ABDUL MULTHALIB MUSA Lot 446 (b. 1976, Malaysia) graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Design Studies from the University of Adelaide in Australia, and a Bachelor of Architecture from MARA University of Technology in 2000. He has participated in numerous shows in Malaysia and also been invited to international exhibitions in Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, Spain and Sweden among others. He won the 2nd Prize Award of Excellence at the 6th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition & Open Competition in Japan; the Jurors Award at the Young Contemporaries Awards Exhibition at National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in 2003. Some of his major works can be seen at the Putrajaya Convention Centre in Malaysia, at the Fumio Asakura Memorial Park in Japan and at Newcastle University in Australia. His sculpture was recently short-listed in the upcoming China Beijing Olympic Park City Sculpture Project for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. AGUNG KURNIAWAN Lot 420 (b. 1968, Indonesia) studied archeology at Gadjah Mada University and graphic arts at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. An influential figure in the contemporary art scene, Kurniawan also writes, curates, organizes numerous art events in Yogyakarta. He has exhibited widely around Indonesia, and abroad in AWAS! Recent Art From Indonesia which toured Japan, Australia and Europe (2000-2002), and in Singapore and the Netherlands. He is one of the founding members of Cemeti Art Foundation, now known as Indonesian Visual Art Archive and the co-owner of Kedai Kebun Forum, one of Yogyakarta’s most active independent art spaces. His works are in the collections of Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, KLM and Deutsche Bank (Jakarta). AGUS BAQUL PURNOMO Lot 408 (b. 1975, Indonesia) is an abstract painter who graduated from the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. He has exhibited widely in Indonesia as well as in USA, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. In 2004 he was one of three representatives from Indonesia in ARTIADE 2004 in Athens, an international exhibition held in conjunction with the 2004 Olympics in Athens. AGUS SUWAGE Lots 468, 488 (b. 1959, Indonesia) is one of Indonesia’s leading contemporary artists. Trained in Graphic Design at Bandung’s Institute of Technology (ITB), he worked as a graphic designer before becoming an artist. His career spans across Asia and Europe, from local solo exhibitions to international group shows. Some of his most recent international shows include ZKM Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves in Germany (2007); the 1st Singapore Biennale (2006); CP Biennale in Jakarta (2005), 7th Yogyakarta Biennale and Gwangju Biennale: Man + Space (2000). AHMAD SHUKRI MOHAMED Lot 459 (b. 1969, Malaysia) Born in Kelantan, Ahmad Shukri is a founding member of the influential Malaysian artist collective, Matahati. He graduated with a BA in Fine Art from MARA Institute of Technology, Malaysia and has led a very successful solo career as well as exhibiting as part of the Matahati collective. In 2003, he was artist in residence at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia. Ahmad Shukri’s works have found their way into both public and private collections in Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, the United States, Indonesia and Denmark. ALFREDO ESQUILLO, JR. Lot 440 (b. 1972, Philippines) graduated as a painting major from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila in 1993. He has been artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (USA) and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan). He was the first prize winner of the ASEAN Art Awards in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1995 and given the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award in 2000. Notable exhibitions Esquillo has participated in include Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art in Tokyo, Japan (2003), The American Effect: Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, USA (2003), and Identities Versus Globalisation?: Positions of Contemporary Art, which toured to Chiang Mai and Bangkok in Thailand as well as Berlin-Dahlem, Germany (2004-2005). AMINUDIN TH SIREGAR Lot 467 (b. 1973, Indonesia) or “Ucok” as he is called, is well known as an independent curator and the Director of Galeri Soemardja in Bandung Institute of Art’s (ITB) Fine Art Department. He is also a practicing artist and has exhibited widely in Indonesia as well as overseas, namely in Germany and Japan. ANGKI PURBANDONO Lots 402, 421 (b. 1971, Indonesia) has been exhibiting his photography works widely in Indonesia since 1999. In 2005 he received the Asian Artist Fellowship, working for a year at Changdong Art Studio in Seoul, South Korea. Some of his recent exhibitions include Landing Soon No.1, the result of a short residency programme initiated by Cemeti Art House (Yogyakarta), 3 Young Contemporaries at Valentine Willie Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur) and Fetish at Biasa (Bali) in 2007. He is one of the founders of Ruang MES 56, an alternative photography room in Yogyakarta. ANIS EKOWINDU Lot 478 (b. 1978, Indonesia) graduated from Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta in 2003. He has participated in numerous local exhibitions since 1995 and also works in the animation and design industry as animator, designer, layout artist and modeller. He was a finalist in the 2002 Indofood Art Awards. ARIE DYANTO Lot 433 (b. 1974, Indonesia) was born in Klaten, Central Java. He studied Graphic Art from 1992 to 1999 at the Faculty of Fine Art at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. He was part of Apotik Komik, an artist collective committed to making public art since 1997 and has collaborated with underground comic artists. Currently based in Yogyakarta, he has shown in Germany and Indonesia and has participated in group shows mainly in the Asian-Pacific region and also in the United States. ARYA PANDJALU Lot 442 (b. 1976, Indonesia) lives and works in Yogyakarta. He has worked across various media from print-making and drawing to sculptures/objects, installations