Sorawit Songsataya Explained

Sorawit Songsataya (born in Chiang Mai, Thailand^[1]) is a Thai-New Zealand artist based in Wellington, New Zealand.^[2]

Education and career

Songsataya is primarily interested in craft, textiles, hand-made objects and their connection to computer technology. They often employ moving image and sculpture within installation environments.^[3]

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.^[4]

From November 23, 2019 until October27, 2020 Songstaya's sculptural instillation The Interior was prominently displayed at the Auckland Art Gallery.^[5]

Notable exhibitions

Group

• Thresholds, City Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2022)^[6]
• Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (2022)
• nature danger revenge, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin (2022)^[7]
• Otherwise-Image-Worlds, Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)
• twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui+queer objects, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)^[8]
• Wild Once More, Silo 6 Project by Te Tuhi Contemporary Art, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)^[9]
• Listening Stones Jumping Rocks, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2021)
• Thinking Hands, Touching Each Other, the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg (2021)
• Heavy trees, arms and legs, The Suter Art Gallery, Whakatū Nelson (2021)^[10]
• H e a v y   t r e e s,   a r m s   a n d   l e g s,   C o a s t a l   S i g n s,     T ā m a k i   M a k a u r a u   A u c k l a n d   (2 0 2 1)
• The Turn of the Fifth Age, Taipei Contemporary Art Centre in collaboration with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung (2021)^[11]
• Cherish TV, Cherish Gallery, Geneva (2020)^[12]
• , Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Ōtepoti Dunedin (2018)^[13]
• Soon Enough: Art in Action, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2018)^[14]

Solo

• Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2022.^[15]
• Otherwise-Image-Worlds, Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)
• Rumours (Mermaid), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2020.^[16]
• The Interior, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2019.^[17]
• Offspring of Rain, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington, 2019.^[18]
• Jupiter, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2019.^[19]

Awards and residencies

• Singapore Art Museum residency, Singapore, 2024^[20]
• Gasworks residency, London, 2023.^[21]
• Frances Hodgkins Fellowship recipient in 2022.^[22]
• Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 3D in 2020.^[23]
• National Contemporary Art Award in 2016.^[24]
• Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ‘In Residence’ Programme, 2021.^{[25] [26]}
• McCahon House residency, Auckland, 2018.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sorawit Songsataya | Satellites Archive .
2. Web site: Sorawit Songsataya McCahon House . 2023-10-12 . mccahonhouse.org.nz . en.
3. Web site: 2021-08-26 . Sorawit Songsataya Multimedia Artist - SCAPE Public Art . 2023-10-12 . en-NZ.
4. Web site: Coastal Signs - Sorawit Songsataya . 2023-10-12 . coastal-signs.net . en.
5. Web site: Sorawit Songsataya: The Interior . 23 November 2019 .
6. Web site: At Thresholds . 2024-11-19 . City Gallery . en.
7. Web site: Nature danger revenge . 2024-11-19 . Dunedin Public Art Gallery . en-US.
8. Web site: twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects — Objectspace . 2024-11-19 . www.objectspace.org.nz . en.
9. Web site: TeTuhi . 2024-11-19 . tetuhi.art.
10. Web site: 2021-04-25 . Heavy trees, arms and legs . 2024-11-19 . The Suter Art Gallery . en-US.
11. Web site: 2021.02.26 – 2021.03.28 The Turn of the Fifth Age 轉向第五時代 – 台北當代藝術中心 . 2024-11-19 . www.tcac.tw.
12. Web site: Cherish TV . 2024-11-19 . cherishhhh.ch . en.
13. Web site: https://blueoyster.org.nz/exhibitions/bright-cave/ . 2024-11-19 . blueoyster.org.nz . en.
14. Web site: Tensta konsthall . 2024-11-19 . www.tenstakonsthall.se . se.
15. Web site: Sorawit Songsataya, Nature and State Contemporary Hum . 2023-10-12 . contemporaryhum.com . en.
16. Web site: Sorawit Songsataya: Rumours (Mermaid) . 2023-10-12 . Artnow . en.
17. Web site: 2021-08-25 . The Interior by Sorawit Songsataya - SCAPE Public Art . 2023-10-12 . en-NZ.
18. Web site: Offspring of rain Enjoy Contemporary Art Space . 2023-10-12 . enjoy.org.nz.
19. Web site: Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery Sorawit Songsataya: Jupiter . 2023-10-12 . en-US.
20. Web site: Our Residents: Sorawit SONGSATAYA Singapore Art Museum . 2024-11-19 . www.singaporeartmuseum.sg . en.
21. Web site: Sorawit Songsataya awarded the seventh residency for an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand at Gasworks, London . 2023-10-12 . Artnow . en.
22. Web site: Fox . Rebecca . 2022-07-07 . Fellowship freedom . 2023-10-12 . Otago Daily Times Online News . en.
23. Web site: Winners 2020 . 2023-10-12 . Molly Morpeth Canaday Award . en.
24. Web site: Mather . Mike . 2016-09-02 . Good Kisser earns National Contemporary Art Award . 2023-10-12 . Stuff . en.
25. Web site: Residencies Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Len Lye Centre . 2023-10-12 . govettbrewster.com . en-NZ.
26. Web site: Three Artists Picked For Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 'In Residence' Programme Scoop News . 2023-10-12 . www.scoop.co.nz.