Ros Kamolros

Biography

Ros Kamolros
(b.1992, Bangkok; Lives and works in London and Bangkok)

Ros Kamolros is a British-Thai artist, her work examines urban subjects and forms, repositioning their sub-cultural, cross-societal and historical essences. She takes these pervasive structures and creates a dialogue around deeper power relations. Her work identifies the gap between ideological perception and the social unconscious of the wider usage of these conventional and pedestrian economic objects of aspiration. Her practice encompasses: installation, photography, video, writing, drawing, painting, poetry and collage on mixed media, the work often amalgamates together, sitting on the fringes of each discipline. Her choice in materiality, imagery and scale accentuates a starkly cute poetic of the social, teasing and daring us to indulge our imaginations.

Kamolros holds a masters degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, London. She has participated in a class of Tobias Zielony at Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts, Austria; and a class of Olaf Nicolai and Carsten Nicolai at Autocenter Academy, Berlin. Her first poetry book, ‘Ros’ Floweras’, is published by LUMA Foundation.

Selected Works

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 2017
    MFA Fine Art, Goldsmith University, London, UK
  • 2014
    BFA Visual Arts, Bangkok University, Thailand

Solo exhibition

  • 2018
    I AM A FEMININE PROTAGONIST: I Look At You’ curated by Nutthamon Pramsumran, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand
    ‘Little Savage Little Swine’ Monster House, London, UK 
  • 2017
    ‘I AM A FEMININE PROTAGONIST’ Gallery VER project room, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2012
    ‘Catharsis’ Soi Kasemsan, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2008
    ‘Foto’ Yothinburana, Bangkok, Thailand

Group exhibition

  • 2016
    ‘Project X’ Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
    ‘MFA Fine Art Degree Show’ Goldsmiths University, London, UK
  • 2015
    Rubbbish & Romance’ 1 Octavius Street, London, UK
    ‘I always play for strangers’ Hartslane gallery, London, UK
  • 2014
    ‘Intimate Politik exhibition curated by Judha Su’ Speedy Grandma gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2013
    ‘Jugen’ International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
    ‘Woche der Romanzen’ Window Project IG, Messy Sky
    ‘Autocenter Summer Academy’ AUTOCENTER, Berlin, Germany
    ‘Full Stop exhibition’ Moonseeker Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
    ’89plus exhibition: “Poetry will be made by all!”’ Zurich, Switzerland
    ‘Quality Secondhand Art 2013: Re-creation’ Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2012
     ‘GIRLSTALK about a girl’s work about girls’ TU Library, Bangkok, Thailand
    ‘Summer’ AUTOCENTER, Berlin, Germany
    ‘Rao Ma Yang Santi’ 3rd world cafe, Korat, Thailand
    ‘Frist night with S and S’ collaborative project with Orawan Arunrak, Jam Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand
    ‘Living Proof’ Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
    ‘One Touch’ Bangkok University Gallery (Rangsit), Thailand
  • 2011
    ‘Touch Na’ Fine and Applied Arts Building, Bangkok University, Thailand

Awards, Scholarships, Grants

  • 2009
    Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (tuition grant), Salzburg, Austria 
  • 2008
    Early-college program scholarship (half tuition), ECP residency program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
    BU Creative scholarship (full tuition), Bangkok University, Thailand (2010-2014) 

Residency

  • 2009
    DE LICEIRAS 18, Porto, Portugal 
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