and live performances. In the past 5 years, he has been working on numerous community-based public art projects, such as murals and interactive installations. Among the key projects he has worked on include Sama-sama, a cultural exchange between Apotik Komik (Yogyakarta) and Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) from San Francisco. In 2007, Arya was part of Cemeti Art House’s Landing Soon artist in residency project with Artoteek Den Haag. His collaboration with Sara Nuytemans was part of INTERFACE at Open Space in Vienna, Austria in 2008. BAMBANG “TOKO” WITJAKSONO Lot 453 (b. 1973, Indonesia) is a graduate of Graphic Art from the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. He has been a lecturer in Graphic Art, Faculty of Fine Art at ISI since 1999. He has held six solo exhibitions to date and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Indonesia since 1996. He worked closely with Apotik Komik until 2001 and has maintained close relationships with underground comic artists to produce numerous independent publications. In 2006, Bambang was an artistin- residence at Khoj International Artists’ Association in New Delhi, India. BUDI KUSTARTO Lot 477 (b. 1972, Indonesia) studied sculpture at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. One of Indonesia’s emerging names, Kustarto has been actively participating in exhibitions locally and across Southeast Asia. Some of his recent exhibitions include Hetero: Green a solo exhibition Galeri Semarang (2006) and international group exhibitions such as Equatorial Heat at Sichuan Art Museum, China (2005) and Urban/Culture: CP Biennale (2005) and CP Open Biennale (2003). CHAN KOK HOOI Lot 423 (b. 1974, Malaysia) Since graduating from the Malaysian Institute of Art with a major in painting, Chan has gone on to participate in numerous exhibitions locally and internationally. He was the grant recipient for the ABN AMRO Malihom Artist in Residence Programme in 2007. He also won the Jurors Award — Malaysia Young Contemporaries 2006 at the National Art Gallery of Malaysia and was a finalist for the Louis Vuitton Art Prize, Hong Kong as well as the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong in 2007. CHONG SIEW YING Lot 447 (b. 1969, Malaysia) enrolled at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Versailles, France in 1991. After graduating, she studied and taught at international printmaking centre Atelier 63 in Paris, while working as an artist and exhibiting in the city. She returned to Malaysia in 1998, holding her first solo show in Kuala Lumpur that year. She was artist-in-residence at Rimbun Dahan in 1999 and at the Vermont Studio Centre in the United States in 2001. The artist’s career has spanned a large number of solo and group exhibitions in Malaysia, as well as across Asia, Australia, Europe and the USA. DANG XUAN HOA Lot 481 (b. 1959, Viet Nam) Dang Xuan Hoa was born in Nam Dinh, outside of Ha Noi. After graduating from the Ha Noi Fine Arts College, his successful career has included solo exhibitions in Viet Nam, Europe and the USA, and participation at the 3rd Havana Biennial (1989), Weather Report (Europe/Asia, 1995), An Ocean Apart (Smithsonian travelling exhibition in USA, 1995) and other projects in Barcelona,the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, New York and the USSR. A founding member of the renowned “Gang of Five” collective, he continues his independent art practice in Ha Noi. DINH THI THAM POONG Lot 404 (b. 1970, Viet Nam) won First Prize in the Minority Artists Exhibition in 1993. Dinh Thi Tham Poong has exhibited in Vietnam, Japan and the United States. She participated in the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Japan in 2005, and Il Dragon e la Farfalla, Arte Contemporanea in Vietnam, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome (2006). She has also featured prominently in many landmark exhibitions that highlight the work of female artists in Asia. DINH Y NHI Lot 480 (b. 1967, Viet Nam) Dinh Y Nhi’s ability to imbue her characters with alertness and extreme emotions has earned her a reputation as one of Vietnam’s most distinctive contemporary painters. Dinh Y Nhi graduated from Hanoi Fine Art University in 1989. Since then, she has held solo and group exhibitions around the world, including Shanghai, Bombay, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Berlin, Tokyo and Hanoi. Her works have been collected by the Singapore Art Museum and the National Art Gallery of Malaysia. DON MARALIT SALUBAYBA Lot 401 (b. 1978, Philippines) graduated from the Philippine High School for the Arts and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines in 2000. He has exhibited at the Ayala Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and internationally at Cochran Hall in Kirkcudbright, Scotland and at the DUMBO Art Center and Goliath Visual Space, both in New York City. He received an Asian Cultural Council grant to participate in a residency program at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City in 2004-2005. He will participate in the Fukuoka Art Museum Residency program this June 2008. EKO NUGROHO Lot 417 (b. 1977, Indonesia) Since his first solo Bercerobong at Cemeti Art House in 2002, Eko Nugroho’s career has spanned a large number of solo and group exhibitions locally as well as around Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan and Europe. Among some of the noted international shows he has participated in recently include the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery, Australia (2006); Dirty Yoga, Taipei Biennale in Taiwan (2006) and recently Wind From the East at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland. Eko is also the founder of Daging Tumbuh, an independent comic project published bi-annually since 2000. ELAINE ROBERTO-NAVAS Lot 452 (b. 1964, Philippines) is a Fine Arts graduate of the University of the Philippines and also a Psychology major from the Ateneo de Manila University. Navas won the Juror’s Choice Award at the Art Association of the Philippines in 1994. She exhibits frequently in Manila and Singapore. FX HARSONO Lot 469 (b. 1949, Indonesia) is one of Indonesia’s most seminal and respected artists. He is a leading light