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Yen Melia is a visual artist from Jakarta, Indonesia, and holds an MA in Fine Arts (with distinction) from LASALLE College of the Arts (2026), University of the Arts Singapore. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Parahyangan Catholic University, Indonesia (2018).
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. Through remembering and reconstructing these spaces, she considers how experience can transform a place's meaning, allowing a familiar environment to take on a different narrative through memory and perception.
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 Personal Structures: Confluences at Palazzo Mora, Italy, in 2026; And the rain witnessed...: MA Fine Arts Graduation Showscase at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, in 2026; Art Jakarta with RUCI Art Space and Artsphere Gallery in 2024 and 2025; Seoul Art Show with SOMA Gallery, Korea, in 2023; and Of All the Odds with STEM at Srisasanti Gallery, Yogyakarta, in 2022. In 2026, she was awarded the Winston Oh Travelogue Award.
In the Studio
by Indra Wiras
Education
- Master of Arts (Fine Arts) - LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore (2026)
- Bachelor of Architecture - Parahyangan Catholic University (2014-2018)
Solo Exhibitions
- A Friend of the Flower Fairies, Solo Exhibition, SOMA Gallery, Seoul - South Korea, 2024
- She Blooms in Colors, Solo Exhibition, Anggrek Agency, Zurich - Switzerland, 2024
Group Exhibitions
- Wish you were here, The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2026 Exhibition, Singapore, 2026
- And the rain witnessed...: LASALLE MA Fine Arts Graduation Showcase, Singapore, 2026
- Personal Structures: Confluences, Venice Art Biennale, ECC Italy, 2026
- round the corner: MA Fine Arts work-in-progress exhibition, Singapore, 2025
- Art Jakarta Garden, Artsphere Gallery & RUCI Art Space, Jakarta, 2025
- Bank Art Fair, SOMA Gallery, Pan Pacific Hotel - Singapore, 2024
- Hello, Nice to Meet You!, Group Exhibition, SOMA Gallery, Seoul - South Korea, 2024
- Sensescape: Shattering Impression, Group Exhibition, Achieve Art Space, Yogyakarta, 2024
- Art Jakarta Garden, Artsphere Gallery, Jakarta, 2024
- In a Land of Hopes and Dreams, Group Show, Anggrek Agency, Zurich - Switzerland, 2024
- Seoul Art Show, SOMA Gallery, Seoul - South Korea, 2023
- Incipient, Vice & Virtue Gallery, Jakarta, 2023
- CON Spring Edition ‘23, Group Show, Circle of None (Online), 2023
- Of All the Odds, Group Exhibition, STEM Projects (Srisasanti Syndicate), Yogyakarta, 2022
- Woman in Contemporary Art, Group Exhibition, ISA Art Gallery, WTC3 - Jakarta, 2022
Awards
- Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2026
