Artists
Piyarat Piyapongwiwat
Biography
Piyarat Piyapongwiwat (b.1977, Phrae, Thailand) is a multidisciplinary artist working with various media including video, photography, text, sound, mixed media and installation. Her work usually reflects her surrounding experiences, including questioning of contemporary issues such as gender, notion of margin, cultural change and globalisation. Her artistic research is informed by theories of social science, anthropology and philosophy.
Piyarat holds a BA from RMIT University, Australia and a BFA from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier Agglomération (ESBAMA), France. She has presented works locally and internationally. She currently lives and works in Chiang Mai.
Selected Works
Fabric
Installation View at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Collection of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Installation View at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Collection of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Installation View at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Collection of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Installation View at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Collection of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Installation View at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Collection of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Installation View at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Collection of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
Still image from the video “Fabric”
Medium: Single-channel video Duration: 19:41 minutes Format: 16:9, colour, sound Year: 2017
Editions of 5
Still image from the video “Fabric”
Medium: Single-channel video Duration: 19:41 minutes Format: 16:9, colour, sound Year: 2017
Open Studio at Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Medium: Cloth remnants, thread Size: 250 cm x 300 cm
Year: 2017
Edition: Unique Edition
Photo Documentation: Some factories in Special Economic Zones and Industrial Zones in Southeast Asia
SaSaArtProjects
messages from nowhere to nowhere
Mediums: 30 photographs, giclee prints
Size: total size 95 cm x 119 cm (15 cm x 23 cm / piece) Year: 2015
Editions: editions of 5
Mediums: 30 photographs, giclee prints
Size: total size 95 cm x 119 cm (15 cm x 23 cm / piece) Year: 2015
Editions: editions of 5
Medium: One-channel video Duration: 11:19 minutes Format: 16:9, silent
Year: 2017
Editions of 5
Medium: One-channel video Duration: 11:19 minutes Format: 16:9, silent
Year: 2017
Editions of 5
Mediums: Neon tubes
Size: 25 cm x 132 cm
Year: 2015
Editions: editions of 3 + 1 AP
Mediums: Neon tubes
Size: 25 cm x 132 cm
Year: 2015
Editions: editions of 3 + 1 AP
Mediums: Neon tubes
Size: 25 cm x 132 cm
Year: 2015
Editions: editions of 3 + 1 AP
Liminal Zone
Video still
Medium: Single-channel HD video Duration: 8 minutes
Format: 16:9, colour, sound
Year: 2012-2013
Editions of 5
Collection of Jim Thompson Art Center
Video still
Medium: Single-channel HD video Duration: 8 minutes
Format: 16:9, colour, sound
Year: 2012-2013
Editions of 5
Collection of Jim Thompson Art Center
Video still
Medium: Single-channel HD video Duration: 8 minutes
Format: 16:9, colour, sound
Year: 2012-2013
Editions of 5
Collection of Jim Thompson Art Center
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2010 B.F.A. with honors (DNAP avec Félicitations), Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier Agglomération, Montpellier, France
2000 B.A., RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2015 messages from nowhere to nowhere, Lyla Gallery, Chiangmai, Thailand
2014 TRANCE, collaborated with Arnont Nongyao, curated by Lyla Phimanrat, Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, Angkrit Gallery, Chiang Rai, Thailand
2012 Queerness, Toot Yung Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
The 12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders – Facing Phantom Borders, curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong, Gwangju, South Korea
The shape of the invisible, the rhythm of the unspeakable, the dimension of humanity, curated by Margaret Wu, Yelo House, with Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand
A Visibility Matrix, by Sven Anderson & Gerard Byrne, Le Printemps de Septembre, La Foundation espace écureuil, Toulouse, France
A Visibility Matrix, by Sven Anderson & Gerard Byrne, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia, curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand
2017
The 6th Asian Art Biennial: Negotiating the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Play in the Flow, curated by Fumiko Nakamura, Sriprakard, Chiang Mai, Thailand
When The River Riverses, curated by Vuth Lyno, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Samut Thai : Unfinished History, curated by Tang Fu Kuen, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (TPAM), BankART Studio, Yokohama, Japan
2016
