Manit Spiwanichpoon

1961 Born in Bangkok Live and work in Bangkok

1984 Visual Art (B.A.), Shirakharinvirot University, Bangkok

Exhibitions

Solo

2004 Pink Man in Paradise, Monash University, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

2003 Protest, October 14 Memorial, Bangkok

2003 Repertoire of the Innermost, Plum Blossom Gallery, SINGAPORE

2002 In-Your-Face, Numthong Gallery, Bangkok, THAILAND

2002 Bangkok in Pink, the Gallery, Yokohama Museum of Art, JAPAN

2002 Phantom & Parody, Atelier Frank & Lee, SINGAPORE

2000 Bangkok in Black & White, Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand

  • Paradise @ the mall, Window, Bangkok, THAILAND

1997 Pink Man I, II, III, Soi Lalaisap, Silom road, Bangkok, THAILAND

This Bloodless War, roadside shows, Bangkok, THAILAND

Group (selected)

2004 Asian Traffic, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Identities vs Globalisation?, Chiang Mai, Bangkok and Dahlem Museum, Berlin

2003 50 th la Biennale di Venezia, Thai Pavilion, ITALY

Global Detail, Noorderlocht Photofestival, Groningen, NETHERLANDS

Memory & Disappearance, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NEW YORK

From Desire to Where, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, THAILAND

2002 Asia Comments, Copenhagen, DENMARK

Quatre de Bangkok, Galerie VU, Paris, FRANCE

2001 Borderline, Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, THAILAND

China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi, CHINA

Polypolis, Kunsthaus, Hamberg, GERMANY

  • Glocal Scents of Thailand, Edsvik konst och kultur, Sollentuna, SWEDEN

Images of the World, Station, Copenhagen, DENMARK

  • Tachikawa International Art Festival, Tokyo , JAPAN

Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna, AUSTRIA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, FINLAND, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DENMARK, Central Rama III Department Store, Bangkok, THAILAND

  • International Photography Biennale, MEXICO

The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, JAPAN

  • 24th Bienal International de Sao Paulo, BRAZIL

Asia City, The photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

Awards
2002 One of the selected artist for the book, Blink. Published by Phaidon Press, Blink showcases 100 of the world’s most exciting, rising star in contemporary photography, selected by 10 international curators.

1998 Second place Leopold Godowsky,Jr. Color photography Awards to Pink Man series and Thai Dreams series. Organized by The Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, USA.

1992 Honorary Mention to the experimental film, Land of Laugh (16mm), from the ASEAN Young Cinema Festival ’92, Tokyo, JAPAN

collections & commissions
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (Paris), DG Bank (Germany), ABN-AMRO Bank (Netherlands), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Singapore Art Museum, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore), Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), Srinakharinvirot University (Bangkok) and private collectors.

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