About

An artist and printmaker by profession, Irfan Hendrian has consistently explored and pushed paper’s formal qualities as well as its sculptural potential. In his hands, paper is no longer merely a planar support for representation; it becomes both pigment and canvas, shaped into objects and installations which have grown in intricacy and scale over the course of Hendrian’s artistic practice.

Hendrian’s work has of late taken a more personal turn, reflecting on his ambivalent identity and position as a Chinese Indonesian. Hendrian identified as ‘Indonesian’ and Javanese throughout most of his …