A R T I S T P R O F I L E & R E S E A R C H
M U L T I - D I S C I P L I N A R Y V I S U A L A R T I S T P R A C T I C E --- D E E P S O U T H, T H
Prach Pimarnman (b. 1987, Thailand) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, curator, and academic based in Southern Thailand. Holding a Ph.D. in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University, Pimarnman’s practice navigates the delicate threshold between cultural identity, found materials, and contemporary technological frameworks. His work extensively investigates layered geopolitical narratives, local myths, and collective memories within the Patani region, constructing crucial creative dialogues that bridge provincial realities with international contemporary discourse.
Pimarnman’s artistic and academic journey began in Pattani, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts in 2009. He later expanded his practice into wood sculpture and completed a short-term residency and exhibition at The Art Students League of New York in 2012. He subsequently earned both his Master’s degree and Ph.D. from Silpakorn University in 2022. Driven by a commitment to regional creative ecosystems, he actively functions as a cultural instigator, establishing De' Lapae Art Space Narathiwat in 2013 and founding the Satu ≠ Padu Collaborative in 2021. Currently, he balancing his studio practice with roles as an art educator, lecturer, and Assisant Dean for Student Development.
Deeply invested in community movements and the Melayu historical route, Pimarnman’s methodology relies on extensive field exploration to recontextualize historical archives, migration patterns, and individual trauma. His works frequently integrate found objects and community-sourced waste materials to critique social realities and construct fictional representations of safe spaces. This conceptual framework is evident across his major exhibitions and moving image projects, including The Memories of Individual Memories (2026), In The Wake of The Earth at ART SG (2026), the documentary film No Sand No Sea (2025), and critically acclaimed exhibitions curated by Penwadee Nophaket Manont, such as the "FROZEN" (Saen Saep) at SAC Gallery (2024) and ORANG SIYAE / OGHAE NAYU at Art4C (2021).
A R T I S T I C S T A G E M E N T
"My creative practice navigates the complex social fabric and layered structures of the Patani region. By engaging with found objects and raw, community-driven archives, I focus deeply on the poetics of the mundane, deliberately celebrating imperfection over polished resolution. My work serves as an ongoing investigation into how overlooked fragments of everyday reality can be preserved, recontextualized, and transmitted through contemporary visual systems. Furthermore, my practice critically examines the dynamics of human migration, the restrictive borders of modern states, and the historical overland and maritime trade routes that carried these dispersed memories across diverse territories. Through this, I seek to unearth the nuanced spaces of human nature and resilience embedded within the threshold of ordinary, everyday existence."
S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S & S C R E E N I N G S
2022
2022
The Memories of Individual Memories (Retrospective), De' Lapae Art Space, Narathiwat, Thailand.
In The Wake of The Earth, ART SG 2026, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
No Sand No Sea (Documentary), Meabashi Media Festival in Meabashi Japan/ Thai Short Film & Video Festival, Thai Film Archive.
DIALOGUE Ask Yourself to: Buildings Rivers Forests Mountains Sea and Sky, Pakktaii Design Week 2025, a.e.y. space, Songkhla, Thailand.
LOCAL MYTHS: The Intrinsic Aesthetic (Aurea Chersonese), Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand.
An Anonymous Starship Bring Fragment of Dreams (Solo), Q SO-KO, Nagoya, Japan.
From Nomad to Nowhere (Solo), Warin Lab Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand.
Satu ≠ Padu Collaborative, Bangkok Art Biennale 2022 (BAB), QSNCC, Bangkok, Thailand.
Safe Place Memory of Trauma (Solo), Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
2026
2026
2025
2025
2025
2024
2024
De' Lapae Art Space Narathiwat — Founder & Curator (Est. 2013)
An independent contemporary art space acting as a vital cultural platform and research hub in the Deep South of Thailand, catalyzing regional creative discourse.
P.art.y Gallery Pattani — Director (Est. 2024)
An alternative initiative designed to support, mentor, and establish a contemporary platform for the emerging generation of local creative practitioners.
Satu ≠ Padu Collaborative — Co-Founder (Est. 2021)
A cross-disciplinary collective connecting grassroots thinkers, local homemakers, and activists to investigate regional historical layers through text, installation, and moving image.
