Artists
Udomsak Krisanamis
Biography
Udomsak(born 1966, Bangkok; lives and works in Chiangmai) Krisanamis’ practice has long been characterised by his specific use of collage, creating obsessive pattern made from newspaper, noodles, cellophane and paint. Over the past two decades Krisanamis’ work has maintained a distinct formal and conceptual clarity, offering a unique experimentation with the well-worn territories of grid.
While his paintings refuse to adhere to any particular context or obvious narrative, his imagery has undergone certain key transitions. Earlier paintings comprise of densely layered textured grids that resemble stellar landscapes, satellite imagery, twinkling cityscapes and blinking digital universe. Viewed in detail, these works shift between the worldly and otherworldly, the sublime and everyday. More recently, this intricate detail has been replaced by bold, reductive statements of monochrome colours such as hazard orange and fluorescent yellow, the surface of which is built up from wedges of found material embedded between layers of acrylic paint and paper.
Selected recent solo exhibitions include Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (2007, 2012); Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2011); VER Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2006, 2016); Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan (2005); Giti Nourbakhsch Gallery, Berlin (2004); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2003); Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus (2000) and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1999). His work has also been included in several group exhibitions at venues such as the Bangkok Art And Culture Center (2012, 2014); CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (2011); Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2008); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2003); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2001) and Whitechapel Art Gallery (1999).
Selected Works
Paint It Black
Between the Sheets
2016, 155×152 cm
Mixed media on table tennis
Numbers of the Beast
2016, 180 x 114 cm
Spray paint and acrylic on mat
That’s Fucking Genius
2016, 102×42 cm Acrylic on styrofoam
Wild Like Tiger
2016, 76×61 cm Mixed media on
Penni Walli
2016, 150×250 cm Mixed media on canvas
The Whole She Bang
2016, 243 x 183 cm Mixed media on canvas
Newspaper work
“SUNDAY”
2008
Acrylic on Newspaper 41.5 x 60.5 cm.
“I DON’T LIKE MONDAY”
2008
Acrylic on paper 61 x 85 cm.
“WEEKEND”
2008 Acrylic on paper 77 x 106.5 cm.
“SATURDAY”
2008
Acrylic on Newspaper 60.5 x 77 cm.
“FRIDAY”
2008
Acrylic on Newspaper 60.5 x 77 cm.
“THURSDAY”
2008
Acrylic on Newspaper 60.5 x 77 cm.
“WEDNESDAY”
2008
Acrylic on Newspaper 60.5 x 77 cm.
“MONDAY”
2008 Acrylic on paper 77 x 106 cm.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 1993
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago - 1989
BFA Chulalongkorn University Bangkok Thailand
Solo Exhibition
- 2017
‘Keep Spinning’ , Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan - 2016
A Retrospective curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, CMU Art Center, Chiangmai, Thailand
‘Paint It Black’, Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand
- 2014
Planet Caravan, Lehmann Maupin , Hong Kong - 2012
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo Gavin brown’s Enterprise , New York - 2011
A mindful mission ( Redux ) Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, BerlinA mindful mission. Kunstverein Freiburg. - 2008
Victoria miro Galley, London - 2007
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, BerlinGavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York - 2006
Galleryver, Bangkok, Thailand - 2005
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan - 2004
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, BerlinVictoria Miro Gallery, London - 2003
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel - 2002
Massimo de Carlo, Milan
- Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Corp., New York
- 2001
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK - 2000
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OHGallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan - 1999
Il Capricorno, Venice, ItalyFruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (with Peter Doig)Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 1998
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK (with Peter Doig)Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NYMicheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium - 1997
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WAVictoria Miro Gallery, London, UK - 1996
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NYMarc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA - 1994
260 Washington Ave, Brooklyn NY - 1991
215 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY - 1990
Goethe Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
Group Exhibition
- 2017
Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan - 2016
