Nichakorn (Minnie) Masunthasuwan is an interdisciplinary visual artist, illustrator, and experimental animator from Bangkok, Thailand, currently based in New York City. She creates surreal “small worlds” that blur the boundaries between animation, illustration, painting, ceramics, and comics. Through image-making, she unpacks predefined aesthetic experiences and explores how nostalgia and belonging are shaped in a digitized culture.Drawing from archives, film, personal writing, and poetry in the digital age, her work treats video and animation as spaces for quiet intimacy — brief glimpses into the lives of the spoken and the unspoken: doors that are made for passing, leftover chairs long after dinner, mirrors that no longer work their reflections, discarded hearts trapped in a drowsy spiral.Shaped by her own life growing up between cultures, her practice traces the fragile seams of translation and identity, opening quiet spaces for reflection and intimacy in an age of disconnection.

GROUP EXHIBITIONSPixel Prize Exhibition, Carrie Able Gallery -- Pixel Prize Nominee (2025)School of Visual Arts, Senior Show (2025)Liminality : 2022 Visual Art Exhibition of Asian Artists in America, Wukong Media (2022)

PUBLICATIONSArtist Talk Magazine, Issue 38 (2025)Visual Opinion Magazine, Volume 31 Issue 6: Graduation (2025)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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Contact Me

Let's get in touch!

Email:

nichakorn.masun@gmail.com

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Illustrations

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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 & 🕳️🕳️

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Can I tell you a secret? This hole exists inside my body, a deeply translucent hole, devoid of any emotion, eating away at everything, crying at everything, a precondition of something, but of what I cannot understand. You had a similar fate as me, a huge xxx mouth. You tried to sing, so helplessly and pathetically you threw yourself into the light, not knowing how to speak.A hole that cannot see, a hole that will not be seen. Yet it always exists, staring at me, waiting for the meeting, the opening. I couldn't let it go, where everyone plays pretends, and bathes in their masks of lies, I couldn't let it be forgotten, those images infused into my memory, the hurt that cannot lie. You understand it, don't you? Like you, I too was also looking for a place where sadness could be forgiven.That you tried to make me laugh,
Saying my hole was made to laugh1/?-- two hollow humans
spikehead & typhoon

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Stay (2024)

A girl 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, telling 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. She spends every day looking to the outside, staring at an androgynous tall animal-like human, so beautifulm the images are always ever so distant and unclear.She 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.-- No Entry Voice

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Animations Shorts

View from a Windowsill

Kobe Illumination Festival Poster

Sleepy..

Lovesick Robots

Shadow Puppet Family

Centrifugal

Waiting Room

Dancin'

Legs

Gasp!

Noise About You

Anniversary

Autorefractor Test Simulator

Remote TV

Face Blindness

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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

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

Firework Tea Zine

UFO in Kushiro

Passport Zine

Pillow Therapy

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Firework Tea Zine

Experimental zine about firework tea

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LOI Storybook

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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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