Sunny Leerasanthanah

Sunny Leerasanthanah (b. Bangkok, Thailand) is a multidisciplinary artist living in New York City. Across photography, video, installation, books, and performance, Sunny explores placemaking, belonging, documentation, imprint, and loss through her lens as a queer Southeast Asian immigrant. She will present her newest body of work about American invasive species control and xenophobic rhetoric in her first institutional solo exhibition, Naturalization, at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI) in 2023. Sunny has been an artist in residence at the Center for Book Arts (2023), Fire Island Artist Residency (2022), and Rehearsal Residency (2018). She has exhibited at SculptureCenter, Local Project Art Space, Lubov (Projects), Handwerker Gallery, and the Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Her self-published book Mom’s Magnets was featured at the 2020 Bangkok Art Book Fair and is in the collection of Asia Art Archive in America (NY) and Fathom Library (RI). She has spoken about her practice in panel discussions at Candice Madey Gallery, Soho Photo Gallery, Queer | Art (virtual), and Asian American Arts Alliance (virtual).