Uji 'Hahan' Handoko Eko Saputro

Uji 'Hahan' Handoko's work is characterised by an ongoing tussle between 'high art' and 'low art', critiquing the mechanisms of an expanding global art market. He combines the aesthetics of traditional Javanese mythology with popular youth culture, underground comics, film, music and street culture into a distinctly bold visual language exploding with colour.

Born 1983 in Kebumen, Uji ‘Hahan’ Handoko graduated from the Faculty of Fine Art at Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) in Yogyakarta. In 2008, he participated in the National Art Studio’s artist in residence programme in Seoul, Korea and in the same year was named the top 30th finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize. In 2016 he presented Speculative Entertainment no.1 at ART|JOG|9, Jogja National Museum, Indonesia, exhibiting a second iteration of this work at Darren Knight Gallery in 2020. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Indonesia and abroad including the 7^th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery/GOMA in Brisbane in 2012 and The Curious Deal, curated by Michael Schindhelm and Alia Swastika at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany in 2019.

He currently lives and works in Yogyakarta.