Padungsak Kochsomrong was born in Bangkok in 1964. He received a BFA in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Art, Chiang Mai University in 1991 and a Masters degree in Art Education at the Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in 1999. As the Director of Studio Xang, Chiang Mai.
He champions its initiatives which combine art, education, and activity. Padungsak is also a practicing artist and painting instructor at Chiang Mai University. He has performed and exhibited widely, domestically and internationally in England /France / Austria / Romania / German / Poland / Finland / Canada / Israel / Japan / China / HongKong / India / Indonesia / Philippine / Vietnam / Myanmar / Malaysia / Singapore / Iceland.
His most recent Solo performance and installation exhibition was executed in 2007, entitled “Surrealistic Conception” Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiangmai University, Thailand 2004 Solo Art Exhibition “Deconstruction” after the Condolence to the Authorities Project. Faculty of FineArts,Chiangmai University, Thailand/2001.
Solo Art Exhibition “Perception&Reality”, Chiangmai University, Chiangmai, Thailand / “Freedom ” “How are you?” Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, England.

Padungsak Kochsomrong, Assistant professor (Interdisciplinary Artist, Painting division, Faculty of Fine arts, Chiang Mai University and Director of Studio Xang Foundation, Director of The Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival, Thailand)

Selected Performance Art, Installation art and Painting Exhibition last 20 Years :

2019

LAPSODY.7th International Live Art and Performance Festival, Helsinki, Finland
“Real now!” International Performance Art Encounter in Germany, Reutlingen, Germany
Nakanojo Biennale 2019, Nakanojo, Gumma Prefecture, Japan
Fresh Winds International Art Biennale 2019 - 2020, Suðurnesjabær, Iceland

2018

Performance Art Platform Project PPP.in Asia at Maiiam Art Museum, Chiangmai
“COLOUR DIVERSITY” Painting Exhibition Group at Chiang Mai Art & Culture Centre

2017

Nakanojo Beinnale 2017, Nakanojo, Gumma Prefecture, Japan
“YES & NO” Fields of Vision; Art and Performance Art Festival, Reutlingen / Tuebingen, Germany

2016

solo Performance art How to Do Nothing (Here & Now) duration 5 hour, at Baan Tuek Art Center, chiangmai / Setouchi Triennial, Megijima island / ASIATOPIA PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE S.E.ASIA 2016

2015

ChiangMai Breeze Exhibition, gallery Saoh & Tomos B, Tokyo, Japan / DFEWA Residency Ardud Transilvania Romania 2015 / Nakanojo Biennale 2015, Japan / ZAZ Festival Performance art platform, Tel-Aviv,Israel

2014

Jaipur Art Festival 2014 / Art Island in Tokyo, Habuminato, Oshima and Honson, Niijma, August, 2014 Izu Oshima, Tokyo / Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival 16/2014 / META 2014 Chongqing Live Art Festival, Chongqing, China

2013

6th International “d.fleiss & east west artists” Symposium of Modern Art in Kärntnerhof - Mallnitz – Austria, September 2013 / Asiatopia International Performance Art Festival 15/2013 Chiangrai / The Nacha Artists’ Residence: Contemporary Art International Symposium, November 2013

2012

Okinawa-Thailand Exchange Art Exhibition at ChiangMai University Art Center, Chiangmai / The 15th Open-Air International Art Exhibition, Abiko, Japan / ASIATOPIA 14, International Performance Art Festival, Bangkok Art Center, Thailand

2011

minimoVes art project, Thailand / Performance Art in HongKong: 1911-2011, / “Eartheffect โลกระ เทือน” International Performance Art Festival ASIATOPIA 13/2011 / What To Dip International Art Exhibition, Chiangmai Thailand, Okinawa-Thailand Exchange Art Exhibition at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts

2010

Performance Art Laboratory Project (PALA Project) “undisclosed territory” solo, Indonesia / “GIVE ART A CHANCE” ASIATOPIA 12/2010 International Performance Art Festival, ChiangMai, Thailand

2009

THE 12TH DFEWA INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART PARAZA FRANCE

2008

“Art_Plus-jp Performance Art Project 2008”, Japan / PERFURBANCE # 4, Java, Yogjakarta, Indonesia

2007

“Smell” ASIATOPIA 9/2007 International Performance Art Festival, Chiangmai, Thailand

2006

The 8th International Symposium of Modern Art d.fleiss & east – west artists,Romanie

2005

7th Asiatopia/2005 and First S.E. Asia Performance Art Symposium [SEAPAS] / The CONVERGENCE International Art Exhibition, The Hochiminhcity Fine Arts Museum, Vietnam

2004

International Performance Art even “The Futuer of Imagination II”, Singapore/2003, ASIATOPIA 5

2003

International Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand - PIPAF Philippine International Performance Art Festival, Manila, Philippine - Meeting Performance Art 1/2003, Chiangmai, Thailand

2002

Rencontre International d’art Performance 2002, Quebec,Canada

2001

EXIT, International Festival for Unusual Live Performances, Helsinki, Finland

2000

“Freedom” How are you ?, performance, concrte House, nonthaburi Thailand - Jakarta International Performance Art Festival [JIPAF], Jakarta, Indonesia - The 5th Asian Performance Art Series+ Shinshu Summer seminar 2000, Macue, HongKong, Nagano, Tokyo, Nagoya, Japan, /- Asiatopia 2000 and Japanese - Thai Performance Art Exchange, Bangkok, Karat, Chiang Mai, Thailand

1999

ASIATOPIA International Performance Art Festival