Nichakorn (Minnie) Masunthasuwan is an interdisciplinary artist, illustrator and animator from Bangkok, Thailand, currently based in New York City. She is currently pursuing a BFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts, with an expected graduation in May 2025.Throughout her four years at the School of Visual Arts, Masunthasuwan explored a range of mediums and fields within the visual arts that intersect with writing, storytelling, and concept development. Her digital paintings and animations are informed by her dedicated practice in oil painting, ceramics, comics and filmography. Taking thoughtful and experimental approaches to image-making, Masunthasuwan is passionate about creating playful and insightful worlds that explore our fragmented identities, through illustrations and animations.

AwardsSchool of Visual Arts, Silas H. Rhodes Merit ScholarshipExhibitions | PublicationsSchool of Visual Arts, Senior Show
Liminality : 2022 Visual Art Exhibition of Asian Artists in America
Visual Opinion Magazine, Volume 28 Issue 3: Utopia/Dystopia Featured Artist (2022)
Visual Opinion Magazine, Volume 28 Issue 1: Exposed Featured Artist (2021)

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Let's get in touch!

Email:

nichakorn.masun@gmail.com

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Illustrations

Reimagined Illustration for artist Sheena Ringo's 25th Anniversary Tour "Sheena Ringo & The Others Know: Impermanence"

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Animation Projects

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🕳️🕳️ & Me You & 🕳️🕳️ (Upcoming)

Two broken beings who both have an obsession with a hole in their body, fall helplessly in and out of love and jealousy, trying to fill a void they cannot understand with the other's existence.

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Stay (2024)

A female character stays in an abandoned school building in an abandoned town, always looking to the outside, but never being able to bring themself to leave. There are voices carried from the wind, that tell the female character to stay. The air they breathe everyday is ghostly, hospital-like, the building overgrown with moss, grass, and small hints of flowers. Whispers of voices from the outside seem to be aggressive memories of violence in her childhood, perhaps the buildings are haunted by the ghosts of her bullies, who managed to grow old and die in this place. The female character spends every day looking to the outside, staring at an androgynous tall animal-like human, who is the love interest. They are in love with the image of the being, but the images are always ever so distant and unclear.The female character has dreams of love with the character, she hears them saying for her to stay, in these dreams there are screeching voices in the distant which are blocked out. but is always mashed by relapses of surging traumatic images. The female character's self hate grows stronger and stronger, their body portrudes out of itself as though it was going to implode, and vomits. Throughout the film the female character wonders about leaving, but is always attached to voices that tell them to stay (voices from the wind, bullies, and voices from the love interest -- which are more similar to her own voice). When her body expands in the climax, she has become a lump too big to move and escape, too big to leave this place. In the end she is beaten to death by a stick, by a human with a clear face who looks like the animal of the love interest.We never get to know the love interest in the end, just as she never gets to know. It is not clear whether the love interest was also bullied as she was, and was but another bystander who ignores the victims' cries as they ignore themselves. In the end, it is more implied that they are nothing like she thought, and all her dreams are broken.

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Other Animations

View from a Windowsill

Lovesick Robots

Centrifugal

Waiting Room

Dancin'

Legs

Gasp!

Noise About You

Anniversary

Autorefractor Test Simulator

Remote TV

Face Blindness (2021)

A man with a neurological condition known as face blindness imagines a day out with a faceless figure that comes out of the wall in his imagination.

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A collage experiment, using the eye test as inspiration.

A short animation drawing images from a conflict between two friends.

A short about a man with the neurological condition known as prosopagnosia, or face blindness, the inability to recognize the faces of people, and the growing relationship between him and the piece of wallpaper that fell from his room. This project was written, storyboarded, and animated by myself.

Paintings

Scream

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I Made My Mum Cry

A series of mixed media paintings revisiting a time I made my mum cry. The sadness in her eyes, the darkness of her pupils, the droopy tears, bleeds into my eyes to this day. At that point, it felt as though the black void of her eyes had fallen from her face and splattered on the ground, and I am left with the haunting image of a black goob all over the floor. That massive sense of guilt, shame, and melancholy leaves only for me to tell myself: “look at the mess you made’”.

Horse Toy

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"sunken blackhole"

sunken blackhole

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Ceramics

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Self-Portrait Vase (2024)

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Tell Me a Secret, Secret Box (2024)

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Star Tower (2024)

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Books | Zines

LOI Storybook

UFO in Kushiro

Passport Zine

Pillow Therapy

LOI Storybook

A storybook illustrating an original story of a hero's journey into 9 hemispheres of the Earth. Taking inspiration from traditional Thai shadow puppetry and mural paintings, the book makes a stylized approach to retelling traditional tales.

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