Luh’De Gita

About

Luh’De Gita (b. 1997, Bali) is a Balinese artist whose practice centers on painting as a way to explore identity, landscape, and the effects of globalization. Her works investigate the shifting cultural and physical terrains of Bali, a place caught between sacred tradition and tourist spectacle. She creates paintings that blend realism and abstraction, often hung on Balinese textile hangers or suspended like ceremonial cloths, referencing the commodification of culture in her homeland. A graduate of Institut Teknologi Bandung (BFA Painting, 2020) and Royal College of Art (MA Painting, 2025), she has exhibited internationally in Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines, and New York. Her recent solo exhibition, Native Tourists (2024), reflects on the ironic relationship between locals and the tourism industry, framing friends and family members as “tourists” in their own land. Through simulated environments and fragmented compositions, she questions the romanticized images projected onto Bali while confronting the realities of gentrification and land displacement. She has participated in several group exhibitions, including A Fold in Time (2025), The Divine Comedy (2025), and ASYAAF (2024), and was awarded the LPDP Scholarship and Pelaku Budaya Grant. Her painterly world-building is influenced by digital cultures like The Sims, where utopias are built and edited, drawing parallels to how paradise is manufactured in Bali. She currently lives and works in Bali, engaging with themes of decolonialism, tourism, and cultural memory through material experiments in oil painting.