in the development of contemporary Indonesian art, renowned for his powerful socio-political commentaries in response to the New Order era through installations, object based works — using ready-mades and performance. Harsono was part of the Gerakan Seni Rupa Baru (New Art Movement), which introduced new modes of thinking and approach in artmaking. His latest solo exhibition Titik Nyeri (Point of Pain) was held at Galeri Langgeng in Jakarta, in April 2007. Harsono was part of the important regional exhibition, Telah Terbit, at the Singapore Art Museum (2006). GAN SIONG KING Lot 454 (b. 1975, Malaysia) is something of a lone wolf in the Malaysian art scene. Receiving a Diploma in Fine Arts majoring in oil painting from the Malaysian Institute of Art in 1996, he has pursued his artistic development quietly, while working as a production designer for feature films, and arts worker in numerous community based projects. His painstaking, intimate, and often witty paintings seek to express the epic from the banal, and are part of a larger impulse to question and subvert assumptions about artistic practice. Gan has taken part in several exhibitions in Kuala Lumpur including The Painting Show at the Annexe, Central Market (2008), Sama-sama at Lost Generation Space (2007), Seriously Beautiful at Reka Art Space (2004), and 3 Young Contemporaries at Valentine Willie Fine Art (2001), as well as Seni: Homefronts at Singapore Art Museum (2004). GERALDINE G. JAVIER Lot 413 (b. 1970, Philippines) is one of the Philippines’ finest young painters. She took a degree in nursing before becoming an artist. Through her conceptually oriented training at University of the Philippines (UP), Geraldine, like many of her peers, has acquired the predilection for making art which emphasises intellectual engagement over immediate emotional response. She was awarded the Cultural Centre of the Philippines (CCP) 13 Artists Award in 2003. She has since become a leading figure in contemporary Filipino art both on a local and regional level. GERARDO TAN Lot 462 (b. 1960, Philippines) graduated from University of the Philippines with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (1982) and from the State University of New York (Buffalo) with a Master’s degree in Fine Arts (1992). An influential conceptual and installation artist, he is the Dean of the University of the East College of Fine Arts. HONG SEK-CHERN Lot 432 (b. 1967, Singapore) Pushing boundaries in the Chinese ink tradition, Hong Sek Chern has gone beyond shanshui (mountain/water) landscape subjects to interpret the landscapes of urban life, with its construction sites, abandoned spaces and express highways. Interfacing traditional Chinese brush discipline with contemporary interests and expression, Hong represented Singapore in the 25th Sao Paolo Biennale. With a Masters of Art (Goldsmiths College UK, 1998) & MA in Southeast Asian Studies (NUS, Singapore), Hong is a Young Artist Awardee (2000), a President’s Young Talent recipient in 2001, and Grand Prize Winner of the UOB Painting of the Year 2007. JALAINI ABU HASSAN or “Jai” Lot 457 (b. 1963, Malaysia) took his BA in Fine Art at MARA Institute of Technology in 1985, was awarded a Malaysian Federal Scholarship to the UK, where he gained his MA from London’s Slade School of Art. In 1994 he then went on to take his MFA at New York’s Pratt Institute, graduating in 1994. A leading contemporary painter in Malaysia, and an influential teacher, Jai has exhibited in Malaysia, Singapore, the USA, the UK and also in Spain and Iraq, most recently representing Malaysia at the European Association of Fine Art 50th Anniversary Exhibition in Germany.   JAYSON OLIVERIA Lot 461 (b. 1973, Philippines) is renowned for his visual assault on the canvas, disrupting the painted surface and transforming it into a tectonic minefield where pure visual conceits collide. One of the most daring painters of his generation, Oliveria belongs to a group of conceptual painters who received their training from the University of the Philippines in the late 1990s. A member of the Surrounded By Water collective, Oliveria has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Philippines as well as overseas, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. He received the Ateneo Art Award in 2004 and the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award in 2006. JIRAPAT TATSANASOMBOON Lot 487 (b. 1971, Thailand) completed his Masters Degree at Silapakorn University in 1999. He is well known for his pop-style paintings, juxtaposing Western superheroes, Old Master paintings and Hollywood stars with Thai heroes, mythical figures and characters in the Ramakien (Ramayana). Jirapat has participated in numerous exhibitions in Thailand and group shows in Korea (2003), Hong Kong (2005) and most recently in USA at the Asian Cultural Center, New York (2006). JOSE LEGASPI Lot 479 (b. 1959, Philippines) majored in biology and zoology before becoming an artist. Legaspi has exhibited widely in the Philippines as well as Hong Kong and USA. Some of the noted exhibitions he has participated in include the inaugural Singapore Biennale (2006), the 8th Istanbul Biennale in Turkey (2003), 4th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery (2002) and 15 TRACKS: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art exhibited at Tama Art University and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan (2002-2003). JUAN ALCAZAREN Lot 456 (b. 1960, Philippines) graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Landscape Architecture. Alcazaren has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the Philippines. He was a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award in 2000. JUANITO TORRES Lot 431 (b. 1977, Philippines) graduated from Philippine High School of the Arts and received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art, majoring in Painting from the University of the Philippines (UP). Since graduation, he has held three solo exhibitions and participated in several group exhibitions around Manila. KAWAYAN DE GUIA Lot 411 (b. 1979, Philippines) is fast becoming one of Philippines’ bright young stars, with a few solo local exhibitions and several successful group shows