Bobby Leash
BOBBY LEASH
Growing up with Japanese manga and video games, one tend to have certain degrees of imagination running through their head. I build and expand my own world since I can remember. There’s always an urge to create, to reflect what I experience into an art form. I just didn’t know what it was back then.
During my school years, I discovered digital painting. At the time, there weren’t many proper academic training around. With limited access to knowledge, I learned how to paint on my own. And unknowingly, developed my own style.
Many artists started with Manga art, then move on as they mature. I don’t. The more I grow, the more I am drawn back to where I came from. To something I remember fondly since my childhood.
Cute, melancholy, and slightly macabre. My work is where the kids are ageless and their plays are struggles of life and death. Together they leave their childhood behind, to stay alive against the overwhelming odds. There is no point in living for them. They decide to stay just to see what the end looks like. The world is dying and unforgiving. Their chance to survive are slim. But they’ll live without hope if they have to.
Bobby Leash is currently working and living in Bangkok, Thailand.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘WONDEDICIUS’ Solo Exhibition, VINS Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 ‘Mirrored Souls’ Solo Exhibition, Dorothy Circus Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2022 ‘PIPPO OK !’ Joyman Gallery, Bangkok
2021 ‘Worms Land Anthem’ Duo Exhibition, Joyman Gallery, Bangkok
2020 ‘1210’ Joyman Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2020 ‘Ghosts Aflame’ WOWXWOW Online group exhibition
2020 ‘Power in Numbers’ Gallery Nucleus Portland, Portland, OR
2019 ‘Art Collector Starter Kit’ Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 ‘Fistfuls of Sky’ WOWXWOW Online group exhibition
2019 ‘The 8th Annual Supersonic Art Invitational’ Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2019 ‘Psychedelia’ Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 ‘Art Collector Starter Kit’ Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 ‘The New Romantics’ Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 ‘Super Reverie’ WOWXWOW Online group exhibition
2017 ‘WOW2‘ WOWXWOW Online group exhibition
2017 Autumn Open Call 2017 Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Digital Art Exhibition Sathorn11 Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand
Selected Publication
2019 BOOOOOOOM, Featured
2018 Juxtapoz, Featured
2017 WOWXWOW, Featured
2017 Tart/Talks, Featured
2017 EXPOSÉ12, Nominated
2017 The Guide Artists Magazine vol.1, Interview
2016 FStop.fm, Interview
Art Fairs
2023 Art Central, Hong Kong
2022 “ Boom ” Focus Art Fair, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2022 Hotel Art Fair, The Standard Mahanakhon, Bangkok
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