Contemporary Thai Artists

MIT JAI INN is a recognized and innovative artist of Thai contemporary art.
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ARTIST PROFILE
Mit Jai Inn was born in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He studied at Silpakorn University, Bangkok (1982-1986), then continued his studies at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (1987-1992), where he worked as assistant to the artist Franz West. He lives and works in Chiang Mai.
Mit Jai Inn is still influenced by his early experiences: his education in an indigenous weaving village, his meditation practice learned during his six years as a Theravada Buddhist monk and his training as a professional boxer. He is best known for his abstract compositions exploring the social and political implications of art making.
When Mit Jai Inn returned to Chiang Mai in 1992, he co-founded the Chiang Mai Social Installation, an art project and festival that took art out of its traditional and commercial focus and place it on the streets to engage the public. He  is currently pursuing this participatory and community ethic.. In 2015, Mit Jai Inn also founded Cartel Artspace in Bangkok, a gallery providing a space for artists to reflect on the historical and current context of Thailand and Southeast Asia.
One of his first series, Free Flyers, was designed as gifts, in reference to the free information sharing system of the Internet. His Scrolls Series, developed from 2002 onwards, emphasised Mit Jain Inn's interest in communal ritual forms, such as rolled iconographic or ceremonial painting.
In his exhibition "Light, Dark, Other", at TKG+ in Taipei in 2018, his work, still in abstraction, was in the form of tufts of raw and organic oil pigments condensed on a huge linen canvas; these usually exude a feeling of savagery and freshness as well as the vibrant and saturated shades characteristic of tropical rainforests. With his unconventional practice of painting media, Mit Jai Inn creates a different visual approach to art, in which the cultural concept of colour is implicated, and leaves his audience to reflect on the politics of space in relation to aesthetic, social and political histories.
In the exhibition 'Paphonsak La-or's Prospects' - which took place at 39+ Art Space in Singapore from January 15 to March 12, 2022 - Mit Jai Inn explored the narrative of Thai artist Paphonsak La-or's works that address current political issues in Thailand. 'Paphonsak La-or's Prospects' featured a collection of 12 sunrise and sunset paintings. These works depict twilight scenes in 12 countries where Thai political refugees are seeking asylum. The exhibition also featured Mit Jai Inn's installation of works comprising a series of paintings linked together to form a giant tunnel over 12 meters long. Mit Jai Inn invited visitors to walk through and interact with the works through touch.
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In his exhibition "Dreamworld", MAIIAM, in Chiangmai in 2024, the artist explores the healing and social power of art through vibrant works that can be touched, walked through, stepped on and taken away. 
EXHIBITIONS
Mit Jai Inn has had numerous solo exhibitions including: 2024-2025 Mit Jai Inn, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane ; 2023-2024 "Dreamworld", MAIIAM, Chiangmai ; 2023 Ocular Vocabulary, Silverlens Gallery , Manila; 2022 "Come-one-come-all", Silverlens Galleries, Manila, Apsara Studio & Silverlens, London,  'Paphonsak La-or's Prospects', 39+ Art Space, Singapore ; 2021 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK ; 2020-2021 Royal Market Place, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong, "The King and I", TKG+, Taipei 
Mit Jai Inn participated in Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, from 30 November 2024 to 27 April 2025
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PRAPAT JIWARANGSAN is a young contemporary Thai artist, multidisciplinary, film maker, who studied visual arts.
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ARTIST PROFILE
Prapat Jiwarangsan was born in 1979 in Bangkok. He received his B.A. Interior Architecture (2002), and MFA Visual Art (2009), from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok and his Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art, London in 2011.
At the end of his studies, Prapat Jiwarangsan focused his artistic practices on the relationship between history, memory and politics in Thailand, with a particular focus on the theme of migration. In 2017, Prapat Jiwarangsan made a film entitled "The Wandering Ghost", the context of which he explained: "Over the past two years, thousands of illegal Thai migrant workers in South Korea have been sent back to Thailand, while thousands more have crossed borders to work in legal and illegal jobs. Calling themselves "ghosts", they have left their homeland for a foreign country where they do not speak the language, work towards an uncertain future and hide like ghosts to escape the authorities. In another film in 2015, "The Asylum", Prapat Jiwarangsan describes a place near Chiang Mai where undocumented and unemployed people gather.