Koganecho Bazaar 2016: Life – World of Asia, organized by NPO Koganecho Area Management, Yokohama, Japan
Outside Text, co-operated with Ubatsat, CMU Art Center, Chiangmai, Thailand
The Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong
The Southeast Asia Forum Exhibition: Seismograph: Sensing the City – Art In the Urban Age, ART STAGE SINGAPORE, Singapore
2015
The Second China-ASEAN Biennale, ASEAN Cultural Centre Hall Square, Nanning, Guangxi, China
One to Many, curated by Veronica Caciolli, Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space Annex Site, Chiang Mai, Thailand
In Your Face – French/Thai Photo projection installation, curated by Myrtille Tibayrenc, Alliance Française Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
The 7th Yangon Photo Festival, curated by Mélanie Agron, Institute Français de Birmanie, Yangon, Myanmar
2014
Swimming in Sand, Growing Rice Under an Umbrella, curated by Roger Nelson and Anita Archer, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Joyful Khaen, Joyful Dance, curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong and her curatorial team, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
RADIATION: Art and Queer Ideas from Bangkok and Manila, Un-Compared, curated by Brian Curtin, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
2013
ANTHROPOS: Navigating Human Depth in Thai and Singapore Contemporary Art, curated by Loredana Paracciani, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
ANTHROPOS: Navigating Human Depth in Thai and Singapore Contemporary Art, curated by Loredana Paracciani, Numthong Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Thai Photography: reality and ambiguity, curated by Loredana Paracciani, The Philanthropic Museum, An online exhibition; www.thephilanthropicmuseum.org
Zeitgeist, curated by Queer Cultural Center’s curatorial team, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, USA
2012
RADIATION: Art and Queer Ideas from Bangkok and Manila, Un-Compared, curated by Brian Curtin, Department of Avant-Garde Cliches, Manila, Philippines
Thai Trends from Localism to Internationalism, curated by Apinan Poshyananda and his curatorial team, Bangkok Art & Cultural Centre (BACC), Thailand
Different but the Same, curated by Roger Nelson, Cambodia LGBT Pride art exhibitions, Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2011
VAFA, curated by José Drummond, Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, Casa Garden, Fundação Oriente, Macau, South China
City of Angels/Identity Crisis, curated by Myrtille Tibayrenc, Gallery 59 Rivoli, Paris, France
2010
Quinzinzinzili, organized by Nadia Lichtig, FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France
Selected Screenings
2013
MicroCities, inCube Arts and inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival, The NARS foundation, New York, USA
2012
29th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Tehran, Iran
Silhouette Film Festival, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
Saisonvideo #36, The program online – TOUCHING THE CITY, www.saisonvideo.com
Saisonvideo #36, The program online – ENFERMER, www.saisonvideo.com
LAGO FILM FEST, Revine Lago, Italy
18th Regensburg Short Film Week, Regensburg, Germany
1st International Motion Festival, Nicosia, Cyprus
2011
28th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
OK. Video FLESH – 5th Indonesia International Video Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
AND SHORTS – AND festival, FACT, Liverpool, UK
2010
Soirée Flare #13, Centre Rabelais, Montpellier, France
Collections
“Fabric” MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, 2018
“TRANCE” Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 2017
Nominations and Awards
2017 The Visible Award, Longlist
2016 The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Finalist
Grants / Fellowship Programs
2017 The Japan Foundation Asia Center Fellowship Program
Artist-in-residence programs
2017
Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), Tokyo, Japan
Beyond Pressure, Yangon, Myanmar
Pisaot Residency, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
New Space Art Foundation, Hue, Vietnam
2016
Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan
2015
Pisaot Residency, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Thaillywood Artist Residency, Chonburi, Thailand
Artist Talks / Panel Discussions
2017
Artist talk by Piyarat Piyapongwiwat, Tangled Thread over Southeast Asia, Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), Tokyo, Japan
Artist talk by Piyarat Piyapongwiwat, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2016
Guest speaker, Artist and Society in the Urban Age, The Southeast Asia Forum Talks, ART STAGE SINGAPORE, Singapore
Artist talk, CONVERSATION #007 Artist in the Field, by Chiang Mai Art Conversation (CAC), Media Arts and Design CMU, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2013
Artist talk, Talk with Piyarat Piyapongwiwat, by RAM Space, The Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai Thailand