Introducing an artist participating in Pattani Biennale 2026
Pichai Pongsasaovapark
Born in Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, 1963. Pichai is a Thai artist based in Bangkok, who uses abstract imagery, digital photography, and conceptual installation works to address social and environmental issues. As an artist, he seeks to raise public awareness of issues, move hearts and minds, provide insights and fuel public discussion on risks to health and the environment. Since completing his MFA (Painting) from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chiang Mai University, and curator studies at California State University East Bay, in Hayward, California, he has focused his art on environmental issues, including climate change, the impact of rising seas and urban flooding, overfishing of the oceans and the impact on Thai fishing communities, the impact of drought and the use of agrichemicals on Thai farming communities, and the need for environmentally conscientious urban planning. As art critic Scott Thayer observed in an Art Asia Pacific review of Pichai’s 2017 exhibition, Looking and Seeing, the artist’s work provides “a sobering solemnity in its visualizations of pollution and catastrophic climate change.”

His artwork is in such collections as the Luciano Benetton Foundation in Milan, Italy, the City of South San Francisco, California; United Nations Conference Center in Bangkok, Thailand; and the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and has been shown in either solo or group exhibitions globally, including in Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Marseille, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Tampa, and Venice. He was included in THAILAND: SPIRITUAL & MATERIAL – CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM THAILAND (FABRICA 2014).

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Image credit: Illustration by Nong Namwan, from Pattani Children’s Home
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