My name is Prapat Jiwarangsan (b.1979). I am an artist and filmmaker from Thailand. I have a strong background in interdisciplinary art and research. I was trained in ceramics and glassmaking, but after studying at London’s Royal College of Art, I have shifted my artistic practice to focus on fine arts. In my creative explorations, I usually incorporate a variety of media, especially photography and video, in order to investigate and represent the relationships between history, memory, and politics in Thailand—particularly in relation to the theme of migration. In the past four years, I have researched and developed a practice that explores the experience of migrant workers outside of their home countries. I see my work as a platform for artist, viewers and migrant workers to communicate and learn from each other.
My installations have appeared in Bangkok, London, Berlin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Kyoto, Seoul and Singapore while my videos have screened at international film events such as Berlin International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA., and Onion City Experimental Film and Singapore International Film Festival. Currently, I am an independent artist, and I am based in Bangkok.
Education
2011 MA. Fine Arts, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2009 MFA. Visual Art, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang, Bangkok Thailand.
2002 B.A. Interior Architecture, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang, Bangkok Thailand.
Solo Exhibition
2025 “The portrait of Asian Family” Frieze Seoul, South Korea.
“The Portrait of Siamese Family” Norito gallery, London.
2019 “Destination Nowhere”, Gallery Ver Project Room, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018 “Nocturnal Flowers”, Seescape Gallery, Chiang mai, Thailand.
2016 “Asylum seeker: the pond and the fireflies, The Jam Factory, Bangkok.
“Dust under feet” Corner Art Space, Seoul, South Korea.
2015 “The three-colored pond and the point of firefly”
BaanSuanPaiLom, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
2014 “In the asylum garden”, Kunstverein Baden, Austria.
2012 “I will never smile again” WTF gallery, Bangkok.
Group Exhibition
2025 “ArtEvol2025”, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2024
“Forum Expanded”, Belinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany.
“JOFFIS 2024” Jogja Fotografis Festival, Jogja, Indonesia.
“Tomorrow’s history by Sine Screen, ESEA contemporary, Manchester, UK.
2023
“Nam June Paik: Post-Fluxus Sense”, Seoul and Gwangju, South Korea.
“Soft Country”, Loop Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
“I was born and you gotta live with the bad blood now” Erg Gallery,Brussel, Belgium.
“Tomorrow’s History”, Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK.
2022
“Sharjah Vantage Point 10” Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates.
“Image Movement: Photography and Film”, Java Creative Café TTP, Cambodia.
2021
“Me Culture/We Society”, Korean Research Fellow 10×10, Korean Culture and
Information Service, South Korea.
“Co-Mirroring”, TRA-Travel and Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan.
2020
“Vantage Point Sharjah 8”, Sharjar Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates.
“In the Era of Asia’s Post LCC”, Kyoto Art Center Gallery, Kyoto, Japan.
2019
“Every Step in to the Right Direction”, Singapore Biennale, Singapore.
“Blackout”, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherland.
“Blackout”, Greylight, Brussels, Belgium.
“Blackout”, Ambica P3, London, UK.
“Beyond the Final Frontier”, S.A.C. Subhashok The Arts Center, Bangkok, Thailand.
“Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia” The Secretariat, Yangon, Myanmar.
2018
“Compiling behaviors, digesting actions” Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo Tokyo, Japan.
“DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia” Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang mai, Thailand.
2017
“Open Studio” Tokyo Arts and Space (Tokyo Wonder Site)Tokyo, Japan.
2016
“Geumcheon International Artists Exhibition” Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, Korea.
“Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia” Ruang Mes56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
“Life-World of Asia” Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan.
2015
“Here, There and Everywhere: Eurasian Cities” The Asia Culture Center,
Gwangju, Korea.
2014
“The Other Cold War” The Drake Hotel, Chicago, USA.
“Breaking and Reconstructing the Circle” Gallery 8, London, UK.
“short_hand_made” GRINDEL 117, Hamburg, Germany.
2013
“Subjective Truth” 10Chancerylane gallery, Hong Kong.
“Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in
Southeast Asia”, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok.
2012
“Politics of Me” Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok.
“Stage Two: OPEN Certain Site”, OCAC, Bangkok.
2011
“Folio” Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.
