// Art Exhibitions: // Emerging Thai Artist // And // Artist in Residence Program //

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 26, 2014, 18.00 hrs. onwards

At Gallery Fl.2 and 4, Bangkok University Gallery {BUG} - City Campus
April 26 - May 24, 2014

Apart from the BRANDNEW Art Project, Bangkok University Gallery {BUG} proudly presents our two remarkable annual programs; 'Emerging Thai Artist' and 'Asian Artist in Residency Program' curated by our renowned curator, Ark Fongsmut, which submitted a discourse of transnational context between the unique cultures. The projects are intended to encourage a vivid contemporary art scene in the country and to disseminate the knowledge of a spatial-temporal concept in contemporary art.

This year, the 'Emerging Thai Artist' invites Miti Ruangkritya to explore a contextual of changing in developing countries through contemporary art photography as the artist wanders and captures the environments of 'Siem Reap', Cambodia, where the state of civilization is being driven within the consequences of assimilation and effects on dependencies. The atmosphere of chaos and remains is similarly being observed from the eye of the beholder. Moreover, a Malaysian artist, Roslisham Ismail aka ISE is now selected in the ‘Asian Artist in Residency Program’, which aims for learning, spreading and exchanging the knowledge of contemporary art and culture of each countries in Asia within 44 days (from March 15 - April 28, 2014) to eventually display the art exhibition from the period of the residency's program.

These two art programs; 'Emerging Thai Artist' and 'Artist in Residence Program' will be concurrently showing the art exhibitions at Bangkok University Gallery {BUG} - City Campus from April 26 - May 24, 2014 and the opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 18.00 hrs onwards. The Exhibition Talk will be on the same day from 15.00 – 17.00 hrs.

Miti Ruangkritya (b.1981, Thailand) Miti has received a 'Selected Winners' and an ‘Honourable Mentions’ award for Magenta Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers (UK) in 2011 & 2012. He has participated at the Angkor workshop with Antoine D’Agata whom he has also assisted in Pattaya. His portfolio has been featured in British Journal of Photography, De L’air and 500 Photographers blog. He has held a solo exhibition at Kathmandu Gallery, Bangkok and ICI, Venice. His work has been exhibited in festivals including Arles, Dali, Delhi, Le Bal, Noorderlitch and Photo Phnom Penh. In 2014, his book has been selected amongst the most interesting Photobooks of 2013 via Emaho Magazine and he will held solo exhibitions at 2902, Singapore and Bangkok University Gallery.

Roslisham Ismail aka ISE (b.1972, Kota Bharu, Kelantan) received a Bachelor of Arts from Mara University of Technology in 1997. ISE is a conceptual artist whose work centers on his personal experience of urban communities and the culture of the populace. His inter-active events celebrate dialogue and meeting cultures, while he works with comic narratives and collected popular material. He took part in APT Asia Pacific Triennial 2012, the Singapore Biennale in 2011, Jakarta Biennale in 2009 and Istanbul Biennale with Indonesia collaborative Ruangrupa in 2005. In 2006, he was the Australian High Commission resident at the Gunnery Studio, Art Space, Sydney and held his first solo exhibition at 4A gallery. He received a grant from The Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur to travel to Japan in 2007. And ISE is also a co-founder of Sentap Magazine, a quarterly art publication in Malaysia.