Arnont Lertpullpol

Contemporary Painter and Professor of Painting

Arnont Lertpullpol is a Thai contemporary painter whose work examines the structures and psychological conditions of violence in the modern world.

Born in southern Thailand, he completed both his Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts at Silpakorn University and currently serves as a professor in the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts at his alma mater.

Drawing from photographs and video footage of wars, state violence, and forced displacement, Arnont translates contemporary conflict into rigorously constructed painted compositions.

His works depict soldiers, crowds, and geopolitical spaces rendered with emotional restraint and mechanical precision. Through disciplined, repetitive brushstrokes, he builds dense surfaces where rhythm and tension emerge gradually, mirroring the systems of order and control that underpin the violence he critiques.

His 2024 solo exhibition Corpse Smile at Number 1 Gallery in Bangkok presented works addressing military power and conflict, intensifying his method of controlled repetition to evoke the psychological condition of fear and threat. Rather than offering literal documentation, Arnont uses the painting process itself as a structural device to convey the atmosphere of terror and uncertainty.

He received Third Prize in the National Panasonic Contemporary Painting Competition in 2018 and First Prize in 2019 for Creating for a Perfection of Life.

His 2019 solo exhibition Goodness was presented at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre’s People’s Gallery. Arnont has also exhibited internationally, including at Art Busan, South Korea, in 2023.

Through disciplined execution and conceptual clarity, Arnont Lertpullpol’s work questions whether painting can move beyond representation to become an ethical act each canvas standing as a witness to histories that refuse to fade.