
KAWITA VATANAJYANKUR
Biography
Vatanajyankur has achieved significant recognition since graduating from RMIT University (BA, Fine Art) in 2011. In 2015 she was a Finalist in the Jaguar Asia Pacific Tech Art Prize and curated into the prestigious Thailand Eye exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, London. In 2017, her work has been curated into 'Islands in the Stream' exhibition in Venice, Italy alongside the 57th Venice Biennale, Asia Triennale of Performing Arts at the Melbourne Arts Centre, as well as 'Negotiating the Future' , The Asian Art Biennial Taiwan. In 2018, She showed her works as part of the Bangkok Art Biennale. In 2019, Vatanajyankur has held her largest museum show to date at Albright Knox Art Gallery in New York, USA. In 2021, Vatanajyankur is showing her works as part of 'Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories' at Maiiam Museum of Contemporary Art in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany. In 2022, Vatanajyankur joined The Bangkok Art Biennale for the second time and exhibited her work as part of 'Fun Feminism' at Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland and 'The Uncanny World' at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea.
Vatanajyankur has exhibited widely across Australia, as well as Asia, USA and Europe. Vatanajyankur’s work is held at the National Collection of Thailand and in Museum collections including Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), JUT Art Museum (Taiwan), M Woods Museum (China), Dunedin Public Art Gallery (New Zealand), Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum (Thailand), DIB Contemporary Art Museum (Thailand), MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art (Thailand), as well as university collections and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe and America. She is currently represented by Nova Contemporary, Bangkok.