Wit Pimkanchanapong

Wit Pimkanchanapong was born in 1976, Bangkok, Thailand. He is one of the few Thais who can be appropriately labelled a "media artist". His exhibited work often deals with Animations.

A much influential figure in Bangkok's underground, he has an interest in architecture, in social transformation, urban lifestyle and its landscape.

While his work is to be analysed acknowledging several layers of meanings it seems always playful and is designed to attract the interest of all kind of audience, thus allowing it short-cuts to other levels of understanding.

His repetitive involvement in popular art projects such as the Fat Music Festival allows him to access Bangkok younger crowd and to develop its artistic understanding and participation.

An other major aspect of his work is the social analyse and his ability to witness today's society and use his art in a participative way. This allows his audience to record and acknowledge aspects of modern world otherwise too subtle to be differentiated out of the overwhelming amount of information one is submitted to nowadays.

Education

2002: International Artist Exchange Ecole Nationale supérieure d'arts de Cergy Pontoise.

1994 : MA Visual communication; Electronic Media & Time-Based Media, Kent Institute of Art & Design, Maidstone, UK
1992 : Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University,Bangkok, Thailand.

Exhibitions

2008

You can currently see The Garland Sellers at GMT+ art&design Gallery, 258 Chaussee d'Ixelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Tel: +32 484 435 602. Email: gmt7gallery@gmail.com OnZE
Exhibition, Ancienne Ecole de la Batellerie, Brussels, Belgium (presented by SoiWat.org asbl)
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

2007

Mirror Worlds, Two Room Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
SOI Project, Sharjah Bienniale, Sharjah, UAE
Show me Thai, MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Some Proposals for the Next Future, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
From Message to Media, Bangkok University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Animated Painting, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, USA
Nuit Blanche, Place du Jeu de Balle, Brussels, Belgium

2006

Temporary Art Museum Soi Sabai, Bangkok, Thailand
Mirror Worlds, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
SOI Project, Mairie de 6e, Paris, France
Platform: About Installation, Queen Sirikiti Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2005

Lak-Ka-Pid-Lak-Ka-Perd, Chulalongkorn U. art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Bangkok, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain
Have we met? Japan Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Bangkok, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
Mirror Worlds, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Politics of Fun, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
SOI Project, Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
T1 Torino Trienniale, Turin, Italy

2004