Born 1974, Jakarta, Indonesia
Lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia

Davy Linggar is a celebrated Indonesian artist who works primarily through the mediums of photography and painting. There is a substantial breadth to his practice in his investigation of the things that constitute an image and its interrelatedness to perception, memory, form, feeling, and experience. His acute sensibilities are then translated into a diverse array of possibilities – be it through moving images, photographs, paintings, or drawings. In establishing a distinctive aesthetic vernacular, Linggar engages with and through architecture, popular culture, fashion, and nature. He deftly negotiates, and finds balance, between many different forms of energies and forces. 

Linggar finished his training at the Faculty of Fine Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia in 1995 and at UGH Essen, Essen, Germany in 1997. Selected solo exhibitions include View Finder at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2024); Aperture at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2022); Cut at AAAAHHH!!! Paris Internationale, Paris, France (2022); FILM at The Papilion, Jakarta, Indonesia (2015); Sketch, Photo, Image at Ark Galerie, Jakarta, Indonesia (2008); and Black&White at Gallery Cahya, Jakarta, Indonesia (1998). Linggar has been part of local and international exhibitions, including Transposition 1: Observing The Walking Patterns at Whistle, Seoul, South Korea (2024); Unbearable Lightness at ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia (2024); Frieze Seoul with ROH at Coex Convention & Exhibition Center, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Art Basel Hong Kong with ROH at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong (2023); Companion at Art Basel Hong Kong Satellite, Hong Kong (2021) in collaboration with Gary-Ross Pastrana and Tromarama; iso at AAAAHHH!!! Paris Internationale, Paris, France (2020) with Aditya Novali; After Utopia: Revisiting The Ideal in Asian Contemporary Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2015); Pink Swing Park in CP Biennale: Urban/Culture at Museum Bank Indonesia (2005) with Agus Suwage; and the 11th Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2004). 

Load More
past Exhibition
Art Jakarta 2025
Jakarta International Expo, Jakarta, Indonesia3 - 5 October 2025
Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong26 - 30 March 2025
Art Jakarta 2024
Jakarta International Expo, Jakarta, Indonesia4-6 October 2024
View Finder
ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia21 September - 27 October 2024
Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong26 - 30 March 2024
Unbearable Lightness
ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia27 January - 25 February 2024
Art Jakarta 2023
Jakarta International Expo, Jakarta, Indonesia17 - 19 November 2023
Frieze Seoul 2023
COEX, Seoul, South Korea6 - 9 September 2023
Our Week 2023
PROCESS ITW, Seoul, South Korea5 - 8 September 2023
Art Basel Hong Kong 2023
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong22 - 25 March 2023
Aperture
ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia11 December 2022 - 12 February 2023
Cut
AAAAHHH!!! Paris Internationale, 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, France19 - 23 October 2022
Art Jakarta
Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, Indonesia26 - 28 August 2022
Art Basel Hong Kong: Satellite
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong27 - 29 May 2022
1
ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia5 April - 21 May 2022
Last Words
ROH, Jakarta, Indonesia20 November 2021 - 4 February 2022
Art Basel Hong Kong: OVR
Art Basel, Online19 - 23 May 2021
Companion
Art Basel, Online19 - 23 May 2021
Art Jakarta Virtual
Art Jakarta, Online15 October 2020 - 15 February 2021
iso
12 Rue de Montyon, Paris, France22 - 29 September 2020
Museum Tanpa Tanda Jasa
ROH Projects, Jakarta, Indonesia17 September - 8 October 2016