P L A T F O R M S & C O L L E C T I V E S
E D U C A T I O N A N D E X H I B I T I O N
E D U C A T I O N
2009
2013
2014
2022
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine and Applied Art ,Prince of Songkla
University, Pattani Campus, Thailand
M.F.A. Visual arts, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn
University, Thailand
Art Certificate Sculpture wood and Drawing, at The Student League, of New
York, USA
Ph.D. Visual Art, Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn
University, Thailand
C E R T I F I C A T E / P R A C T I C E P R O G R A M
2013
2024
2024
2024
Present in Yellow River Art Center, at Yinchuan Art Museum, Moca
Yinchuan.2024:
Coffee Practice, For Sensory Development to Q Arabica.
“CULTIVATE” Module 1, Professional Development for Curators Arts Managers, presented by In-tangible Institut and BACC.
Artist Residency Program, Research Nagoya Halal Food Art Project, 8 Nov - 8
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N
“I SAID TO YOU WAS TRUE OF DECEPTION” Jamjuree ArtGallery, Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand.
Orang Siyae / Oghae Nayu, Curator Penwadee Nophaket Manont, Art 4C, Gallery and
Creative Learning Space, Thailand.
Safe Place Memories of Trauma, PSG Silapakorn University, Nakorn Pathom, Thailand
From Nomad to Nowhere, 19 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 Warin Lab Contemporary, Bangkok,
An Anonymous Starship, Brings Fragments of Dreams 7 December 2024 - 9 February,
2013
2025
2021
2022
2024
2024
L E C T U R E
Lecture Fine Art, Faculty of Fine and Applied Art, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus.
Lecture Applied Art, Faculty of Fine and Applied Art, Prince of Songkla University,
Pattani Campus.
Assistant Dean for Student Development, Faculty of Fine and Applied Art, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus.
2013 - 2019
2020 - 2024
2024
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
E X H I B I T I O N
Art Thesis Exhibition Vol 4, By the graduating class of Faculty of Fine Arts, Prince of Soungkla University, Pattani Campus, Thailand
Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Young Artists 26th, Support Young Artists Award 3rd, Art and Culture in
Commemoration of H.M the Kings 6th Cycle, Silpakorn University Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Young Artists 27th, Support Young Artists Award 3rd, Art and Culture
in Commemoration of H.M the Kings 6th Cycle, Silpakorn University Sanam Chandra Palace Campus, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Centre, BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
Art Exhibition Unity Infinity, By Prach Pimarnman and Keeta Isran @BONGALLERIA, Bangkok, Thailand.
The 34th Bua Luang Paintings, Competition, Bangkok, Thailand.
Assalam Mualaikum Art Exhibition By 5 Artist in South Thailand, show in Chulalongkorn University Charmchuri Art
Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
36 Year of Thai Art Major, Silapakorn University, Show in The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok, Thailand
THAI ARTS EXHIBITION 2013, Chamchuri Art Gallery, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Uob Painting of The Year 2013.
Substitute Thai Islamic Art Exchange, In Yellow River Arts Center, Yinchuan, China.
Thai Arts Exhibition, The Master of Fine art, Faculty of Painting Sculpture and Graphic Arts , Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Exhibition Sculptural Wood, at The Art Students League of New York, USA.
Thailand: Spiritual & Material, 143 Artworks Thailand, Contemporary Artists Thailand.
Contemporary Art Museum in Chiangmai, Thailand.
Patani Semasa by 27 Artist, An exhibition on Contemporary Art from the Golden Peninsula Museum, at Ilham Gallery, Kula Lumper Malaysia.
Chandra Palace Campus, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
Area 5 + 1 : Precious Space, Group exhibition, The National Gallery Bangkok, Thailand.
Organized, by Prach Pimarnman, the Founder of Satu Padu Collaborative, Curatour Apinan Poshyananda, Bangkok Art Biennale 2022.
Curator assistant Soifa Saenkhamkon Artist: Keeta Isran, Rozee Haree, Prach Pimarnman, Anis Nagasevi, Abdulhakim Yuso, Organized by Rai.D Collective.
Prach Pimarnman,Film Year 2021, 12.41 mins.
Film Screening Meabashi Media Festival 2024 Timetable Tentative, Meabashi, Japan. Make Tea’ Producer Penwadee
Nophaket Manont Director and Production Manager Prach Pimarnman, Film Year 2021, 12.41 mins, Meabashi, Japan
Curated by Penwadee Nophaket Manont, Artist Prach Pimarnman and Surasit Mankong, Bangkok, Thailand
Sentimental Fission, Under the project ‘Peace for All’ is a group exhibition featuring works by Emsophian, Prach Pimarnman, and Thidarat Chantachua, Curated by Danish Seksan, the Bangkok Art Culture Center (BACC), Palestinian Solidarity Campaign Thailand (PSCT).
