EXHIBITIONS
In 2023, Kittaya Poolsawatdi relocated to New York, where his work underwent a radical shift in visual language. After years of working under censorship and restrictions on free speech in Thailand, he moved away from coded allegory and academic refinement toward raw, gestural mark-making.
DOMESTICATED
Exhibition at Joyman Gallery, (2021)
Between 2019 and 2021, Thailand saw a nationwide uprising against military rule. As one of the participants, witnessing young protesters being violently attacked by military forces moved Kittaya Poolsawatdi from an observer of history to someone living through it.
This series took shape through the artist's travels through Europe and Japan, the artist encountered memorials and preserved ruins where destruction was intentionally left visible. These places revealed a different understanding of healing. He transforms these encounters into ambiguous figures and luminous compositions in which beauty and unease coexist.
ACROSS THE BRIDGE
Exhibition at S.A.C GALLERY, (2018)
Subhashok The Art Centre, Bangkok in collaboration with G13 Gallery, Malaysia present ‘ACROSS THE BRIDGE’, a group exhibition by Thai and Malaysian artists.​
This exhibition is about the current state of South East Asia that is growing and shifting continuously. We are in the middle of Change era. As we look back at the beginning, it helps us to understand the present from which we can see the end of this bridge.
CHARACTERISTIC
Exhibition at S.A.C GALLERY, (2015)
Kittaya started his career in fashion industry. During the time, he feels that women's ideologies are significantly related to social structures, attitudes, and movements. Thus, he captured character of women and transformed it into canvas. He setups each woman on unusual scenario to convey the social momentums which happen at the moment.