Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 presents Kanya Charoensupkul’s works at two venues. At Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) are 15 works created between 1994 and 1997, representing nature, land, rock, wind, water and waves. At Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) is a new creation, the artist’s largest work to date, titled Whitewash for Mother Earth, 320 x 1440 cm. This mix of paints, water and sand, natural elements, indicates human destruction of vegetation, nature and layers of atmosphere. We drill into the land for sources of energy, remove and destroy forests which cover the surface of our earth and ignore the issue of the quality of air, our breath of life. We have been ungrateful to Mother Nature, our life giver. Kanya’s image on the canvas then represents Mother Nature’s blood-soaked body, awaiting treatment while the whitewash represents the healing itself.  

Professor Emeritus Kanya Charoensupkul was honored as National Artist in Visual Arts (Mixed Media) in 2023. She has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions internationally including Lithograph and Ink Painting by Kanya (Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art, Bangkok, 1987); Flower: Stone: Season (Art Gallery, National Museum, Bangkok, 1990); Show Me Thai: Contemporary Art Exhibition (Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2007); and Traces of Siamese Smile: Art + Faith + Politics + Love (BACC, 2008).