overseas, in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan. The son of a German stained-glass artist and one of the Philippines’ most renowned filmmakers, his art education was an informal if organic one. Largely a a self-taught artist, he grew up within Baguio’s close knit artistic community which includes stellar names such as Ben Cabrera, the late Santiago Bose and the late Roberto Villanueva. He won the Juror’s Choice at the ASEAN Art Awards in Bangkok in 2004. KIKO ESCORA Lot 486 (b. 1970, Philippines) is one of the most popular names in the Philippines contemporary art world. Set amidst the modish cosmopolitan scene, his drawings in charcoal are are often portraits of characters in his social milieu, expressing the pressures of urban living: angst, loneliness and ennui. His career has spanned numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and abroad, namely Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea and France. He was a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award in 2003. KOW LEONG KIANG Lot 448 (b. 1970, Malaysia) has garnered much attention and success since winning the Grand Prize at the Philip Morris ASEAN Art Awards in 1998. His depictions of nostalgic rural scenes of east coast Malaysia are captured through a masterful feather-light rendering. In 2004 he was an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Centre in the USA. KRITSANA CHAIKITWATTANA Lot 430 (b. 1977, Thailand) is one of Thailand’s most talented young artists. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree from Chulalongkorn University in 1998 and proceeded to attain a Masters Degree from Silapakorn University in 2002. His latest solo exhibition entitled Venuses of Bangkok focused on the strength of Thai women and their expanding roles. The artist pays homage to Thai women in today’s society. Since graduation, Kritsana has participated in several exhibitions in Thailand as well as in Korea (2003), Spain (2005), and Taiwan (2006). LE QUOC VIET Lot 405 (b. 1972, Viet Nam) Born in Ha Tay, Le Quoc Viet was trained in Nom, the traditional language originating from ancient Han, and calligraphy in a pagoda in Thanh Hoa province. He continued his studies at the Hanoi University of Fine Arts and was a researcher of Vietnamese ancient arts at the Fine Arts Institute in Hanoi. He had his first solo exhibition in New York City and has since exhibited around the world, namely in Italy, England, Canada, the United States as well as Vietnam. Major recent group exhibitions include The Ten Courts of the Kings of Hell at Bankside Gallery, London (2005) , and Lotus Flower — Art From Vietnam, which toured institutions in Finland (2005), and Il Dragon e la Farfalla, Arte Contemporanea in Vietnam, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome (2006). LE QUANG HA Lot 425 (b. 1963, Viet Nam) graduated from the Hanoi Industrial College of Fine Arts (1992). Renowned for his satirical commentaries on contemporary Vietnam culture, Ha’s work is regarded as controversial in his home country for hitting a few home truths. Le Quang Ha has participated in several exhibitions in Vietnam. He has also taken part in shows in Germany (1992, 1996, 1997), China (1993), Switzerland (1996), Hong Kong (1997), the USA (1998), Korea (1999), Great Britain (2005), and Thailand (2006). His paintings are in the permanent collections of Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan and Singapore Art Museum. LEONILO DOLORICON Lot 429 (b. 1957, Philippines) graduated from the University of the Philippines (UP) with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, majoring in Visual Communications (1991) and a Master’s degree in Philippine Studies (1994). A Social Realist painter, printmaker and award-winning graphic artist, he is recognized for his sharp visual allegories of prevailing Filipino social realities. He is a regular contributor to various dailies and alternative people’s publications, such as Pinoy Weekly. He also served the University of the Philippines as a faculty member and as the former Dean of the UP College of Fine Arts from 1999-2001. LOUIE CORDERO Lot 419 (b. 1978, Philippines) majored in Painting at University of Philippines (UP) College of Fine Art. His work stands on a unique threshold between street art and fine art, irreverently combining disparate graphic sources, heavily influenced by a distinct brand of pinoy (Filipino) pop and Western media. Since 2004, Cordero has been actively showing in the United States, participating in group as well as two-man exhibitions (with artists such as Robert Gutierrez and Heyd Fontenont) in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles mainly. His most recent solo exhibition, Delubyo was held at Giant Robots, Los Angeles in July 2007. Cordero was recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award in 2006. LYRA ABUEG GARCELLANO Lot 463 (b. 1972, Philippines) graduated from Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (1994) and from the University of Philippines (UP) with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (2000). She is an accomplished illustrator of children’s books and is the author of a comic strip, Atomo and Weboy in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (since 1999). She has exhibited her mixed media works extensively, questioning ‘universal truths’ by investigating cultural stereotypes and the limits and boundaries defined by urban living. In 2006, she received the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award. MANIT SRIWANICHPOOM Lots 443 (b.1961, Thailand) is one of Thailand’s leading photographers. His work has appeared in a number of prominent international exhibitions around the world such as Cities on the Move, curated by Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich-Obrist, which toured to Austria, France, Finland, Thailand and the UK (1997-1999); Asian Traffic in Sydney, Singapore, Shanghai, Shenzhen (2004- 2006) as well as Bangkok: Bangkok in Belgium and Spain (2005). In 2003, he participated in the 50th Venice Biennale, representing Thailand. Sriwanichpoom was included in Blink 2002, a showcase of 100 of the world’s most exciting contemporary photographers. He is the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award in Japan. MARIANO