Elias Yamani Ismail

Elias Yamani Ismail is an artist and researcher based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He graduated from UiTM with a Fine Arts Bachelor’s Degree in 2000 and a Diploma in Graphics Design and Multimedia at LimKokWing University College of Creative Design and  Multimedia in 2001. Later, with a Master’s Degree in Arts from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2017. In March 2008 he created Satu: Creative Collective, an independent initiative that supports, promotes and functions as a collaboration platform for visual arts. His research and curatorial work revolves topics on comparative studies in the visual arts, thinking processes and indigenous knowledge practice mainly on Malaysian contexts. His works have been collected by various institutions  and private collections.