Ahmad Shukri Mohamed was born in 1969 in Kelantan, Malaysia. He became a co-founder of the cult Matahati artist’s loose cooperative and has found early success since graduating with a BFA at the Universiti ITM in 1991. Still, it was not until 1998 that he struck up his first solo titled 939495969798 at Art Salon, Kuala Lumpur, showcasing his output from 1993 to 1998. Working on various media involving painting and printmaking on crates, he had his phase of chloroformed butterflies that won him the 1st Prize in the Malaysian Artist Open at Galeri Petronas in 1994, the year he was chosen for the Asean Art Show at the Fukuoka Art Museum. Before the end of the millennium, he became the vanguard of young artists again. In 1997, he clinched t...