Michael Shaowanasai Biography

Michael Shaowanasai. 

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Born 1964. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. USA.
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Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Art institute of San Francisco 1994.
Master of Fine Arts: School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. 1996.

GROUP SHOWS/ PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVALS/ FILM FESTIVALS
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2012  Thai Trends: From Localism to Internationalism, Bangkok Arts & Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand.
Thai-Tai:  Bangkok Arts & Cultural Centre (BACC). Bangkok, Thailand.
Featuring  Sakarin Krue –on.
Radu Die: New works by Michael Shaowanasai @ H gallery. Bangkok, Thailand.
2011  Negotiating Home, History and Nation- Two decades of contemporary art in Southeast Asia 1991-2011. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2010  Busan International Film Festivals. Busan, South Korea.
Thai Photography now: Month of Photography. Tokyo, Japan.
Asian Hot Shot: Short Film Festival. Berlin, Germany.
Spring of Poets, Musee Quai Branly. Paris, France.
In The house by the canal, White Space Gallery. Bangkok, Thailand.
Sareera Maya. New Painting by Michael Shaowanasai @ Numthong Gallery at
Bangkok Arts & and Culture Centre (BACC). Bangkok, Thailand.
Revisit Jim Thompson era: OSS Orient Silk Sewciety.  Jim Thompson Art Center.
Bangkok, Thailand.
2009  Venice Biennale. National participant: Thailand. Venice, Italy.
Michael Blondo and Pascal Shaowanasai.  Bangkok  Art & Culture centre (BACC).
Bangkok, Thailand.
Chobi Mela V: International Festival of Photography.
Michael  Shaowanasai’s  retrospective. Dacca, Bangladesh.
2008  Beasts, Breasts & Beauty- Contemporay Southeast Asian Art from a Private Collection. Alliance Francaise de Singapour, Singapore
Traces of Siamese smiles. Bangkok  Art & Culture Centre (BACC). Bangkok
Thailand.
Lifeboat #2551: Sydney Biennale. Sydney, Australia.
Act of Faith. Noorderlicht  14. Groningen, the Netherlands.
Observation of the monuments.  Katmandu Photo gallery.  Bangkok, Thailand.
Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore.
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok Thailand.
2007  Act of Faith. Noorderlicht 13. Groningen, the Netherlands.
Art Connexions.  Elam school of the arts. University of Oakland.
Oakland, New Zealand.
Art Connexions. Goethe- Institutes. Berlin, Germany.
2006  Thai Cultural Festival in France, Palais de Tokio. Paris, France.
Art connexions.  Art Center, Center of Academic Resource,
Chulalongkorn  University. Bangkok, Thailand.

2005  Identities VS Gobalisation. House of World cultures, Berlin, Germany.
Singapore International Film Festival. Singapore.
Melbourne International Film Festival. Melbourne, Australia.
The 5thBangkok Experimental Film Festival. Bangkok, Thailand.
2004  Berlinale: 54 Berlin International film festivals. Berlin, Germany.
San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. San Francisco, USA.
Hong Kong International Film Festival. Hong  Kong.
Bangkok Democrazy: The 4th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. Bangkok
Thailand.
Seni: Art and the Contemporary. Singapore Art Museum. Singapore.
2003  Venice Biennale. National participant: Thailand. Venice, Italy.
Under Construction.  Opera city, Tokyo, Japan
Next Move: Contemporary arts from Thailand. La Salle College of the arts,
Singapore.
Parallel Time: Edges of the Earth. China Academy of Arts,  Hangzhou, China.
Thai-Tanic: Thai art in the age of constraint and coercion. Ethan Cohen fine arts,
New York, New York. USA.
2002  E V+A 2002. Limerick, Republic of Ireland
Digital Orgy: The 3rd Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. Bangkok, Thailand,
Singapore, Stockholm, Sweden.
Gwangju Biennale. Gwangju, Korea.
2001  Tirana Biennale 1. Tirana, Albania.
2000  Pursuation: Sydney Mardi Gras. Sydney, Australia.
Euro-Visions. Silpakorn University. Bangkok Thailand.
Akihabara: Screening Project. Tokyo, Japan.
1999  Transit. Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
George et moi. Museum of Romantic life, Paris France.
Yamagata Film Festival. Yamagata, Japan.
Residencies:
Art Connexion. Elam School of Arts. Auckland, New Zealand. 2005.
S-Air. Sapporo, Hokaido, Japan. 2003
Discovery. Banff Centre, Canada. 2000.
Artlinks 2000. Columbo, Sri Lanka.
Khoj ’99. New Delhi, India. 1999
AFFA. Paris, France. 1998
Apocalypso. Banff Centre. Banff, Canada. 1997

•1Guest lectures:
Chulalongkorn University.  Bangkok, Thailand.
Bangkok University.  Bangkok, Thailand.
The school of The Arts institute of Chicago.  Chicago, USA.
Emory University.  Atlanta, Georgia. USA
Rijkes Academie.  Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Monash University.  Melbourne, Australia.
Elam School of the Arts at University of Auckland.  Auckland, New Zealand.
University of California at Santa Cruz.  California, USA.

Text courtesy Shanghai Gallery of Art.

 
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