Born in Sabah, Malaysia in 1969, Bayu Utomo Radjikin graduated from Universiti Teknologi MARA, majoring in sculpture. Over the past 15 years, he has held five solo exhibitions and participated in over fifty various group exhibitions. He has won several awards such as the Young Contemporaries, One World No War, Salon Malaysia, and the Philip Morris Art awards. He is also one of the founders of Matahati, an art collective formed in 1989.The introspective manner in which the artist chose to portray himself clearly reflects the intensity in the attitude taken towards his work. This is a very dark portrait where he has effectively used chiaroscuro technique to reflect the intensity of his character and the seriousness he projects towards his art.
