Eva Agus

Eva Agus is an artist and environmental engineer working in Oakland, California. Raised as a Chinese minority in Jakarta, her visual art blends modern high-precision feel from her technical training while acknowledging cultural elements from Indonesia and the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. With family heritage in the textile trade, Eva loves exploring diaspora history and indigenous spiritual practices in the lens of traditional textiles. Most recently, Eva completed major serial work on the Chinese Zodiac and the Primbon, an ancient Javanese almanac. Trained in applied research, her medium continually evolves, but most prominently featured are painting, drawing, and batik.

Eva is a 5x cancer survivor with spinal, hearing and, speech impairments. Her art practice supports her meditation on pain, loss, and end of life. In particular, she finds solace in creating intricate patterns found in nature, batik, and Indonesian crafts.

Eva holds a Doctorate in Civil & Environmental Engineering from University of California at Berkeley and a California Professional Engineer license. Outside the studio, she loves tropical plants and serves in the De Young Museum Flower Committee in San Francisco.