Pichai Pongsasaovapark: in the spotlight
Explore the features, interviews, and reviews that highlight my artistic journey and creative vision. This selection list offers a deeper understanding of my work and the stories behind my art.
Online Interviews
Gain insights into Pichai's creative process and artistic philosophy through podcasts and online interviews, that offer insights into the reception of his work and discussions with art enthusiasts and experts.
“Art of the Wrecked Boats: Highlighting the Pain of Fisherfolk by Pichai Pongsasaovapark,” Thai PBS, (Jan. 7, 2025) at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S200svtyQcE
Sabine Petra Interview at: Sabine Petra-an interview with Pichai Pongsasaovapark - YouTube
David Barrett Interview: Illuminating Environmental Crises Through Art, Trends, Ep. 12 (Aug. 12, 2023), (see photo at right) at: https://www.traveldailynews.asia/column/interviews/pichai-pongsasaovapark-illuminating-environmental-crises-through-art/
SAC Gallery, “Artist Talk with Pichai Pongsasaovapark,” (Oct. 20, 2021), at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=955q2UX09r8
“Artist with a Message: Interview with Pichai Pongsasaovapark,” Phanganist (Oct. 28, 2020), at: https://phanganist.com/thailand-art-video-leo-article/artist-message-interview-pichai-pongsasaovapark
Print Media & Reviews
These articles and reviews provide perspectives on on journalists and critics view his exhibitions, art, and contributions to the contemporary art scene, both in Thailand and globally.
Phanu Boonpipattanapong, "Beyond Loss: An Exhibition Revealing the Causes Behind the Collapse of Thailand’s Traditional Fishing Communities by Pichai Pongsasaovapark (May 31, 2026), at: https://www.matichon.co.th/weekly/column/article_896906
“Artist Explores the Human Cost of Conservation,” Bangkok Post (Dec. 24, 2024)
Suwitcha Chaiyong, “Tough as Nails,” Bangkok Post (Oct. 18, 2021), at: https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/2199587/tough-as-nails
“Taking on Toxicity,” Bangkok Post (Aug. 25, 2021), at: https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/2170847/taking-on-toxicity
“’A Disproportionate Burden’ by Pichai Pongsasaovapark,” Aura Asia Art Project (Aug. 7, 2021), at: https://aura-asia-art-project.com/en/exhibitions/a-disproportionate-burden-by-pichai-pongsasaovapark-sac-gallery/
Hendricks, Nianne-Lynn, “The In Between,” Bangkok Post (Sept. 18, 2020), at: https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/1987643/the-in-between
“Pichai Pongsasaovapark,” Average Art Magazine (UK) (October 2018).
Thayer, Scott, “Pichai Pongsasaovapark’s “Looking and Seeing,” Art Asia Pacific (Feb. 14, 2017), see below or at: https://www.artasiapacific.com/shows/pichai-pongsasaovapark-s-looking-and-seeing/
Photo by Preecha Pattara
Publications & Commissions
Imago Mundi
Discover Pichai's work in Thailand: Spiritual & Material - Contemporary Artists from Thailand in the Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection (Fabrica, 2014). His pieces in the collection are two small oil paintings, ironically using oil to visualize the threat of oil pollution to the environment.
Khlongtoei
His sculpture, Khlongtoei, commissioned by the Chi Art Series Hotel Bangkok, can be seen at its flagship hotel located in the old Khlongtoei district, bounded by the Khlong Toei port on the Chao Phraya River and a large canal (“khlong”) called Khlong Toei (“Canal of Pandan”). It has long been a bustling commercial center with a history as a refuge and home for the less fortunate, hardworking, residents of Bangkok.
The sculpture stands in a pool of water, representing the old canal, near the current location of the hotel. It consists of a small, yellow sampan, used by poor Thais to navigate the canals in Bangkok, atop three large drops of water. The protruding wooden paddles are painted in the colors of the LGBTQ+ community, reflecting the hotel’s core commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Flower Bush
Pichai's first public artwork, Flower Bush, was commissioned by the Cultural Arts Commission of the City of South San Francisco, California, as part of a city-wide outdoor mural project to beautify traffic intersection utility switching boxes.
Pichai was inspired by a flowering bush he saw on a trip to San Francisco, that recalled for him the pop art style, Flower Power, which was ubiquitous in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in design and fashion.
The term, coined by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, and inspired by Andy Warhol's Flower Series (1964-1965), became associated with the San Francisco "Summer of Love" and anti-Vietnam War era, with flowers seen as symbols of peaceful resistance and nonviolence.
