Kokok studied painting at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta (Institut Seni Indonesia). Throughout his artistic practice Kokok has been deeply dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the painting surface through the dissection and intersection of forms and colour, often reducing the image of a concrete object such as an apple or a flower to its most essential planes: in a sense a kind of ‘abstract realism’. In a recent experiment with installation Kokok even attempted to incorporate real human figures within a three-dimensional space into a ‘painting plane’ through the use of a kind of mathematically deduced illusion.