Artist

Tamruja aims for all her creations to empower others. Since 2012, she has been in fields to collect first-hand data on social development, write articles, write and perform poetry, produce documentary films as well as paint. Most of her works have been on human rights and sustainable development. Her long-term goal is to use art to engage more people to be active citizens, to know their responsibilities, their own rights and willing to stand up for those in need as well as empowering everyone to ignite their light from within.

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‘Sunrise Catcher’ art exhibition catalogue

Exhibitions

2024

Experience Designer for a Michelin Star Restaurant, 80/20 Bangkok.
Artist and Curator at ‘Sunrise Catcher’ solo art exhibition, Pin31.bkk, Bangkok.
Artist at MunMun Art Destination, Seacon Square, Bangkok.
Artist at Kupper Art Festival, Ad Lib Hotel, Khon Kaen.
Co-curator at ‘Seasons Change’ by 3 Thai emerging artists, GalileOasis, Bangkok.

2023

Artist at ARTSTER Vol. 2, Seacon Square, Bangkok.
Artist and Curator at ‘Content without Light’ solo art exhibition, Palette Art Space, Bangkok.

2017

Curator at ‘Dance Motion USA: Stephen Petronio’ event, Chiang Mai.

2016

Print Artist and Co-curator at Monoprint Exhibition, The Meeting Room Gallery, Chiang Mai.
Curator at ‘Thai-American Bilateral Relations Photography Exhibition, Chiang Mai.

2012

Assistant Sculptor to Kohei Nawa for Comme des Garçons, Paris Fashion Week, Paris.

2010

Designer and Exhibitor at Ploysaeng Exhibition, Thailand Creative and Design Center, Bangkok.

2009

Designer and Exhibitor at Creative Super Mammals Exhibition, University of the Arts London, London.

2007

Designer and Exhibitor at 100% Materials, 100% Design London, London.

Sunrise Catcher (นักล่าแสงแรก) 2024- 2025

‘Sunrise Catcher’ is an artist’s visual diary on travelling across geographical, cultural, financial boundaries in finding ways to expand her own horizons. During the adventure surrounded by obstructions and opportunities, she tries to maintain balance and inner peace. She questions if one could catch the true sunrise each morning, then one would be profoundly at ease.

#SAVECHANA 2020- 2025

Along with other artists, medias and activists, Tamruja runs #SaveChana aiming to protect environmental and cultural resources. The 3 paintings represent people of 3 generations who have been actively protecting their homes and environment since 1980s. The birds represent each generation, in the first paining, one bird flies over the ocean wave, not knowing the prolong battle has begun. The second painting, as the fights between the local activists and the government worsens, despite peaceful protest, the police brutally attack them causing physical and mental damage to the community. One man was stabbed until his skull is fractured. His mother and the community have been trying to demand justice, but for almost 2 decades, there has only been silence. The third painting, the 3 birds fly over the sunrise, the activists continue to protest peacefully in hope of the brighter future.

Content without Light 2019- 2023

'Content without Light' is an art exhibition that invites you to explore the soft light of small planets that gravitate around the sun. They represent people who work tirelessly behind the scenes, under the shadow of others' success. In the sky filled with shining stars, tiny planets and common citizens are the kind of beauty that complete the universe. As if they are questioning whether those behind the scenes should be respected, or treated as equally as other professions.
Parts of 'Content without Light' was also exhibited at ARTSTER Vol. 2, Seacon Square, Bangkok with other 40 artists.