Profile
Juli Baker and Summer or “Phaan” Chanaradee Chatrakul Na Ayudhya is an artist, writer, and traveler whose creative journey began with aspirations in fashion design. After studying Fashion and Textiles at Chulalongkorn University, she discovered her true passion for painting and embraced the path of an artist.
Juli Baker and Summer’s career as a professional artist commenced in 2015. Her paintings are distinguished by color palettes as vibrant and bold as the summer sun, and young women with strange – almost abstract – bodies sprawled at ease and awash with the emotions discharged through each brushstroke.
Each of Juli Baker and Summer’s paintings are grounded in her lived experiences: personal memories, everyday conversations, globetrotting, favorite books, pop culture, society, and politics. Beyond her artistic endeavors, Juli is deeply passionate about feminism and actively participates in the fight for the freedom of expressions through her arts. In a way, her art-making is another form of journaling, on a larger canvas. Notably, Juli Baker and Summer’s works bear extracts of her own handwriting, which calls attention to the other registers of her identity as a storyteller and diarist.
Juli Baker and Summer has collaborated with numerous leading brands, including Nike, Vogue Thailand, Lamy, and Maison Kitsune. Her works have appeared in a host of solo exhibitions, “I’ll Follow the Sun” at Virus Space & Café (2017), “Please, Make Yourself at Home” at The Jam Factory (2017), “Nowhere Woman” at VS Gallery (2021-2022), “Coming of Age” at Spiral Tokyo (2021), “She’s Too Much” at River City Bangkok, and “I Said Goodbye To Me” at Art Is. Tokyo Gallery (2023).
Education
Graduated from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, first class honored (2012-2015)
Student exchange program at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (Summer 2014)
Exhibition History
No More Drama (group exhibition), Ogilvy & Mather, Bangkok, Thailand (2016)
Fantastik (Solo exhibition), Rota, Spain (2016)
I’ll Follow the Sun (solo exhibition), Virus, Seen Space, Huahin, Thailand (2017)
Please, Make Yourself at Home (solo exhibition), The Jam Factory, Bangkok, Thailand (2017)
Based on True Stories (duo exhibition), Yelo House, Bangkok, Thailand (2018)
Nowhere Girl (solo exhibition), Fuwari Nomori, Toast and Honey Café, Narita, Japan (2018)
Hope (group show) in collaboration with Vogue Thailand, Siam Center, Bangkok, Thailand (2020)
Coming of Age (solo exhibition), Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2021)
Coming of Age (solo exhibition), Zou-No-Hana Terrace, Yokohama, Japan (2021)
Nowhere Woman (solo exhibition), VS Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (2021)
She’s Too Much (solo exhibition), River City Bangkok, Thailand (2023)
I Said Goodbye To Me (solo exhibition), Art Is. Tokyo Gallery, Japan (2023)
Work Experiences/ Publication
Founded Juli Baker and Summer store since 2015
Pattern design for Noe and Zoe Berlin (2015-2019)
Artwork for Plastic Plastic Stay at Home Album (2016)
Singha Soda new mix label and mural project (2016)
I’ll Follow the Sun, zine (2016)
Residency program at Pinea Linea de Costa, Spain (2016)
Mural at the IBIS Style Hotel, Chiang Kong (2017)
Nowhere Girl (pocket book), a book publishing (2017)
Denim of a Kind Project, collab with Topshop Thailand (2018)
Artwork for Thai Film Archive’s Mobile Theatre (2018)
Residency program at Fuwari Nomori, Chiba, Japan (2018)
Mural in Narita School’s Hallway, Sakae Park, Chiba, Japan (2018)
Mural for Art for the Future Project by UNICEF Thailand (2018)
Space makeover at the Police Sapha Community Centre, BKK Design Week (2019)
Art Dialogue Project in collaboration with Art the Malls Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand (2019)
Cover artwork for Roku Magazine (Japan) (2020)
Mural, Converse City Forest Project, Ari (2021)
Residency program at Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR), Copenhagen, Denmark (2022)
Everywhere Girl, pocket book, Salmon Publisher (2022)
Live painting for Thai Festival, AEON Mall, Narita, Japan (2023)
Marimekko’s Pride Month Campaign window display painting (2023)
Awards
Best Design and Art Influencer, Thailand Influencer Awards 2019 (2019)