Dito Yuwono (Dito)
Yogjakarta
Cemeti Institute for Art & Society
Dito Yuwono is an artist and curator focusing on collectivity, personal history as part of the central historical narrative, and collective memory of a place. His work often addresses social issues by producing site-specific work, interventional projects, video, photography, and audio-visual Installation. In the past five years, Dito did numerous residencies as part of his site-specific artistic practice at institutions such as The Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Darwin – Australia; Ruangrupa – Jakarta; Jatiwangi Art Factory – Indonesia; GOLEB & Het Wilde Weten – The Netherlands; TIFA Working Studios– India; and Collectif BONUS-Nantes. His work has been exhibited in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art – United States, Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival 2017, JIPFEST 2022, OUR Museum National Taiwan Institute of Arts, among others.He was the curator of the international Jogja Fotografis Festival 2023 titled “Mengukur Panjang dan Lebar Sebuah Bingkai” (A Strategy to Measure a Frame) in Indonesia, and recently he was appointed as one of the directors of Cemeti Instute for Art and Society (Indonesia).