MAYWADEE VIRIYAPAH
2025
Matriarch (dryer lint, gold thread, canvas apron, wire)
100 Baht Elephant Pants (dryer lint, cotton rag paper, felt, gold thread, t-shirts)
Revenge of Norasing (dryer lint, felt, bamboo steamer, styrofoam, yarn)
Before Us, There Was ….. and We Will Be (wood, cotton, gold thread, charcoal, ink)
Parallel Pages 18-25 (wood, fabric, journal, paint)
Parallel Pages 18-25 (inside view)
Revenge of Norasing
Dryer Lint, Felt, Bamboo Steamer, Styrofoam, Yarn
Before Us, There Was ..... and We Will Be
Wood, Cotton, Gold Thread, Charcoal, Ink
Matriarch
Dryer Lint, Gold Thread, Canvas Apron, Wire
100 Baht Elephant Pants
Dryer Lint, Cotton Rag Paper, Felt, Gold Thread, T-Shirts
Parallel Pages 18-25
Wood, Fabric, Journal, Paint
Installation: Viewers are invited to enter the piece and utilize the journal inside to anonymously write an entry
2024
Cradled (charcoal on paper)
Dirty Laundry
Dirty Laundry (2024)
Dryer Lint, Canvas, Paper, Aluminum, Chopstick Base
2023
Jack (charcoal on paper)
2021
Alteration (dryer lint, yarn, thread, stuffed animal)
Adornment (dryer lint, yarn)
Metamorphose (ink, handmade paper, yarn)
Veiled (dryer lint, yarn, bamboo hat)
Metamorphose
Ink, Handmade Paper, Yarn
Veiled
Dryer Lint, Yarn, Bamboo Hat
Adornment
Dryer Lint, Yarn
Alteration
Dryer Lint, Yarn, Thread, Stuffed Animal
2020
Lint Dragon (dryer lint, aluminum)
Choose Your Fighter (face mask, yarn, thread)
Flushing Away Coronavirus (toilet paper, charcoal, shopping cart)
Bucket of Tears (oil on canvas, test tubes, yarn, bucket, newspaper)
Lint Dragon
Dryer Lint, Aluminum Foil
2019
Food Family (Oil on Canvas)
Food Baby (Oil on Canvas)
Untitled (Charcoal on Paper)
Untitled (Charcoal on Paper, Homemade Paper)
2018
Purple Portrait (Oil on Canvas)
Blue Portrait (Oil on Canvas)
2017
Leaving Home (Ink on Paper)
Anemoia (2023-Ongoing)
Anemoia was a term coined John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. Anemoia is defined as nolstagia for a time or a place one has never known. These short videos are moments I feel outside of my body. I instinctually record when I recognize the moment and they become bookmarks in my life. These videos hope to dissolve these experiences into abstracted emotional weight.
MAYWADEE VIRIYAPAH
Maywadee Viriyapah (b. Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai-American multi-disciplinary artist whose work is centered on her personal experience with identity and heritage.Maywadee was raised in Oklahoma City, OK and holds a B.A in Political Science and Fine Arts from the George Washington University, graduating summa cud laude. Maywadee received the U.S. Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (Thailand 2022-23) and interned at Gallery Ver in Bangkok. Recently, she was awarded the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Creative Projects Grant (2024), a teaching artist residency at SixTwelve (2025), and was selected for Inclusion in Art’s Emerge 2024-2025 mentorship, producing a body of work displayed at Art Wrecker Studio and Gallery. Maywadee has exhibited work in Oklahoma, DC, and Thailand.(She/her)Land acknowledgements
-Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is located on the ancestral land of the Kickapoo, Comanche, Osage, and Wichita Peoples.-George Washington University is located on the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway, Anacostan, and Nacotchtank Peoples.