Kawita Vatanajyankur

In her performance videos, Kawita Vatanajyankur  uses her body to interrogate and challenge the intersections of womanhood, labour, and consumerism. Assuming the repetitive and strenuous tasks of domestic objects and mechanical tools, she hybridises human and machine and embodies the role of a cyborg. Drawing from a globalized and digitally networked visual language of consumption and instant gratification, her alluring videos bear semblance to bold and colourful commercial advertisements. Yet, her arduous works are difficult to witness, forming a testament to human capability and female resilience. In recent years, her practice has taken a more personal turn, bringing artificial intelligence into dialogue with grief, family memory, and the emotional afterlives of technological systems.

Kawita Vatanajyankur has been widely exhibited with solo exhibitions at Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2026); Museo Novecento, Florence (2022); The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2022); Domesticated, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Bangkok (2020); Jim Thompson House Museum, Bangkok (2021); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo (2019); Nova Contemporary, Bangkok (2017). She has been included in group exhibitions at M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Singapore Art Museum; Arts Maebashi; Suwon Museum of Art, Seoul; Lowe Art Museum, Miami; MadeIn Art Museum, Shanghai; Jut Art Museum, Taipei; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA); Kunstmuseum Basel; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai; Museum MACAN, Jakarta; Centre for Heritage Arts and Textiles, Hong Kong; Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok; Saatchi Gallery, London. She has also been included in the The 11th Asia Pacific Triennale, Brisbane (2024); the Bangkok Art Biennale (2022, 2018) and its collateral exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2024). 

Her works belong to the collections of Dib Museum, Bangkok; MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai; Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Bangkok; Singapore Art Museum; RMIT Collection, Melbourne; Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Jut Art Museum, Taipei; Yuz Museum, Shanghai; M Woods Museum, Beijing; the Akeroyd Collection.