Mit Jai Inn (b. 1960, Thailand; lives and works in Chiang Mai) is a prominent contemporary artist celebrated for his distinctive color-based artworks. Employing palette knives, hands, and fingers, Mit creates vibrant, densely layered pieces that defy conventional boundaries of painting, embodying both manual and optical labor.
Rooted in a rigorous physicality, his works serve as a channel for responding to aesthetic, social, and political contexts. His practice reflects a diverse range of histories, from traditional divisions between ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ painting to Thailand’s shifting political landscape. Since returning to Thailand in 1992, Jai Inn has been involved in socially and politically engaged art campaigns. He was a co- founder of three non-institutional initiatives central to Thai art practice and discourse: Chiang Mai Social Installation, the Midnight University and The Land Foundation. In 2015, he founded Cartel Artspace in Bangkok, a gallery that gives free space to artists reflecting on the country and region’s political history and current context.
His traveling institutional solo show Dreamworld was presented at Ikon Gallery (Birmingham), England,
Jim Thompson Art Center (Bangkok), and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai) from 2021
to 2024. Mit Jai Inn’s work has been included in international solo and group exhibitions at SilverlensGallery (New York and Manila) and TKG+ (Taipei), The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane), Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Kaohsiung), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), and Palais de Tokyo (Paris). He has also participated in ,the Aichi Triennale in Japan 2011, the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island in Australia, the Singapore Biennale, and the Yokohama Triennale.
