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GONGKAN

b. 1989, Thailand

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Graduated from Kasetsart University Laboratory School in 2007 and 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 the creative departments of advertising agencies. In his spare time, he created street art and illustrations centered on the idea of him being transported through time and space to his homeland. Gongkan’s 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: a surrealistic realm populated with peculiar portals and human figures in group or isolation, realized with graphic flatness. Despite the serenity fostered by the soft color palette and smooth application, the atmosphere is occasionally disrupted by the sharp incision of black on the canvas. Through presenting different visions of the present times or rewriting the past, the artist creates alternate realities in the process.

 

 

His selected and recent solo exhibitions include “No Heart Here,” Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, (China, 2024); “No Heart Here,” MOCA, Bangkok, (Thailand, 2024); “Monsters in You,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles (US, 2023); “Public but Private,” Tang Contemporary Art, Seoul (Korea, 2023); “Inner Place” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing  (China, 2022);, “Gongkan: For someone who hate the Rainbow,” Over the Influence, Paris (France, 2022); “Introspection,” Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok (Thailand,2021); “Tip of the Iceberg,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles (US, 2021); “Yestertedaytomorrow,” River City Bangkok, Bangkok (Thailand, 2019), etc. Selected group exhibitions include: “Post-me Generation: How to write about young artists,” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (China, 2022); “Group show: Falling,” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (China, 2022); “Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2021,” Macao Museum of Art (Macao, 2021); “Retrospective Utopia,” Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok (Thailand, 2020);  “Pollution,” River City Bangkok, Bangkok (Thailand, 2020), etc.