"ON GRAVITY" Group Show 14 Artist in Hotel Art Fair, Intercontinental Sukumvit, Bangkok 5 - 8 September 2024, Room 1409, Bangkok, Thailand.
Geography of Memory 2024 Acquisition Office of Contemporary Art and Culture 17 Artist, Ratchadamnoen
Contemporary Art Center, RCAC, 20 September - 12 October 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
Warin Lab Contemporary present a cohort of 4 Artist, Imhathai Suwatthanaslip, Nairobi Moonmanas, Prach Pimarnman,
and Ubatsat at booth A12, Access Art Fair Thailand’s inaugural international art fair, Bangkok, Thailand
Threading Contemporary Art of Thailand, at Turchin Center for Visual Artist, North Carolina, USA.
Present by Warin lab Contemporary, 3 July - 6 December 2025.
LOCAL MYTHS, THE INTRINSIC AESTHETIC, Local Networking Project 2025, at BACC 7F, 17 July - 10 October 2025, Bangkok, Thailand
"DIALOUGE" Ask yourself to Buildings , Boats, Rivers, Forests, mountain, Sea and Sky, A Part of Pakktaii Design Week
2025, at a.e.y. space Songkla, Preset 4 Collective and Collaborative in Narathiwat.
Film screening No Sand No Sea, Media Festival in Meabashi, Japan.
A Part of Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025, Suko Pavilion Southern Thai Artist Group Exhibition, Phuket, Thailand.
No Sand No Sea, Short Film & Video Festival, finalist Documentary Film Competition Duke Award, Thai Film Archive, Thailand.
Marina Bay Sands Expo, Singapore.
The Memories of Individual Memories by Prach Pimarnman at De' Lapae Art Space Narathiwat,
1 February - 30 September 2026, Narathiwat, Thailand
The 25th Silpa Bhirasri's Creativity Grants, Dulum The Noise Clearances, at Art Center Silpakorn University, 7 August - 3 October 2026
F I L M & D O C U M E N T A R Y
2020:
- The Remembering, 2020 Single Chanel VDO, 16:9, 6.43 Mins.
2021:
-Makae Tea' Experimental Film,2021, Part of the Exhibition Orang Siyae/Oghae Nayu (2021-2022), 2 Screening Single Chanel VDO,12.41 Mins.
- Safe Place Memory of Trauma, 2021, Single Chanel VDO, 16:9, 21.15 Mins. Part of the Exhibition Safe Place Memory of Trauma (2022)
2022:
- Documentary Satu ≠ Padu Collaborative, Bunker/Baju, 2022 House wife Community food and Life, Single Chanel VDO, 4:3, 30 Mins.
2023:
- No sane No sea, Part of the Exhibition From Nomad to Nowhere, 2024, Single Chanel VDO Documentary, 16:9, 22.00 Mins.
2024:
- Mind Body and Soul, 8 Monitor, Part of the Exhibition An Anonymous Starship Bring Fragments of Dreams, VDO Documentary
2025:
- Landslide (Mountain to Town) Super 8, Film Slide 8 mm. 3.30 mins
T A L K A N D W O R K S H O P
2022:
- Bangkok Art Biennale 2022 Symposium
- Bangkok Art Biennale 2022 Chaos: Calm, Bab Talk Panel, Satu ≠ Padu Collaborative, In Queen Sirikrit National Convention Center
- Part 1 House Wife Deep South Community, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, Satu ≠ Padu Member#1, Prach Pimarnman Founder Satu ≠ Padu Collaborative, Moderato by Kong Rithdee, Film Critic and writer, the director deputy of the Thai Film Archiver.
- Part 2 Prach Pimarnman, Founder Satu ≠ Padu Collaborative and Artist, Penwadee Nophaket Manont, Independent Art and Culture Curator and Founder Rai.D Collective, Furqan Ismael Co- Founder Halal Life, Moderato by Kong Rithdee, Film Critic and writer, the director deputy of the Thai Film Archiver.
