Bhanuwat Jittivuthikarn

papaya-fineart

Graduate form School of Creative Art University of Melbourne with combine degree in International Politics, Bhanuwat Jittivuthikarn is an emerging Visual Artist who works in all cross-discipline. Bhanuwat have spent seven years in Melbourne where he hold a number of art exhibition and received numbers of award. Return to Thailand in 2006. He joined SNF Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation, one of leading grassroots empowerment organization in Asia. Where he collaborate contemporary art into community development projects include Post-Tsunami Art Project in Thailand, visual art training in Sri Lanka, documenting life of Tibetan refugee in India, and Fund raising art project for young novices in Burma. As he believes that art at its best has the capacity to transform the way people think and create real social change. Rather than using photograph as a statement of evidence, he aims to use them as the way of observing world phenomena. His shot films have been official selected in number of International film festival. Bhanuwat is now live and work in Bangkok Thailand.

BHANUWAT JITTIVUTHIKARN

http://joejitti.multiply.com joe_jitti@hotmail.com
Tel: 66-813051474, 66-38-251260
Address: 162/2 Mo. 10 T. Nongprue Banglamung District
Chonburi THAILAND 20150

Born 1983, Bangkok, Thailand



EDUCATION


2003-2006 Bachelor of Creative Arts, double major in Visual and Media Art
(2005 Dean’s Honours), University of Melbourne

2003-2006 Concurrent Diploma in Arts (International Studies), University of Melbourne




SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2009 Diaspora Smile, Anniversary of 50 years of Tibetan Resistance, Thammasart University , Bangkok, Thailand

2009 Greater Maekong Sub-Region Art Sans Frontier 2009, Luang Prabang, Lao

2009 The Queen’s Gallery International Art Exchange Festival 2009, Bangkok, Thailand

2009 5th Poh-Chang International Art Workshop, Chaing Rai Rajabhat University, Chaing Rai, Thailand

2009 Siam- Sri Lanka Art Exchange Exhibition, Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin, Bangkok, Thailand

2008 Krabi Museum of Contemporary Art , Inaugurate Exhibition, Krabi, Thailand

2008 Nude, Bangkok Art Festival 2008, Bangkok, Thailand


2007 Art for Deaf, A charity art event, Marriot Resort and Spa, Pattaya, Thailand

2006 Cement Thai Young Thai Artist Award Exhibition, National Cultural Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

2005 I Breath therefore I am, Photographic Exhibition 72nd Anniversary Sulak Sivaraka , Siam Society, Bangkok, Thailand

2005 Conjuncture , George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2005 crossing(s), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2003 VCE TOP ART, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2003 VCE Art Fair, 4 Cat Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2002 15 to 21* the stuff that surround us, City of Boroondara Millennium Photographic Project, Melbourne , Australia




SELECT FILMS IN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS


2006 ARTIST PARTY, A Documentary, Official Selection, 1st Asia-Pacific Film and Video Festival, Sydney, Australia

2005 Bangkok Utopia, Bangkok Democracy, Official Selection, 4th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand


2005 Phobia, Official Selection, 3rd Asian International Short Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea

2005 Remote Control, Official Selection, 9th Thai Short Film and Video Festival, Bangkok, Thailand







PRIZE AND AWARD


2006 Faculty of Arts Dean’s Honours Award, University of Melbourne, Australia

2005 2005 Young Thai Artist Award, Jury Prize Award in Photography, Bangkok, Thailand

2004 Ridley College Outstanding Achievement of the Year Award, Ridley College, University of Melbourne

2004 Winner 1st prize University of Melbourne Inter-Colleges Art Competition in Painting Category and 2nd prize in sculpture category

2004 Pendlebury Major Scholarship resident at Ridley College, University of Melbourne

2003 Winner 1st prize University of Melbourne Inter-Colleges Art Competition in Photography category

2002 The Art of Delivering Justice, Art Competition National Award winning, Federal Court of Australia

2002 R L Lewis Art Scholarship, Scotch College, Melbourne, Australia




SELECTED EXPERIENCES


2008 Festival Director, Pattaya Walking Street Art Festival 2008 , Pattaya City, Thailand

2008 Project Coordinator (Manager) Siam-Sri Lanka-Puppeteer exchange program

2008 Artist in resident instructor, Sewalanka foundation Art Grant, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2007 Volunteer , Asiatopia, Changmai Museum of Art, Changmai, Thailand

2007 Artist Assistant , “Soft Power Asian Attitude” at Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

2007 Artist assistance at “Globalisation Please Slowdown” Thai pavilion 52nd Venice Biennale , Venice, Italy

2006 Artist assistance to Vasan Sitthiket, Point B Artspace, New York City, United State

2005 Completed Digital Negative workshop with Dan Burkholder, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

2004 Assistance to Vasan Sitthiket’s Performance in ASAINTRAFFIC Conference at University of New South Wales, in conjunction with 14th Sydney Biennale, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia

2004 Completed Filmmaking Summer School, University of Melbourne, Australia


PROJECT / RESIDENCY


July �" August 2008 Artist in resident, Sewalanka Foundation

May - June 2006 Point B Art Space New-York, USA

2004-2005 Ridley College Major scholarship for Artist in Residence Program, Melbourne, Australia

CURATING

2008 Dream in Divergence, Art for reconciliation, National Gallery of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka


ESSAYS (SELECTION)

2009 ART FOR CHANGE, Witnessing to Silence, in “Seed of Peace” International Network of Engaged Buddhist, quarterly magazine , Spring 2009


2007 Being Ghost… Being Sand…Being Time, a reflective on Eastern Attitude in Western Territory, in “Globalisation Please Slowdown” 52nd Venice Biennale exhibition reader, 2007

2003 Going Home, the visual migration of refugee, in INSACPE, A National Youth Literary & Art Magazine Vol. 9 August, 2003

2002 Welcome the stranger, the Art for refugee , in Great Scot No. 105 December, 2002


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS



-Krabi Museum of Contemporary Art , Thailand

-University of Melbourne Library, Australia

-Federal Court of Australia, Melbourne , Australia

-Cement Thai Foundation, Bangkok , Thailand

-Sewalanka Foundation Colombo, Sri Lanka

-Chaing Rai Rajabhat University, Thailand

-Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin, Thailand

- The Queen’s Gallery, Bangkok Thailand

- Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation,Thailand