Montien BOONMA MONTIEN BOONMA Born 1953 Bangkok, Thailand Died 17 August 2000 Selected solo exhibitions* 2000 'Memorial Exhibition for Montien Boonma', Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 1999 ‘Das Haus der Sternzeichen’, Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany 1998 ‘House of Hope’, Deitch Projects, New York, USA ‘Melting Void/Molds for the Mind’, Numthong Gallery, Bangkok 1997 Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ‘Arokhayasala Installasjoner’, Stenersenmuseum, Oslo, Norway; Japan Beurdeley & Cie, Paris, France Deitch Projects, New York, USA 1996 ‘Arokhayasan’, Visual Dhamma Gallery and Bangkok Playhouse, Bangkok 1994 ‘Marks of Mind: Marks ? !’, Silom Art Space, Bangkok 1993 'Works 1990–1993', National Gallery, Bangkok 1992 ‘Arte Amazonas’, Goethe Institut, Bangkok 1991 ‘Montien Boonma: The Pagoda & Cosmos Drawn With Earth’, Japan Foundation ASEAN Culture Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 'Multimedia by Montien Boonma: "Story From The Farm"', National Gallery, Bangkok ‘AUM’, Visual Dhamma Gallery, Bangkok 1990 ‘ThaiahT’, National Gallery, Bangkok ‘Form and Material’, Visual Dhamma Gallery, Bangkok Selected group exhibitions* 2001 ‘Face to Faith’, Goldsmiths College, London, UK 2000 ’12 ASEAN Artists’, Balai Seni Lukis Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ‘Shanghai Biennale 2000’, China ‘Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000’, Nigata Prefecture, Japan 'Glocal Scents of Thailand', Edsvik Art and Culture, Stockholm, Sweden 'Euro-Visions Contemporary Art Exhibition', Silpakorn University, Bangkok 'The Quiet In The Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and Projeto Axe', Centro de Defesa e Porotecao a Criancas e a Adolescentes, Salvador, Brazil 1999 'Trace: 1st Liverpool Biennial of International Contemporary Art', UK '1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 1999', Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan 'Our Expression: Zero: Montien + Hitori', The Gallery of Art & Design, Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok 1998 ‘The Edge Of Awareness: Art For The World', (World Health Organization 50th Anniversary travelling exhibition), WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; USA; Brazil; India 'Global Vision: New Art From The 90s Part 2', Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece ‘The Bridge: Construction in Process VI’, Footscray Community Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia 'Plastic (& Other) Waste', Chulalongkorn University Art Centre, Bangkok 1997 ‘River Project’, Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei, Taiwan ‘Trade Routes: History and Geography. 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997’, South Africa 'Corner', Project 304, Bangkok 'Being Minorities', Hong Kong Arts Centre 'Art in Southeast Asia 1997: Glimpses Into the Future', Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan ‘Die Anderen Modernen: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany 'Conversing Contemporary', Numthong Gallery, Bangkok 1996 'Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions’, Asia Society Galleries, New York, USA; Canada; India; Singapore; Korea; Australia; Taiwan ‘Into the Next Decade’, Tadu Contemporary Art, Bangkok 'Containers 96: Art Across Oceans’, Copenhagen, Denmark 'Montien Boonma/Thaiwijit Puangkasemsomboon', Bangkok University Gallery 'lslands: Contemporary Installations From Australia, Asia, Europe and America’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 'Chiang Mai Social Installation', various public installations, Chiang Mai 'Modernity and Beyond', Singapore Art Museum 1995 'Asian Modernism: Diverse Development in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand', Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan; The Philippines; Thailand; Indonesia '4th International Istanbul Biennale: The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World’, Turkey ‘Thai Tensions’, Chulalongkorn University Art Center, Bangkok ‘Art and Environment III’, The National Gallery, Bangkok ‘Contemporary Art Exhibition 1995’, The National Gallery, Bangkok '4th NICAF Yokohama '95', Pacifico Yokohama, Japan 1994 ‘Faret Tachikawa Art Project’, Tokyo, Japan ‘Content and Sense’, The National Gallery, Bangkok 'Adelaide Installations: Beyond the Material World', Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Australia 'Asian Art Now: Creativity in Asian Art Now, Parts 1 & 2', Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan '5th Biennale of Havana: Arte, Sociedad, Reflexion', Cuba 1993 ‘Prospect 93’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany ‘1st Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia ‘Thai-Australian Cultural Space’, National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Australia '1983–1993: The Decade of Faculty of Fine Arts', Chiang Mai University 1992 ‘New Art from Southeast Asia’, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Japan ‘Melancholic Trance’, Visual Dhamma Gallery, Bangkok ‘Klima Global: Arte Amazonas’, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Germany 'A Decade of White Group: Individual Project 1992', Silom Art Space Gallery, Bangkok 1991 ‘The Integrative Art of Modern Thailand’, Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, USA ‘Art and Environment’, Art Gallery of the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art, Silpakorn University, Bangkok ‘White Group’, The National Gallery, Bangkok 'Parallel Views: an Exhibition of Contemporary Thai Art', Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1990 ‘Ennegram — Nine Into 9’, Visual Dhamma Gallery, Bangkok ‘The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art: 8th Biennale of Sydney', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 'Von der Natur in der Kunst', Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria 1989 ‘Les Peintres Thailandais Traditionnels et Contemporains, l’Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France ‘From the Outside Looking In’, USIS Gallery, Chiang Mai 1988 ‘Olympiad of Art’, Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea 1984 ‘3rd Exhibition of ASEAN Painting and Photography’, Manila, The Philippines; Singapore; Malaysia; Indonesia; Thailand 1982, '84, '87 White Group Exhibitions, Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art, Bangkok 1977, '80, '83, '84 ‘National Exhibition of Art’, National Art Gallery, Bangkok Qualifications, grants and awards* 1989 MFA (Painting), Silpakorn University, Bangkok 1988 Maitrise Nationale en Arte Plastiques, Universite de Paris VIII, Faculte de l’Arts Plastiques, Saint Denis, France 1986–88 Studied sculpture at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France 1984 Winner, 'Contemporary Art Competition', Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art, Bangkok 1978 BFA (Painting), Silpakorn University, Bangkok Collections* Acacia Fine Art Ltd, Bangkok Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece Faret Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul, Korea Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Singapore Art Museum *All Thailand unless otherwise stated Selected bibliography Fenema, Joyce Van et al. Southeast Asian Art Today. G + B Arts International, by arrangement with Roeder; Distributed by Craftsman House, Singapore; Roseville East, NSW, 1996. Goodman, Jonathan. 'Montien Boonma'. Art AsiaPacific, no.20, 1998, pp.94–5. Preece, Robert. 'Montien Boonma at Visual Dhamma Gallery'. Asia-Pacific Sculpture News, vol.2, no.4, Autumn 1996, pp.54–5. Richard, Frances. 'Montien Boonma : Dietch Projects'. Artforum, vol.36, no.6, February 1998, pp.91–2. Sundaram, Vivan. ‘A luminous presence’. Art News Magazine of India, vol. 5, no. 4, October–December, 2000, pp.56–8. Williams, Gelda (ed.). Fresh Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture. Phaidon, London, 2000. Wongchirachai, Albert Paravi. 'Montien Boonma'. Art and AsiaPacific, vol.2, no.3, July 1995, pp.74–81. Artists and Works Print friendly version