“CMYOK!” CPF Gallery Projects, London.
2010
“The Impossible Dream” The Office of Educational Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy, London.
“Hope to Dwell in Fear” Hockney Gallery, London.
“Out of Practice” Siobhan Davies Studios, London.
“Sabai Sabai” Department21. Royal College of Art, London.
2009
“Healing” SOL Gallery, Bangkok.
“Love(?)” Reflections Room in Bangkok, Bangkok.
2008
“Intangible Dhamma in Nature” Siam City Hotel, Bangkok.
2007
“Collage and Color” Lalanta Gallery, Bangkok.
2006
“Panta Eyes at Art volume1”Siam Paragon, Bangkok.
Screening
2025 “The Slides of Prof.Somkiat Tang-Nmo” International Film Festival Oberhausen. Germany.
“The Slides of Prof.Somkiat Tang-Nmo” Tirana Film Festival, Albania.
“The Slides of Prof.Somkiat Tang-Nmo” The Bangkok International Film Festival. Thailand.
“The Slides of Prof.Somkiat Tang-Nmo” and “Myanmar Anatomy” The Beijing Short Film Festival. Beijing, China.
“Parasite Family” The Forum Film Documenter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
“Ploy” and “The Wandering Ghost” Bangkok Kunsthalle, Bangkok, Thailand.
2024
“Myanmar Anatomy” Vienna Shorts, Austria.
“Myanmar Anatomy” World film festival of Bangkok, Bkk, Thailand.
“Myanmar Anatomy” ExiS Festival, South Korea.
“Myanmar Anatomy” Seoel International ALT Cinema and media Festival, Seoul.
“Parasite Family” Onion City Experimental Film Festival, USA.
2023
“Myanmar Anatomy” Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.
“Parasite Family” Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA.
“Parasite Family” Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour, various sites in USA.
“Parasite Family” London Short Film Festival, ICA, London, UK.
“Parasite Family”, Diffusion, curated by RE:ASSEMBLAGE collective, Toronto, Canada.
“The Asylum” Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada.
2022
“Parasite Family” Berlin International Film Festival (Forum Expanded)
“Parasite Family” Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany.
“Parasite Family” Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada.
“Parasite Family” Vienna Shorts, Austria.
“Parasite Family” Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris, France.
“Parasite Family” Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Ukraine
“Parasite Family” Festival Silhouette, Paris, France.
“Parasite Family” Arkipel, Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film, Festival, Indonesia.
“Parasite Family” Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore.
“Parasite Family” Tehran Short Film Festival, Tehran, Iran.
“Parasite Family” World Film Festival of Bangkok, Thailand.
“Parasite Family” Festival International du Film de Nancy, Nancy, France.
“Parasite Family” Indie-Anifest, South Korea.
“Ploy” EXiS – Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul.
“Ploy” Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival.
“Ploy” TRA-Travel, Osaka, Japan.
“Ploy” Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju, South Korea.
2021
“Ploy” Berlin International Film Festival (Forum Expanded)
2020
“Ploy” Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore.
“Destination Nowhere” “The Wandering Ghosts”
“The Asylum”, NTU CCA, Singapore.
“Destination Nowhere” Co-Mirroring”, TRA-Travel/Osaka Art Hub, Japan.
2019
“Destination Nowhere” ExiS Festival, South Korea.
“Destination Nowhere” Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway.
“Destination Nowhere”, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada.
“Destination Nowhere” Rencontres International, Paris and Berlin.
“The Asylum” Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norway.
2018
“Destination Nowhere” 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
“Destination Nowhere” Cinerama: Metamorphosis | A film programme by SAM and Asian Film Archive, Singapore Art Museum at Q8, Singapore.
“Destination Nowhere” Kinodot Film Festival, Russia.
“Destination Nowhere” Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada.
“Destination Nowhere” Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden.
“Destination Nowhere” Open City Documentary Festival, UK.
“Destination Nowhere” KLEX – Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video and Music Festival, Malaysia.
“Destination Nowhere” Vision in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, UK.
“Destination Nowhere” Ceci n’est pas un festival, Canada.
“The Asylum” Earth as History: Moving Images and Ecologies in Southeast Asia,
Close-Up Film Centre, UK.
