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Chanya Vitayakul’s practice explores the feminized and non-binary body as a porous site: one that absorbs, resists, and reconfigures the languages projected onto it. Working across sculpture, installation, and graphic design, Chanya blends personal narrative with material investigation to examine how the body is written, held, and sometimes violated by external systems. Chanya’s work is not about resolution, but about rupture and reconstitution. Their work encourages entry into shared spaces of discomfort and tenderness, where clarity gives way to slippage, and where the body speaks in fragments, stains, and residues. In this space, authorship is complicated; distributed between artist, viewer, and the materials themselves. Chanya’s work poses a quiet but insistent question of what it means to be seen, and to survive that seeing.

Chanya Vitayakul (they/them, b. 2003) is a multidisciplinary artist from Bangkok, Thailand. Their work has been exhibited in New York, Rhode Island, South Korea, and Thailand, and has appeared in publications including Curatory Magazine, Divide Magazine, New Visionary Magazine, and the Survivor Arts and Writing Collective. Chanya holds a BFA in Graphic Design︎︎︎ from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)︎︎︎ and is based in Long Island City, New York.




Exhibitions


Unstable Language
Amos Eno Gallery via artsy.net︎︎︎ 2025

Neural Backup
A Space Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2025

Senior Invitational
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI 2025

When Time Lingers In The Air
A Space Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2025

Here For Now: GD Senior Show
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI 2025

Anything, Anytime
Graphic Design Commons RISD, Providence RI 2024

Surface Anomaly: New Explorations in Poster Design
Nothing is Real Gallery, Seoul KR 2024

Symbio/Split
Gelman Gallery @ RISD Museum, Providence RI 2024

Expiration Date: GD Triennial
Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence RI 2024

V-Art Union 2024/7
Online︎︎︎ 2024

Thai Creative Student Collective: Duality of Home
 Slow Combo, Bangkok TH 2023

Publications


Language of Visibility: Asian Art Community Redefining Ways of Seeing︎︎︎

"Unstable Language" Press Release & Curatorial Essay via artsy.net︎︎︎

BOOOOOOOM Website Feature︎︎︎
New Visionary Magazine: Issue 15 (Interview) Digital︎︎︎ Print︎︎︎

Survivors Arts and Writing Collective, Interview with Chanya Vitayakul by Maren Curtis︎︎︎

Curatory Magazine: Volume 5 (Interview) Digital︎︎︎ Print︎︎︎

The Indy Providence: Volume 49, Issue 5 (Cover)︎︎︎

Divide Magazine: Issue 12
Digital︎︎︎ Print︎︎︎

Artsin Square Magazine: Edition 7 (Back Cover and Interview)︎︎︎ 
Previously @ the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

Currently in New York.

Lets talk:)
chanyavitayakul@gmail.com