BIO

Elang Sutajaya (Yogyakarta, 1987) is an Indonesian artist who can be described as a visual storyteller. The artist grew up with pop culture influence, such as cartoons, as can be appreciated in his anthropomorphic aviator rabbits, the protagonists of the artist's paintings. With these cartoon characters, Elang's wish is to show how the playful environment of the children's world can inspire the creation of different ways and styles in painting. The artist has created a character inherent in his paintings, "The Aviator", the Flying Rabbit, as a metaphor for human dreams and wishes.

With a vibrant color palette and a large variety of scenes, Elang’s paintings portray beady-eyed rabbits who are able to transmit emotions to the viewers through their gaze. In these bright and fantastical stories, the viewer can appreciate the influences of pop art, hyperrealism and an age-old narrative tradition that characterizes the artist’s paintings.