Graduated from Silpakorn University, Faculty of Decorative Arts, in 2011, Kantapon Metheekul, better known as Gongkan, currently works and resides in Bangkok, Thailand. After graduating from Silpakorn University, the artist moved to New York City, where he spent 3 years working in creative departments of advertising agencies. In his spare time, he created street art and illustrations centred on the idea of him being transported through time and space to his homeland. His work, which he named Teleport Art, gained notoriety in the New York street art scene and later in Bangkok. The element of time is a predominant concept in Gongkan's paintings: surrealistic canvas, populated by human figures, realised with graphic flat strokes. Through presenting different visions of the present times or rewriting the past, the artist creates alternate realities in the process.
Read MoreHis selected and recent solo exhibitions include: Introspection, Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 2021; Yestertodaymorrow, River City Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 2019; Teleport to Taichung, Parklane Splender, Taichung, Taiwan, 2019; Black Area, Funstown, Beijing, China, 2019; Street Art with FirstStreet Green Art Park, New York City, United States, 2018; The Another Dimension, Siri House, Singapore,2018; Selected group exhibitions include: Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2021, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, 2021; The Space Between Us, Tang Contemporary Art, ICONSIAM, Bangkok, Thailand, 2021; Retrospective Utopia, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020; Pollution, River City Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020; Vogue HOPE by Vogue Magazine, Siam Center, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020; WonderForest: Asian Illustration, Powering Art Center, Xiamen, China, 2019; Asia Illustration Fair, Power LongMuseum, Shanghai, China, 2019; Lucid Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea, 2016; The Warmest Winter, New York City, United States, 2016.
Text courtesy Tang Contemporary Art
