Biography
Cedric Arnold (UK/France) combines his documentary background with experimental practices. His work, through the medium of photography, immersive video and sound installations explores themes relating to human perception of time, memory and reality.
He lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand, where he has been based for the past 20 years.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Paxos Biennale, Greece | Apopheniac June 30 – Sept 30 2023
West Eden Gallery, Bangkok, | Apopheniac Jan 25 – Mar 31, 2024
Biennale de l’image Tangible, Paris | Apopheniac Nov 7 – Dec 2, 2023
Dobra FF Cinemateca do MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio | Apopheniac, Sept 27th to 30th, 2023
Caixa Forum Valencia | Arte bajo la Piel – Mar 31st – Aug 27th 2023
Maison Jean Villar, Parcours de L’art Contemporain, Avignon | Apopheniac, Oct 15th to 28th 2022
National Gallery, Bangkok | Trance / Figuration – July 1st to Aug 22, 2022
Caxia Forum, Barcelona | Arte bajo la Piel – May 18, 2022 to Aug 28 2022
Photo London, Somerset House, London | May 12-15th 2022
Caxia Forum, Madrid | Arte bajo la Piel – Dec 3, 2021 to Apr 15 2022
Espace Lympia, Nice | June 26, 2021 to Oct 31st 2021
Musée Jean-Claude Boulard – Carré Plantagenêt, Le Mans | Dec 18, 2020 to June 6, 2021
Baan Leaw Lea, Bangkok | Apopheniac – Dec 11-21 2020
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow | ‘Tattoo’ – March 2 to Sept 27, 2020
Pomp, Bangkok | Human Error – Feb 2020
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts | ‘Tattoo’ Sept 27 2019 – Feb 20 2020
Design Museum, Ghent | ‘A Wild Thing’ May 19 2017 – May 2021
El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe | Currents New Media, | June 7-23 2019
Kyoto University / CSEAS, Kyoto | ‘Yantra’ – Dec 2018
Bangkok Biennial / Bangkok | ‘Curated Memories’ – Sept 6-27 2018
Natural History Museum, Los Angeles |‘Tattoos’Nov 19 2017 – Apr 15 2018
Asia Culture Center, Gwangju | ‘Tattooed Asia’ Nov 25 2017 – July 29 2018
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam | ‘Body Art II’, March 2017 – Aug 2018
Alliance Française de Bangkok | Yantra – Sept 14th – Oct 15th 2017
Field Museum, Chicago | ‘Tattoos’ Oct 17, 2016 – Sept 4, 2017
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto | ‘Tattoos’ April to Sept 2016
MAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp | ‘Body Art’ Feb 16 – April 17 2016
Museum of Folk Art, Santa Fe | ‘Sacred Realm’ Feb 28, 2016 to March 19, 2017
Olympia, London | Art 16 May 19-22, 2016
Grand Palais, Paris | Art Paris March 31st – April 3rd 2016
London Art Fair | Jan 16-20 2016
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | ‘Theatre of the Untold’ Nov 6-22nd 2015
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam | ‘Body Art’, March 20th | August 20th 2015
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris |‘Tatoueurs, tatoués’, May 6th 2014 | Oct 18th 2015
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | ‘Yantra: The Sacred ink’ May-Jun 2014
Galerie Olivier Waltman, London Art Fair, Jan 2014
Festival Photo Saint-Germain-des-Prés Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | Nov 2013
Le Magasin de Jouets, Arles | ‘Sacred Ink’ July – Sept 2013
SNAP Photo Festival, Orlando | ‘Sacred Ink’ May 2013
Yangon Photo Festival, Yangon | ‘Yangon Awakening’ Feb 2013
Farmani Gallery, Bangkok | ‘Sacred Ink’ Nov 2012 – Jan 2013
Brunei Gallery London – SOAS | ‘Sacred Ink, The Tattoo Master’ Oct Dec 2012
Chulalongkorn University Art Centre Bangkok |‘Sacred Ink’ May 2011
“Instants Tannes” at Alliance Francaise de Bangkok | May 2009
“Shadowing Light” at Amantee Gallery, Bangkok | May 2006
“Takraw” Shown to Olympic Committee at Paris’s town hall, L’Hotel de Ville| 2005
“Takraw” Bangkok month of photography | June 2004
Publications (selection)
‘Tatoueurs, tatoués’, Musée du Quai Branly / Actes Sud
Geo, France (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
IO Donna (Yangon Awakening)
Die Nacht (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
Slate / Behold blog (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
January Art Magazine (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
Newsweek International (cover) (Yangon Awakening)
Newsweek Japan / Picture Power (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
South China Morning Post (Yangon Awakening)
The Sunday Times Magazine / Spectrum (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
Photoworks (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
Video installations & Screenings
“Apopheniac”
Biennale de L’image Tangible | Paris, Nov 7th to Dec 2nd, 2023
The Warehouse | Bangkok, Oct 12th to Oct 15th
18th Simultan Festival | Timișoara, Oct 5th to 8th, 2023
Cinemateca do MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna, Dobra FF | Río de Janeiro, Sept 27th to 30th, 2023
Maison Jean Villar, Parcours de l’Art Contemporain | Avignon, Oct 15th to 28th 2022
Bogota Experimental Film Festval Aug 2021
Bangkok Awakening Festival Dec 2020
Speedy Grandma, Bangkok, Aug 2020
Human Error / Pomp, Bangkok Feb 2020
“Not T/here”
Galleries Night / Bangkok, Nov 2021
“Half light”
Bangkok Biennial / Bangkok Sept 6-27 2018
“Yantra: The Sacred Ink”
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts | Jan 18 2020
Currents New Media, El Museo Cultural / Santa Fe | June 7-23 2019
SESIFF, Seoul, South Korea | Sept 12 & 15 2018
Balinale, Bali, Indonesia | Sept 28 2018
Natural History Museum, Los Angeles |Nov 19 2017 – Apr 15 2018
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam |March 2017 – Aug 2018
Alliance Française, Bangkok | Sept 14, 2017
Field Museum | Chicago Oct 17, 2016 – April 30, 2017
Museum of Folk Art, Santa Fe | Feb 28, 2016 to March 19, 2017
Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario | April to Sept 2016
MAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp | Feb 16 – April 17 2016
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam | March 20th – August 20th 2015
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris | May 6th 2014 – Oct 18th 2015
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | May-Jun 2014
Public collections
British Library Collections
SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Cinemateca do MAM, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio
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