HARIT SRIKHAO (b.1995)
based in Bangkok, Thailand
email :
haritsrikhao@hotmail.com
haritsrikhao@gmail.com
instagram : haritsrikhao
vimeo : https://vimeo.com/haritsrikhao
Harit Srikhao takes a courageous look at the inherent power relations embedded in photography itself.
Of being captured and examined as a subject and being the subject performing the act of capturing, the dichotomy in front and behind the lens.
His practice works through interconnected themes from political traditions to aesthetics of power, all struck through with an intense effort to come to understand
his personal experience of being a subject and object, of surrendering the autonomy of one’s image and the struggle in reclaiming it, and giving it a body.
Photography functions as a device to address the delay in understanding, in coming to terms and examining the conditions of his position within the world.
An affirmation and agency in navigating the dissociative state of his experiences. From photographic diaries of moments to contemplate to staged setups where fictions are interwoven
with facts in immortalized bodies of myths that prop up national unity and delicate relations of those of differing class make way
for an interpersonal look of intimate relations of bodies deemed deviating by society.
All laid bare in his new body of work, a confrontation with the medium of photography and its attempt at encapsulating the being of a person
one’s complicated relation with the image of oneself and the grasps of the tangible body, the tension of an eternity on view and the slipping past of the being in it.
(*Text by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY in the context of Harit Srikhao upcoming solo show at BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY, opening on October 12, 2024)
AWARD
2022
- The Arttaca Grants for Photography
2021
- Prince Claus Seed Awards, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
- Winner of Young Portfolio in Invisible Photographer Asia Awards, Singapore
2017
- Foam Talents, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Special Mention by the Jury of Portfolio Review, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016
- Juror’s prize at Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, US
- Grand Prize at Young Thai Artist Awards : Photography, Bangkok, Thailand
- Second Prize at Gomma Grant, London, UK
2015
- Photo Elysée : reGeneration3, Lausanne, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
- Cumulus at Galerie Oasis, Bangkok, Thailand
2022
- Bêtes Éternelles at Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand
2017
- Whitewash at Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand
- A Boy Who Was Kidnapped By Time at Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2014
- Red Dream and Black Rite at Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
DUO EXHIBITION
2021
- Hollow Vessels: Agnieszka Mastalerz & Harit Srikhao by FABBRI SCHENKER PROJECTS, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023
- Reveries at 515 Victory, Bangkok, Thailand
- 捏水 | Kneaded Water | ปั้นน้ำเป็นตัว at RABA, Tokyo, Japan
- The Arttaca Grants for Photography at RDX Offsite, Bangkok, Thailand
- From Little Acorns…, Festival in a Box, Photoworks, UK
2022
- Sawang Sawai Siwilai at Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
2021
- ⓒᴚY𝕻Tо for Cɍ𝓨Pᵵiⅅs at JWD Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
2020
- LIA – Leipzig International Art Programme’s open studio Fall show at Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
- A beast, a god, and a line / curated by Cosmin Costinas at at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2019
- Sources at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
- Thai Evening in Berlin by un.thai.tled, Berlin, Germany
- Stardust at Museum of Contemporary Photography, Cinisello, Italy
- ORGY 2019 / 3rd YOUTH EXPO at ATT19, Bangkok, Thailand
2018
- Foam Talent at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
- Foam Talent at Red Hook Labs Brooklyn, New York, US
- Foam Talent at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, UK
- Young Portfolio at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan
- Absurdity in Paradise at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2017
- Foam Talent at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016
- reGeneration3 at Format Festival QUAD Galleries, Derby, UK
- reGeneration3 at Centro Nacional de las Artes à Mexico city, Mexico
- reGeneration3 at Lishui Art Museum, Lishui, China
- Margin of Visual Threshold at Circle Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
2015
- reGeneration3: New Perspectives on Photography at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Photo Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2013
- Cross_Stitch at Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
- GETXOPHOTO : DREAMS, Bilbao, Spain
EDUCATION
2018 - 2019 : Master in Photography and Visual Design at Nuova accademia di belle arti (NABA), Milano, Italy
2013 - 2017 : Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography and Applied Art at at King Mongkut’s Instutute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand
WORKSHOP
2011 : Angkor Photo Workshop with Antoine d'Agata, Siem Reap, Cambodia
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2019 - 2020 : LIA – Leipzig International Art Programme, Germany / Supported by Goethe-Institut Thailand
MONOGRAPH
- CUMULUS published by Bad Eyes, 2023
- WHITEWASH published by AkinaBooks, 2017
SELECTED PUBLICATION
- BUTT Magazine #33, 2023
- DAZED Magazine Spring Issue#275, 2022
- SUB-MERGE by Emulsion, 2020
- Aperture Magazine #237, Winter : Wolfgang Tillmans’s Spirituality, 2019
- GUP #63, The Portrait of Life, 2019
- IMA. Summer #24, 2018
- Foam Magazine #48, TALENT, 2017
- Foam Magazine #47, Propaganda, 2017
- Photo Elysée : reGeneration3, 2015
PUBLIC COLLECTION
- Photo Elysée, Launsanne, Switzerland (In context of Musée de l'Elysée reGeneration3, 2015)
- Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (In context of Foam Talent, 2017)
- Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan (In context of Young Portfolio, 2018)
- Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de La Réunion, Piton Saint-Leu of France
- MAIIAM, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- KADIST, Paris, France
based in Bangkok, Thailand
email :
haritsrikhao@hotmail.com
haritsrikhao@gmail.com
instagram : haritsrikhao
vimeo : https://vimeo.com/haritsrikhao
Harit Srikhao takes a courageous look at the inherent power relations embedded in photography itself.
