Sunny Leerasanthanah
Sunny Leerasanthanah (b. Bangkok, Thailand) is a multidisciplinary artist living in New York City. Across photography, video, installation, books, and performance, Leerasanthanah explores place making, belonging, documentation, imprint, and loss through her lens as a queer Southeast Asian immigrant. Naturalization at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center is her first institutional solo exhibition. She will present a new body of work in a solo exhibition at Smack Mellon (New York) in 2024.
Leerasanthanah is currently an artist in residence at the Center for Book Arts (2023). She was previously a resident at Image Text Workshop (2023), Fire Island Artist Residency (2022), and Rehearsal Residency (2018). She has exhibited at SculptureCenter (New York), Local Project Art Space (New York), Lubov (Projects) (New York), Handwerker Gallery (New York), and the Glasgow Gallery of Photography (Glasgow). Her self-published book Mom’s Magnets was featured at the 2020 Bangkok Art Book Fair and is in the collection of Asia Art Archive in America (New York) and Fathom Library (Rhode Island). Her video installation project Wuthichai (Exit Interview) was awarded the Queens Council on the Arts’ New Work Grant in 2021. She has spoken about her practice in panel discussions hosted by Candice Madey Gallery, Soho Photo Gallery, Queer | Art , and Asian American Arts Alliance).
