Gabrielle Widjaja

Bio

Gentle Oriental aka Gabrielle Widjaja (she/they) is a queer, Chinese-Indonesian creative native to the Bay Area, California and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Under the artist moniker Gentle Oriental, Gabrielle creates art that draws inspiration from their cultural background and western upbringing as a child of the Chinese-Indonesian diaspora. She is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with a foundational practice in graphic design and illustration, though most well-known for her tattoo art. Her work is conceptually driven by vignettes of emotion and identity, and her visual language is inspired by traditional Asian motifs, elemental flows of Qi, and modern western aesthetics that coalesce into a visual experiment of Asian Americana. Gabrielle currently splits time between tattooing twice a week and freelance graphic design and illustration projects.