Irfan Hendrian has consistently explored and pushed paper’s formal qualities, as well as its sculptural potential. In his hands, paper is no longer merely a planar support for representation; it becomes both pigment and canvas, shaped into objects and installations that have grown in intricacy and scale over the course of Hendrian’s artistic practice.

Hendrian values efficient, logical, and utilitarian modes of thinking and acting which are reflected directly in his work. Collage provides a methodology that maintains Hendrian’s purist approach to materials, utilizing paper as a raw material with sculptural capabilities. Rather than creating images, he believes that through composing a visual arrangement of objects, a particular aesthetic value emerges.

He has held several solo shows, these include Incognito at Art Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia (2022); Constructed _scape at Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore (2020); Some Other Matter at Aloft at Hermes, Singapore (2019); SANS, at Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore (2018); Terenne at Jeonbuk Museum of Art, South Korea (2016). Hendrian's works are in the in the collection of Deutsche Bank (Germany), Jeonbuk Museum of Art (South Korea), Museum MACAN (Indonesia), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), and Tumurun Museum (Indonesia).