Artist : Pinaree Sanpitak
Contact : shoneye@hotmail.com
Born : 1961, Bangkok, Thailand
Education : 1986, BFA Visual Arts and Communication Design
School of Fine Arts and Design, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Scholarships : 1979-80 AFS American Field Service International Exchange Program Raytown South High School, Kansas City, Mo., USA
: 1981-82 Japanese Language School, Tokyo University of Foreign Language, Tokyo, Japan (Japanese Government Scholarship)
: 1982-86 Japanese Government Scholarship Undergraduate Program School of Fine Arts and Design, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Artist Residency Programs
1999 : Printmaking Workshop – Northern Editions – Northern Territory University (NTU) Darwin, Australia
2000 : AFAA Association Francaise d ’Action Artistique Artist-in-Residence at Cite Internationale des Art – Paris, France
: IASPIS : International Artists’ Studio Program in Sweden – Stockholm,
Sweden
2001 : Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, USA
2003 : Pacific Bridge Residency Program, Oakland, California, USA
2008 : Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs, Montalvo Arts Center,Saratoga,
California, USA
Solo Exhibitions
1987 : AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS & COLLAGES BY PINAREE SANPITAK, Books & Beer, Bangkok, Thailand
1988 : PINAREE SANPITAK : AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS, PAINTINGS & COLLAGES , Central Plaza Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
1991 : THE CROSS THE EGG THE COW & THE SQUASH, Silom Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
1993 : MOTHER & CHILD : A DIALOGUE, Silom Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
1994 : BREAST WORKS, Silom Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
1997 : EGGS, BREASTS, BODIES, I, ETCETERA, The Art Center, Centers of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University
1999 : WOMANLY ABSTRACT, About Studio/About Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand
2000 : WOMANLY BODIES – Prints Art2, Substation, Singapore
: CONTINUED – COMPELLED – COMFORTED, Atelier Frank & Lee, Singapore
: WOMANLY BODIES in PRINT, Numthong Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2001 : VESSELS AND MOUNDS, The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
: “SHIBUI” – BREAST STUPAS, Seinan Gakuin University Library,
Fukuoka,Japan (on view annually)
2002 : OFFERING VESSELS, Salina Art Center, Kansas, USA
: BREAST AND BEYOND, Bangkok University Art Gallery, Chulalongkorn University Art Gallery, Open Arts Space, Bangkok, Thailand
: GROWTH & VOID, Atelier Frank & Lee, Singapore
2003 : BREASTS AND VESSELS AND MOUNDS, Jendela Gallery, The Esplanade, Singapore
: METAMORPHOSIS, Gallery Art U, Osaka, Japan
: NOON-NOM, Discovery Center, Bangkok, Thailand
: NOON-NOM & VESSELS, Babilonia 1808, Berkeley, CA. USA
2004 : TEMPORARY INSANITY, The Art Center at Jim Thompson House, Bangkok, Thailand
: AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, ART U – Room, Tokyo, Japan
2005 : JEDIS VESSELS AND COOKING, The Borderline Event – The Castle / Breast Stupa Cookery collaborations with local patisseries and Aula Gastronomica de l”Emporda, La Bisbal d’Emporda, Girona, Spain
2006 : BREAST FRUITS, ART U – Room, Tokyo, Japan
2007 : BREASTS CLOUDS, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Selected Group Exhibitions
1986 : VIA TSUKUBA (3), AXIS Gallery, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
1989 : METRO MANIA : ARX 1989 Australia and Regions Artists’ Exchange, PICA, Perth, Western Australia
1990 : ARTISTS FOR AIDS : Artists for People with AIDS, Lumpini Park, Bangkok, Thailand
1991 : ART AND ENVIRONMENT, The Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
: RECENT WORKS BY CHATCHAI PUIPIA & PINAREE SANPITAK, The National Gallery, Chao Fa Rd., Bangkok, Thailand
1992 : SMALL WORKS by 56 Thai Artists, Silom Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
: THROUGH HER EYES An Exhibition by 6 Women Artists, Dialogue Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1993 : CONFESS AND CONCEAL, 11 insights from contemporary Australia and Southeast Asia, AGWA Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and toured in Southeast Asia