The artist finds his inspiration in the archival material he works with, cutting and rearranging it. For his installation "Aesthetics 101", for example, Prapat Jiwarangsan worked with the archives of Somkiat Tangnamo, a theoretician from Chiang Mai University. Somkiat Tangnamo left over 7000 slides after his death in 2010. Combining analogue and digital, "Aesthetics 101" is a multi-screen installation using vintage slide projectors and modern LED projectors.
The artist presented objects and photographs in the exhibition 'Blackout, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam' in 2019, 'Non-chronological history (2019). Prapat Jiwarangsan said: "It is a question of understanding the causes and effects of each period; we need to deconstruct the past and present from various overlapping elements. Then we can find the true structure of causes and effects that impact the present time, and we can reach the truth in our national history." In 2010, the artist already spoke about this time in his video "The Measure of time".
Prapat Jiwarangsan presented his video installation "Aesthetics 101" at the Singapore Biennale until 22 March 2020. For this one, the artist wanted to recreate a study atmosphere, using equipment that has disappeared from classrooms today, combined with video projections by a prominent Thai professor of Aesthetics Somkiat Tangnamo. 
The Prapat Jiwarangsan’s film 'Ploy" was one of the only two Thai films at Berlin International Film Festival 2021.
The last film by Prapat Jiwarangsan "Myanmar anatomy" (2023), relating to Myanmar 's history, was presented to the Berlinale en 2024.
EXHIBITIONS
Prapat Jiwarangsan's installations have been shown in Bangkok, London, Seoul and Hong Kong, and his videos screened at international film events such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Onion City Film Festival, Experimenta India and the Singapore International Film Festival.
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PEERAWAT KRASAESOM is a young contemporary Thai artist and illustrator. His original work makes him a rising artist. Peerawat Krasaesom raises the question of the violence of human nature and its inevitable attachment to our DNA.
ARTIST PROFILE
Peerawat Krasaesom was born in 1981 in the province of Surin. Coming from a rural family, he trained himself, making sketches for many years. He worked for 6 years as a graphic designer and then in artistic production for television. He then went on to study for an MAF in Visual Arts at King Mungkut's Institute Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok (2014). He lives and works in Bangkok.
Peerawat Krasaesom's artwork questions the human violence that was a shock to him when he arrived in the city, in this case Bangkok and which has its roots in human nature. Nuclear guns, tanks and explosions are ingeniously shattered into cellular structures that resemble microscopic views of human blood cells. 
"I try to express my thoughts about what surrounds us like air, water, humans, plants and animals in my work. I lived a country life, easy, based on nature, until, as an adult, I moved to the capital and life became complicated and I had to fight. Struggle often happens when humans, animals or plants have to live in different environments than they have experienced, and we have to adapt to survive, physically and mentally," says the artist. 
In his illustrations, natural objects combine with synthetic to reflect its new environment. The artist creates multiple details and interlocking lines, in ink and acrylic.
In his exhibition, based on his sketches made over the past ten years, 'Yeast', in Bangkok at the Brownstone studio in May 2015, Peerawat Krasaesom seemed to be approaching a process of slow transformation. In this series, his creative mind initiates an interaction, mixing his past and present, a kind of catalysis.
In contrast to his drawings and paintings with light strokes, Peerawayt Krasaesom also made portraits using large brushstrokes for them.
EXHIBITIONS
Peerawat Krasaesom has exhibited mostly in Thailand to this day. His solo exhibitions include: in 2015 'Yeast: The work of a creative catalyst', Brownstone Studio, Sukhumvit 77, Bangkok; in 2012 Back to Primitive, Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok; in 2004 'Pheno-me–non', The Oddysse Mode Visual Loft, Bangkok.
He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions since 2005: 2016 "Untitled 1." TARS Gallery, Phra Khanong, Thailand; Sawatdee Anxiety', 7 June 15 August 2014, with Suwit Maprajaub at the Whitespace Gallery in Bangkok. He has also exhibited at Maduzi Hotel Art Fair, Jamjuree Gallery Bangkok in 2014 and Bangkok University Gallery in 2013. He exhibited in London in 2013, 'Origin-Originality: A New Wave of Thai, Arts', Forty 7 Gallery. In November 2015, he participated in the Affordable Art Fair in Singapore.

UTTAPORN NIMMALAIKAEW is one of the most amazing contemporary Thai artists of his generation. His painting technique is indeed very particular with 3-D effects. 
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ARTIST PROFILE
Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew was born in Bangkok in 1980. He received his B.F.A. Painting from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology (2004) and his M.F.A. Painting, Silapakorn University (2006). He is currently Art Instructor of Painting Department, Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology.  He lives and works in Bangkok.
Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew paints portraits on several layers of fine nets or on tulle, producing a 3D effect. "You have to see his works as layers, layers of paint, assembled to each other in lamination. Like layers that are superimposed with different layers of information arranged on each of them."
His subjects seem to be sitting on chairs or lying on beds. They metamorphose and change shape depending on the distance and location of the viewer and the painting technique is revealed. Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew's paintings look like shimmering holograms. He discovered this technique while studying at Silpakorn University in Bangkok after a drop of paint got lost on a mosquito net in his studio. He then began to explore a new way of painting on this material. For each piece, the artist begins with a digital drawing, which he then prints in actual size to determine the shape and texture of the subject. He then begins to paint in layers with oil paint in a style he calls "tulle-paint style".
A pensive, melancholic face is at the centre of each work. The translucent subjects appear ethereal and ghostly on these thin fabric screens. These are often his family, indeed he sees his work as a way of preserving their spirit over time.
"One of the characteristics of my work," says Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew, "is that it changes the viewer's experience. The work of art as an illusion deceives perception. From the front, the viewer will see the work in the middle of the empty space. I draw human shapes on a sparse white fabric with colored oil paint. The details are different because of the volume, color, light and layer of fabric." "Over time, I've learned that tulle requires another way to create realistic light and shadow. The top layer gives details for the optical illusion. Then each layer combines with the others to create depth in the image."
For his last exhibition "Twilight of the Icons" at the SAC gallery in 2022, Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew had created images of original sculptures of important figures and monuments in Thai history. It was the first time that these sculptures were presented in the form of a mixed work with layers of gauze.
Artist's work: https://youtu.be/kdMb4JYJGUE
EXHIBITIONS
Recent solo exhibitions by Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew: 2022, "Twilight of the Icons", SAC Gallery, Bangkok ; 2019 "Reality as it isn't", S.A.C. Subhashok The Arts Centre, Bangkok; in 2017 "Dimension of Hope", at Yavuz Gallery, Singapore 
Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew participated in Art Taipei in October 2024.
The artist participated in the Group Exhibition “Living the Day”- Contemporary Art from Taiwan and Thailand” at Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art in Taiwan, from 16 September 2023 to 18 February 2024
Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew participated in the Bangkok Art Biennale 2020 from 29 October to 31 January 2021, group exhibition, "The Man's Phases", Lanta Fine Art, Bangkok, from 16 January to 3 March 2021.
Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew participated in Asia Now 2023, Inteernational Art Fair in Paris, presented by SAC Gallery.
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RATTANA SALEE a Thai contemporary artist, born in 1982.
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ARTIST PROFILE
Rattana Salee received her MFA in sculpture from Silpakorn University in 2011.
Rattana Salee's sculptures are essentially abstract. The artist is inspired by Alberto Giacometti. Shell', the solo exhibition that marked her debut, showed sculptures installed in the atmosphere, made of metal and plaster architectures. They were intended to reflect the complexity of urban life. Thailand's capital, Bangkok, has become a vast construction site where the sound of drills and hammers can be heard. The inhabitants are confined to small spaces. The artist asks questions about the development of the city, about the quality of life, about memories and stories of construction. Her sculptures represent the state of life in the city. Rattana Salee creates forms that show hundreds of dilapidated structures, unfinished towers that continue to point to the sky, testimony to the economic failure of the 1997 financial crisis in Thailand. The artist composes sculptures out of steel bars, deeply worked with resin to show us a sense of erosion, of the dematerialization of the sculptural mass.
In her exhibition "Unreal Monument" at Lanta Fine Art, Bangkok - June 5 to July 14, 2021 - Rattana Salee outlined her view of the public monument: a memorial or monument symbolises the collective memories of people in a particular area using texts or statues as vehicles. Memorials could present both the visible and invisible aspects of the story being told.
EXHIBITIONS
Rattana Salee's solo exhibitions include: in 2021 'Unreal monument', Lanta Fine Art, BKK; in 2018 'Suspended Memory', BACC, Bangkok; in 2015 'Representing Localities: Memory and Experience', with Therdkiat Wangwatchakul, Thavibu Gallery, Bangkok; in 2013 'Shell (Shocked)'.
She has also participated in several group exhibitions: in 2013 'Tropical Lab 7', Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, 'Artist Residencyn', Wang Culture Highland, China, 'Inevitably Imperfect', Artery Post-Modern Gallery, Bangkok; in 2012 Myths - Five Female Artists, Myths - Five Female Artists; in 2001 'How Did I Get Here', Da Wang Culture Highland, China.
