Attasit Pokpong CV

 Education

 

- Archiwa Nakhon Sawan College, Nakhon Sawan, Thailand.
-Phochan Faculty, Rajamonkong Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
-BA degree in Art Rajamonkong Technology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

Exhibitions

 

1998 - Group show entitled “Colour and Light” at Wittayalai Phochan Art College Anniversary Exhibit, Bangkok, Thailand
1999 - Group Art Show & SON-SILP Group Art Show;
2004 – Collective Art Show of artists from the Northern Thailand, “Free-Land” Department Store, Bangkok, Thailand.
2004 – Exhibition entitled “Emotion and Movement”, with Mr Kitti Narod, River City Shopping Centre, Bangkok.
2007 - Group Exhibit, River City Shopping Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
 
International Exhibits

 

2006-2007 Solo and Group shows in Hong Kong and Japan.
2008 –The Chelsea Art Show, London; The Cork Art Fair, Cork; Art Ireland Autumn Collection, Dublin, ROI; The Edinburgh Art Show, Edinburgh.

 

Awards

1995 - 2nd runner-up in 47th Annual Student Art and Handicraft Contest held in Sukhothai.
1996 - 1st runner-up in 48th Annual Student Art and Handicraft Contest, watercolour and portraiture categories, held in Lampang.
1996-97 – award for excellence in watercolour painting, Phochang  Faculty Anniversary Art Exhibition.
1997, 1998, 2001, 2002 and 2003 – Award for Excellence in Chonburi Art Contest entitled “Beautiful Seascapes and Landscapes”.
December 1998 – awarded 3rd prize in the Thai Ministry of the Interior Community Art Competition.
March 1999 – awarded first prize in the Royal Thai Social Development Art Exhibition.
April 1999 – awarded first prize in the Lottery Art Award contest, held for the first time on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Thai State Lottery.
2004 – Award for Excellence in the Bangken University Art Competition entitled “Thai Orchids”.

 

About the Artist

 

 Since launching his professional career as a painter, Mr Attasit Pokpong has won a series of awards and prizes in art competitions in Thailand and, at a young age, he is already a recognised master of watercolour, acrylics and oils.  His earlier watercolours portray the hustle and bustle of city life with its interminable Thai traffic jams in delicately luminous colour combinations that imbue the scenes with a curiously refreshing sense of tranquillity.  The large oil and acrylic canvases Attasit is currently producing reflect the pale palette and relaxed brushwork of his watercolours, unfussily portraying girls in their natural beauty, unaffected and real.  His girls are at once clearly oriental in their features but universal in their unassuming beauty, appealing to viewers of every race and culture.
Thai Fine Art Ltd is pleased to introduce Attasit to the British and European public alongside our established artists, including our featured artist, Mr Kitti Narod, with whom Attasit regularly exhibits in Bangkok, where both painters have made their home and established themselves firmly on the local art scene.