Learning
Honing Method
‘Honing Method’ is a studio-residency program providing studio space, modest production funds, and early-career developmental guidance to outstanding emerging painters in Chiang Mai.
‘Honing Method’ aims to nurture promising, recently-graduated artists in Chiang Mai—working in painting—as they navigate the difficult transition between completing their university training and beginning their practice as artists in the local and international art ecosystem. By creating such a platform to extend and deepen post-university learning with development opportunities, this studio residency program hopes to provide motivated individuals with space, resources, and guidance to establish the community networks, critical insights, and skill sets that are foundational to a strong and sustainable artistic practice.
This is an ongoing studio-residency program. Over a period of six months, each resident will be engaged in critical conversation with in-tangible institute and members of its relevant networks, provoking new approaches and furthering concepts in their artistic practice.
Studio space for the residency is located at Light Bulb–-a five minute walk from in-tangible institute, where each resident is invited to exhibit their resulting artwork at the close of each residency period.
Applications are accepted by invitation only.
Resident
January - June 2026
Nattapon Pangmueng
Nattapon Pangmueng, born in Chiang Rai and currently living in Chiang Mai, is interested in how environments influence emotional perception, exploring how artistic processes can become tools for slowing down, reflecting, and reconfiguring personal and collective experience.
Nattapon is a recent graduate of the Painting Division, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University. He is motivated to further develop his artistic practice through mentorship, dialogue, and sustained studio-based research. We all look forward to engaging Nattapon and his practice over the course of the residency!
The selection committee were impressed by the high level of technical skill and conceptual clarity demonstrated in Nattapon’s portfolio of paintings, making his works both highly engaging and deeply affective.
Selection Committee
Rushdi Anwar (artist and Head of Painting, Chiang Mai University), Jiratchaya Pripwai (artist, Chiang Mai), Reinhard Kressner (collector and founder, Head High Second Floor, Chiang Mai), in-tangible institute, and Light Bulb.
