Born in Bangkok, Thailand


Education


2021-2022 BPA Berlin program for artists, Berlin, Germany
2007 Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking), Department Of Fine Arts, King Mongkut’s Institute
of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok

Residencies


2021 LIA -Leipzig- International residency program, Leipzig, Germany
2016-17 One Year residency in KfW Stiftung at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
2014-15 Six month residency in “Sàn Art Laboratory,” Session 6. Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam
2014 Two month residency in “Pisaot Experimental Residency Program,” Sa Sa Art
Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Part of Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared:
Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian
Curtin

Solo exhibitions

2024 The 4 Foundations, BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY, Thailand
2021 Where are you living? #1, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2019 COUNTING, BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY, Thailand
2019 "Landscape from 1st Infantry Battalion 2nd Infantry Regiment King's Guard, Prachinburi Province to Bureau Of Royal Household, Sanarmsuepa, Bangkok, Thailand",Bureaucracy Studies, Prilly
Switzerland
2017 EXIT-ENTRANCE, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2016 Zones and Verbs, Cartel, Bangkok, Thailand
2014 WAR JOURNEY / Godfather Series, Invited by Koji Monotake,Kozy Central, Okinawa, Japan
2014 Dear Duang Daao, Duang Daao Cafe, Ikebukuro, Japan
2013 What Are They Doing Inside?, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand
2008 Brandnew: Supernoyz, Tadu Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected group exhibitions

2024
Studio Visits, a group exhibition featuring new works by artists Orawan Arunrak, Michelle Chang Qin, Erwan Sene, and Hiroshi Sugito, Aranya Art Center, China

2023

 "Das Brotbaumregime” curated by Theresa Kampmeier in cooperation with the towns of Arnsberg, Brilon and Schmallenberg, Südwestfälische Galerie and Museum Haus Hövener, Germany

Ghosting, curated byAgnieszka Roguski, M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Germany

See you at the Studio! Ten years with Artists in Residence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

THE EDUCATIONAL WEB, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

2022

'BPA// Exhibition 2022', Participating artists: Orawan Arunrak, Benjamin Busch, Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, Sarah Friend, Julian Irlinger, Paul Kolling, Shirin Mohammad, Nnenna Onuoha, Tang Han and Ernie Wang. Curator: Léon Kruijswijk Assistant Curator: Anna-Lisa Scherfose,KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

DREAM OF THE DAY Curated by Patrick Flores, Ilham Gallery, Kualampur,Malaysia

Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time curated by Christina Li takes place from October 12 to November 13,
2022 in venues throughout Bangkok

"IDENTITY NOT PROVEN"
NEW ACQUISITIONS OF THE FEDERAL COLLECTION

Collection of contemporary art from the Federal Republic of Germany
, purchases from 2017 to 2021 and purchases of NEUSTART KULTUR from 2020 to 2021, The Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

2021

Nation, Narration, Narcosis, Curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin

This Time: Contemporary Watercolour,A+ Works of Art, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia

2020

A+ Online Festival of Video Art, 1 August to 12 September 2020, Videoart.aplusart.asia 

They have brought erasers with them, A+ Works of Art,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2019
Opaque Signs, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

the ceiling the walls the floor, artists Orawan Arunrak, Paphonsak La-or,Sathit Sattarasart, Cartel rtspace, Bangkok, Thailand

“Temporal Topography: MAIIAM’s New Acquisitions; from 2010 to Present”
curated by Kittima Chareeprasit,MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2016

‘Public Spirits’ Curator: Meiya Cheng
ARTISTS:Chen Szu Han (Taiwan), Teng Chao-Ming (Taiwan), Liu Ho Jang (Taiwan), Hsu Che Ju (Taiwan),Chia-Wei Hsu (Taiwan), Kwan Sheung Chi (Hong Kong), Chen-Yu Mao (China), Zhou Tao (China), Art Labor (Vietnam), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), UuDam Tran Nguyen (Vietnam), Charles Lim (Singapore), Ho Rui An (Singapore), Agung Kurniawan (Indonesia), lifepatch (Indonesia), Vuth Lyno (Cambodia), Vandy Rattana (Cambodia), Sutthirat Supaparinya (Thailand), Orawan Arunrak (Thailand), Maung Day (Myanmar/Burma), Jen Liu (USA), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

2015

Choose to Move, with artists Tran Tuan and Ta Minh Duc. Presented by Sàn Art. Saigon
Domaine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Rates of Exchange Un-Compared, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2014
Messy Sky Live Edition #02: 101 words / 101 kilobytes /Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Cafe Moskau Berlin

Rates of Exchange Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger Nelson and Brian Curtin, H Gallery, Bangkok

Experimental Video Art Exhibition, Thai-European Friendship 2004-2014 (EVA project),Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

PAINTBOX Vol.2, GOJA Gallery Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand

2013

Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia, curated by Iola
Lenzi, Agung Hujatnikajennong, Vipash Purichanont, BACC Exhibition Department, Bangkok
Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Profane Altars, Sensus luoghi per l'Arte Contemporanea, Italy

Resort, BACC Exhibition curated by Pichaya Aime Suphavanij, BACC Exhibition Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok

A Spatial Experiment, a project by Henry Tan, curated by Brian Curtin, H Project Space, H
Gallery Bangkok, Thailand

The Performing Arts Meeting, Bo Ya tt O Su Ru, Kanagawa Arts Theatre (KATT), Yokohama, Japan

