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Sorawit Songsataya

Sorawit Songsataya

New Zealand artist and musician

Sorawit Songsataya is a Thailand-born New Zealand artist based in Wellington.[1]

Education and career

Songsataya is primarily interested in craft, textiles, hand-made objects and their connection to computer technology. They often uses moving image and sculpture within installation environments.[2][1]

Songsataya graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland in 2013, and a BDes in Visual Communication from Unitec Institute of Technology in 2010.[3]

Notable exhibitions

Group

  • Otherwise-Image-Worlds, Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 2022.[4]
  • Heavy trees, arms and legs, The Suter Gallery, Nelson, 2021.[5]
  • Comfort Zone, a work as part of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia, 2021.[6]
  • The Turn of the Fifth Age, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia, 2021.[7]

Solo

  • Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2022.[8]
  • Rumours (Mermaid), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2020.[9]
  • The Interior, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2019.[10]
  • Offspring of Rain, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington, 2019.[11]
  • Jupiter, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2019.[12]

Awards and residencies

  • Gasworks residency, London, 2023.[13]
  • Frances Hodgkins Fellowship recipient in 2022.[14]
  • Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 3D in 2020.[15]
  • National Contemporary Art Award in 2016.[16]
  • Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ‘In Residence’ Programme, 2021.[17][18]
  • McCahon House residency, Auckland, 2018.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "Sorawit Songsataya | McCahon House". mccahonhouse.org.nz. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Sorawit Songsataya | Multimedia Artist - SCAPE Public Art". 26 August 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Coastal Signs - Sorawit Songsataya". coastal-signs.net. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  4. [4]
    "Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery | Otherwise-image-worlds". Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  5. [5]
    "Heavy trees, arms and legs". The Suter Art Gallery. 24 April 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  6. [6]
    "Sorawit Songsataya". uralbiennial.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  7. [7]
    "Some Kind of Travelogue". contemporaryhum.com. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  8. [8]
    "Sorawit Songsataya, Nature and State | Contemporary Hum". contemporaryhum.com. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  9. [9]
    "Sorawit Songsataya: Rumours (Mermaid)". Artnow. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  10. [10]
    "The Interior by Sorawit Songsataya - SCAPE Public Art". 25 August 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  11. [11]
    "Offspring of rain | Enjoy Contemporary Art Space". enjoy.org.nz. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  12. [12]
    "Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery | Sorawit Songsataya: Jupiter". Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  13. [13]
    "Sorawit Songsataya awarded the seventh residency for an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand at Gasworks, London". Artnow. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  14. [14]
    Fox, Rebecca (7 July 2022). "Fellowship freedom". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  15. [15]
    "Winners 2020". Molly Morpeth Canaday Award. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  16. [16]
    Mather, Mike (2 September 2016). "Good Kisser earns National Contemporary Art Award". Stuff. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  17. [17]
    "Residencies | Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre". govettbrewster.com. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  18. [18]
    "Three Artists Picked For Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 'In Residence' Programme | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 12 October 2023.


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