HENDRA HARSONO (b.1983)

Also known as HeHe, is always been interested in working with painting, drawing, resin toys, with premises based on hisexperiences in everyday life and issues of contemporary culture

HeHe is one of the young artists generation of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts of early 2000 who were born mostly in early 1980s where many of the artists belong to a cluster coming up from subcultures grown up within the paradoxes of Western multiculturalism and changing values in their own country, MTV invasion, cable TV, internet, and neoliberalism. Thus, the traces of influences of Pop Culture, the Indie Movement, graphic novels, ‘lowbrow art’, pop surrealism, street style fashion and more can be traces in HeHe’s works. 

For him, painting is playing with imagination through the celebration of colors. My personal experiences that are part of a social phenomenon, respond to through fantasy figures using acrylic paint. Amidst the flood of information about gadgets, he hopes the fantasy in his paintings can spark the imagination of those who see them, instead of just getting lost in social media algorithms.

He has held seven solo exhibitions, including ONCE UPON A BLUE LIGHT at Thinkspace Los Angeles (2024), NOBODY at Broken White Project, Yogyakarta (2021), ‘Goodness’ at Vivi Yip Art Room, Jakarta (2013); ‘Invisible: the unknown between us’ at D-gallerie, Jakarta (2011) and ‘Little House and the Prayer’ at Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2010). As well as participating in various group exhibition, including recent exhibition at LAX/AMS at Straat museum amsterdam, SUREAL at Vetrical gallery Chicago, Spring group show at VINS Gallery Tapei, HAWAI’I WALLS, ‘Manifesto 6.0: Multipolar’at the National Gallery, Jakarta. 

Hendra HeHe is the founding members of Ace House Collective, an artist collective established in Yogyakarta, 2011, which is active in the field of youth-pop culture that emphasize in the exploratory approach both in theory and practice, conceptually and contextually, as well as finding the possibilities on visual art perspective.