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GONGKAN

b. 1989, Thailand

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Kantapon Metheekul, better known as Gongkan, graduated from Kasetsart University Laboratory School in 2007 and from Silpakorn University, Faculty of Decorative Arts, in 2011.  After graduating and starting his career in advertising agencies in Bangkok, Gongkan decided to move to New York City to pursue his artist career, where he spent 3 years, before returning to Bangkok, where he currently works and resides.

 

While in New York City, he created street art and illustrations centered on the idea of being transported through time and space to his homeland. Gongkan’s work, which he named “Teleport Art,” quickly gained recognition in the New York street art scene and later in Bangkok. The element of time is a predominant concept in Gongkan’s creations: a surrealistic realm populated with peculiar portals and human figures in group or isolation, realized with graphic flatness. Despite the serenity fostered by the soft color palette and smooth application, the atmosphere is occasionally disrupted by the sharp incision of black onto the canvas. Through presenting different visions of the present times or rewriting the past, the artist creates alternate realities in the process.

 

His selected and recent solo exhibitions include “ASYNCHRONOUS AFFINITIES,” Tang contemporary, Hong Kong, (China, 2025); “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” X Museum, Beijing (China, 2024); “No Heart Here,” Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen (China, 2024); “No Heart Here,” MOCA, Bangkok (Thailand, 2024); “Monsters in You,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles (U.S., 2023); “Public but Private,” Tang Contemporary Art, Seoul (Korea, 2023); “Inner Place” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (China, 2022); “Gongkan: For someone who hate the Rainbow,” Over the Influence, Paris (France, 2022); “Introspection,” Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok (Thailand, 2021); “Tip of the Iceberg,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles (U.S., 2021); “Yesterday Tomorrow,” River City Bangkok, Bangkok (Thailand, 2019), etc.

 

Selected group exhibitions include: “Post-me Generation: How to write about young artists,” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (China, 2022); “Group show: Falling,” Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing (China, 2022); “Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2021,” Macao Museum of Art (Macao, 2021); “Retrospective Utopia,” Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok (Thailand, 2020); “Pollution,” River City Bangkok, Bangkok (Thailand, 2020), etc.