CHING Lot 414 (b. 1973, Philippines) graduated from the University of Philippines (UP) College of Fine Arts. He is a founding member of Surrounded By Water. His works are enriched by his training as a graphic artist and by his experience growing up in Manila — comic-inspired images of city living and the urban landscape. From 2002-2004, he received the Monbusho Research Scholarship and studied printmaking, specializing in Japanese woodblock prints, at the Kyoto City University of Fine Arts. His works have been exhibited in the Philippines, France, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the United States, and have been acquired by public collections such as the Singapore Art Museum. He received the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award in 2006. MAYA MUNOZ Lots 449 (b. 1972, Philippines) was a former student at the San Jose University at Silicon Valley, California, USA, majoring in painting and three-dimensional space design. The kaleidoscope of subjects and inspirations in her paintings originate from her time travelling around the Philippines, her homeland which she missed for 20 years until 2001. She has exhibited widely in the Philippines, participating in group shows and solo exhibitions around Manila. She was one of the 3 winners of the Ateneo Art Award in 2006. MELATI SURYODARMO Lot 470 (b. 1969, Indonesia) graduated from the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, Braunschweig in Germany where she studied under iconic performance artist Marina Abramovic. Some of the recent international exhibitions and performance festivals she has participated in include Erotic Body at Venice Biennale Dance Festival, Italy (2007); Wind from the East — Perspectives on Asian Contemporary Art at Museum of Contemporary Art, KIASMA, Finland (2007); Loneliness in the Boundaries, a solo exhibition at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2006); International Performance Festival Salzau, Schloss Salzau, Germany (2005) ; 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival in Toronto, Canada (2004); Recycling the Future at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). MELLA JAARSMA Lot 444 (b. 1960, the Netherlands) Mella Jaarsma has lived and worked in Yogyakarta, Indonesia for over 20 years. Some of her recent shows include De meeloper/ the follower, a solo exhibition at Artoteek at The Hague, The Netherlands (2006); Fashion Accidentally at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei (2007); Saigon Open City in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam (2006); Wherever we go Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy (2006); Yokohama 2005: International Triennale for Contemporary Art, Japan (2005) and Go Inside, Tirana Biennale, Albania (2005). She was artist-in-residence at Studio 106, Singapore and Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia in 2003 and 2004 respectively. She is also cofounder of one of Indonesia’s most influential galleries, Cemeti Art House. MICHAEL SHAOWANASAI Lot 471 (b. 1964, Thailand) is perhaps Thailand’s most provocative and openly gay artist and actor. He graduated from the School of Law at Chulalongkorn University before pursuing a Bachelors in Fine Art at San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and a Masters in Fine Art from the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a founding member of Project 304, a Bangkok based contemporary art group. He has held solo exhibitions at Open Art Space in Bangkok, Fujikawa Gallery in Osaka, Gallery 4A in Sydney and Ottawa Art Gallery. His film and video works include a feature film, The Adventures of Iron Pussy (2003), a spoof of Thai movie musicals and melodramas of the 1960s and ‘70s codirected with Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This film was screened at Tokyo International Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival, as well for a limited commercial run in Bangkok. MOELYONO Lot 483 (b. 1957, Indonesia) artist and writer, also fondly known as “Pak Moel guru nggambar”, graduated from Indonesia Art Instititute (ISI) in Yogyakarta in 1985. He relocated to a small village in East Java after graduation, teaching art to children and creating powerful works responding to local political issues. A highlyrespected figure in the Indonesian art scene, international exhibitions he has participated in include the 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial in Queensland Art Gallery, Australia (1999) as well as Art from Southeast Asia 1997- Glimpses Into the Future at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1997). MONTRI Lot 441 (b. 1975, Thailand) graduated from Chulalongkorn University. Working across various media such as installation, costumes and video, he is perhaps best known for his performance work and performance photography, which fuses and blurs the boundaries between art and fashion photography. His work has been seen in numerous exhibitions across Asia and Europe. In 2003, he represented Thailand at the 50th Venice Biennale. NATEE UTARIT Lot 445, 465 (b. 1970, Thailand) graduated from Silpakorn University with a BFA in Fine Art in 1992, majoring in painting, sculpture and graphic art. He has exhibited widely around Southeast Asia holding regular solo exhibitions in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Natee has participated in ARS 01 in Helsinki (2001) and the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Queensland, Australia in 1999. Utarit’s work is in public collections such as Queensland Art Gallery Australia, Singapore Art Museum, LaSalle SIA College of the Arts Singapore, Fine Art Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam and Canvas Foundation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has also worked on public commissions such as the Metropolitan Hotel in Bangkok. NATTHAWUT SING-THONG Lot 460 (b. 1978, Thailand) studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiangmai University and graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. He has had two solo exhibitions, Recent Works (2004) and A Black Horse in the New Moon Night (2005) at Numthong Gallery, and another solo The Moon at Bangkok University Gallery (2005). His paintings are inspired by the