BIOGRAPHY

 

Wantanee Siripattananuntakul is a Bangkok-based contemporary artist working across moving image, installation, sound, sculpture, and text. Her practice engages interspecies perception and relational forms of awareness, developed through long-term collaboration with her African Grey parrot, Beuys.

                    

Recent works explore gravity, attention, and nonhuman modes of witnessing, situating lived experience within broader material, ecological, and cosmological conditions.

 

Working between Bangkok and international research and residency contexts, she develops long-term projects informed by sustained, site-responsive research engagements across diverse cultural and geographic environments.          

Education

  • 1998 — B.F.A. (Sculpture), Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
  • 2004–2006 — Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany (Prof. Jean-François Guiton)
  • 2006–2007 — Meisterschülerin, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany
  • Since 2009 — Lecturer, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok

Residencies

  • 2026 — Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy (Upcoming)
  • 2025 — Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • 2025 — Paradise Air, Matsudo, Japan
  • 2024 — Art Explora / Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
  • 2024 — Taoxichuan Art Center, Jingdezhen, China
  • 2012 — Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2025 — Remnants of Fading Shadows, Art Center Silpakorn University, Bangkok
  • 2022 — The End of History Will Not Come Tomorrow, Gallery VER, Bangkok
  • 2018 — The Broken Ladder, Gallery VER, Bangkok
  • 2012 — (Dis)continuity, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
  • 2009 — Wantanocchiobot ’09, Ardel Gallery of Modern Art, Bangkok
  • 2007 — A Wantanee Retrospective, PSG Art Gallery, Silpakorn University

Special Projects / One-Person Exhibitions

  • 2023 — People Say Nothing Is Impossible, But Beuys Does Nothing Every Day, Frieze London (Artist-to-Artist)
  • 2016 — 20, Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, Quebec City

Two-Person / Duo Exhibitions

  • 2022 — INHERITANCE, Bangkok University Gallery
  • 2017 — Intersection / Tourist Trap, gallery wks. (Osaka) & Cartel Artspace (Bangkok)
  • 2015 — State of the Ridiculous, H Gallery, Bangkok (cur. Brian Curtin)

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2009 — Venice Biennale, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Thai Pavilion
  • 2026 — Wan Hai Hotel: Singapore Strait, The Warehouse Hotel, Singapore (cur. X Zhu-Nowell)
  • 2025 — THE ABYSS IS CALLING, Gallery VER, Bangkok (cur. Rirkrit Tiravanija)
  • 2024 — Stemflow: South by Southeast, Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong (cur. Patrick D. Flores)
  • 2023 — Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai
  • 2023 — Tokyo Biennale
  • 2022 — Bangkok Art Biennale
  • 2021 — BIENALSUR, Museo MACRO, Argentina
  • 2020 — National Gallery Singapore, Painting with Light

Publications & Writing

  • 2026 — Gravity Between Feathers, TE Magazine (forthcoming)