BIOGRAPHY
Jatun Risba (they) is a transdisciplinary artist-researcher whose work engages with ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance art, ecoart, bioart, and acts of détournement, abjection, and intervention. Bridging ritual and disobedience, their practice cultivates reciprocity between species by awakening sensory awareness through the application of Vajrayana Buddhist principles and subversive uses of technology. Their art is informed by a lived experience of radical self-healing from multiple sclerosis (2012-19). At its core, it reimagines art as a site for healing, world-making, and liberation.
Risba’s work has been presented internationally at Glasshouse (New York), VIRA gallery in Seoul, Galerija O.K. (Rijeka), The Compound & Crow’s Nest (Baltimore), Studio Alta (Prague), Opens (Singapore), the Prague Biennale Re-connect Art festival (2023-25), Meta.morf Trondheim Biennale (2022), Bangkok Biennial (2020), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan), and Y Gallery, Kersnikova Institute, and Kino Šiška (Ljubljana). They are the founder and co-facilitator of Be-coming Tree, a global Live Art project fostering ecological connection through performance. Risba has received several awards: CREA Special Mention for the Quality of Artistic Research (2025 & 2026), Social Art Award (2021), ERSTE Foundation Fellowship (2020), a-n Artist Bursary (2019).