Sorawit Songsataya is a Thailand-born New Zealand artist based in Wellington.
Education and career
Songsataya is primarily interested in craft, textiles, hand-made objects and their connection to computer technology. They often uses moving image and sculpture within installation environments.
Songsataya graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland in 2013, and a BDes in Visual Communication from Unitec Institute of Technology in 2010.
Notable exhibitions
Group
Otherwise-Image-Worlds, Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 2022. Heavy trees, arms and legs, The Suter Gallery, Nelson, 2021. Comfort Zone, a work as part of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia, 2021. The Turn of the Fifth Age, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia, 2021.
Solo
Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2022. Rumours (Mermaid), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2020. The Interior, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, 2019. Offspring of Rain, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington, 2019. Jupiter, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2019.
Awards and residencies
Gasworks residency, London, 2023. Frances Hodgkins Fellowship recipient in 2022. Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 3D in 2020. National Contemporary Art Award in 2016. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery ‘In Residence’ Programme, 2021. McCahon House residency, Auckland, 2018.
References
New Zealand artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand people of Thai descent Thai emigrants to New Zealand