Savanhdary Vongpoothorn Australia, 1971-.

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn was born in Laos, 1971, came to Australia as a child in 1979, settling in Sydney. She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Western Sydney and a Masters of Fine Arts at University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. Her work bridges the divide between Laotian and Australian culture, and she has worked with many media during her career including perforated canvas, bamboo, paint, acrylic and watercolour. Her first solo exhibition was in Sydney in 1995 and since then she is held 20 solo exhibitions in Sydney Melbourne and Canberra. She has also exhibited in a number of group exhibitions throughout Australia, and in The Philippines and Indonesia. Savanhdary Vongpoothorn has undertaken numerous residencies in Australia and overseas including in Scotland, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam and India. In 2006, she was commissioned to create a major work for the 15th Biennale of Sydney, and was a finalist in the 2016 Sir John Sulman Prize. In 2019 The Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra staged a survey exhibition of her work which included a work done in collaboration with Japanese poet Noriko Tanaka measuring 17 metres long and comprised of multiple panels of delicate handmade Japanese paper. She currently lives and works in Canberra.

The earliest auction listing we have for Savanhdary Vongpoothorn is in 1999 and in total 27 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 20 (74%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $21,600 for Rock and Sky sold by Deutscher and Hackett in August 2008. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Savanhdary Vongpoothorn are held by the National Gallery of Australia, Monash University Museum of Art and a further three major public national galleries (see list below).