About The Artist
Ipung Purnomo is an Indonesian artist.He was born in 1974.He has had passion for painting since he was very young.His early works were mainly portraits and landscapes.He had his first solo painting exhibition when he was in a college.He lived in Yogyakarta from 2001-2005.He ran a painting studio there.He traveled to some cities in Indonesia to receive trainings from some professional artists.
He currently lives in Kediri, East Java. He has participated in national and international exhibitions.Few exhibitions were held in Indonesia,and some exhibitions were held overseas,such as in the Netherlands,Italy,Columbia,the USA,Japan,the UK,Vietnam,France,Poland,Spain, Germany, Rome, Austria and Scotland.His works have been included in international publications : International Contemporary Artists,International Contemporary Masters,and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal.He won a Museum Award from Musee de Peinture de Saint-Frajou,France. He wrote a book "The artistic glimpse of the east" in 2018, which has been translated to eight languages. He was selected for the artist's residency program at Kersan art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2019. Please visit my instagram account to see more works, type : ipung1448.