Artist / Illustrator / Designer



RINNA ♥ 猫りんな
Bachelor of Industrial Designs, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
Master of Arts in Interactive Designs, London College of Communication, University of Arts London (UK)
Certificates NFTs & Metaverse, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Artist / Illustrator / Designer / Founder (Cheerleader) at ArtGumi
Illustration / Pixel Art / Generative Art / Interactive Art / Hardware Art using Aseprite / TouchDesigner / Raspberry Pi / Python Coding / Pro Create / Adobe After Effects
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a multicultural artist/designer/illustrator born in Thailand and now active in Japan. I am also the cheerleader (founder) of a small non-profit art community, ArtGumiDAO. I live to inspire the world to become more positive and kind through my art.
I believe that when our hearts are positively soften, we tend to lower our guards, open up to kindness, and become more acceptant of each other. My strategy in art is not to make people feel in awe with the greatness of art or artist, but to create POPTIMISTIC KAWAII pieces which aim to make the audience feel the spark of “heart throb” through experiencing the art over time.
With my background in architectural / industrial / product / graphic / interactive designs, my approach to creating artworks are more of the design process than the practice of fine artist. I normally take 60% of the time to do research and analysis, then another 40% to create the piece which communicates with the audience. To achieve the purpose, I constantly observe and explore the cause and effect of human psychology through new technologies and mediums. Sometimes the process can be very experimental and improvisational that the result may shifted from what I originally planned. But I always take them as good surprises, good leaning, good journey.
Before turning digital artist, I commercially worked as a doll artist, a watercolour/acrylic painter, a children’s book writer, an illustrator, and a designer. My previous works ranges from packaging designs, mural painting and interior designs for cafes, illustration for kindergarten bus and more. For personal art experiment, I created an analog interactive art technique which turn the meaning of the art pieces from negative to positive by viewing through a red heart-shape filter as the concept goes "One can only see clearly with the heart”.
Learning about new technologies makes me become fascinated with how they have strong effects on human minds, behaviours, social protocols, and cultures. This results in my attempts to create artworks which blur the line between art & tech. My recent personal art projects include, QR Code art, AR art, interactive and generative art with TouchDesigner, experiments with Raspberry Pi and hardware art, robot making, and more.
I believe that art will always evolve with technology. As an artist, I constantly learn, explore, and experiment with new things to open up my worldview and enhance my creativity. I am gradually expanding my range from traditional art to digital art, interactive art, coding, and hardware art fields. As a result, what I do might not appear to be the kind of "art" that people are familiar with. One day, I might come close to the edge where my creations cannot be clearly defined by the old worldview and traditional standards. But as long as I keep on creating, my art will keep evolving with the world. Regardless how myself and my art may be remembered, on one fine day, if those who have ever experienced my art could recall their positive memories associated with it and feel fluffy with their hearts ready to open up, then I have achieved my purpose of my life as an artist.
Rinna - May 2025
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2025 BYOD² Exhibition by NEORT Gallery, DIG Shibuya, Tokyo
2024 100+ Art Fair, Shenzhen
2024 Unicorn Run Exhibition, Devcon, Bangkok
2024 “BUTT (Beyond Unique Transformation Twist)” Group Exhibition, Artist & Organiser, Osaka
2024 “Chignitta Art Show” Group Exhibition, Artist, Osaka
2024 Chulalongkorn University : Communication Designs Thesis Evaluator, Bangkok
2024 NFTNYC Exhibition at North Javits, Hudson Yards, Artist, New York
2023 Exhibition at Superchief Gallery, Crypto Art Seoul, Artist, Seoul
2023 SuperRare Exhibition, Co-curator with ONBD Arts, Online
2023 ETH Global Tokyo Hackathon, ApeCoin Silver Medal Award, Hacker, Tokyo
2023 NFTNYC Exhibition at North Javits, Hudson Yards, Artist, New York
2022 Arts NFT Workshop at The DECK Osaka, Lecturer, Osaka
2022 NFTNYC Exhibition on TimesSquares Billboard, Artist, NewYork
2022 ArtGumi DAO Exhibition at Metasequoia Art Fair, Artist & Curator, Osaka
2021 “New Future Transition” Exhibition, Artist, Tokyo
2020 World Illustration Awards (London) Long list Award, London
2020 Unknown Asia Art Exchange Osaka’s Tekizami Award, Osaka
2019 Unknown Asia Art Exchange Osaka’s Moxy Osaka Honmachi Award, Osaka
2019 Umaibo’s 40th Anniversary Exhibition & Package Artist, Tokyo
2019 DMOARTS presents My First Art in BBD Group Exhibition at Bank Bed Gallery, Artist, Tokyo
2019 UNKNOWN ASIA “THE STORIES” Group Exhibition, Artist, Nakazakicho Osaka
2019 “So this is LOVE” Solo Exhibition at Studio Diffuse Make+, Artist, Osaka
2018 Postpet’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Artist, Tokyo
2017 UNKNOWN ASIA Art Exchange Osaka's Ashikaga Naoko Award, Osaka
2016 “I Love Me” charity picture book published & distributed, Kumamoto
2015 Solo exhibition at Cassia Gallery, Artist, Bangkok
2015 World Illustration Awards (London) Short list Award, London
2015 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore, Artist, Singapore
2014 “Artist in Aso” International Artist in Residence, Artist, Kumamoto
—— Blythe Charity Exhibition at Omote Sando Hills , Artist (4 consecutive years), Tokyo
—— Blythe Doll customisation competition, 2nd and 3rd Prizes Awards (2 categories), Tokyo
—— Thailand’s National Best Children’s Book Award, Bangkok
WORK EXPERIENCES
2021 - Current Cheerleader / Founder ArtGumiDAO
2019 - Current Independent Artist / Designer / Illustrator
2017-2019 Illustrator for DMO Arts (illustration agent), Osaka
Before 2017 Blythe Doll Customisation Artist / Independent Artist / Designer / Illustrator