PARINOT KUNAKORNWONG
My work is derived from the visual language of everyday Thai culture, steeped in ritual, superstition and myth engaging in Bangkok sense of disappointment and imperfect beauty. These ideas can be traced further to propaganda in Thai mass media, which is imbued in Thai cultural background.In Bangkok there is no hierarchy, everything is all over the place but it seems to have its own charm. At the same time it portrays a sense of failure, failure of the modern world.
In the process of juxtaposition, disposition, reconfiguration, and alchemy the tension between absurdity and spirituality, the works becomes dissolved and ambiguous.
b. 1983, Bangkok, Thailand
lives and works in London and Bangkok
Education:
2016 - 2018 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
2012 - 2013 MFA Computational Studio Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London
2011 - 2012 Design and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York
2002 - 2007 BArch Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Group Exhibitions:
2019 ‘How Come You Never Go There’, 310 NX Road, London, UK (two-person exhibition)
2018 ‘Queer Art(ists) Now’ And What? Queer. Arts. Festival, Archive Gallery, London, UK
2018 ‘Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Degree Show 2018’, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2018 ‘Rituals: ink, oil, cotton, and thread’, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand
2018 ‘Conspiracy of The Real’, Tenderpixel, London, UK
2017 ‘Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Open Studios’, Deptford X, London, UK
2015 ‘Inside the Machine', Soy Sauce Factory, Bangkok, Thailand
2014 ‘Heat Wave’, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand
2014 ‘Hotel Art Fair 2014’, Farmgroup, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 ‘Nowhere 2013’, Goldsmiths, University of London, London
2012 ‘Siamese Connection: 3012’, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York
2012 ‘Spring Fair’, Parsons The New School for Design, New York City
2011 ‘A Strange Sense of Calm’, Botanic Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2010 ‘Within These Walls: Everything might be ok, all about Thai’, BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
Solo Exhibitions:
2017 'YES', Cartel Artspace, Bangkok, Thailand
2016 ‘Contemplation#1:(Re)verse’, TARS Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2012 ‘American Forrest’, Messy, Bangkok, Thailand
2011 ‘Do :D d: (See)’, Nospace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Publication:
2018 Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, ‘Southeast Asian rituals, interpreted’, Bangkok Post, (May 2018)
https://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/art/1475393/southeast-asian-rituals-interpreted
2017 Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, ‘The Woes of the Yes Man’, Bangkok Post, (August 2017)
https://www.bangkokpost.com/archive/the-woes-of-the-yes-man/1307651
2017 ‘Global Terroir: Bangkok’, LaBelle Revue #7
2016 'CONTEMPLATION #1: (RE)VERSE',art4d, (April 2016)
http://art4d.com/2016/04/contemplation-1-reverse/
2015 Kaona Pongpipat, 'Moments, Machines and Man,' Bangkok Post, (July 2015)
http://www.bangkokpost.com/lite/topstories/630768/moments-machines-and-man
Awards / Shortlisted:
2015 Shortlisted for Rijksakademie residency 2016
2011 Graduate Dean's Scholarship, Parsons The New School for Design
Residencies and Workshops:
2017-2018 Studiolog https://studiolog.ch (January 2018)