Supawich Weesapen
b. 1997, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.
Supawich Weesapen received his BFA in Painting from Silpakorn University. Grounded in painting, his practice creates works that register as phenomena emerging from the intersection of contemporary life, speculative thought, and myth, charged with enigmatic energy and radiance. Extending across mixed media, poetry, and installation, it brings invisible forces and disjunctive relations into view. Born into the digital age, Weesapen renders this condition through colour: his paintings draw on RGB effects, a palette embedded in our collective subconscious. While reflecting on technology's present and future, he turns equally toward the spiritual and the sublime, engaging scientific theory, cosmological phenomena, folklore, origin myths, omens, and age-old symbols rooted in Tai and Northeastern Thai culture. These outward inquiries turn inward through self-observation. Weesapen presents them in their abstract form — as something that surfaces and is encountered within experience shared between others and himself — framing them as constituents of a present-day selfhood. From there, he weaves these disjointed realities together with social concern, constructing conspiracy-like narratives that reveal the entanglements between existential conditions, the unknown, and inner worlds.
Recent exhibitions include Parallel II: INTERZONE, Udon-Thani City Church (2025); Thailand.Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week, Nakhon Phanom (2025), Shared Currents, Shifting Grounds, Loei (2025); Bangkok Art Biennale (2024); In saying these things, I went to sleep, Nova Contemporary (2024); Made in the Dark, Clearing Gallery, (2023); The Comet and the Nostalgic Souls, Nova Contemporary (2023); All is Prettier. Part II: Arrival, 100 Tonson Foundation (2023); Qi, Nova Contemporary (2020). His works are part of prominent collections, including X Museum, Beijing; Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; and 129 Art Museum, Nakhon Ratchasima.