DRAWING | Parinot Kunakornwong
Artist(s)
Parinot Kunakornwong
Curator
Dusadee Huntrakul
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Parinot Kunakornwong is exploring drawing as a way of thinking, moving, and observing the world. Through sculpture, drawing panels, and video, the exhibition expands drawing beyond the page, translating everyday observations, sketchbook studies, and performances in Tokyo and Jakarta into a practice that moves across body, space, and memory.
Curated by Dusadee Huntrakul
Drawing brings together new and recent works by Parinot Kunakornwong that explore drawing as a way of thinking, moving, and observing the world. Presented through sculpture, drawing panels, and video, the exhibition expands the idea of drawing beyond the page, approaching it as an ongoing practice shaped by routine, limitation, and attention.
At the center of the gallery, sculptural works emerge from the artist’s long-term daily practice of observing and photographing everyday objects encountered on the streets of Bangkok. These observations are translated into three-dimensional forms, extending the logic of drawing into space. Surrounding the gallery, drawing panels adapted from the artist’s sketchbooks record moments of walking, pausing, and translating lived experience into marks.
The exhibition will also include video works documenting performances in Tokyo and Jakarta, where drawing becomes an embodied and political gesture—chewing through the pages of a city map or tracing a conceptual line through public space. Together, the works highlight drawing as a process that moves across body, space, memory, and circumstance.
About the artist
Parinot Kunakornwong lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand. His multimedia practice explores the transformative relationship between objects, the body, personal memory, and collective histories. Rather than depicting the self directly, he uses it as a framework to examine how cultural beliefs and inherited structures shape our perception of the body. He describes his work as a form of “self-portrait as context,” emerging from the feeling of being a tourist within his own experience.
His perspective is shaped by his upbringing as a third-generation Chinese diaspora within a garment factory environment and by a Thai Catholic school education. He began his art practice in 2010 amid the political unrest following the military crackdown near his home in Bangkok, an event that continues to inform his engagement with identity, gender, memory, and political structures.
He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He later studied Audio Engineering at SAE Institute before continuing his education in the United States at Parsons School of Design in New York, focusing on Design and Technology. He subsequently completed an MFA in Computational Studio Arts and an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
CURATOR:
Dusadee Huntrakul (b. 1978, based in Bangkok) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, ceramics, drawing, painting, and text. His practice explores themes of mortality, anthropology, and urban ecological observation, seeking forms of human connection that extend across time. Huntrakul began working with clay nearly twenty years ago at his uncle’s studio in Bangkok, inspired earlier by ceramic pots brought home by his late brother. Since then, fired clay, language, and everyday materials have remained central to his practice, through which he constructs spaces that feel both familiar and unfamiliar.
He received an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. Huntrakul has exhibited internationally, including presentations at the K20 Museum in Düsseldorf, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and the Singapore Biennale 2019. His work has also been featured in the Thailand Biennale 2018 and Singapore Biennale 2013. He was a finalist for the Sovereign Art Prize in 2015 and the Benesse Prize in 2019. His works are held in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum and other private collections. Huntrakul lives and works in Bangkok.
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