movement of material and the imaginative potential of the form of things. NGUYEN MANH HUNG Lot 410 (b. 1976, Viet Nam) Humour figures as an important element in the multi-disciplinary works of Nguyen Manh Hung. Experimenting in media as varied as sound, painting, video and performance, Nguyen delivers funny yet emphatic commentaries on the conflicting impulses of the Vietnamese as the country embraces capitalism and its attendant complications. A graduate of the Hanoi University of Fine Arts (2002), he has since exhibited regularly in Hanoi as well as participated in performance art festivals in Japan and Taiwan. He was also a grant recipient of the Ford Foundation and Dong Son Today Foundation in 2005 and 2006 respectively. NGUYEN MINH THANH Lot 403, 437 (b. 1971, Viet Nam) is a leading artist among the younger generation of Vietnamese artists. He is an active supporter of emerging artists through his curatorial and educational initiatives. Born in Ha Noi, he was a graduate of the Ha Noi Fine Arts College in 1996. Outside of his paintings, his well-received performance and installation pieces have been shown at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial at Queensland Art Gallery, Australia (1999) and at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan. Nguyen Minh Thanh’s works are privately collected in Australia, Bermuda, France, Germany, Holland, Thailand and the United States. He has been an honored recipient of the Vietnamese and Swedish Culture Foundation Grant, Visiting Arts/Delfina International Fellowship and ACC scholarship for residencies in Tokyo and New York.   NGUYEN THI CHAU GIANG Lot 438 (b. 1975, Viet Nam) majored in oil painting at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts. Her surreal portraits capture the varied and complex notions of feminine identities in contemporary Vietnamese society, allowing the intensity of the sitters’ gaze to confront and articulate their strength, anxiety or struggle. She has held three solo exhibitions to date in Hanoi and Japan as well as participated in group shows in the United States, United Kingdom, and Korea, as well as Thailand. She was named one the top ten ‘Young Artists’ of Ho Chi Minh City in 1997 and won first prize at the Young Artist Concourse, organised by the French embassy and the Vietnamese Fine Art Association in 2001. Thi Chau Giang is also an accomplished writer who has published two volumes of short stories and novels as well as four screenplays. NINDITYO ADIPURNOMO Lot 407 (b. 1961, Indonesia) Born in Semarang, Nindityo Adipurnomo trained at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta and State Academy of Fine Arts in the Netherlands. Since then, he has participated in several international exhibitions, including the 2nd Asia-Pacific Triennial (1996), Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions (a touring exhibition to New York, Vancouver and major urban centers in Asia, 1996-1997), and Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial II (2002). He is also co-founder of Cemeti Art House, which has been a driving force in the Indonesian art community since its inception in 1988. NITI WATTUYA Lot 472 (b.1944, Thailand) A self-taught artist, Niti Wattuya began sketching at a young age. Growing up beside the Chao Phraya River, the river has been great inspiration to him in his four decades of painting. He has participated in local and international exhibitions such as Change and Modernism in Thai Art (1991) at Canberra’s Contemporary Art Space, Australia, the Gwangju Biennale (2000), Ancient Voices (2003) at Numthong Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. Besides painting, Niti Wattuya writes poetry and observations relating to his life and thoughts on art. He has written four books. He currently lives and works in Ayutthaya, Thailand. PANDE KETUT TAMAN Lot 409 (b. 1970, Indonesia) was born in Peliatan. He studied at the Intermediate School of Art (SMSR) in Denpasar and graduated from the indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta in 1998. He was a finalist in the Philip Morris Art Awards from 1997-1999 and received the Lempad Prize from Sanggar Dewata in 2000. PATRICIA EUSTAQUIO Lot 412 (b. 1978, Philippines) graduated magna cum laude from the University of Philippines (UP) College of Fine Art in 2001 and received the UPCFA’s Dominador Castañeda Award for Best Thesis. A practicing artist as well as a fashion designer, Eustaquio’s multi-disciplinary conceptually based work — often combining painting with ready-made objects and sculpture — are sensual and deeply feminine. Her work draws inspiration from memory, music and literature and the experience of the everyday. Eustaquio has exhibited widely in the Philippines. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Ayala Museum in 2003, followed by Swine, her second solo at Green Papaya Art Projects in 2004. Patricia Eustaquio is also the President of the Young Designers Guild of the Philippines. PHAM NGOC DUONG Lot 416 (b. 1976, Viet Nam) graduated from the Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2001. He has since created emotionally poignant works that address the conflicts between modernity and traditional culture in his painting, installation, performance and video work. In 2005, he was the artist in residence at Cave Art Space in Brooklyn, New York. Pham Ngoc Duong has held solo exhibitions in Hanoi as well as participated in group shows in Tokyo, Berlin and Paris. PHUAN THAI MENG Lot 435 (b. 1974, Malaysia) received his Diploma in Fine Art majoring in painting from the Malaysia Institute of Art in 1996. Thai Meng has been exhibiting regularly since 1995. His most recent exhibitions include: Let Arts Move You project with KTM commuter trains (Production Manager for KPS - Koletif Pembangun Seni / Collecive Art Developer), Mind, Body & Soul 2006 at Wei- Ling Gallery, Crowds at Reka Art Space in 2005 and 3 Young Contemporaries 2004 at VWFA Gallery. Thai Meng was a finalist in the 2006 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong, and has won the Juror’s Choice Award from the Philip Morris Malaysia — Asean Art Awards (2000). He is one of the founding members of the artist collective Rumah Air Panas (RAP). POPOK TRI WAHYUDI Lot 418 (b. 