2012
Messy Sky, in Les Fleurs Americaines, Frac Île-de-France, le Plateau, France

Drifting Map, in BACC experimental: Temporary Storage #01, curated by Chitti
Kesemkitvatana, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Experimental Video Exhibition, Thai-European Friendship, National Gallery, Chao Fa Road,
Bangkok, Thailand

Speedy Grandma Gallery & Exhibition Launch, Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Thailand

A Part of You, A Part of Me, Sol Space, Bangkok, Thailand

2011

Warning, National School Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

What do you see?, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

City of angels/Identity crisis, Galerie 59 rivoli,Paris, France

2009

ITYM WAR, Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2008

Art no wall, Thanon Phra Athit, Bangkok, Thailand

2007

Experimental Video Exhibition, Thai-European Friendship, The Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok, Thailand

Kamibb Love Function, Café Bangrak, Bangkok, Thailand

Fuse Showcase 6 Feminist, TK Park, Bangkok, Thailand

Experimental Video Exhibition, Thai-European Friendship, Silpakorn University, Nakhon
Pathom, Bundipatanasilpa Institute, Ladkabang, Burapa University, Chiang Mai University,
and King Mungkut’s Institute of Teshnology Ladkabang, Thailand

No Panic Printed Exchange Art Exhibition Kmitl-Nagoya, University of Arts, La Lanta, Bangkok, Thailand

Project Zero. The Festival of Arts and Culture by OKMD, Central World, Bangkok, Thailand

2006

1st Art Exhibition Mini-Art, Hof art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected Curatorial Projects

2013
Exhibition Coordinator, Cross Stitch, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2012
Assistant Curator for Hear Here Exhibition, Curator ; Pichaya Suphavanij, Guest Curator: Anothai Nitibhon, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Assistant Curator for Politics of ME Exhibition, Curator : Pichaya Suphavanij, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Assistant Curator for You Are Not Alone Exhibition, Curators: ARTAIDS :Hilde Teerlink, Irene Aristizabal, BACC : Pichaya Suphavanij, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2011

Assistant Curator for Finding Abstraction Exhibition, Guest Curator : Asst. Prof. Tuksina Pipitkul , Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Invited talks & Workshops

2022
Placemaking: The Virtual,Religious and Secular, A ZOOM PANEL DISCUSSION, Moderrator: Stephanie Bialey, Speakers: Vuth Lyno, Clara Cheung, Orawan Arunrak, Alina Nazmeeva. Invited by Screenguru Gallery on the blockchain for Contemporary Media Art
2021
Virtual session for MoMA C-MAP Asia with Wong Binghao,C-MAP Asia Fellow International Program The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2017
#Com( ) is a Roundtable on ART & COMMUNITY a discussion / Jinjin Xu, Nhung Đinh, Orawan Arunrak with the modurator Trang ran Thu, CO-CURATED BY Đỗ Tường Linh & Min-hyung Kang
2015
Guest Speaker : CONVERSATION #006 “Orawan’s Ways” Invited by Chiang Mai Art Conversation ( CAC ), At Rampai Loft Habitat, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Guest Speaker at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
Guest speaker at panel discussion, Phnom Penh and Bangkok: The Art of Cities, Un-
Compared, ARTnews Talks Series, Art Stage, Singapore. Other speakers: Pen Sereypagna
(Cambodia ), Dr Esther Rootham, (Singapore), Dr Brian Curtin (Thailand)
2014
Guest Lecture, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Mahasarakram University, Mahasarakram Province, Thailand
Special Instructor at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
Guest speaker at public symposium, Contemporary Art in Bangkok: Some Divergent Views,
Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Other speakers: Dr Brian
Curtin, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Tada Hengsapkul, Pinaree Sanpitak. Part of Rates of
Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, curated by Roger
Nelson and Brian Curtin
Guest Lecturer, Visual Arts at School of Fine and Applied Arts, Bangkok University, Bangkok,
Thailand
2008
Guest speaker for Pecha Kucha Night Vol.5, Bangkok Design Festival, Paragon, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected Press

2024 Review by Hung Duong, ARTFORUM, Page 163, April 2024
2022 Selfhood Amid Movement Orawan Arunrak´s sojourns and social engagements prompt slow considerations of fast lives, ArtReview November 2022, by Max Crobie-Jones,Page 66-71
2020 Contemporaneity’s Bubble by Ho Rui An, out of isolation | Article, Posted on 17 Jul 2020, National Gallery Singapore
2017 Orawan Arunrak: Words to Communicate, ART 21, by Roger Nelson | Dec 11
2017 “Hören und Heilen” “Listen and Healing” Text by Hajo Schiff, B24 Be Magazin, Berlin
2017 “What unconscious ATTITUDES and PREJUDICES does a language reveal? What cultural differences and similarities do WORDS betray?” selected by Arin Rungjang, ArtReview Asia, Summer 2017 May 19
2017 - KfW Stiftung - Orawan Arunrak: Exit – Entrance, e-flux
2016-2017 Prōtocollum, Global Perspectives on Visual Vocabulary, page 239-241, Germany
2016 “Zones and Verbs” Text by REBECCA VICKERS, September 18, 2016, art4d, Thailand
2016 Dialogues and meditation, Text By Phatarawadee Phataranawik, August 22, 2016, The Nation
2015 Orawan Arunrak: Interview with a Genius, Cross Connect Magazine, Digital World
2014 “New Currents,” artist profile, ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 90
2013 “What Are They Doing Inside,” Fine Art magazine, Thailand
2013 “An American in Klong Toey,” Bangkok Post, 18 October
2012 Artist’s pages, Messy Sky magazine
2012 “A Part of You, A Part of Me,” in art4d: Architecture, Design, Arts magazine, Thailand