Of being captured and examined as a subject and being the subject performing the act of capturing, the dichotomy in front and behind the lens.
His practice works through interconnected themes from political traditions to aesthetics of power, all struck through with an intense effort to come to understand
his personal experience of being a subject and object, of surrendering the autonomy of one’s image and the struggle in reclaiming it, and giving it a body.
Photography functions as a device to address the delay in understanding, in coming to terms and examining the conditions of his position within the world.
An affirmation and agency in navigating the dissociative state of his experiences. From photographic diaries of moments to contemplate to staged setups where fictions are interwoven
with facts in immortalized bodies of myths that prop up national unity and delicate relations of those of differing class make way
for an interpersonal look of intimate relations of bodies deemed deviating by society.
All laid bare in his new body of work, a confrontation with the medium of photography and its attempt at encapsulating the being of a person
one’s complicated relation with the image of oneself and the grasps of the tangible body, the tension of an eternity on view and the slipping past of the being in it.
(*Text by BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY in the context of Harit Srikhao upcoming solo show at BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY, opening on October 12, 2024)
AWARD
2022
- The Arttaca Grants for Photography
2021
- Prince Claus Seed Awards, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
- Winner of Young Portfolio in Invisible Photographer Asia Awards, Singapore
2017
- Foam Talents, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Special Mention by the Jury of Portfolio Review, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016
- Juror’s prize at Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, US
- Grand Prize at Young Thai Artist Awards : Photography, Bangkok, Thailand
- Second Prize at Gomma Grant, London, UK
2015
- Photo Elysée : reGeneration3, Lausanne, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
- Cumulus at Galerie Oasis, Bangkok, Thailand
2022
- Bêtes Éternelles at Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand
2017
- Whitewash at Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand
- A Boy Who Was Kidnapped By Time at Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2014
- Red Dream and Black Rite at Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
DUO EXHIBITION
2021
- Hollow Vessels: Agnieszka Mastalerz & Harit Srikhao by FABBRI SCHENKER PROJECTS, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023
- Reveries at 515 Victory, Bangkok, Thailand
- 捏水 | Kneaded Water | ปั้นน้ำเป็นตัว at RABA, Tokyo, Japan
- The Arttaca Grants for Photography at RDX Offsite, Bangkok, Thailand
- From Little Acorns…, Festival in a Box, Photoworks, UK
2022
- Sawang Sawai Siwilai at Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
2021
- ⓒᴚY𝕻Tо for Cɍ𝓨Pᵵiⅅs at JWD Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
2020
- LIA – Leipzig International Art Programme’s open studio Fall show at Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
- A beast, a god, and a line / curated by Cosmin Costinas at at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2019
- Sources at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
- Thai Evening in Berlin by un.thai.tled, Berlin, Germany
- Stardust at Museum of Contemporary Photography, Cinisello, Italy
- ORGY 2019 / 3rd YOUTH EXPO at ATT19, Bangkok, Thailand
2018
- Foam Talent at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
- Foam Talent at Red Hook Labs Brooklyn, New York, US
- Foam Talent at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London, UK
- Young Portfolio at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan
- Absurdity in Paradise at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2017
- Foam Talent at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016
- reGeneration3 at Format Festival QUAD Galleries, Derby, UK
- reGeneration3 at Centro Nacional de las Artes à Mexico city, Mexico
- reGeneration3 at Lishui Art Museum, Lishui, China
- Margin of Visual Threshold at Circle Art Centre, Shenzhen, China
2015
- reGeneration3: New Perspectives on Photography at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Photo Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2013
- Cross_Stitch at Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
- GETXOPHOTO : DREAMS, Bilbao, Spain
EDUCATION
2018 - 2019 : Master in Photography and Visual Design at Nuova accademia di belle arti (NABA), Milano, Italy
2013 - 2017 : Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography and Applied Art at at King Mongkut’s Instutute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Bangkok, Thailand
WORKSHOP
2011 : Angkor Photo Workshop with Antoine d'Agata, Siem Reap, Cambodia
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2019 - 2020 : LIA – Leipzig International Art Programme, Germany / Supported by Goethe-Institut Thailand
MONOGRAPH
- CUMULUS published by Bad Eyes, 2023
- WHITEWASH published by AkinaBooks, 2017
SELECTED PUBLICATION
- BUTT Magazine #33, 2023
- DAZED Magazine Spring Issue#275, 2022
- SUB-MERGE by Emulsion, 2020
- Aperture Magazine #237, Winter : Wolfgang Tillmans’s Spirituality, 2019
- GUP #63, The Portrait of Life, 2019
- IMA. Summer #24, 2018
- Foam Magazine #48, TALENT, 2017
- Foam Magazine #47, Propaganda, 2017
- Photo Elysée : reGeneration3, 2015
PUBLIC COLLECTION
- Photo Elysée, Launsanne, Switzerland (In context of Musée de l'Elysée reGeneration3, 2015)
- Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (In context of Foam Talent, 2017)
- Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan (In context of Young Portfolio, 2018)
- Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de La Réunion, Piton Saint-Leu of France
- MAIIAM, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- KADIST, Paris, France