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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.

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Exhibitions
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Asynchronous Affinities

​Curator: Larys Frogier

3.22 - 5.14, 2025

Hong Kong Wong Chuk Hang Space

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No Heart Here

9.14 - 10.27, 2024

MOCA BANGKOK

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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

6.28 - 8.5, 2024

Singapore

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No Heart Here

​Curator: Cui Cancan

7.6 - 10.8, 2024

​Pingshan Art Museum

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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

Curated by: Cui Cancan

5.22 - 7.5, 2024

Beijing 1st & 2nd Space

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Group show: Intersection of Existence

Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Kitti Narod, Gongkan, Navin Rawanchaikul, Sakarin Krue-On, Pannaphan Yodmanee,

Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit, Suntur

Curated by: Mai Wongsawasdi

4.20 - 6.11, 2024

Bangkok

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Gongkan Solo Exhibition: Public but Private

Curated by: Hyunmin Kim

6.10 - 7.15, 2023

Seoul

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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.

Curated by: Fiona Lu

3.18 - 4.21, 2023

Hong Kong Wong Chuk Hang Space

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Curated by: Yonni Park, Jeeeun Hong

11.26 - 12.31, 2022

Seoul

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Gongkan: Inner Place

Curated by: Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani

11.6 - 12.5, 2022

Beijing Headquarters Gallery Space

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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

7.24 - 8.20, 2022

Beijing Headquarters Gallery Space

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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

12.18.2021 - 1.15, 2022

Beijing 2nd Space

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Introspection

Curated by: Nim Niyomsin

11.6 - 12.12, 2021

Bangkok

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Retrospective Utopia

Yunizar, Marina Cruz, Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit, Kristoffer Ardena, Gongkan

9.24 - 10.20, 2020

Bangkok

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