Yulianus Yaps

SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHY
My name: Julianus
Artist name and on social media: Yulianus Yaps
I'm a self-taught visual artist from Indonesia. I was born in 1950. Since childhood, I like to draw. This hobby started when I witnessed my brother-in-law drawing people's faces in pencil on paper cake wrappers. By fast and sloppy movements but managed to create an image that closely resembles the image of Kwan Yu, the legendary general in the classic Three Kingdoms story. The incident from that childhood was very memorable. I was obsessed and suddenly I became fond of drawing. This then becomes a lifelong hobby, wherever I am, drawing becomes a routine.
After dropping out of school, at the age of 15, I was used to painting on used vinyl records. I sold this work on the street, this was my start as a professional drawing artist. In 1995, big floods hit the settlement where my house is located, almost 2 weeks the water as high as 1 meter inundate my house. The storage area for a collection of nearly 3,000 paintings of my works of three decades on a shelf and a wooden cupboard in the empty room behind my house collapsed, all of my paintings, mostly made of oil paint on canvas, plunged into the water. Almost all of my collections were destroyed. T...

I am self taught visual artist.

(European Museum of Modern Art).
20) Selected artist at Visual Art Open 2019.
21) November 1st to December 25th, 2019 collective exhibition at Winning at The 24th Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City exhibition on June 16th, 2019.
22) Continue exhibition November 16th to December 4th at Da Dun Gallery
Taichung City, TAIWAN.
23) Selected artist at Art Olympia Tokyo, JAPAN in June 6th, 2019.
24) Participate at 5th Geoje International Art Festival 1st to September 25 Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Geoje, South Korea.
25) August 27th, 2019. Awarded THE BEST MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY ARTIST from ITALY.
26) Awarded from PALM ART AWARD category CERTIFICATE of
EXCELLENCE 2019.
27) Awarded International Prize Leonardo Da Vinci from Art International
Contemporary Magazine in Florence 2020.
28) Awarded Art Universal, The Great Encyclopedia of International Art 2020.
29) Awarded The Great Masters of Contemporary Art 2020.
30) Group exhibition and became a honorable jury on September 1st to October
24th 2020 at The 6th International Geoje Art Festival Haegeumgang Theme
Museum, South Korea.
31) Participation and as a jury at the 7th Geoje International Art Festival 1st to October 25th 2021.Haegeumgang Theme Museum 2021 .South...