Satya Cipta

Satya Cipta received her BA degree in theater at the Jakarta Arts Institute (IKJ) in 2010. During her study period, she was involved in many musical performances as a singer and theater and movie productions as an actor. At the same time, she was also active as a painter. After graduated from IKJ, she moved back to Bali and working as a freelance actor and editor, director and producer in Bali TV. In 2012, she started study Balinese traditional painting. Since that time on, she decided to concentrate her career as a painter. In 2016, she did her first exhibition in the National Art Exhibition called EPICENTRUM in Manado, South Sulawesi. In 2017, she got invited to become artist in residence at La Salle College, Singapore for a new media art exhibition and performance art program. From 2016-17, she has done many group art exhibitions in Bali. Her first solo exhibition entitled “A Budding Talent” took place at the Puri Lukisan Art Museum (Ubud) in 2018. Below are comments on her solo exhibition:

“She is one of the most promising talents of her generation and her latest exhibition, named “A budding talent” at the Puri Lukisan Museum in Ubud, has been a resounding success…she challenges the codes of Balinese society by daring to question the place of the Hindu religion as well as that of men and women. Society is changing, even within conservative Balinese society, and Satya’s painting is the expression and voice of this transformation.” (Clotilde Canova)

In 2019, she had her second solo exhibition entitled “Satya: A Great Talent in Its Bud” in Oberoi Gallery, Denpasar, Bali. Below is a comment on her exhibition from a renowned Indonesian art critic, Jean Couteau:

“Her works are not only sexual fantasies. She confronts head on the rudeness of male patriarchy and sexual power. Who dares in Bali to talk about sexual violence and its troubling encounter with eroticism? Nobody but Satya! Who dares to depict women as reversing the roles, trampling a man’s head or testis? Satya again! So it is no surprise she has hard times finding acceptance among her peers.” (Jean Couteau, Indonesian Fine Art)

After series of another group exhibition in Indonesia and abroad from 2019-2021, in 2022 she had her third solo exhibition entitled “The Wandering Soul” at Art One Gallery on the occasion of highly prestigious ART MOMENT annual event in Jakarta. Below is excerpt from a review of her exhibition published in TEMPO, the most prestigious Indonesian magazine:

“ Satya’s lines, especially in her canvas works, do not always a single line. Often, they look like a shadow. A shadow of lines that gradating from dark to bright or vice versa indicating that the forms in the painting are not empty but loaded with solid substances.” (Hendro Wiyanto, Tempo Magazine)

Recently, she received another invitation to become Artist in Residence at Footscray Community Art Gallery in Melbourne presented by Project Eleven. Her activities in this gallery included the following: (1) painting exhibition, (2) providing workshop on line drawing, (3) performing with local experimental musicians at the opening of the exhibition, and (4) talking in local radio shows. The exhibition at the Footscray Community Art Gallery lasted from March to June. In addition to exhibiting her paintings, for the past several years she has been active in giving lectures and workshops on her own works, Balinese traditional art and healing practice. Furthermore, she has also been working professionally as an art and show director for theater, film and festivals across Indonesia. Among others are Toraja International Festival (TIF) and Indonesian Music Expo (IMEX). Since 2018 she has become a singer of the world renowned indigenous music ensemble called INDONESIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA (INO) directed by Franki Raden. The group has performed extensively in Indonesia, Asia, Australia and Europe.