Chatchai puipia biography sample
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Chatchai Puipia (b.
Chatchai puipia biography sample
1964) is today one of Thailand’s most internationally celebrated contemporary artists. Puipia was born in Thailand’s rural, northeastern, rice-growing province of Mahasarakham, near Khon Kaen. His parents were both teachers and educational administrators in upper schools or universities in the region (his only sibling, a sister, is also a teacher), and shortly after Puipia exhibited real artistic facility, he was sent to Bangkok to complete is secondary studies at the prestigious Suankularb Wittayalai School (founded by King Chulalongkorn in the early 1880s).
After graduating in 1988 with a Bachelor’s degree (Painting) from Silpakorn University—Thailand’s premier art academy—Puipia emerged professionally among a first generation of truly progressive, Thai avant-garde practitioners, among them Montien Boonma (1953–2000) and Kamin Lertchaiprasert (b.
1964), who by the early 1990s were new expressive and conceptual approaches to their work (as it related to both