Cédric Arnold was born in the United Kingdom in 1976.
He lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand.
TRAINING
A student of history at the University of Denis Diderot – Paris, Cédric Arnold took courses in photography and cinema.
He began his career in London and then in Belfast when he joined the Sygma agency.
EXHIBITION (selection)
2022
CaixaForum, Zaragoza, Spain
Art trail, Screening of the film Apopheniac, Jean Vilar House, Avignon, France
Yantra, the Sacred Ink, National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Transfiguration, Alliance Française de Chiang Mai, Thailand
2021
Tatoueurs, Tatoués, Espace Lympia, Nice, FR
2019
Fotofever, Carrousel du Louvre, Olivier Waltman Gallery, Paris
Tattoo Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Art Central Hong Kong, Galerie Olivier Waltman
2018
Yantra, Kyoto University / CSEAS, Japan
Curated Memories, Bangkok Biennale, Thailand
Tattoos, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, USA
At Wild Thing, Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris, FR
Tattooed Asia, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
Body Art II, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
Sacred Realm, Museum of Folk Art, Santa Fe, USA
Body Art II, Yantra – Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
Yantra, The Sacred Ink, Natural Museum, Los Angeles
2016
Yantra, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
London Art Fair, Olivier Waltman Gallery
Body Art MAS, Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium
Tattoos, Royal Ontario Museum
Art 16 London, Olivier Waltman Gallery
National Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Tattoos. Rita. Identity. Obsession. Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Yantra, Field Museum, Chicago, USA
2015
Theater of the Untold, Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris
Santa Fe Museum of Folk Art, USA
Body Art, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
Yantra: The Sacred Ink, Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris, FR
Tatoueurs, TatouésMusée du Quai Branly, Paris, FR
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris
2013
Yantra: The Sacred Ink, Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris
ASEAN (Sacred Ink), Voies Off Festival, Toy Store Gallery, Arles, France
Sacred Ink, SNAP Photo Festival, Orlando, USA.
Yangon Awakening, Yangon Photo Festival, Yangon, Burma
Sacred Ink, Farmani Gallery (Los Angeles, New York, Bangkok)
2012
Sacred Ink, the Tattoo Master, Brunei Gallery, London, Great Britain
2011
Sacred Ink, Chulalongkorn University Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2009
Tanned Moments, Alliance Française of Bangkok, Thailand
2006
Shadowing Light, Amantee Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2005
Takraw, traveling exhibition promoting Takraw, to the Olympic Committee, exhibition at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris
2004
Takraw: Bangkok is our Playground, Photography Month, F Stop Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2014
Tattooed Tattoo Artists (304 pages), Co-edition of the Quai Branly Museum – Jacques Chirac / Actes Sud
2013
Sacred Ink, Geo Magazine, France
Yangon Awakening, IO Donna, Italy
2012
Boom Days in Burma, Newsweek
A Moment in Time, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
2011
Great Designs, The Sunday Times Magazine
COLLECTIONS
British Library, London, Great Britain
SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, Great Britain
SNAP! Orlando, United States
PRESS
2014
June. The trip mag, Italy
May. Arts Hebdo Media
May. boat
May. France Fine Art
May. Throw Ink Magazine
May. Konbini
May. The World magazine
May. Polka Magazine
April. Newsphoto.
April. Photo Skill
FEBRUARY. Express style
2013
November. France Fine Art
November. New art today TV
October. Nice 7 info
October. The world
October. The Fifth
September. Most
April. GEO Travel
Sate
Expophoto.fr
2012
September. Juxtapoz Magazine
September. The Daily Beast. Newsweek
May. Newsweek
2011
November. Die Nacht Magazine (Germany)
September. The Sunday Times
August. Highsnobiety