Amongst various awards and prizes, Rattana Salee was granted by the French Embassy to study for one year in 2011 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Paris, France.

PINAREE SANPITAK is a brilliant contemporary Thai artist. Multidisciplinary, she uses a variety of media and techniques, including painting, collage, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance.
Since 2015, the record price for this artist at auction is USD 23,963 for Breast Vessel, sold at Christies' Hong Kong in 2019. 
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PROFILE OF THE ARTIST
Pinaree Sanpitak was born in Thailand in 1961. She left Thailand to study in Japan where she obtained her BFA, visual arts and communication design, School of Fine Arts and Design, at the University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki (1986). She took part in the printmaking workshop at the University of the Northern Territory in Darwin, Australia in 1999. She reconnected with the Bangkok art scene through Silom Art Space. She lives and works in Bangkok.
Pinaree Sanpitak's work "deals with motherhood, femininity and the self, using the shape of the breast to evoke the symbol of feminism and femininity". For the past twenty years, the central motif of her work has been the female breast, which she combines with imagery from the natural world and the emblematic forms of the Buddhist stupa (shrine) and offering bowl.
Pinaree Sanpitak belongs to the first wave of Thai artists who, since the 1980s-1990s, have been developing an artistic language combining mixed techniques and conceptual approaches. 
The artist has had numerous exhibitions since his first appearance in Bangkok in 2011 and at the Biennale of Sydney in 2012 with 'Anything Can Break', a monumental installation featuring a suspended sky composed of origami cubes and blown glass clouds illuminated by fibre optics, motion sensors detecting movement in space and activating musical notes.
Pinaree Sanpitak participated in the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. It featured textured paintings made of acrylic, feathers, gold and silver leaf and silk. The motif of the chest was found in the shape of the bowls drawn.
Pinaree Sanpitak presented two interactive sound installations at the Bangkok Art Biennale (22 October 2022 – 23 February 2023): 'Temporary Insanity' and Anything Can Break (2011 – ongoing).
At the Lelong NY gallery, in 2024, the artist presented "Fragile Narratives" in reference to the personal and profound experiences of femininity conveyed by the works on display. In a selection of new paintings from the Womanly Bodies series, Pinaree Sanpitak has used mawata silk to create dimensional, sensual forms that evoke the female body. In these monochrome paintings, a pearly background juxtaposes the natural fiber, skilfully merging aesthetics and organics.
Pinaree Sanpitak's installation 'Ma-lai: Mentally Secured' was on display at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA), Taiwan, as part of the exhibition 'Ocean in Us: Southern Visions of Women Artists', until 16 March 2025
EXHIBITIONS
Pinaree Sanpitak's work has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions in Asia and Europe over the last twenty years; she has also taken part in major biennales in Australia, Italy, Japan and Korea. 
The Ames Yavuz Gallery (Singpour) announced on 4 May 2024 that the MACAN Museum in Jakarta, Indonesia, had acquired a group of works by Pinaree Sanpitak including the Breast Stupa Topiary (2013) and The ethereal Offering Vessel which was presented at the 59th Venice Biennale (The Milk of Dreams, 2022).
Latest solo exhibitions by Pinaree Sanpitak: 2024 "Fragile Narratives", Galerie Lelong NY ; 2022 "The Body and The Vessel", Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
The artist participates in group exhibitions including: 2023 Bangkok Art Biennale; 2022 The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, "Breasts, bodies, vessels, clouds, stupas", presented by the Yavuz Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida.
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RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA is a confirmed contemporary Thai artist who launched the movement of "relational aesthetics", i.e. the interactions between people and their environment rather than with aesthetic or artistic objects.
ARTIST PROFILE
Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1961. He grew up in Thailand, Ethiopia and Canada. He was educated at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto (1980–84), Banff Center School of Fine Arts (1984), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1984–86) and the Whitney Independent Studies Program in New York (1985–86). He lives and works in New York, Berlin and Chiang Mai.
Rirkrit Tiravanija's work and career are unclassifiable. For 30 years, he has focused on in situ experience and exchange, breaking down barriers between object and viewer. His work was first shown to the public in a group exhibition in New York in 1989: the title was "Untitled Empty Parenthesis" and consisted of remnants of a green curry meal. Criticism was then destabilized. He continued to use the space for the preparation and consumption of communal meals for galleries such as "Untitled (free)" (1992). The artist explains: "I can't paint but I can cook." He continued in this approach in the following years, setting up communal environments that offer a playful alternative place for daily activities.
