Daniel Kho was born in 1956 in Central Java, Indonesia. In the early 1970s, he taught himself the techniques of batik, sculpture and painting. In 1977 he moved to Germany. In 1998 he received a scholarship from the Jacob Eschweiler Art Foundation. From 1999 to 2006 he taught art and performance as part of the MUS-E Artists in Schools Project, organized in Germany by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. In 2002 founded the Shadow Theatre Kho in Cologne. In 2009, together with friends, he founded Djagad Art House in Bali. Since 2012 lives and works in Bali, Barcelona, and Cologne.