“The Asylum” world wide streaming via MUBI
“The Asylum” world wide streaming via IFFR Unleashed.
“Aestetics101” Kaleido Asia, Thai Film Archive, Thailand.
2017
“The Asylum” Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland.
“The Asylum” Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada.
“The Asylum” Poor Farm Experiment, Milwaukee, USA.
2016
“Aesthetics101” EXiS film festival, Seoul, Korea.
“The Asylum” 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands.
“The Asylum” The 14th International Festival Signes de Nuit at Lisboa, Portugal.
“The Asylum” Festival de Cine Lima Independiente, Peru.
“The Asylum” Les Rencontres Internationales, France.
“The Asylum” 27th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, USA.
“The Asylum” Lucca Film Festival, Italy.
“The Asylum” 10th CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity, Shillong, India.
“The Asylum” Experiments In Cinema v11.4, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
“The Asylum” AVI Festival, Israel.
“The Asylum” São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil.
“The Asylum” Addis Ababa in London: A Migratory Video Festival, London, UK.
“The Asylum” Festival x-24 2016: 24hr Cinema Programme, X – Church, Ashcroft Road Gainsborough, UK.
“Artist Sick” Experiments In Cinema v11.4, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
2015
“The Asylum” Addis Video Art Festival, Ethiopia.
“The Asylum” Experimenta, India.
“The Asylum” Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore.
“The Asylum” Thai Short Film and Video Festival, Bangkok.
2014
“Non-Chronological History” Under the Different Sky: Thai Short Film & Artist Video Showcase, London, UK.
“The Measure of Time” The Centre Nationale de la Danse and of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France.
2011
“Artist Sicks” Image festival, Toronto, Canada.
“Artist Sicks” Moving Image Studio, Royal College of Art, UK.
2010
“The Measure of Time” Candid Projection Room, London, UK.
“The Measure of Time” Siobhan Davies Studios, London. UK.
2009
“Mirror Mask” (EVA.8) Experimental Video Art 8, Bangkok, Thailand.
Experience/Award
2023
“Nam June Paik: Post-Fluxus Sense Award”, Seoul and Gwangju, South Korea.
“The Peter Wilde Award” for Most Technically Innovative Film for “Parasite Family”
at Ann Arbor Film Festival.
2022
“The EXiS Award” (Best international film) for “Ploy” at EXiS – Experimental Film and VideoFestival in Seoul, South Korea.
2019
“Southeast Asian Documentary Grant”, Singapore International Film Festival.
2018
“Jury first special mention”, Kinodot Film Festival, Russia.
2016
“The second jury prize”, Imagining New Eurasia Project, ACC Asia culture center, Gwangju, South Korea.
2015
Finalist, Southeast Asian Short Film Competition, International Film Festival, Singapore.
Finalist, R. D. Pestonji Competition, Thai Short Film and Video Festival, Bangkok, Thailand.
Residency
2020
“NTU CCA”(Center for Contemporary Art Singapore), Singapore.
2017
“Tokyo Arts and Space” (Tokyo Wonder Site) Tokyo, Japan.
2016
“Geumcheon Art Space”, Seoul, South Korea.
“Koganecho Bazaar”, Yokohama, Japan.
Grants/Funding
2022
“Ishibashi fellowship”, Japan foundation Thailand.
2019
“Southeast Asian Documentary Grant”, Singapore International Film Festival.
2018
A research project “Opposite Directions: Myanmar, Singapore and Japan” from The Japan Foundation Asia Center.
2014
“Publishing grant”, “Art is not coincidental”from Chiang Mai University.
A research project “Yogyakarta Art Community: Integrating Traditional and Contemporary Arts” from The Asian Cultural Council (ACC).
2013
A research project “Contemporary Art in Chiang Mai and South East Asia from Chiang Mai University.
Lecturer
2020 – present
Part time lecturer at
Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn university.
Faculty of Creative art and graphic creative, Burapha University.
2012-2015
Full time lecturer at Multidisciplinary Art, Visual Art Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University.
2015
Alternative Conceptual Art, a lecture project from Bacc. to Bangkok University.
2013
Exhibition Design, Thammasat University, Lampang.
2012
Art Criticism, Bangkok University, Bangkok.
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