About Me
Anas Etan is a contemporary artist, his artistic grounding is inner experience, imaginary, and surrealistic. His trademark consists of rhythmic lines that vibrate between playing symbols with hidden characters.
Anas was born in East Java, Indonesia (1976), and graduated from the Surabaya Fine Art School. In 1998 Anas relocated to Ubud, Bali—a village internationally known as Bali's traditional and contemporary center of art. During this time, he focused on painting and drawing as a means to express his inner experience of this new environment and its culture.
While in Bali, Anas started Kaleboe, a collective art studio, participated in several Indonesian-based group exhibitions, and was selected to represent Indonesian contemporary artists in events in the Netherlands and Malaysia. Anas' work has also been included in Masterpiece and Borobudur Art Auction Contemporary Southeast Asian Art catalogs, and private collections in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
In 2009 Anas began BLEDOG Art Space with two enthusiastic Balinese architects and an another Javanese artist to give local and international artists from Ubud's growing community a chance to exhibit cutting edge, non-commercially based artwork.
In 2012 Anas relocated to Southern California, eventually moving to Oakland in 2018—where he is fusing a new perspective of his art through the lens of local underground electronic music culture.
Across the globe, humans race and compete with each other to develop new technologies for a better, easier way of life. Throughout time technological evolution has changed how people think, behave, and communicate. Consciously or not, we are either controlling or being controlled by a silent but ubiquitous digital robotic system present in our lives today.
Through this dynamic, my artwork interprets and expresses our mutating human character as mechano-robotic monsters and/or Earth aliens building a neo techno-global civilization.
ART
STATEMENT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
* THE HIDDEN FACE,
IAMA (International Art Museum Of America). San Francisco, CA. USA.
* PRANK SPRING, Field Day. Oakland, CA. USA.
2016
* SCREEN THEMES,
Local Craft. San Francisco, CA, USA.
2014
* SCROLLING ROLLS,
Blood Orange Info Shop, Riverside,CA.
2008
* TUBUH TANPA BATAS ( BODY WITHOUT LIMITS ) , Puri Art Gallery, Surabaya, IDN.
2006
* BLACK IN THE DARKNESS,
Sika Gallery, Ubud, Bali, IDN.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
* STILL HERE, Urge Palette, Riverside, CA.
2023
* POCKET SIZE, Junior Center, Oakland, CA.
2022
* WHAT THE FUCK ! , UMA Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2017
* RITME OF BAMBOO,
International Art Residency Program, Qian Yang Bamboo Museum.
Shuang Xi, Gutian, Fujian, CHINA.
* ANAS ETAN & KENYUT DJUNAIDI,
Cata Odata Gallery. Ubud, Bali, IDN.
2016
* COFFIN BREAK,
Urge Palette, Riverside, CA, USA.
* TWO ARTIST SHOW,
Urge Palette, Riverside, CA, USA.
2015
* SATURATION FESTIVAL
(Art Exhibition and Live Painting),
Back to the Grind, Riverside,CA USA.
2014
* DUAL SHOW,
Pixels Club & Gallery. Riverside, CA, USA.
2012
* VOYAGE ( Curator & Artist )
Bledog Art Space. Ubud, Bali, IDN.
2011
* VIDEO WORK #2
CCCL ( French Cultural Center ) Surabaya, IDN.
* KOLABORASI,
CCCL ( French Cultural Center ) Surabaya, IDN.
2010
* EAST MEETS WEST,
Pure Art Space Jakarta, IDN.
* OPEN SPACE,
Bledog Art Space,Ubud, Bali, IDN.
2009
* BIENNALE JATIM #3, Orasis Gallery, Surabaya, IDN.
* PESTA GAGASAN ( PARTY OF IDEAS )
Ars Longa, Yogyakarta, Java, IDN.
* FOOT BRIDGE, Gaya Gallery, Ubud, Bali, IDN.
* ENCOUNTER, Hanna Art Space, Ubud, Bali, IDN.
2008
* CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR,
Dunia Seni Lukis Gallery, KL, Malaysia.
* MOVEMENT, Pure Art Space Jakarta, IDN.
* KOMEDI PUTAR ( CAROUSEL ),
Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Java, IDN.
* PADA SEBUAH PESTA (AT THE PARTY),
V-Art Gallery Yogayakarta, Java, IDN.
2007
* SANUR ART FESTIVAL,
Darga Gallery, Sanur, Bali, IDN.
* GLOBAL WARMING KUNSETRA,
GWK Jimbaran, Bali, IDN.
2006
* ART FAIR JATIM, Surabaya Art Center, Java, IDN.
* ART FOR JOGJA, Balai Pemuda, Surabaya, IDN.
* POST C-ART, Lapaste Hotel, Surabaya, IDN.
2004
* ASIAN ART5 SELECTION,
Bremmer Gallery, Tilburg, Netherlands.
* BIG QUESTION MARK,
Nadya Gallery, Ubud, Bali, IDN.
* HRLEWPRBVHBLSSP…
Rumah Seni Muara, Yogyakarta, IDN.
2003
* TEMAN ( FRIEND ) He-Ca Art, Ede, Netherlands.
* SOUL OF INTERIOR, Garden Hotel, Surabaya, IDN.
* OUR NEWS TODAY, Raos Gallery, Batu, Malang, IDN.
2001
* SENI KUMPUL SENI ( ART TO ART )
Nadya Gallery, Ubud, Bali, IDN.
2000
* TERJEBAK ( TRAPPED )
Mustika Hotel, Tuban, East Java, IDN.
1998
* BEBAS BICARA ( FREE SPEECH ) Balai Pemuda, Surabaya, IDN.
