GONGKAN
b. 1989, Thailand
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.

Exhibitions

Asynchronous Affinities

Ambiguous Yesterday, Fated Tomorrow: Group Exhibition
Ai Weiwei, Atreyu Moniaga, Benzilla, Diren Lee, Edgar Plans, Etsu Egami, Gongkan, Jonas Burgert, Kitti Narod,
Leng Guangmin, Liu Youran, Ming Ying, Qin Qi,
Tiffany Lafuente, Woo Kukwon, Yoon Hyup, Yue Min,
Zhao Zhao

Golden: 28th Anniversary Exhibition
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Adel Abdassemed, AES+F, Ai Weiwei, Cai Lei, Chen Danqing, Chen Wenbo, Chen Yujun, Entang Wiharso, Fang Lijun, Feng Zhengjie, Gongkan, Guo Wei, Hao Zecheng, He An, He Duoling, Heri Dono, HIMBAD, Huang Yongping, Huang Yuxing, Ji Zhou, Jiang Zhi, Leng Guangmin, Rirkrit Tiravania, Li Luming, Li Qing, Li Wei, H.H.Lim, Michael Lim, Lin Yilin, Len Lum, Liu Qinghe, Liu Wei, Liu Yujia, Luo Zhongli, Mao Xuhui, Mao Yan, Pang Maokun, Kitti Narod, Qin Ga, Qin Qi, Jonas Burgert, Chun Kwang Young, Sakarin Krue-On, Shang Yang, Shen Yuan, Tan Ping, Wang Du, Wang Jianwei, Xiyao Wang, Wang Qingsong, Wang Sishun, Wang Yin, Weng Fen, Wu Wei, Wu Yi, Xiang Jing, Xu Jiang, Yan Lei, Yang Bodu, Yang Jiecang, Yang Yong, Yang Zhenzhong, Yin Zhaoyang, You Yong, Woo Kukwon, Yue Minjun, Zhang Hui, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhao Bandi, Zhao Zhao, Zheng Guogu, Zhu Jinshi

Group show: Intersection of Existence
Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Kitti Narod, Gongkan, Navin Rawanchaikul, Sakarin Krue-On, Pannaphan Yodmanee,
Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit, Suntur

Gongkan Solo Exhibition: Public but Private

Mille Cortex
Armin Boehm, Chen Yingjie, Cheng Chi Tien Lin, Ding Hongdan, Etsu Egami, Gongkan, Gao Hang, Oska Gutheil, Huang Bingjie, Stephen Wong Chun Hei, Kong Huidong, Leng Guangmin, Liu Youran, Kitti Narod, Jade Ching-yuk Ng, Woo Kukwon, Wang Xiyao, Xie Xuanxuan, Yan Jingzhou, and Zhang Haoyan.

Group Show: L'Empire des sens
Albert Willem, Etsu Egami, Gongkan, Raymond Lemstra,
Wang Xiyao, Woo Kukwon, Yoon Hyup, Yuyel

Gongkan: Inner Place
Curated by: Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani
11.6 - 12.5, 2022
Beijing Headquarters Gallery Space

Post-me Generation: How to write about young artists
Alessandio Gianni, Chen Yingjie, Diren Lee, Etsu Egami, Gongkan, Hao Zecheng, Hou Jianan, Jade Ching-yuk Ng, Jia Yirui, Kitti Narod, Liao Man, Olivier Souffrant, Suntur, Xiyao Wang, Wendimagegn Belete, Yang Bodu, Zhang Zhanzhan

Group show: Falling
Andres Barrioquinto, Marla Bendini, Jigger Cruz, Ayka Go, Gongkan, Faris Heizer, Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit, Geraldine Javier, Sakarin Krue- On, Dinh Q Lê, Mit Jai Inn, Raffy Napay, Kitti Narod, Eko Nugroho, Kim Oliveros, Wedhar Riayadi, Wedhar Riyadi, Luis Antonio Santos, Rodel Tapaya, Khairulddin Wahab, Entang Wiharso, Shen Jiaqi, Pannaphan Yodmanee, Yunizar

Retrospective Utopia
Yunizar, Marina Cruz, Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit, Kristoffer Ardena, Gongkan
Video
Meet the Artist | Gongkan
ART BASEL
No Heart Hear by Gongkan
MOCA BANGKOK