Introduction

Sorawit Songsataya (b. Chiang Mai, Thailand) is an artist whose practice studies the interrelated aspects of the social and dynamic natural world, informed by situated knowledge and belief systems related to their family heritage (Thai/Vietnamese) and adopted home (Aotearoa New Zealand). Deploying 3D animation, moving image, installation, sculpture, and sound, Sorawit engages reparative thinking and active listening dormant in Southeast Asia's diverse material cultures, beings, and unsung histories

Sorawit's recent exhibitions include pure intention, Singapore Biennale (2025);

Thinking together: Exchanges with the natural world, Bundanon Art Museum (2025);

Image Economy, Monash University Museum of Art (2024); Seeing in the Dark, Busan Biennale (2024); The Charge That Binds, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

(2024); Fibrous Soul, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (2024); Orbiting Body, Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (2024); Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

(2022); Thinking Hands, Touching Each Other, the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial (2021);

The Interior, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (2019). They were artist in residence at the Singapore Art Museum (2024), Gasworks, London (2023), the lASPIS in Stockholm (2018), and the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, University of Otago (2022).

Sorawit currently lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.