Ipong, who is actively and widely known as painter, printmaking artist, illustrator, curator and book designer was born in Yogyakarta in 1955. He finished his fine art study at the Fine Art School (now Yogyakarta Institute of Art) in 1981. He was invited as guest artist for printmaking studies in Konsthogskolan (Royal University College of Fine Art) in Stockholm, Sweden to depend his mastery on lithograph, etching, dry point, carborondum, woodcarve and aquatint.