1973, Indonesia) Acerbic, pop and refreshingly witty, Popok Tri Wahyudi’s work is vocal and bold, raising satirical comments on the country’s current social and political situation, and voicing concern about the structure of strength and power in the lives of Indonesians. Inspired by local comics and the urban landscape, he has gained a reputation for himself as one of the emerging forces of the contemporary Indonesian art scene. He is one of the founding members of Apotik Komik, the group responsible for the Public Comic Art Project titled Sakit Berlanjut where a series of cardboard figures drawn with Indian ink were nailed along the walls in the city of Yogyakarta in July, 1999. PUTU SUTAWIJAYA Lots 473, 474, 475, 476 (b. 1971, Indonesia) was born in Bali, and pursued his studies at the Art Faculty of the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI), Yogyakarta, graduating in 1998. The artist is the recipient of the Philip Morris Top 10 Asean Artists Award (1999) and the Best Fine Art Award from the Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta at the 11th Dies Nathalis. Putu Sutawijaya’s works have been exhibited throughout Indonesia. His paintings have also been shown in London, Basel, Chicago, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. RODEL TAPAYA-GARCIA Lot 439 (b. 1980, Philippines) is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts of the University of Philippines (UP). Tapaya has also taken intensive studies at the Parsons School of Design in New York and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland. His unique style and humorous interpretation of life has made him a fast rising favorite among collectors. He was the recipient of the grand prize of the Nokia Art Awards as well as the Shell National Students Art Competition in 2001. RONALD VENTURA Lot 415 (b. 1973, Philippines) graduated from University of Santo Tomas Philippines. Since his first solo exhibition in 2001, the artist has attracted attention for his magnificent ivory-skinned nudes set against urban decay. The artist’s career has spanned a large number of solo exhibitions and group shows in the Philippines and abroad including the Asian International Art Exhibition at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (2004) and the International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibit in Taipei (1999). He was awarded the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award in 2003. S. TEDDY D. Lots 458 (b. 1970, Indonesia) trained at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. One of the leading artists of his generation, he has garnered acclaim through his witty multi-disciplinary works. He has participated in important international group shows such as the 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia (1999); AWAS! Recent Art from Indonesia which travelled to major institutions in Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and Germany (1999-2002); Under Construction: A New Dimension of Asian Art in Tokyo, Japan (2003) Equatorial Heat, Sichuan Art Museum (2004) and most recently Thermocline: New Waves in Asian Art at ZKM in Germany (2007). SARA NUYTEMANS Lot 442 (b. 1970, Belgium) graduated from the University of Delft with a Master of Science in Industrial Design Engineering (1997) and later from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcaelona, Spain with a Masters in Digital Arts (2001). Her video-installations often incorporate kinetic or interactive elements. She was one of the participating artists in Cemeti Art House’s Landing Soon artist-in-residency project with Artoteek Den Haag in 2007. Her collaboration with Arya Pandjalu was part of INTERFACE at Open Space in Vienna, Austria in 2008. Nuytemans solo work has been exhibited widely in the Netherlands and Spain. STEFAN BUANA Lot 426 (b. 1971, Indonesia) studied at the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) Yogyakarta from 1993 to 2002. He is continuously developing new techniques and exploring materials while honing his signature rough and weathered style. Stefan’s most recent solo show at Taman Budaya Yogyakarta appropriated the broken blade motif of traditional Batik to describe destruction in the wake of tsunami, earthquake and volcanic eruption. TANG DA WU Lot 482 (b. 1943, Singapore) is one of Singapore’s most respected and beloved contemporary artists. Since returning to Singapore from London’s Goldsmiths College in 1988, the artist has invigorated the regional art scene with his social and environmental-themed art performances and installations. He is also known for founding of crucial Singaporean independent artists’ intiative, the Artists Village. He was awarded the 10th Fukuoka Asian Arts & Culture Prize in 1999. Tang represented Singapore at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. TAWAN WATTUYA Lot 422 (b. 1973) graduated from Silpakorn University in Bangkok. His satirical portraits depicting Thai people and popular Thai icons in watercolour comment on the ills of Thai culture, revealing a society with a tendency to conform and the power of mass media. He has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions around Bangkok. He recently held a solo exhibition entitled Siamese Freaks: A modern courtyard of miracles! in Bangkok. TAWATCHAI PUNTUSAWASDI Lot 466 (b. 1971, Thailand) Since his debut solo show in 1996, Tawatchai Puntusawasdi has been exploring the relationships between two- and threedimensional objects and visual perception. His recent solo exhibitions include Flat Perception at Numthong Gallery, Bangkok (2005); DIM at Chulalongkorn Art (2003); A Village among Mountains at Chiang Mai Art Museum (2001), which explores how perspective changes when ideas are transferred from the drawing board to models, as well as a series of slate drawings of dwellings and Thai icons. In 2003, Puntusawasdi was selected to represent Thailand at the 50th Venice Biennale. He also exhibited in Zones of Contact, Biennale of Sydney in 2006. His works are in the Singapore Art Museum. THAWEESAK SRITHONGDEE Lot 424 (b. 1970, Thailand) graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Silapakorn University. He is known for his pop-erotic painting and has participated in several group exhibitions in Thailand. He