In 2004, Rirkrit Tiravanija created with another Thai artist Kamin Lertchaiprasert 'The Land Foundation', which promotes environmental recovery, renewable energy and food production in his native country.
EXHIBITIONS
Rirkrit Tiravanija had numerous solo exhibitions around the world, the most recent of which is: 2023 Shinsegae Gallery in Seoul , "The Shop", David Zwirner Gallery, Hong Kong; 2022, 'Submit to the Black Compost', Gladstone Gallery, Seoul, Korea ; 2020 "Once upon a time", Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris
MoMA in New York presented the first US survey and largest exhibition to date dedicated to Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, from 12 October 2023 to 4 March 2024. 
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NATEE UTARIT is a contemporary Thai painter, known for his work on images – photographs – through painting. It mixes reality and fiction.
With cumulative sales of  € 853 K, he ranked 1125th/5000 in the Artprice ranking (sales revenues) of the art market worldwide in 2023. He ranked 188th in the Artprice Ranking 2020/2021 with cumulative sales of £ 1.321.295 (12 lots sold).
Recently, his work 'The Ambassador' sold at Philipps Auction HK on June 7, 2021, US$178,625.28.
According to Mutualart, Natee Utarit's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $431 to $389,585 depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2005 the record price for Natee Utarit at auction is $389,585 for The Baroque, sold by Christie’s HK in 2019.
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ARTIST PROFILE
Natee Utarit was born in Bangkok in 1970. He studied at the College of Fine Art in 1987. He graduated in Graphic Arts from Silpakorn University/ Painting and Sculpture Faculty in Bangkok (1991).
The artist began with abstract painting, somewhat influenced by German expressionism, but quickly turned to other modes of painting under Western classical art: figuration, landscape, still life, linking them to photography. Behind many of his works, there are references to European masters such as Caravaggio, Gustave Courbet or Titian.
In 2000, Natee Utarit's "Pictorial Statements" combined reproductions of Old Masters works with monochromatic paintings of landscape photographs, with a critical eye on both mediums.
In early 2017, in an exhibition entitled 'Optimism is Ridiculous: The Altarpieces', at the Alaya Museum in Manila, Natee Utarit made a critique of Western modernism. He presented 12 oil paintings on canvas in various formats - diptych, triptych, or polyptych. In a surrealist composition, using the technique of photorealism, he analyzes Eastern philosophy (Buddhism) through the visual language of Western art, and in particular that of religious paintings from the Italian Renaissance to the Baroque, going as far as biblical clichés.
Richard Koh Fine Art Bangkok (RKFA) presented a solo exhibition by Natee Utarit titled "Tosachat Eclectic", from 8 to 29 October 2022.  Tosachat Eclectic was developed from Utarit’s Déjà vu series on woodblock. These woodblock prints are related to the Lord Buddha, Buddhism and the Western World.
Natee Utarit participated in the exhibition 'The Spirits of Maritime Crossing", a collateral event of the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia - at Palazzo Mangilli Valmarana, from 20 April to 24 November 2024. In this exhibition, Natee Utarit "combined Buddhist philosophy with the history of Western art, which conveys contradiction and absurdity. East-West encounters showed strangers everywhere in temples and piazzas. Time and space took the viewer back to a time when the serene and exotic lives of foreigners sought abundance and refuge between Venice and Bangkok".
At S.E.A. Focus 2025, Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) presented a new series by Thai artist Natee Utarit. Moving away from the still lifes for which he is renowned, Natee Utarit presented "The Strange World of The Super Unknown", in a unique comic-book-inspired narrative style, a first in his career.
EXHIBITIONS
Natee Utarit's recent solo exhibitions include: 2024 "Deja vu: The Last Chapter" (3 parties) by Natee Utarit Richard Koh Fine Art Bangkok ; 2023 Historia, Richard Koh Fine Art, BKK ; 2022 "Tosachat Eclectic", RKFA, BKK, "DÉJÀ VU Your Past is My Future", Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok ;  2021, "Everyday, every day, I have the blues", RKFA Singapore; in 2020 " DÉJÀ VU Your Past is My Future", RKFA gallery, Singapore.
Natee Utarit was presented by Richard Koh Fine Art at Art Basel Hong Kong ( March 2025)
Natee Utarit participated in S.E.A. Focus 2025 in Singapore, represented by RFKA gallery. 
