Narongsukchai Tintamusik

Snack Wrap WHI-RIC-280806

Epoxy, non-perishable food, acrylic, greenhouse mesh, plastic, PLA filament, wood, stain

“These relic-like sculptures pay tribute to Thailand’s cuisine and spirit worshiping traditions while reimagining the aesthetics of convenience foods. Modeled after well-known Thai dishes, their forms and patterns also draw inspiration from ancient Thai clothing, hairstyles, and decorative motifs. I envision a dystopian future shaped by ecological collapse, where survival depends on nomadism and the preservation of food passed down through generations…Traditional ways of wrapping food have become challenging as banana leaves, a common choice, have become rare. Through this desolation, Thai people continue to find innovative ways to preserve their culture and way of life.”

— Narongsukchai Tintamusik

About the artist

Narongsukchai Tintamusik

American

Narong Tintamusik (ณรงค์ ตินตมุสิก) is an artist and curator based in Dallas, Texas. His interdisciplinary work explores personal and collective survival through the lens of his second-generation Thai-American upbringing, queer identity, Buddhist spirituality, and former career in the biological sciences. Working primarily in painting and its extended craft and conceptual iterations, Narong draws on Thai heritage and speculative futures to confront systemic concerns, including ecological collapse, access to healthcare, waste colonialism, and cultural assimilation. His work asks: how can we look beyond infrastructures of material gain toward deeper modes of connection, care, and spiritual nourishment?

Born in Dallas and raised between Texas and Bangkok, Thailand, Narong was encouraged by his parents to pursue a more "practical" field, earning a biology degree with a minor in visual arts from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2014. He spent seven years working in environmental science before fully committing to his art practice. He obtained an MFA in Painting and Drawing at the University of North Texas in 2025.

Narong’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Canada, and Germany. His solo exhibitions include 500X Gallery, Plush Gallery, Daisha Board Gallery, Tarleton State University, and Angelina College. He is the recipient of awards such as the DeGoyler Memorial Fund (Dallas Museum of Art, 2015), Art Walk West Microgrant (2021), and the Puffin Foundation Grant (2022). He was also awarded full scholarships to attend nationally recognized craft schools, including the Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft.

From 2019–2022, he was a member of 500X, one of Texas’s oldest artist-run spaces. As a curator, Narong centers themes of identity, queerness, diaspora, figuration, abstraction, and ecology. His recent curatorial projects include To Remember to Speak Our Mother Tongue (Goldmark Cultural Center, 2022), Human/Nature (Fort Worth Community Arts Center, 2021), and Queer Me Now: The Queer Body and Gaze (500X Gallery & The MAC, 2020). He also founded Musik, a virtual curatorial platform offering solo exhibitions to underrepresented artists through open calls and invitations (2020–2021).