about.

Yen Melia is a visual artist from Jakarta, Indonesia. She attained a bachelor's degree in Architecture Engineering from Parahyangan Catholic University in 2018. Yen is currently pursuing her MA Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. Her work currently explores the intimacy of spaces and their emotional resonances. She primarily works with paintings, exploring a range of oil and watercolor techniques. She exhibited her solo show, titled She Blooms in Colors, with Anggrek Agency in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2024. She has also participated in several group shows, such as Seoul Art Show in South Korea with SOMA Gallery in 2023, Art Jakarta with RUCI Art Space and Artsphere Gallery in 2024/2025, and a group exhibition in Yogyakarta with STEM from Srisasanti Gallery in 2022.

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Yen’s postgraduate research started with her fascination with quiet spaces she spotted while zoning out or having noisy internal dialogues. The brief attention given to the spaces and the accompanying quietude could somehow tap into the human unconscious and shift the focus completely, making it easier to ground and contemplate at a slower pace. She finds that most of the spaces are in direct contact with nature, where we can see human figures from afar but not as the main subject—the landscapes exist as they do with humans as a small part of it. Yen is interested in capturing these pockets of calm within the city and understanding how humans perceive these images and turn them into materiality. She is studying how internal and external moods affect paintings and how colors can convey the emotion of a moment in a space.