Sawatchrokorn Wannasorn
Chiang Mai, 2000Biography
Sawatchrokorn Wannasorn (b. 2000, Chiang Mai) is a Thai–Shan artist living and working in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. He studied Painting at the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University, Bangkok.
His work explores the intersection of folklore, mythology, natural phenomena, and human activity. Drawing inspiration from the legends of northern Thailand and the visual language of ancient manuscripts from Lanna, Shan State, Laos, and Isan, he creates layered images that intertwine the seen and unseen, the real and imagined. Through painting and experimental techniques, he investigates forms of coexistence that resist unity yet remain inseparably connected.
Since 2020, Wannasorn has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Chiang Mai, Bangkok, and Nakhon Pathom, steadily developing a distinct voice that bridges political narratives, spiritual traditions, and cultural memory. His upcoming exhibition Tropic Reverie (October 2025) at Jaski Gallery, Amsterdam, marks his first solo presentation outside Thailand.
Works
(M M) osquito onkey
oil on canvas
2025
45 x 40 cm
A poetic reflection on restlessness and restraint, this short text contrasts stillness with inner chaos. The artist imagines a body unmoving, bitten by mosquitoes yet unaware of pain, while within, a monkey yearns to seize the world—an image of desire, meditation, and the restless human mind.
€ 3.500
Human Thing
oil on canvas - triptych
2025
90 x 70 cm
Based on the Northern Thai legend of the Albino Eel, this triptych recalls the flooding of the city Wiang Nong Lom by an enraged Naga king. Only a virtuous widow survived. Arranged like a Thai mural, the paintings retell this vanishing tale while reflecting on human disruption of natural and cultural landscapes. Sawatchrokorn links ancient myth to modern loss, reminding us that when we alter nature, we also erase our shared memory.
€ 14.000
The Movement of Things
oil on canvas - triptych
2025
90 x 70 cm
The Rage of Land
oil on canvas - triptych
2025
90 x 70 cm
The Wild Eye
oil on canvas
2025
170 x 130 cm
The forest, long seen as sacred, is both nurturing and forbidding. Before entering, villagers ask permission from its spirits—acknowledging a world alive with unseen forces. Sawatchrokorn portrays the forest as a sentient being, always watching. Beneath its harmony lies tension, a quiet reminder that beauty and mystery are inseparable in nature’s realm.
€ 8.000
The Totem
oil on canvas
2025
130 x 250 cm
Drawing from myths across Southeast Asia and India, Sawatchrokorn explores humanity’s early reverence for all living things. Before the rise of organized religion, nature itself was seen as sacred—mysterious, dangerous, and divine. In The Totem, a human figure is enveloped by a great Naga whose form recalls Khmer sculpture. The serpent alludes to the Samudra Manthan—the churning of the ocean of milk—symbolizing the eternal cycle of creation, reverence, and transformation between human and divine.
€ 12.000
Freedom of Instinct
oil on canvas
2026
180 x 160 cm
Price on request
