Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Born in Thailand 1959, lives and works in Sydney

QUALIFICATIONS

2006 Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney 1980 B.A. Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom

EXPERIENCE

Trained as a mural painter from 1969-1981 in the workshop of father, the late master Paiboon Suwannakudt. Led own workshop of mural painting team and worked extensively throughout Thailand for 15 years and moved to Sydney in 1996.

Involved in the start up Womanifesto Thailand in 1995 and participated in the Womanifesto artist residency program in Sisaket Province, Thailand in 2008

Work in public collection includes Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Bank Sydney, Thai Embassy Paris and private collections in New York, Australia, Europe, Hong Kong and Thailand

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• Recent Solo Exhibitions: – Retold-untold Stories, Chiang Mai University Art Centre, 2014,
• Days of (endless) Meaninglessness, solo at 100 Tonson Gallery October 2014 – 4 January 2015,
• recent shows including
• 2013 Bavha:state of being Arc One gallery, Melbourne;
• 2011 Locution-(re)-Locations, 100Tonson, Bangkok;
• 2010 Catching the moment: Each Step is the Past, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney;
• 2009Three Worlds, Arc One gallery

Selected Group exhibitions

• 2014 Crossing Boundaries, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney,
• 2013 ORIENTing: With or Without You, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA Western Australia,

Thresholds:

• Contemporary Thai Art Sundaram Tagore, New York,
• 2012 All our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney;
• 2011-2012 Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of Sydney Festival January);
• 2011 Women Artists Exhibition for International Women’s Day, The National Gallery of Thailand;
• 2010 Second Language, 24HR ART Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin;
• Ephemeral but Eternal Words: Trace of Asia, The Research School of Humanities and the Arts and ANU School of Art Gallery, ANU;
• 2009 Broadsheet Notations: Epilogue, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok,
• 2007 The Smile of the Buddha, Drill Hall Gallery ANU Canberra;
• 2007 Heading North, Maroondah Gallery, Melbourne;
• 2005 Open Letter, Gallery 4A, Sydney;
• 2003 Abstractions, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra;
• 2000 El Poder de Narrar, Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló, Valenciana, Spain;
• 1998 Women imaging women: home, body, memory, Cultural Centre of the Philippines, Manila ;
• 1995 Tradisextion, Concrete House, Bangkok Scheduled Exhibitions: – Reincarnation of the Butterfly, Air Space, Sydney,
• March 2016, Retold-Untold Stories, Sydney College of the Arts, March – April 2016

SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS

• Australia Council Grant for new work by an established artist (2001);
• Bundanon Trust, residential Studio Grant (2003);
• Gunnery studio residency, NSW Ministry for the Arts (2005);
• NAVA artist grant (2010).
• Art Space Studio Residency (2011)
• Australia Council Grant for new work by an established artist (2012)
• NAVA artist grant (2012)
• Asialink Arts Residency 2014 at Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai with support of Arts New South Wales (2014)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Geczy, Adam ‘Uncertainty is Certain: the Work of Phaptawan Suwannakudt’ in, Eyeline, 81 July,2014;
• Smith, Terry Placemaking/Dicplacement, A Sense of Place, publication accompanies the exhibition A Sense of Place at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA, 2013;
• Suwannakudt, Phaptawan ‘Catching the moment, one step at a time’ in , Asia through Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation Across Borders, edit by Fuyubi Nakamura, Morgan Perkins and Olivier Krischer, Bloomsbury, 2013;
• Gezcy, Adam, Party Time – 18th Biennale of Sydney, Art Monthly Australia vol.252 August, P5-9, 2012 ;
• Flautdette May V. Datuin, Uncommon Sense: ‘Empty the Visual from Eyes of Flesh’ Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, an anthology, edited by Nora A. and Boreth Ly, Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2012;
• Clark, John, Asian Modernities:Chinese and Thai art compared, 1980 to 1999, Power Publication, 2010;
• Clark, Christine, Exhibition review: Catching the Moment each step is the past, Phaptawan Suwannakudt at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, August/September C Arts Magazine, 2010;
• Seeto, Aaron, News from Island, Asia Art archive Newsletter, July, 2009;
• Carter, Michael & Gezcy, Adam, Framing Art, Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2005, and Sheriff, Mary, ‘How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts’, Moode, Teresa; E Weisner, Mary, ed, A Comparison to Gender History, Blackwell, 2004