Sirawit Chatu
B.2000 Rayong, Thailand
Sirawit Chatu is a Thai artist and independent curator whose practice examines how images become vessels of memory, history and cultural identity. Working primarily through painting, alongside installation, printmaking and image-based practices, he reconfigures historical photographs, Thai mural painting, archival imagery and popular representations to question how collective identities are constructed, inherited and made believable through repetition. His work engages with the tensions between history and its representation, particularly the formation of “Thainess” within histories of colonial modernity and cultural exchange.
Chatu has exhibited internationally across Thailand, Japan, France and the UK. Recent exhibition highlights include Gentle Ghost With Eyes As Fair, Fazal Unlimited, Thailand (2026), Civilised Yourself, Norito Gallery, London, UK (2026), Shaping The Chrysanthemum, SAC Gallery, Thailand (2026), Sous Nos Ongles, Beaux-arts de Paris, France (2025), No Man Ever Steps In The Same River Twice, Silpakorn Art Centre, Thailand (2025)
Education
2026 Master of Fine Arts, Silpakorn University
Certificate for Exchange Program, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2024 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Silpakorn University
2022 Certificate in Japanese Painting, Joshibi University of Art and Design
Solo Exhibitions
2026 - Gentle Ghosts with Eyes as Fair, FAZAL Unlimited
2025 - Momentum: Time is the substance I am made of, FAZAL Unlimited
2024 - Simulacra, RATS, TARS Unilimited
- Re-enchanted, VS Gallery, N22
2023 - Endless Prayer, Palette Art Space
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 -Civilised Yourself, Norito Gallery, London, United Kingdom
-Shaping the Chrysanthemum, SAC Gallery, Bangkok
-Dirty Laundry, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
2025 -Sous nos ongles, Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
-I slept for days on tanning bed, Beaux-Arts de Paris
-No man ever steps in the same river twice, Silpakorn Art Centre
-Moody (slow+reverb), Siam Paragon
2024 -Charging, Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center
-Thai Thai, Bangkok Design Week 2024
-Homeward Bound, Ming Art Space
2023 -Representation, Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, Indonesia
-The 38th Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Young Artists
-BYOB Project, Bangkok City City Gallery
2022 -Exchange Student Exhibition, Joshibi University, Japan
-Ryo Art Space Collaborative Project, Kanagawa, Japan
-SOTUS Object 2, Ex Space