Alongkorn Lauwatthana
b. 1964, currently resides and works in Kanchanaburi, Thailand

Alongkorn Lauwatthana was born in Nan Province and received his bachelor’s degree in Thai Art from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. He later pursued postgraduate studies in painting at Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. His educational experience in India played a significant role in shaping both his artistic thought and visual perspective.

Throughout his career, Lauwatthana has received continuous recognition through numerous awards and honours in the field of art. Among his later distinctions was the 2nd Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grant from the Art Centre, Silpakorn University, in 2002. Prior to that, he received the Excellent Award from the Home of Love and Compassion for Animals Art Exhibition under Royal Patronage, as well as the First Prize in the Anti Smoking Poster Competition organized by the AUA Language Center in 1986, the Third Prize Bronze Medal in Traditional Thai Painting at the 9th Bualuang Painting Exhibition in 1985, the First Prize at the National Youth Art Exhibition and the First Prize in Lanna Art in 1984, and the First Prize at the Reeve Art Exhibition in 1983.

Lauwatthana’s works have been continuously selected for presentation in both group and solo exhibitions. His significant solo exhibitions include BEYOND: Further into the Future at the National Gallery in 2025, Concrete Abstract at Studio Artistic in 2017, Present Perfect at The Queen’s Gallery in 2016, and Right View at the National Gallery in 2013. In terms of group exhibitions, he participated in Merit Making Artists in Support of the 100th Anniversary of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in 2014, Tribute from the Heart in Honour of the King’s 86th Birthday in 2013, the Siam Af exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in 2012, and the Beijing International Art Biennale in Beijing, China, in 2008.

Alongkorn Lauwatthana’s creative approach may be defined as symbolic spiritual art, or what he refers to as dharma enigma paintings and allegorical images. His practice emerges from the confluence of traditional Thai painting techniques, Buddhist philosophical teachings, and reflections on contemporary conditions. His experience studying in India led him to reconsider the roots of Asian art and spirituality more profoundly, and this in turn transformed his artistic language from the formal characteristics of traditional Thai line into an increasingly abstract mode of expression. Through symbols, compositions, and colours driven by instinct, he opens a space in which viewers are invited to contemplate the meanings concealed beneath the surface of the image, whether related to the cycle of samsara, the changing world, or the inner states of the human mind.

Alongkorn Lauwatthana’s work reveals the gradual development of an artistic language that unfolds from the foundation of Thai painting into a highly personal realm of symbolic and spiritual meaning. His monumental painting Thep Chumnum is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA BANGKOK. He continues to create artworks actively while also sharing his knowledge of Thai painting in his role as a guest lecturer.