Fleet of crow and owl, 2024
ARTIST
Nawin Nuthong. Photo: Harit Srikhao
NAWIN NUTHONG
b.1993. Lives and works in Bangkok
Nawin Nuthong is a contemporary artist and curator exploring the connections between history and cultural media through a wide range of mediums. Melding myths and legends with pop-cultural references from video games, comics, and film, he examines the role technology has to play in reconfiguring the learning and understanding of history.
Nuthong graduated with a major in Film Studies and Digital Media from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. Since 2024, his works have been exhibited in numerous venues, including fffluid apparatus: At the Intersection of the Human, the Natural (2024) at Rumah Tangsi in Kuala Lumpur and Liquidscape: Southeast Asia Today (2024) at Art Maebashi in Maebashi. Nuthong was also a participating artist in the Bangkok Art Biennale 2022, CHAOS: CALM. His video work, 2 sec before revolution in a leaf (2023), was selected by the SAM S.E.A . Focus Art Fund 2024 to become part of the Singapore Art Museum collection. At BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY, his exhibitions include THE IMMORTALS ARE QUITE BUSY THESE DAYS (2020), A Room, Where They Are COEVALs [Precise at a Dig Site Door] (2021) , Heaven Crumbles: The Marvellous Misadventures of Sudsakorn (2021) , and his recent second solo exhibition, Fountain Foundation, opening in January 2025.
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SELECTED WORKS
Fountain Isle, 2025
Thirsty block, 2024
Black M, 2024
He Heard Leaf Crawl, 2024
Heard, 2024
Running Fence (2), 2024
2 sec before revolution in a leaf, 2023
Horse of time, 2022
Populous, 2021
A room, where they are COEVALs, 2021
Pillar Diorama, 2021
Immortality and History, 2021
Threshold cards, 2021
Myrhh, 2021