Natee Utarit participated in a group exhibition organised by the Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) Foundation, "The Spirits of Maritime Crossing", a collateral event of the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia - at Palazzo Mangilli Valmarana, from 20 April to 24 November 2024.
Natee Utarit was presented at Art Stage Singapore 2023 by RFKA gallery.
The Private Museum in Singapore and the Richard Koh Fine Art Gallery presented works by Thai artist Natee Utarit in the group exhibition "Make Yourself at Home: a Glimpse Into All Welcoming Scenarios - Natee Utarit", from 7 January to 26 March 2023.
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Natee Utarit participated in the Medea exhibition in Siracusa, Sicily, from 5 May to 30 September 2023.
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PANNAPHAN YODMANEE is an artist who belongs to a new generation of contemporary Thai artists. In 2017, she was awarded the 11th Benesse Prize at the 2016 Singapore Biennale.
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PROFILE OF THE ARTIST
Pannaphan Yodmanee was born in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, in 1988. She graduated from Silpakorn University in Bangkok (BFA (Thai Arts), Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphical Arts) (2014). She lives and works in Bangkok.
Pannaphan Yodmanee's artworks explore Buddhist philosophy, the permanent themes of loss, suffering, destruction and karmic cycles – from birth to death, to rebirth. In her work, she mixes natural elements such as rocks and minerals with contemporary painted objects reminiscent of traditional Thai art and architecture.
For the Singapore Biennale in 2016, she created an installation called 'Aftermath', made of found objects, icons composed by the artist, concrete, painting that represent the map of the Buddhist cosmos. Her installation brought together all the artistic construction of Pannaphan Yodmanee. On a huge wall, she had represented a map of the Buddhist cosmos, like a landscape painting. A large section of the Singapore Museum of Art was filled with images of destruction and ruins. With these scenes of destruction, the artist sought to show the consequences that globalization and the misunderstanding of cultures could have.
For the 15th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (18 September 2019 - 5 January 2020), inspired by the Fagor factories, Pannaphan Yodmanee created a monumental installation in situ mixing past and present civilizations. It thus presented two tubes, reinforced concrete tunnels that resembled caves whose inner walls were covered with bas-reliefs and paintings. Most referred to Buddhist art. Others were from Christian iconography, there were also rubble and sacred trees. This installation was among the 5 most acclaimed works of contemporary art among the 56 exhibited at the Biennale.
Pannaphan Yodmanee presented a new installation, "The Magical Cycle of Birth and Death" as part of the group exhibition "Messages" at the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), in Bangkok, March 13 - April 27, 2021.
She was present at Art Basel Hong Kong in May 2022 with her work Circle DNA, 2022.
At the beginning of 2024, the Sarto gallery in Paris gave Pannaphan Yodmanee carte blanche. It was the artist's first solo exhibition in Europe. Pannaphan Yodmanee had developed a new aspect of her work here, in line with the fresco she had created for the vaulted ceiling of the atrium of Soho House Bangkok, "Ever After" (2002).
Pannaphan Yodmanee participated in the group exhibition 'Disobedient Bodies: Reclaiming Her' at the Sundaram Tagore gallery, Singapore, from January 11 to March 8, 2025
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EXHIBITIONS
Pannaphan Yodmanee has already had several solo exhibitions: 2024 "Origines", carte blanche to Pannaphan Yodmanee, Sarto Gallery, Paris ; 2020, "Time lapse", Lanta Fine Art Gallery, Bangkok; 2018 and 2016, Lanta Fine Art Gallery and 'The Prophecy of Time' at Art Stage Singapore in 2015.
Pannaphan Yodmanee participated in the group exhibition 'Disobedient Bodies: Reclaiming Her' at the Sundaram Tagore gallery, Singapore, from January 11 to March 8, 2025.
Pannaphan Yodmanee participated in the India Art Fair in February 2025.
She participated in She POSSIBLE International Women's Day (2023), Art collection at Soho house Bangkok (2023), PARADISE Lost BACC Bangkok (2023)
Pannaphan Yodmanee participated in Art Basel Hong Kong (2022)
The artist participated in the group exhibition "Falling" at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, from December 12, 2021 to January 15, 2022.
She participated in Art Macao (2021), in the 16th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lyon (2019-2020),
Pannaphan Yodmanee's works are in the collections of the Singapore Art Museum, the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and the Benesse Art Site in Naoshima.
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