Manit Sriwanichpoom

Manit Sriwanichpoom born in 1961, lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand. Sriwanichpoom is one of Thailand’s leading photo artists, his social and political works have been exhibited worldwide including in the Kasseler Kunstverein (Germany, 2018), Saatchi Gallery (London, 2015), RAY Fotografieprojekte (Frankfurt, 2012), the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2010), the Asia Pacific Triennial (Australia, 2009), Gwangju Biennale (Korea, 2006) and the Venice Biennale (2003). Manit’s works are also collected by important museums including in the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (Paris), DZ Bank (Germany), Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (USA), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Queensland Art Gallery (Australia), National Gallery Singapore, National Gallery of Australia, Singapore Art Museum, DIB Bangkok (Thailand), and well known private collectors. In 2007 he was awarded the Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Prize from Japan and 2014 the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by French Ministry of Culture.

Education

1984 BA Visual Arts, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 Pink MARS, Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2024 Heavenly Pink, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2023 Pink, Black & Blue, HOP Hub of Photography, Bangkok, Thailand

2021 Pink Man Story, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2020 Lost, Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2018 Shocking Pink Story, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA

Lost, A+ Works of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2016 Fear, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore

Fear, Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Fear, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Fear, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand

2014 Bangkok in Technicolor, Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Blue, Adler Subhashok Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2013 Obscene, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2012 Obscene, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2010 Phenomena & Prophecies, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2009 Masters, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia

2008 The Lambs of God, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia

Ordinary/Extraordinary, Place M, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

2007 Ordinary/Extraordinary, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand

Man in Pink, Galerie VU’, Paris, France

2006 Beijing Pink, Highland Gallery, Beijing, China

2005 Pink Man in Paradise, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2004 Pink Man in Paradise, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2002 Bangkok in Pink, the Gallery, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan

Selected Group Exhibition

2026 MELT: History, Memory and Narrative, Kunakij Trading - The Historical Building, Bangkok, Thailand

2026 DELUSIONAL, West Eden Gallery / 1PROJECTS, Bangkok, Thailand

2022 Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, curated by Liu Gang, Xiamen, China

2021 18th edition of the Photaumnales, Beauvais, France

Tonight the Air is Warm, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2020 Closer than they appear, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore

Closer than they appear, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Stealing Public Space, The Substation, Singapore

2019 Life is Elsewhere, the 8th Dali International Photo Exhibition, Yunnan, China

Bruised: Art and Ecology in Asia, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Phapthay Sajin, Korean Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Moving Pledges: Art and Action in Southeast Asia, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

Fauna of Mirrors, Chennai Photo Biennale, India

Concept Context Contestation, Yangon, Myanmar

2018 Absurdity in Paradise, Kasseler Kunstvereun, Kassel, Germany

Two Houses: Politics and Histories in the Contemporary Art Collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang,

LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

The 7th Xishuangbanna Foto Festival, Yunnan, China

2017 Contemporary Ruins, curated by Julia Höner and Ludwig Seyfarth, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation and KINDL –

Center for Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf, Germany

Mon Art Du Style, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Farewell: The Art Center’s Acknowledgments 1995-2016, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,

Thailand

2016 Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta,

Indonesia

Thailand Eye, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Shapeshifting: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

2015 Thailand Eye, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom

To Seem and To Be, GuatePhoto Festival 2015, Antigua, Guatemala

Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Yeoju-gun, South Korea

DongGang International Photo Festival, Yeonwol, South Korea

2014 The Roving Eye: Conceptual Art from Southeast Asia, ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, Turkey

Struggles, Getxo Photo Festival, Getxo, Spain

Utopian Days – Freedom, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

Conflicted Visions, WTF Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Opiom Gallery Settles in Miami, CU1 Gallery, Miami, United States

2013 Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre,

Bangkok, Thailand

Subjective Truth, Contemporary Art from Thailand, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

Beast / Bloom for Thee, Galeri Canna, Jakarta, Indonesia

Summer Group Exhibition, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Inauguration, Opiom Gallery, Opio, France

2012 Making History, RAY Fotografieprojekte, Frankfurt, Germany

2011 Cross-Scape, ASEAN-Korea Contemporary Media Art Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea

Idols and Icons: New Photography from Southeast Asia and the Middle East, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore

Negotiating Home, History, and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia, 1991 – 2011,

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2010 Dreamlands, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Classic Contemporary, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Asia Spectrum, 3rd Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea

Thai Photography Now, The Month of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

Rupture: A Photographic Exhibition Curated by Olivier Pin-Fat, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok,

Thailand

2009 The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Asia: Exchanging Looks, Galerie Zola / Cite du Livre, Aix-en-Provence, France

1st Dali International Photography Exhibition, Kunming, Yunnan, China

2008 Photo Phnom Penh Festival, Cambodia

Coffee, Cigarettes and Pad Thai, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Headlights, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Beasts, Breasts & Beauty, Contemporary Southeast Asian Art from a Private Collection, Alliance Française,

Singapore

Flashback ’76: History & Memory of October 6 Massacre, Pridi Banomyong Institute, Bangkok, Thailand

Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2007 Photoquai, the World Visual Arts Biennale, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France

Las Partes Y El Todo, Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain

Festival du Scoop, Angers, France

Soft Power, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China

Act of Faith, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands

Asia - Europe Mediations, Poznan National Museum, Poland

Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

Show Me Thai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

So Close / So Far Away, CRAC ALSACE, Altkirch, France

2006 Fever Variations, 6th Gwangju Biennale, Korea

2005 The First Pocheon Asian Art Festival, Pocheon, Korea

Neo-Nationalism, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

LAK-KA-PID-LAK-KA-PERD: The Bangkok Invisible Landscapes, The Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University,

Bangkok, Thailand

2004 Resistance, Chobi Mela III, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Portraits, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2003 50th Venice Biennale, Thai Pavilion, Venice, Italy

Next Move, Contemporary Art from Thailand, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

Global Details, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands

2001 1st China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi, China

Quatre de Bangkok, PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain

2000 Images of the World, Station, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999 Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna, Austria

International Photography Biennale, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico

The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan

1998 XXIV Bienal International de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Asia City, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Awards, Grants and Residencies

2014 Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France

2007 Higashikawa Prize, Photo Fiesta, Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

2005 Shortlisted, Paris Photo Prize

1998 Second place, Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards

Selects Collections

ABN-AMRO Bank, Netherlands

Art Vantage, Israel / USA

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

DZ Bank, Germany

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan

Han Nefkens Foundation, Spain

H&F Foundation, Netherlands

Jeonbuk Museum of Art, South Korea

LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, France

National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery Singapore

Oslo Foto Kunst Skole, Norway

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Smith College Museum of Art, USA

Singapore Art Museum

Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand

Silpakorn University, Thailand

Thailand’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture

DIB Bangkok, Thailand

Vehbi Koc Foundation, Turkey

Manit Sriwanichpoom