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