Narong Tintamusik
Biography
Narong Tintamusik is an artist and independent curator based in Dallas, TX. He obtained his Biology undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Dallas with a minor in visual arts in 2014. His work
investigates trauma at the intersection of mental health, biology, and the supernatural. As a survivor of abuse, his practice is autobiographical and drawn from lived experiences. He has exhibited in group shows locally in Dallas, TX and beyond including New York, Canada, and Germany. Solo exhibitions include 500X (Dallas, TX), Plush Gallery (Dallas, TX), Tarleton State University (Stephenville, TX), and Angelina College (Lufkin, TX). He is the recipient of the DeGoyler Memorial Fund (Dallas Museum of Art 2015), Art Walk West Microgrant (West Dallas Chamber of Commerce 2021), and the Puffin Foundation Grant (Puffin Foundation 2022). He is a part of artist-run gallery 500X since 2019. His curatorial interests encompass the themes of identity, queerness, sexuality, diaspora, figuration, abstraction, fashion, love, and nature. Past projects include To Remember to Speak our Mother Tongue (2022) at Goldmark Cultural Center, Human/Nature (2021) at Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Tree With Half a Root (2021) at Mountain View College, and Queer Me Now: The Queer Body and Gaze (2020) at 500X Gallery and The MAC. He also started Musik, a virtual curatorial platform that offers solo exhibitions to artists without gallery representation through invitational and open calls from August 2020 - November 2021.
Artist Statement
My art are self-portraits. When I was a child, I was sexually taken advantage of. I kept that secret for most of my youth until my early 20's, where I broke the silence. The thoughts about contracting venereal disease lingers within me. To have both sexual anxiety and the need to satisfy my desires became the basis of my work.
Themes of innocence lost, sexuality, and trauma are explored in my pieces. Naive, yet depraved, my figures, Thirsties, exist often alone in imaginary spaces. Within this psychological desolation, the Thirsties attempt to transverse one's deepest desires through the middle of the night to broad daylight. I attempt to show the audience what is like to live in a world where childhood was taken away too soon and perversion was unwillingly acquainted.
Curriculum Vitae
Currently resides in Dallas, TX. b. 1991
Educational History:
2014 Bachelors degree in biology, minor in visual arts
Group Exhibitions:
2019
8x8, ARThaus, Denton, TX
2018
CHAOS!!! Annual Small Works Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
#TheGalleryProject, Transcontinental Queer Underground (traveling exhibition from 2017-2018): Tallin, Estonia/ Sofia, Bulgaria/ Podgorica, Montenegro/ Prague, Czech Republic/ Berlin, Germany
EXPO 2018, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX ｜Juried by Lee Escobedo
Art Con 14, Art Conspiracy, Dallas, TX
2017
EXPO 2017, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX ｜Juried by Sara-Jayne Parsons
CHAOS!!! Annual Small Works Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2016
CHAOS!!! Annual Small Works Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
The Male Gaze, Gallery 1965, Vancouver, B.C.
2015
CHAOS!!! Annual Small Works Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
Hot and Sweaty 4: Open Show 2015, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Double Vision: Mini Beau Book 4 - Book Launch and Gallery Show, The Highline Loft, New York, NY
2013
Screenworks/Discretion/Ódiame Más, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Spring Arts Festival, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2012
Fall Arts Festival, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Char, Mezzanine Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Spring Arts Festival, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
125 Show, Plano Arts Association, Collin County Community College, Plano, TX｜Juried by Laura Greene and Ryder Richards
Bibliography:
Miner, Phillip M. "Narong Tintamusik Paints Porn, and No One Can Believe the Result." The Huffington Post. November, 26, 2014
Publications:
2017
The New Nude: Issue 86
Organized, curated, and publication by Walt Morton, Didi Menendez
2015
OCHO #35: A Journal of Queer Arts
Organized, curated, and publication by Didi Menendez
Mini Beau Book #4: Double Vision
Organized, curated, and publication by Luke Austin
Awards/Grants/Fellowships:
2015 The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund recipient, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2012 Bryce and Jonelle Jordan Scholarship recipient, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2009 D.C. Stipp Scholarship Award recipient, The Dallas Society in Visual Communications, Dallas, TX
Professional Experience and Memberships:
2019-2020 Member at 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Gallery assistant intern at Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX s, TX
