• For over three decades, Pinaree Sanpitak has explored her sense of being in the world, emanating from and in dialogue...
    Pinaree Sanpitak: House Calls, installation view at 100 Tonson Foundation, 2020.

    For over three decades, Pinaree Sanpitak has explored her sense of being in the world, emanating from and in dialogue with her own body and experiences. Deploying a concise vocabulary of signifiers in a sensual, minimal style, Sanpitak reduces her artistic language to its essence to create a joyful experience of feeling and sensing, widening and engaging the body in its many dimensions: individual, social, spiritual, aesthetic. After the birth of her son, Sanpitak centered representations of the breast in her practice to epitomize the beauty she found in the experience, while other forms have since found their way into her lexicon to address themes of womanhood, nurture, spirituality, and more broadly, the experience of being human in the world.

    Employing a wide range of materials, Sanpitak pushes the boundaries between material and meaning by exploiting the slippages between concepts such as strength and fragility, lightness and weight, hard and soft. Intent on making art that encourages one not only to see but also sense with the body, Sanpitak has made installations and interactive works that invite visitors to commune and complete the work.

  • "An abstracted body is an open interpretation that expands our anatomical perception, as it doesn’t hold a typical form. Its conceptual flexibility thus allows me to challenge social expectations that are usually
    imposed upon our bodies."
    —Pinaree Sanpitak
  • One of Asia’s most important contemporary artists, Pinaree Sanpitak’s works have been exhibited in numerous museums and biennales, including the...
    Installation view, works by Pinaree Sanpitak in the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia.

    One of Asia’s most important contemporary artists, Pinaree Sanpitak’s works have been exhibited in numerous museums and biennales, including the main exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale entitled The Milk of Dreams curated by Cecilia Alemani in 2022. Other exhibitions and public projects have taken place at the Bangkok Art Biennale (2023), Hancock Shaker Village Museum (2022), the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, (2017), Toledo Museum of Art (2015), and the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (2014). Sanpitak’s work is in the collections of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; M+, Hong Kong; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Singapore Art Museum; MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand; the Seattle Art Museum, Washington; and the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; among many others. In 2007, Sanpitak won the Silpathorn Award that honors distinguished contemporary artists in Thailand.

    Sanpitak lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand, where she was born in 1961. 

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