has held solo shows in the Netherlands (2000), Germany (2000), the United Kingdom (2001) and Singapore (2001, 2003, 2004). He received a residency award at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan in 2005 and participated in the Fukuoka Triennale in the same year. His work is part of the Singapore Art Museum and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum collections. THERDKIAT WANGWATCHARAKUL Lot 434 (b. 1971, Thailand) graduated with a Masters in Painting from Silapakorn University in 2003. He is known for his paintings on aluminium sheets, depicting the struggles of urban life in contemporary Thailand, Therdkiat has participated in several exhibitions in Thailand, as well as in Singapore (2001), Japan (2001), the Netherlands (2002), Korea (2003), and Spain (2005). He was awarded the Jurors’ Choice Prize in the ASEAN Art Awards in 2000 and won the second prize at the National Art Competition in Thailand in 2002. TISNA SANJAYA Lot 406 (b. 1958, Indonesia) received a Bachelor of Fine Art in 1994, and an MA in 1998, from the Freikunst HBK in Braunschweig, Germany. He teaches at the Bandung Institute of Technology and is a central figure in the Bandung art scene. Working across disciplines, his etchings and lithographs are dense with images drawn from traditional Sundanese theater and western art. Tisna’s work comments on current socio-political developments in Indonesia. In 2003, he was selected to represent Indonesia at the 50th Venice Biennale. His work is in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Singapore Art Museum; and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, among others. Tisna Sanjaya currently lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia. TRUONG TAN Lot 436 (b. 1963, Viet Nam) Born in Hanoi, Truong Tan graduated from the Hanoi Fine Arts College in 1998, and later became a lecturer there when the school became the Hanoi Fine Art University. His work has travelled to the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, England and Thailand. He is collected internationally and has been invited to the Liverpool Biennale 2002; House of World Culture, Berlin; Museum for Lackunst in Munster, Germany; Museum Boijmans Van Beauningan, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Fujita Art Museum, Tokyo. UGO UNTORO Lots 485 (b. 1970, Indonesia) graduated from the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) in Yogyakarta. One of Indonesia’s key contemporary artists, Untoro has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions around Indonesia. His most recent solo exhibition, Poem of Blood was held at the National Gallery of Indonesia (Galeri Nasional Indonesia) in April 2007. Untoro was one of the five Juror’s Choice winners at the 1998 Philip Morris Indonesian Art Awards. VASAN SITTHIKET Lot 427, 428 (b. 1957, Thailand) is Thailand’s most active and well-known artist-poet-activist. Since his first exhibition in 1984, Vasan has experimented with various media such as oils, tempera painting, sculpture, woodwork, video and installations. He received the Silpathorn Award for visual arts in 2007, sharing the honour with Rirkrit Tiravanija and Pinaree Sanpitak. WINNER JUMALON Lot 484 (b. 1984, Philippines) graduated from University of Philippines (UP) College of Fine Arts and was one of the top 5 finalists at the Philip Morris ASEAN Art Awards Competition (2005). Since graduation, Winner has participated in a number of group exhibitions locally and has begun exhibiting around Southeast Asia. He has had two overseas solo exhibitions — in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2006) and Jakarta, Indonesia (2007). WIRE ROMMEL TUAZON Lot 464 (b.1973, Philippines) graduated from the University of Philippines (UP) with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art (1999). He is one of the founders of the artist collective Surrounded by Water (1998-2004). One of the leading young painters of his generation, his career has spanned numerous exhibitions either as a solo artist or as part of the SBW collective. Some of the noted international shows Tuazon has participated in include Under Construction in Tokyo (2002), and Pain & Pleasure at 24 HR Art in Darwin (2003). He received the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award in 2003 and the Japan Foundation Asia Center Residency Project at Ashiya City Museum of Art (Japan) in 2001. YASMIN B. SISON-CHING Lot 451 (b. 1972, Philippines) holds a degree in Humanities as well as a degree in Fine Art from the University of Philippines (UP). One of the founding members of Surrounded By Water, she has been exhibiting in Manila since the mid 90’s and her works have traveled to a number of exhibitions in Singapore and the region over the past couple of years. She received the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Thirteen Artists Award in 2006. YEE I-LANN Lot 450 (b. 1971, Malaysia) was one of the youngest participants of the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia in 1999. She received her BA in Visual Arts from the University of South Australia, Adelaide. Most recently she has participated in Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves at ZKM Arts and Media Centre, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007), New Nature, Govett-Brewster Gallery, Auckland, the Singapore Biennale (2006), Noordelicht Photofestival: Another Asia, Netherlands (2006), and Contemporary Commonwealth at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2006). Her works are in the permanent collections of Mori Art Museum, Japan, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia and National Art Gallery, Malaysia. YUNIZAR Lot 455 (b. 1971, Indonesia) is a rising star in the region. He has held a number of solo exhibitions in major galleries in Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia and exhibits widely together with other members of the Jendela Group in shows around Indonesia and recently in Kuala Lumpur. His works are charming in their childlike simplicity, relying on mark-making, doodles and organic forms. At times raw and intense, and in others playful and carefree, Yunizar’s paintings reflect the artist’s fascination with nature’s forces, the Earth and human activity.