Biography
Narong Tintamusik is an artist and independent curator based in Dallas, TX. He obtained his Biology undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Dallas with a minor in visual arts in 2014. His work
investigates trauma at the intersection of mental health, biology, and the supernatural. As a survivor of abuse, his practice is autobiographical and drawn from lived experiences. He has exhibited in group shows locally in Dallas, TX and beyond including New York, Canada, and Germany. Solo exhibitions include 500X (Dallas, TX), Plush Gallery (Dallas, TX), Tarleton State University (Stephenville, TX), and Angelina College (Lufkin, TX). He is the recipient of the DeGoyler Memorial Fund (Dallas Museum of Art 2015), Art Walk West Microgrant (West Dallas Chamber of Commerce 2021), and the Puffin Foundation Grant (Puffin Foundation 2022). He is a part of artist-run gallery 500X since 2019. His curatorial interests encompass the themes of identity, queerness, sexuality, diaspora, figuration, abstraction, fashion, love, and nature. Past projects include To Remember to Speak our Mother Tongue (2022) at Goldmark Cultural Center, Human/Nature (2021) at Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Tree With Half a Root (2021) at Mountain View College, and Queer Me Now: The Queer Body and Gaze (2020) at 500X Gallery and The MAC. He also started Musik, a virtual curatorial platform that offers solo exhibitions to artists without gallery representation through invitational and open calls from August 2020 - November 2021.
Artist Statement
My art are self-portraits. When I was a child, I was sexually taken advantage of. I kept that secret for most of my youth until my early 20's, where I broke the silence. The thoughts about contracting venereal disease lingers within me. To have both sexual anxiety and the need to satisfy my desires became the basis of my work.
Themes of innocence lost, sexuality, and trauma are explored in my pieces. Naive, yet depraved, my figures, Thirsties, exist often alone in imaginary spaces. Within this psychological desolation, the Thirsties attempt to transverse one's deepest desires through the middle of the night to broad daylight. I attempt to show the audience what is like to live in a world where childhood was taken away too soon and perversion was unwillingly acquainted.
Curriculum Vitae
Currently resides in Dallas, TX. b. 1991
Educational History:
2014 Bachelors degree in biology, minor in visual arts
Group Exhibitions:
2019
8x8, ARThaus, Denton, TX
2018
CHAOS!!! Annual Small Works Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
#TheGalleryProject, Transcontinental Queer Underground (traveling exhibition from 2017-2018): Tallin, Estonia/ Sofia, Bulgaria/ Podgorica, Montenegro/ Prague, Czech Republic/ Berlin, Germany
EXPO 2018, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX ｜Juried by Lee Escobedo
Art Con 14, Art Conspiracy, Dallas, TX
2017
EXPO 2017, 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX ｜Juried by Sara-Jayne Parsons
CHAOS!!! Annual Small Works Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2016
CHAOS!!! Annual Small Works Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
The Male Gaze, Gallery 1965, Vancouver, B.C.
2015
CHAOS!!! Annual Small Works Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
Hot and Sweaty 4: Open Show 2015, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Double Vision: Mini Beau Book 4 - Book Launch and Gallery Show, The Highline Loft, New York, NY
2013
Screenworks/Discretion/Ódiame Más, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Spring Arts Festival, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2012
Fall Arts Festival, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Char, Mezzanine Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Spring Arts Festival, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
125 Show, Plano Arts Association, Collin County Community College, Plano, TX｜Juried by Laura Greene and Ryder Richards
Bibliography:
Miner, Phillip M. "Narong Tintamusik Paints Porn, and No One Can Believe the Result." The Huffington Post. November, 26, 2014
Publications:
2017
The New Nude: Issue 86
Organized, curated, and publication by Walt Morton, Didi Menendez
2015
OCHO #35: A Journal of Queer Arts
Organized, curated, and publication by Didi Menendez
Mini Beau Book #4: Double Vision
Organized, curated, and publication by Luke Austin
Awards/Grants/Fellowships:
2015 The Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund recipient, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2012 Bryce and Jonelle Jordan Scholarship recipient, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2009 D.C. Stipp Scholarship Award recipient, The Dallas Society in Visual Communications, Dallas, TX
Professional Experience and Memberships:
2019-2020 Member at 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Gallery assistant intern at Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX s, TX
