Iqi Qoror was born in 1984. He graduated with Bachelor of Industrial Design degree from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November Surabaya (ITS) and graduated with Master of Fine Art degree from Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Yogyakarta. His works revolve around the questions of trust, interspersed with fragments of modernity, set against his own social experience. “We live in a catastrophic world and I express my response, my scream through my works, and I’m constructing a question of our madness.” Considering himself as a contemporary artist, Iqi enjoys challenging himself with new mediums, and has decided to focus on charcoal to be his favorite medium., for its many shades. The discussion of strokes from charcoal leads Iqi to his Childhood years when he enjoyed drawing more than painting, and now when He mixes the medium between charcoal and paint like unifying himself in the past and the present to create a future. He has been participating in various art exhibition like; Sub-Values, Galeri R.J. Katamsi, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2023), Perception in Tow, Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2022), Out of Place: (De)stereotyping Iqi’s Arabism, Jogja Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2021), The Families, Out of Law, Hatch Art Project, Singapore (2021), Identitas yang Hidup, Museum dan Tanah Liat, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2021), POST-TRUTH in Material #2, RuangDalam Art House, Bantul, Indonesia (2019), FORMS OF DIVERSITY, REDBASE Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2018), and many more.