YUDHO (Indonesian, b. 1990), born Satrio Yudho Pratomo, is a multidisciplinary artist working in digital and physical pixel art. His style, which he calls “dirty pixels”, treats pixels as living, chaotic elements rather than precise units, merging and moving them into what he calls pointillistic noise. Through this technique he draws the story of technology and humanity, exploring the boundary between the two.
Yudho trained in painting at art college in Indonesia, an education made possible when his older brother covered tuition his family could not afford. After graduating into a cooled market for young painters, he worked in design and branding for nearly a decade before joining the NFT space in 2021. In 2023 his computer was hacked and his crypto wallet seed phrase stolen, wiping out what he had built. On the advice of fellow artist Sathar, he spent three months mixing his painting skills with pixel art, arriving at the chaotic, hand-drawn pixel style that defines his practice.