Northern Land Southern Sea, Tang contemporary Art, Bangkok
All Summer In A Day, Unclebrother Gallery, Hancock, New York
Thailand Eye, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok
- 2015
Roll Your pain Away with Pratchaya Phinthong, New Museum of Contemporary Art Chiangmai (NMCAC), Chiangmai
Thailand Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London
- 2014
Thai Charisma : Heritage + Creativity Power, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok - 2012
“Art and Music- Search for New Synesthesia” Museum Of Tokyo.’Thai Transience’ Singapore Art Museum.’Encounter’ Royal academy in Asia Institute of contemporary arts Singapore at lasalle college of the arts. Singapore’ Thai Trends from Localism to Internationalism’ Bangkok art and culture centre, Bangkok‘Every Abstract-Abstract Everyday’ Curated by Mattew Higgs, James Cohen Gallery, New York.‘B. Wurtz & Co.’ Curated by Matthew Higgs. Richard Telles gallery, Los Angeles‘Blind Hole’ Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo - 2011
‘Madifesto’, Chiang Mai‘Space Oddity’ curated by Friederike Nymphius, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca\ - 2010
‘ imagine peace” Bangkok Art And Culture Center, Bangkok - 2009
‘The House the Cat Built’, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija - 2008
‘Jounney To Nowhere’ The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN‘Back to Black’, Kestnergesellshaft, Hanover - 2007
‘Very Abstract and Hyper Active’, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK“Inwords” the University Museums of the university of Delaware - 2006
“Œdereconstruction”, Barbara Gladstone, New York‘Infinite Painting’, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, ItalyKenneth L. Fried Collection of Contemporary Art, Lambertville, New Jersy - 2005
“Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper.” Andrea Rosen Gallery“Bidibidobidiboo: Works from Colllezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo”, curated by Francesco Bonami, Turin, Italy - 2004
‘Keep your Head to the Sky”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York - 2003
‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
- ‘1st Gold NMAC Artists Tournament’, Fundacion NMAC, Spain‘Painting Pictures’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg‘20th Anniversary- Welcome home’, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
- 2002
‘The Longest Winter,’ University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL‘Pertaining to Painting’, Contemporary Arts Museums, Austin Museum of Art, Austin‘Hard To Read,’ Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, NY, curated by Feng Liu - 2001
‘Painting At The Edge Of The World’ The Walker Art Center‘New Prints 2001/ Autumn’, IPCNY, New York‘The Mystery of Painting’, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (cat.)‘Fresh: Recent Acquisitions’, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY‘Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London‘Painting at the Edge of the World’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis - 2000
Galleria Massimo di Carlo, Milano, Italy’Spot On’, Victoria Miro Gallery, New York, NY’Greater New York’, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY - 1999
‘Examining Pictures’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (cat.)Nach-Bild’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (curated by Peter Pakesch catalogue)’Zone (Espèces d’Espaces)’, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy (curated by Francesco Bonami) - 1998
Every Day ‘, 11th Biennale of Sydney, AustraliaProject 63, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY’A to Z’, The approach, London, UK (curated by Matthew Higgs)’Lovecraft’, South London Gallery, London, UK (curated by Martin McGeown and Toby Webster)’Exterminating Angel’, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France (curated by Joshua Decter) - 1997
‘Essential Gestures’, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland’Lovecraft’, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland - 1996
- ‘Site-Santa Fe’, Santa Fe, NM (curated by Francesco Bonami)
‘Drawings for the Mab Library’, AC Project Room, New York, NY
‘Tangles’, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
‘Screen’, curated by Joshua Decter, Frederich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
- 1995
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY - 1993
“inconsequent”, Natalie Rivera, New York, NYMFA Thesis Show, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, ILGallery 2, Chicago, IL - 1989
“Bring Good Thing to Life”, Toshiba Thailand Co., Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand13th Bua Luang Exhibition of Painting, Bangkok Bank, Bangkok, ThailandContemporary Art Exhibition, Thai Farmers Bank, Bangkok, Thailand
Public Collection
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mora-Art Foundation, New York
Asprey, London
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Catier Foundation, Paris
Albright Knox Art Ghallery, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami