EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Bundith Phunsombatlert’s recent projects trace unseen paths of immigrants and their stories through both real and imagined landscapes. By merging contemporary technologies with traditional media, his artworks expand the definition of “new” media art beyond technology alone, revealing fresh meanings within historical materials and processes. He is interested in how journeys—and their interpretation—can become works of art.
Through this approach, his practice explores how individuals connect with personal and cultural identities while questioning how histories are constructed, remembered, and retold. He considers movement, navigation, and mapping as both conceptual and physical experiences, inviting viewers to reflect on their relationships to place and memory within broader historical contexts.
Building on this practice, his current project, Transtrack, focuses on decolonizing archives and examining how immigrants are portrayed in history, including who is represented and who is left out. The work amplifies overlooked immigrant voices. The train platform setting draws on the First Transcontinental Railroad as a symbolic reference, linking past immigrant railroad labor to today’s often-unseen immigrant workers. By weaving together media, materials, and oral history, the work reveals human experiences omitted from grand narratives, fostering shared encounters across cultures and highlighting our interconnected global diaspora.
Bundith Phunsombatlert is a New York-based artist born in Bangkok, Thailand. He has exhibited work at the Brooklyn Public Library (Central), NY; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Auckland Triennial, New Zealand; Guangzhou Triennial, China; National Gallery, Thailand; Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Australia; and the International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, among others. Phunsombatlert received an MFA in Digital + Media from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and a BFA/MFA in Printmaking from Silpakorn University, Thailand.
