within the intricacies
of the universe's reality. Through this exploration, he creates anthropomorphic figures with singular, complex,
and dynamic backgrounds. Expressed through monochromatic ink strokes forming a black-and-white
foundation in his paintings. With his meticulous layering technique, he shapes the transition from darkness to
light, reflecting the multiple layers within the gray area.
He was named The Most Promising Artist of the Year at the 2019 UOB Painting of the Year awards and later
received the 2024 UOB Painting of the Year award. He recently completed a residency at the Cité
internationale des arts in France.
Mutiara Riswari
Mutiara Riswari was born in 1998 in Semarang, Indonesia. She studied at the School of Art Yogyakarta (2013–2016) andcontinued her education at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta (2016–2019). She currently lives and works inYogyakarta.Her works are rooted in the Javanese concept of Jagad Alit (microcosmos), which views human beings as asmall reflection of the vast universe. Through this perspective, Mutiara connects local spirituality with the present moment,shaping a visual language that feels both grounded and transformative.
In her artistic practice, she explores various mediums, including soil and the body, which function as both material andmetaphor. For Mutiara, soil represents the Mother (source of life, a space that absorbs and gives birth) while the bodybecomes a vessel of memory, identity, and collective experience. Through abstract gestures and layered compositions,she creates a dialogue between humanity and nature, between the personal and the universal. Her works emerge throughcontemplative processes where intuition and material coexist, tracing emotional and temporal transformations over time.
Mutiara’s selected solo exhibitions include
Critical Voyage
(2021) at Artsphere Gallery, Jakarta;
Eyes Wide Open
(2022)at White Space Art Asia, Singapore;
Seeing is Believing
(2024) at Gallery Hayashi + Artbridge, Tokyo, Japan; and
Tubuhdan Tanah
(2025) at Sumsum Gallery, Yogyakarta. In
Tubuh dan Tanah
, she presents mixed-media works that explore
how time and memory become embedded within material, revealing how unseen emotions and spiritual resonance canmanifest through the earth’s matter. Mutiara’s artistic practice continues to evolve around the themes of body, earth, andspirituality, weaving together femininity, cultural memory, and human awareness. By using soil as both material andmetaphor, Mutiara approaches painting as a contemplative process—a way to reflect on existence and our place withinthe living cosmos.
Natasha Tontey
Natasha Tontey working and living in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her artistic practice predominantly explores the fictional accounts of the history and myths surrounding ‘manufactured fear.’ In her practice, she observes any possibilities of other futures that are projected not from the perspective of major and established institutions, but a subtle and personal struggle of the outcasted entities and beings. Her work has been shown at transmediale 2021, Kyoto Experiment 2021, Asian Film Archive (2021), Other Futures (2019), Liquid Architecture (2019) amongst others.
In 2020 she received the HASH Award from ZKM and Akademie Schloss-Solitude, and is currently a fellow for Human Machine of the Junge Akademie at Akademie der Künste Berlin (2021-2022).
Natisa Jones
Natisa Jones b. 1989
Born in Jakarta, Natisa Jones is a visual artist who works between Bali, Indonesia where she spent most of her childhood growing up – and Amsterdam, Netherlands where she is currently based.
Jones completed a Visual Arts diploma studies in Chiang Mai Thailand and a bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts Painting in RMIT University - Melbourne, Australia.
Neneng Sia Ferrier
Born in Jakarta Indonesia, painting and drawing has been her hobby since childhood.
Neneng started as a self-taught artist who has been painting and drawing since her younger days in Jakarta. Fist her solo exhibition in 2003, she also spent several years in San Francisco there she pursued to further her education in fine arts at Academy of Art College. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Indonesia and Internationally
As well as painting Neneng extends her many skills into sculpting and installations.
Art Education: AAC ( Academy of Art College ) San Francisco USA
Nurrachmat Widyasena
(l. Kanada, 1990)
Nurrachmat Widyasena, atau yang akrab dipanggil Ito, merupakan perupa, pegrafis, ilustrator, dan desainer Indonesia yang tinggal dan bekerja di Bandung. Ia belajar seni grafis di Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain Institut Teknologi Bandung dan lulus pada tahun 2013. Karya-karyanya sangat dipengaruhi oleh retro-futurisme, fiksi-sains, Pop Art, dan komik. Berkarya dengan berbagai medium seperti lukisan, seni grafis, dan instalasi, serta material seperti pelat logam, pipa besi, kayu, dan objek temuan (found object), Ito menggambarkan ironi masyarakat kita dengan membandingkan imaji masa depan yang canggih di pertengahan abad ke-20 dengan realita mengecewakan yang kita hadapi hari ini. Ironi tersebut diperluas ke dalam proses artistiknya dengan menggunakan teknik-teknik sederhana untuk menggambarkan gagasan futuristiknya. Dalam pameran tunggalnya tahun 2019 yang berjudul “Nostaljik Kritik: Operasi Taimket”, Ito mulai beralih dari karya figuratif ke abstraksi bentuk yang diambil dari teori-teori fisika, yang juga menandai pergeseran tema kekaryaannya dari fantasi menjadi realitas.