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.

Cedric Arnold speaking at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

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 WaltmanLondon 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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