Setiawan Sabana, born 1951 in Bandung, West Java, began studying printmaking in 1972 and became fascinated by paper as a medium of expression in its own right. He graduated from the Institut Technologi Bandung (ITB) in 1977, and two years later spent a year as artist in residence at the Victorian College of the Art in Australia. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1981 and also did studies at Northern Illinois, USA, from where graduated in 1982.
Now Setiawan Sabana works as lecturer in printmaking, papermaking, and Art History at the Art Department, Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). In 1989 he researched contemporary Japanese printmaking in Japan. He is currently doing research on contemporary art in Southeast Asia. Since 1978 he has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Indonesia, Southeast Asian countries, Japan, Korea, Australia, Jordan, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Turkey.
Recent Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2000: ¡°Waas¡± Gallery Hidayat Bandung, Indonesia
1996 : Cemeti Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1994 : Hidayat Gallery, Bandung, Indonesia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2003 : CP Open Biennale 2003, National Galery, Jakarta
2002 : Imagining the Book, Biblio Alexandria, Egypt
2001 : Bandung Art Event, Griya Seni Popo Iskandar, Bandung.
Contemporay Craft Exhibition, National Gallery, Jakarta
2000 : 15th Asia International Art Exhibition, Tainan, Taiwan.
1999 : Art Exhibition of 10 Bandung Artists, Fukuoka, Japan
¡°Media within Media¡±, Installation Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia.
14th Asian International Art Exhibition, Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Print and Drawing Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan.
1998 : Traveling Exhibition ¡°Signifying Decorativeness¡± (Indonesian-Australian Artists), Yogya, Denpasar, Bandung, and Jakarta, Indonesia
: Collaborative Event: Urbanization, 6 Artists from Southeast Asia, BPI Hall -ITB, Bandung, Indonesia
: ¡°Modernities and Memories¡±, Dolmabace Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
: The 13th Asian International Art Exhibition, The National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1997 : ¡°Modernities and Memories¡±, Venice Biennale, 1997, Italy
: Indonesian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark
: International Artists Workshop, Derby, West Australia
: International Art Exhibition: Korea, China, Japan, Indonesia at Kyungsung University, Pusan, South Korea
1996 : Contemporary Indonesian Art Exhibition, Gothaer Kunstforum, Koln, Germany
: The Spiritual and the Social: Nine Artists from Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, a travelling exhibition in Queensland, Australia
: 11th Asian International, Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, Manila, the Philippines, Contemporary Indonesian Art Exhibition: ¡°From Script to Abstraction¡±, Jordan National Gallery Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan.