about.

Yen Melia is a visual artist from Jakarta, Indonesia, and a graduating MA Fine Arts candidate at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Parahyangan Catholic University, Indonesia (2018).

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Working primarily across oil painting, watercolor, and drawing, her practice explores perception, memory, and the emotional resonance of everyday spaces. Informed by her architectural background and a fascination with what lies opposite her as a way of shifting attention beyond the self, her work draws on phenomenological ideas to investigate the relationship among landscape, the built environment, and embodied experience. Her paintings often originate from quiet urban and natural spaces encountered during moments of contemplation or prolonged looking, prompting questions about why certain places linger in memory while others disappear unnoticed. Through monochromatic palettes, blur, and fragmented compositions, she reconstructs these familiar environments as they are remembered, creating images that exist between observation and imagination. Her current interest examines how memory, embodied perception, and spatial relationships shape our understanding of place and our position within it.

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Yen Melia presented her solo exhibition, She Blooms in Colors, with Anggrek Agency in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2024. She has also participated in group exhibitions including the Seoul Art Show with SOMA Gallery in 2023, Art Jakarta with RUCI Art Space and Artsphere Gallery in 2024 and 2025, STEM at Srisasanti Gallery in Yogyakarta in 2022, and Round the Corner: MA Fine Arts Work-in-Progress Exhibition at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, in 2025. In 2026, she was awarded the Winston Oh Travelogue Award.