: SHUTTER TALK, Dialogue Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1994 : HERSTORIES, Dialogue Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1995 : 1995 – KRADAAD : Contemporary Thai Works on Paper, Texas Tech University, Department of Art, Texas, USA Touring Exhibition
: WEATHER REPORT, A touring group project initiated by Rienke Enghardt
1996 : THE SPIRITUAL AND THE SOCIAL, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
: DORIS HINZEN-ROEHRIG PINAREE SANPITAK JUDY WATSON : PAINTINGS, The National Gallery, Chao Fa Rd., Bangkok, Thailand
: HUAY KHWANG MAGA-CITY PROJECT, Demolition site, Rachadaphisek Rd., Bangkok, Thailand
1997 : WOMANIFESTO, Baan Chao Phraya & Concrete House, Bangkok, Thailand
: GLIMPSES INTO THE FUTURE ART IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 1997, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
1998 : BANGKOK ART PROJECT 1998, Ratanakosin Island, Bangkok, Thailand
1999 : WOMEN IMAGING WOMEN : HOME, BODY, MEMORY, Main Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), Manila, The Philippines
: ALTER EGO – THAI – EU Contemporary Art Project, Art Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
: WOMANIFESTO 2, Saranrom Park, Bangkok, Thailand
: FESTIVAL DER GEISTER / ASIAN SPIRIT AND GHOST FESTIVAL, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
: “BEYOND THE FUTURE” THE THIRD ASIA- PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2000 : GLOCAL SCENTS OF THAILAND, Edsvik Konst & Kultur , Solentuna, Sweden
: EURO VISIONS, Art Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts,Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
: LES SEMIOPHORES, Collaboration project on the facade of The Town Hall, Lyon, France, 7 – 10, December, 2000. A proposal by Philippe Moullion of LABORATOIRE, Grenoble, France
2001 : A SHRIEK FROM AN INVISIBLE BOX, The Meguro Museum, Tokyo, Japan
: ASIAART 2001/LABYRINTHS, Asian Contemporary Art – Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea Contempoary Art Museum of Genoa, Italy
2002 : 36 IDEAS FROM ASIA – Contemporary South-East Asian Art, Singapore Art Museum European Touring Exhibition
: THE 2nd FUKUOKA ASIAN ART TRIENNALE 2002, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
: The 2nd Women’s Art Festival, EAST ASIAN WOMEN AND HERSTORIES, Women’s History Exhibition Hall, Seoul Women’s Community Center, Seoul, South Korea
2003 : NEXT MOVE – Contemporary Art from Thailand, Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore
: THE SPIRIT OF ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART, University Library Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, California, USA
2005 : THAI FESTIVAL ROME, Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome, Italy
: 600 IMAGES/ 60 ARTISTS / 6 CURATORS/ 6 CITIES, Bangkok/ Berlin/ London/ Los Angeles/ Manila/ Saigon
: BREAST STUPA COOKERY / SOI PROJECT-YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE, Press Conference, Jim Thompson House, Bangkok, Thailand
: SOI PROJECT / YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2005, Yokohama, Japan
: PIC-NIC IN THE ROOM, Collaboration with Dutch designers : Anthony Kleinepier & TTTVO, Art-U Room, Tokyo, Japan
: BREAST STUPA COOKERY / PIC-NIC IN THE ROOM, Jardin de Bagatelle, Kawazu / Urasenke Tea Ceremony / Art-U Room, Tokyo, Japan
: BREAST STUPA COOKERY / LOTUS ARTS DE VIVRE – WPO OFFSITE EVENT, Oriental Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
2006 : ARTERY, The Gallery and Concourse, Singapore Management University, Singapore
: BREAST STUPA COOKERY / ARTERY EXHIBITION OPENING, SMU Singapore Management University, Singapore
: THAI ART FESTIVAL PARIS 2006, Mairie du 6 e, St. Sulpice, Paris,
France
: BREAST STUPA COOKERY / SOI PROJECT / THAI ART FESTIVAL PARIS, Mairie du 6 e , St. Sulpice and Restuarant Le Trois, Paris, France
: LITTLE MORE SWEET NOT TOO SOUR, 100 Ton Son Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
: PINK BRAS ALERT !
Charity in an A-B-C Cup – Fund raising campaign for The Queen’s Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, Bangkok, Thailand and The Sukhothai Hotel Ballroom, Bangkok, Thailand
Bibliography
: Apinan Poshyananda, ’ Pinaree Sanpitak Making Her Mark ‘ , in Recent Works by Chatchai Puipia and Pinaree Sanpitak, exhibition catalog, the National Gallery, Bangkok, 1991, unpaginated.
