b. 1985, Thailand
Bangkok, Melbourne
@thitibodee_r
Thitibodee Rungteerawattananon reinterprets rejection and silence within artistic institutions not as personal failure but as structural conditions, examining the power relations that operate within the canon of art history. By meticulously rendering rejection letters addressed to him through a hyperrealistic painterly approach, the artist undertakes an archival intervention that transforms fleeting digital notifications into enduring records. Through this practice, he critically questions who is allowed to speak and which narratives are permitted to circulate.
티티보디 룽티라와타나논은 예술 제도의 거절과 침묵을 개인의 실패가 아닌 구조적 조건으로 재해석하며, 주류 미술사 안에서 작동하는 권력 관계를 탐구한다. 작가는 자신에게 전달된 거절 편지들을 극사실주의 기법으로 치밀하게 재현함으로써, 찰나의 디지털 통보를 영구적인 기록으로 전환하는 아카이브적 개입을 시도한다. 이러한 작업을 통해 누가 발언할 수 있으며, 어떤 서사가 제도 안에서 유통될 수 있는지를 비판적으로 질문한다.
2023 The art of rejection, Sol gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019 THE AIR, artist's studio, Bangkok, Thailand
2025 FAILED, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2024 Thai Message, Soup on the Oil – Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2023 Far From Home, Chinese Museum Arts Collective – Collective Polyphony Festival (Testing Grounds), Melbourne, Australia
2023 FAILED, Footscray Community Arts Centre (Wyndham Art Prize Finalist), Melbourne, Australia
2023 FAILED, Gertrude Contemporary – Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Ghost – The Museum Is Dead and Desire Is Dead, Tanglin Shopping Centre, Singapore
2022 What Can Artist Do with Capitalism? (Failed on Tram Track), The Way We Talk (About It) – Brunswick Temporary, Melbourne, Australia
2022 What Can Artist Do with Capitalism? (Failed on Tram Track), Merri-bek Summer – Counihan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2021–2022 Statue Garden, ASEAN-RoK, Korea
2021–2022 Mass Art Project X JTAC, Jim Thompson Art Center Shop, Bangkok, Thailand
2020 Mass Art Project, Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand
2018 Thai Message, Gallery Ver (Bangkok Biennial), Bangkok, Thailand
2017 Thai Message, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2016 Thai Message – Dusadee + Dust + Lovers + Dead Ones, Chulalongkorn Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 What Can Artist Do with Capitalism? and Map Me, The Prince George Ballroom, New York, USA
2012 What Can Artist Do with Capitalism?, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, USA
2010 Thai Message (Unauthorized Exhibition), Tate Modern (Toilets), London, UK
2010 Ordinariness of Artist’s House: A Poetics of Dwelling, Meojaidee Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2009 See So(u)l Scene, Sol Art Space
2008 Politic and Environment Crisis, U.N.