Made Wiguna Valasara, born 1983 in Sukawati, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. Valasara completed his studies at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2007). He is an artist who is deeply immersed in painting and sculpture. After joining a residency program in Badung, he came with an alternative viewpoint in seeing canvas not only as a medium. His most known works are the ones with the stuffed canvas technique. His subject matters varied from his reinterpretation of Traditional Balinese Painting to the Renaissance and Modern Paintings appropriation. His most recent works have raised many social and cultural issues in Bali. Valasara has pushed Balinese painting’s established boundaries, breaking the conventional style through his determination and willingness to innovate by experimenting with multiple dimensions. This led him to successfully define his creative voice within Balinese and Indonesian contemporary art.
Valasara has participated in many group exhibitions in Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia and Taipei. His solo exhibitions include Carousel at YIRI ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan; Collective Fragment at Art Agenda Jakarta, presented by Bale Project; Playing Balinese at Art Stage Singapore 2016, Presented by Equator Art Projects, at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore; Lukisan Lukisan, Art: 1 Art Space, Jakarta (2015); Solo Project at Art Central Hong Kong, presented by Art:1 Art Space (2015); Animal Behave at MonDecor Art Space, Jakarta, and Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung (2010); Marshalling Lines and Colors, Canna Gallery, Jakarta (2009).
His works have won several awards, including the winner of the Public Vote Prize at the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2020, finalist of UOB Painting of the Year (2012); finalist for the 2010 Indonesian Art Award; The Best Painting at the 23rd Anniversary of ISI Yogyakarta (2007). In 2011, he became artist-in-residence at Selasar Sunaryo Artspace, Bandung.
