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 Art Basel Hong Kong: Encounters 2025, Hong Kong (2025). 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 The Archipelagic Imagination: Upland at Almine Rech, Shanghai, China (2025); 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).