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About the Artist

Exploring spiritual, religious and cultural is-
sues, especially in the midst of Indonesian
society, overcoming the challenge of buil-
ding „Harmony & Diversity“ as the subject
of creating paintings by developing icono-
graphy.

Wisnu Sasongko was born in Jakarta, March
12, 1975, currently living in Kab. Bogor.
Learning art linearly, starting from SMSR
Yogyakarta in 1995, then continuing to the
Faculty of Fine Arts, ISI Yogyakarta, until
graduating in 2001. Finally, he completed Wisnu Sasongko
his religious-cultural studies at IRB Univ. Sa-
nata Dharma in 2010. Since the visual arts (Indonesia)
vocational school and lectures, he has been
active in creating and exhibiting fine arts.

Wisnu Sasongko had several solo exhibitions wisnu.sasongko@gmail.com
and participated in groups in various cities
in Jogjakarta, Jakarta, Tangerang, Bali from IG/youtube:
2000 to the present. Including experience #wisnusasongko
in international exhibitions in Aachen-Ger-
many, Canada, Iowa, New Haven, Boston, Blog:
New York in the US, Basel-Switzerland, Kua- https://wisnusasongko.home.blog/
la Lumpur-Malaysia in 2003 to 2012. Cur- tag/seni-lukis/
rently, apart from performing arts, Wisnu S
also teaches as a guest lecturer at SOD UPH Gallery:
Karawaci and art and culture teacher at the https://www.omsc.org/artist-sa-
high school level. Wisnu Sasongko won the songko
painting competition TOTAL ART FINA E &
F with YSRI in 2001, and at the local event https://www.artway.eu
PEKSIMINAS Jogjakarta in 2001. Experience
as a judge for mural competitions and as
a speaker on art-religion-iconography. Sin-
ce 2013, the Christian art community has
been organizing with various visual arts ac-
tivities.

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