Assistant Professor Anupong Chantorn

b.1980, resides and works in Bangkok, Thailand.

Assistant Professor Anupong Chantorn was born in Prachinburi Province, Thailand. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with second-class honors and his Master of Fine Arts in Thai Art from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. His practice has been consistently recognized both nationally and internationally. Most recently, he was awarded First Prize at the 5th International Small Etching Biennial Graphium Timisoara 2019 in Romania. Earlier, he received the Triennale Prize at the 2nd International Print and Drawing Exhibition in 2009. In 2008, he was named Excellent Artist in Painting at the National Exhibition of Art, becoming the youngest artist in the history of the competition to receive this distinction. His record of gold and silver medal awards at the National Exhibition of Art, along with recognitions from the Bualuang Painting Competition and the Toshiba Brings Good Things to Life Art Competition, reflects the sustained rigor of both his conceptual inquiry and technical discipline.

Chantorn has participated in significant group exhibitions on a regular basis. His recent presentation in Ghosts and Hells: The Underworld in Asian Art at the Taiwan Art Museum in 2022 situates his work within a broader Asian discourse. Earlier exhibitions include ART AUCTIONS KMC HOSPITAL and Progenitor in 2021, Art for Refugees and ATTA in 2019, and Ghosts and Hells: The Underworld in Asian Art at the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac in Paris in 2018. He has also exhibited in major international art fairs in Shanghai and Singapore. His solo exhibition, Hope in the Darkness, presented in 2011, marked an important moment of self-reflection within his artistic trajectory.

Chantorn’s practice centers on the psychological condition of human beings through Buddhist notions of merit, sin, karma, and the realm of hungry ghosts. Distorted human forms, animal symbolism, and the use of monastic robes as a primary surface converge to form a critical space in which faith and structures of authority are quietly questioned. Works such as Monk of Corrupted Nature and The Bottom of the Alms Bowl have generated sustained discussion for their direct yet contemplative visual language. He currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Art, Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, while continuing his artistic production and mentorship of younger generations.