Chanya Vitayakul’s practice explores the feminized and non-binary body as a porous site: one that absorbs, resists, and reconfigures the languages projected onto it. Working across sculpture, installation, and graphic design, Chanya blends personal narrative with material investigation to examine how the body is written, held, and violated by external systems. Their work is not about resolution, but rupture and reconstitution, inviting shared spaces of discomfort and tenderness where clarity slips and the body speaks in fragments and residues. Here, authorship becomes distributed between artist, viewer, and material. Chanya’s work poses a quiet but insistent question of what it means to be seen and to survive that seeing.
Chanya Vitayakul (they/them, b. 2003) is a multidisciplinary artist from Bangkok, Thailand. Their work has been exhibited in New York, Rhode Island, South Korea, and Thailand, and has appeared in publications including Curatory Magazine, Divide Magazine, New Visionary Magazine, and the Survivor Arts and Writing Collective. Chanya holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and is based in Long Island City, New York.
