Kawita Vatanajyankur has achieved international recognition since graduating with a BA in Fine Art from RMIT University in 2011. In 2015, she was a Finalist for the Jaguar Asia Pacific Tech Art Prize and was included in the Thailand Eye exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, London. Her work was later presented in Islands in the Stream in Venice, alongside the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). That same year, she exhibited at both the Asia Triennale of Performing Arts at Melbourne Arts Centre and the Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan.

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In 2018, Vatanajyankur participated in the inaugural Bangkok Art Biennale and presented her work in Absurdity in Paradise at the Fridericianum Museum in Kassel, Germany. The following year, she held her largest museum exhibition to date, Foul Play, at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in New York. In 2021, she took part in Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories at both Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai) and Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), where her work was also featured in the exhibition Balance.

She returned to the Bangkok Art Biennale in its third edition (2022) under the theme Chaos and Calm, while also presenting in Fun Feminism at Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) and The Uncanny World at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (Korea). In 2023, Vatanajyankur was introduced by Nova Contemporary with a solo booth at the Discovery Section of Art Basel Hong Kong. In 2024, she presented works in The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, an official collateral exhibition of the Venice Biennale, and was selected for the 11th Asia Pacific Triennale (APT11) in Brisbane, Australia. Her upcoming projects include a major solo exhibition at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai, scheduled for early 2026.

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Vatanajyankur has exhibited widely across Australia, Asia, the United States, and Europe. Her works are held in the National Collection of Thailand and in leading museum collections including the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Singapore Art Museum, JUT Art Museum (Taiwan), M Woods Museum (China), Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand), Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum (Thailand), DIB Contemporary Art Museum (Thailand), and MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art (Thailand). Her practice is also represented in university collections and private collections across Asia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. She is currently represented by Nova Contemporary, Bangkok.