Heri Dono born in Jakarta 1960, is a Yogyakarta-based contemporary artist, and the first Indonesian to break into the global art scene during the early 1990s. Since his early career, he has traveled around the world to exhibit and respond to workshop invitations from various countries. Heri Dono is well known in the international contemporary arts community for his installation works, many of which were inspired by his experiments with wayang, the complex shadow puppet theater of Java. In his paintings, Heri Dono makes the most use of wild deformations and freestyle fantasies out of which emerge characters from the wayang stories. To this he adds his profound knowledge and interest in childrens’ cartoons, animation films, and comics. Heri Dono’s canvases are always filled with astonishing characters that intertwine both fantastic and absurd stories. Into these, Heri Dono will sometimes insert his own critical remarks on socio-political issues in Indonesia and abroad.