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Budi Agung Kuswara

BUDI AGUNG KUSWARA

Tracing Shadow Mizuma Art Gallery 15 August–20 September 2026 Singapore
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Mizuma Gallery is proud to present Tracing Shadow, a solo exhibition by Indonesian artist Budi Agung Kuswara , opening on Saturday, 15 August 2026. This solo exhibition will showcase his early and recent works that demonstrate the evolving relationship between history, synthetic systems, and bodily interventions.

Drawing on over fifteen years of working with archives, cyanotype, and the materiality of light, Budi Agung Kuswara combines algorithmically generated images, solar indexical processes, and manual brushstrokes to explore the unstable relationship between trace, reconstruction, and perception.

His works often depict descendants of unidentified Balinese individuals from the colonial period, generated based on photographs in university image archives, and envisions an alternative reality set against rich cyanotype blue. These descendants join the shared struggle and tension across Southeast Asia as we contend with a colonial past and a global present.

Described as “Solar Synthetic Reality”, this approach reveals reality as a layered synthesis whose apparent stability conceals underlying fractures and mediated structures. Reality is not fixed or pure but is continuously sh aped through the interaction of history, technology, the body, language, and systems of knowledge and power.

Tracing Shadow, a solo exhibition by Budi Agung Kuswara , will run from 15 August to 20 September 2026 at Mizuma Gallery, 22 Lock Road #01 - 34 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108939. The gallery will open from 11 am to 7 pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays, and 11 am to 6 pm on Sundays. The gallery will be closed on Mondays and Public Holidays.

An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, 15 August 2026 from 3pm to 7pm, with an Exhibition Walkthrough with the A rtist from 3pm to 4 pm. An Exhibition Tour in Mandarin will be held on Saturday, 29 August 2026 from 4 pm to 5pm , and an Exhibition Tour in English will be held on Saturday, 12 September 2026 from 4 pm to 5pm. All events are free and are open to the public, kindly RSVP to info@mizuma.sg. This exhibition is a part of Singapore Gallery Month 2026

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About the Artist

Budi Agung Kuswara (b. 1982, Bali, Indonesia) graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 2009. Trained in kamasan painting, Kuswara retains the intricacy and delicate linework of this traditional art form in his contemporary works. His paintings celebrate the treasury of aesthetic and cultural influences on the Indonesian archipelago, marrying these baroque sensibilities with observations on social tensions and dynamics. Budi Agung Kuswara lives and works in Singapore and in Bali, Indonesia, where he co-founded Ketemu Project Space, a visual collective and social enterprise hybrid with focus on social engagement.

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About the Gallery

Executive Director Sueo Mizuma established Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo in 1994. Since then, the gallery has continuously presented artists from Japan and, increasingly, from the surrounding region whose works demonstrate distinctive sensibilities, unaffected by fleeting stylistic trends.

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11am – 7pm

Sunday
11am – 6pm

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Singapore 22 Lock Road, #01-34 Gillman Barracks
Mizuma Art Gallery contemporary art gallery in Singapore
Mizuma Art Gallery
22 Lock Road, #01-34 Gillman Barracks, Singapore, Singapore
+81 3 3268 2500
https://mizuma-art.co.jp/en/

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 7pm

Sunday
11am – 6pm

Closed Mondays and national holidays
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