Sho Shibuya's mindful art comes to Bangkok

New York based artist Sho Shibuya uses the Bangkok Post as a canvas for his artwork, which is on show at the new contemporary art museum Dib Bangkok.

- Suwitcha Chaiyong

Sho is known for his painting series “Sunrise From A Small Window" where he used The New York Times as his canvas. He began to create the series during the Covid-19 pandemic when he was stuck in his apartment and decided to capture colours of the sky from his window.

He painted daily for The New York Times but preserved the masthead. His paintings also reflect current events, such as the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia, the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and the supermoon.

Purat Osathanugrah, founding chairman of Dib Bangkok, explained that Sho's paintings in The New York Times were similar to mindful practice.