: Apinan Poshyananda, ‘ The art of camouflage and exposure ‘ , in Confess and Conceal, exhibition catalog, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth,1993,
p.18 -22.
: Michael A. O’Ferrall, ‘ Object for Consideration – The Body and its Reflection, Behind the Pleasure of the Gaze’ , in Doris Hinzen – Roehrig, Pinaree Sanpitak, Judy Watson – Paintings, exhibition catalog, the National Gallery, Bangkok, 1996, unpaginated.
: Dionissia Giakoumi, ‘ Body and Soul – Pinaree Sanpitak’s art of life ‘ , Art Asia Pacific, Issue 21, 1999, Art Quarterly ISSN 1039 3625 , p. 50 – 57
: Somporn Rodboon, ’ Pinaree Sanpitak ‘ , in Beyond The Future The Third
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalog, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 1999, p.158-159
: Steven Pettifor, ‘ Making Offerings ‘ , Asian Art News, Volume 9 Number 6, Nov./Dec. 1999, bi-monthly ISSN 1023-5884 , p. 76 – 79
: Naomi Urabe, ‘ Fragments of the Female Form ‘, in vessels and mounds, exhibition catalog, The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 2001, unpaginated
: Gridthiya Gaweewong, ‘ In Praise of Woman’s Sensibility ‘, in vessels and mounds, exhibition catalog, The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, unpaginated
: Rhana Devenport, ‘ on the Sublime and the Now ‘ , in PINAREE SANPITAK, portfolio, Atelier Frank & Lee, Singapore, 2001, p. 2 – 6
: Ing K., ‘ Pinaree’s Milk Mound ‘ , in PINAREE SANPITAK, portfolio, Atelier Frank & Lee, Singapore, 2001, p. 11
: Naomi Urabe, ‘ the Vessel of Truth ‘ , in PINAREE SANPITAK, portfolio, Atelier Frank & Lee, Singapore, 2001, p. 33 – 35
: Brian Mertens, ‘ Pinaree Sanpitak ‘ , Art Asia Pacific, Issue 33, 2002, Art Quarterly ISSN 1039 3625 , p. 91
: Iola Lenzi, ‘ Breast Idiom ‘, in Breast and Beyond – Noon-Nom, exhibition catalog, Bangkok University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, 2002, unpaginated
: Somporn Rodboon, ‘ Image of the self in Pinaree Sanpitak’s Art ‘, in Breast and Beyond, exhibition catalog, Bangkok University Art Gallery, Chulalongkorn University Art Center, Open Arts Space, Bangkok, Thailand, 2002, unpaginated
: M.A. Greenstein, ‘ untitled ‘ , in Breast and Beyond, exhibition catalog, Bangkok University Art Gallery, Chulalongkorn University Art Center, Open Arts Space, Bangkok, Thailand, 2002,unpaginated,
: Iola Lenzi, ‘ Beyond the edge of self : formal and conceptual shifts in the art of Pinaree Sanpitak‘ , in Growth & Void Pinaree Sanpitak , portfolio, Atelier Frank & Lee, Singapore, 2003, p. 1 – 6
: Iola Lenzi, ’ Beyond the edge of self : formal and conceptual shifts in the art of Pinaree Sanpitak ‘ , in NEXT MOVE : Contemporary art from Thailand, exhibition catalog, Earl Lu Gallery LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore,
2003,
p.112 –119
: Steven Pettifor, ‘Pinaree Sanpitak’, in Flavours : Thai Contemporary Art, Thavibu Gallery Co.Ltd., Bangkok, 2003,
p. 64-67
: Apinan Poshyananda, ‘Harmony and Histeria through the Eye of FBI (Female Body Inspector) Iola Lenzi, ‘No Hard Lines gender politics in contemporary Southeast Asian visual art : does woman’s vernacular exist?’ Mary-Ann
Milford-Lutzker, ‘BREASTS AND BOWLS : Metaphor and Meaning in the Art of Pinaree Sanpitak’, Rhana Devenport, ‘ON PINAREE SANPITAK : Repetition and the Sensual Form’ in ‘temporary insanity’ , exhibition catalog, The James H.W. Thompson Foundation, 2004
Collections
: Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand
: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
: Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
: Misiem Yip-instoi Sculpture Garden
: Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan
: Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
: Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
: The Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, Chulalongkorn Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
: Other private collections
