Born in 1974 in Ubon Ratchathani, he lives an works in Bangkok.
Pratchaya Phinthong creates situations as an invitation made to the visitor to share an experience with him. His projects (without any specific or pred-defined forms) suggest a crack in which the spectators are invited to fill the gaps. He builds a set, a fiction, or a process where he can test our perceptions. He proposes to his audience a story with multiple paths. A trip down memory lane combined with subjective perceptions. His projects are often constructed in a dialogue between the artist and the others, making the artist’s movement glide towards the social field. Beyond any artistical or formal experience, the artist is looking to find his place and his identity playing on the economic representations and cultural existences.The ‘gallery’ space becomes a free area. Therefore, Pratchaya Phinthong works in a dynamic area in between different realitie sunderlining the space and distance that separates them: two geographical points, two societies, two economic systems.
Traveling is also a key element of his work. The experience of displacement was the focal point of the exhibition “if I dig a very deep hole” that took place in gb agency in 2007. A mental and physical displacement all at once. Sort of a self-portrait of the artist in Paris, “if I dig a very big hole…” portrayed two moons on a negative. The artist found where the extreme geographically opposite place would be to Paris if we could draw a straight line through the globe. He then went to photograph the full moon on the Chatham islands (New Zealand) before coming to Paris to photograph the same full moon. The same motive, the same thing, two places diametrically opposite from one another, two individual experiences, two different moments are reunited in this work. The clear resolution of this long trip appeared hollow, as a kind of negative or print, almost unperceivable.
Solo show
The island club, Limassol
March 31 - April 29, 2023
Group exhibition with the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
Para Site, Hong Kong
March 18 - September 29, 2024
Group show including the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
Frac Lorraine, Metz
March 4 - April 23, 2023
A duo exhibition by Nicholas Mangan and
Pratchaya Phinthong
Storage, Bangkok
February 4 - April 2, 2023
Biennial including the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore
Biennial, until March 19, 2023
Biennial including the works of Pratchaya Phinthong
The Istanbul Biennial, Istambul
September 17 - November 20, 2022
Group show including the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
CAPC, Bordeaux
December 15, 2020 - December 11, 2022
Art Fair
Art Basel, Messe Basel
June 14 - 19, 2022
Group show, including the works of Pratchaya Phinthong
La Casa Encendida, Madid
May 27 - September 18, 2022
Solo show
gb agency, Paris
May 14 - July 23, 2022
Group show with works by Deimantas Narkevicius and Pratchaya Phinthong
JWD Art Space, Bangkok
30 April - 28 August, 2022
Group show with works by Mark Geffriaud and Pratchaya Phinthong
AIR351, Cascais
April 8 - June 5, 2022
A collective exhibition by Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
March 26 - May 7, 2022
Online conversation
Kadist, Online
August 26, 2021
Group show with works by Pratchaya Phinthong
Hayy Jameel, Jeddah
From November, 2021
Solo project
Galleries Curate, online
April 19 - 25, 2021
Group show including the works of Roman Ondak, Ryan Gander and Pratchaya Phinthong
Museion, Bolzano
March 26 - August 8, 2021
Solo exhibition by Pratchata Phinthong
Silpakorn University Art Center, Bangkok
Until May 15, 2021, extended to July 16, 2021
Group exhibition with works by Pratchaya Phinthong
CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
Until February 27, 2021
Group show including the work of Pratchaya Phinthong
Centre Pompidou, Paris
September 15, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Group show
gb agency, Paris
From November 30th 2019 to January 11th, 2020
Art Fair
Grand Palais, Paris
October 17 - 20, 2019
A solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency, Paris
From March 9 to May 4, 2019
Solo exhibition
Frieze Art Fair
October 4 - 7, 2018
A solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency, Paris
March 17 - April 28, 2018
Art Fair
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC).
March 22 - 26, 2016
Group installation
Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux
October 11–December 13, 2015
a solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency
From May 28 to July 18, 2015
Art Fair
Art Basel
June 19 - 22, 2014.
Group Exhibition
Clark House, Colaba, Bombay
7th February - 30th April 2014
Solo Show
KIOSK, Gand. Belgium
30 Nov 2013 - 26 Jan 2014
Solo Show
Lothringer 13_halle, Munich
22 nov 2013 - 26 jan 2014
Screening
Aetists’ Film Club, ICA, London
30 July 2013 - 6:45 pm
Kassel, Germany
9 June - 16 September 2012
Solo exhibition by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency
September 8 - November 3, 2012
A solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency
From September 5 to October 10, 2009
Group show
gb agency
From June 25 to July 25, 2009
Group exhibition
gb agency
From 1 December to 19 January 2008
A solo show by Pratchaya Phinthong
gb agency
From September 8 to October 13, 2007
Group exhibition
gb agency
5 November to 22 December 2005