2024:
- Talk Section: Film Screening Mabashi Media Festival 2024 Timetable Tentative,Maebbashi Japan Make Tea’ Producer Penwadee Nophaket Manont Director and Production Manager Prach Pimarnman, Film Year 2021, 12.41 mins.
2024:
- (Sean Seab) Walking Tour; A Merayu Pattani Heritage Trail Follow the Footsteps Of A Lesser-Known Chapter In Bangkok's Story Explore the Merayu Pattani Legacy Along the Sean Seab Canel From Malay Captives to Muslim Communities in the City: Journ- eying Along the path of History to Uncover Stories of the Displaced Patani Malays. Join us on "Bangkok's Untold Story - A Merayu Patani Heritage Trail", an event orga- nized by SAC Gallery, as we explore one of Bangkok's main waterway, Sean Saeb Canal, and delve into the heritage of the patani Malay diaspora. The walking tour will take us to visit our neighbors in the Sukhumvit", area specifically the "Ban Don Mosque Community", which boasts a rich history spanning over a century. Walking with Suniti Chuthamas, and Montri (Arif) Yarangwong, Plan trip and researcher Prach Pimarnman, Ekamon Bonchom, Keeta Isran
2024:
- "kenduri" (a feast), marking the end of the "Saen Saeb" series in "the FROZEN" exhibition. This event will strengthen our bonds through the "Tabsi"(a tray of food), featuring specially selected dishes from the Ban DON, Ekamai and Lam Hin mosque feasts, which are rarely available as they are prepared only for special ceremonies. Enjoy these unique dishes while engaging in a Food Talk, experiencing the rich evolution of Muslim cuisine over time. , Food Talk Suniti Chuthamas, a researcher from the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center; Fuadi Pitsuwan, President of the Surin Pitsuwan Foundation; Prach Pimarnman, the artist behind the "Saen Saeb" series in the "the FROZEN" Exhibition; Advisor Penwadee Nophaket manont, Curator the "the FROZEN" Exhibition and SAC Gallery team.
2024:
- Special film talk featuring "THE" CURSED LAND" , presented in collaboration with SAC Gallery and the aer exhibition "the FROZEN". This enriching event of "THE CURSED LAND", Patubjit Neelapaijit, Human Rights Activist, Penwadee Nophaket manont, Curator, and Prach Pimarnman, Artist behind the "Sean Saeb" series featured in "the FROZEN". The discussion will be expertly moderated by Kalil Pitsuwan, screenwriter of "Solids by the Seashore".
2024.
- Sentimental Fission, Talk Section Under the project ‘Peace for All’ Palestinian Solidarity Campaign Thailand (PSCT), 6 August 2024 Prach Pimarnman, Artist and Thidarat Chantachua, Artist Moderator by Danish Seksan, Curator.
2024:
- Lecture Class, Instillation Art, Faculty of Fine Arts Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand
2024:
- Artist & Patrons Luncheon Sat 26 Oct 2024, From Nomad to Nowhere Exhibition Present by Warin Lab Contemporary.
2024:
- Lecture Class in Aichi University of Art, Japan, 12 November 2024.
2024:
- Coffee With the Artist 16 November 2024, Q SO-KO, Nagoya, Japan.
2024:
- Lecture Class Nagoya University of Art, Japan, 26 November 2024.
2024:
- Q BAR Feat. Kazue Suzuki, Yuichiro Tamura, Prach Pimarnman, 28 November 2024.
2024:
- Tra-Travel/Osaka Art Hub, 29 November 2024, AIRA VOL 14, Food Workshop Green Curry, by Prach Pimarnman. at JUU Arts & Stay.
2024:
- An Anonymous Starship Brings Fragments of Dreams, Artist Talk, 7 December 2024, At Q SO-KO, Prach Pimarnman, Artist researcher Nagoya Halal food Art Project; Kazue Suzuki, Founder Seasun Arts and Culture exchange project between Southeast Asia and Japan; Kenichiro Egami, Guest Moderator, Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts.
2025:
- Dialogue Ask Yourself to Narathiwat Beyond Talk, Art Mind People and Paktaii Design Week 2025 a.e.y. space Songkla Thailand.
2025:
- Beyond Narathiwat Super 8 Film Workshop By Satu ≠ Padu Collaborative and Rolling Wild at De' Lapae Art Space Narathiwat
2025:
- Voices Through Peripheral Residencies The Dialogue Ep. 5 Warin Lab Contemporary