Saran Yenpanya

Saran Yen Panya (b. 1984, Bangkok) is a Thai artist, designer, storyteller and creative director whose multidisciplinary practice moves across objects, interiors, textiles, graphics, film and installation. He founded Bangkok-based 56thStudio as a story-driven practice that treats design not simply as form-making, but as a way to carry memory, humor and social meaning. Drawing from Thai street culture, vernacular craft, popular belief and the aesthetics of everyday life, Saran collapses familiar hierarchies between high and low, sacred and profane, refined and ridiculous. He received Thailand’s Silpathorn Award in Design in 2024 and continues to work between independent cultural projects and international collaborations. Saran Yen Panya studied Industrial Design at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and later storytelling at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He founded 56thStudio in Bangkok as a multidisciplinary, story-driven practice committed to making “g