Pannaphan Yodmanee is a Thai artist who graduated with MFA and BA in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University. She has received multiple prestigious awards, including the Benesse Prize (2016) and UOB Painting of the Year (Thailand) in 2010. Her practice draws on Buddhist philosophy shaped by early exposure to Thai temple mural paintings. In 2025, she participated in the UOB–NAFA Residency Programme in Paris, where she encountered an environment of freedom and openness that contrasted with her Eastern upbringing. This experience prompted her to explore the possibility of seeking true balance across the divides of gender, race, religion and culture.

Universe Woman shifts the focus to feminine iconography, featuring goddess figures from both Western and Eastern mythological traditions while reflecting on power, belief, and the interconnectedness of human history and the cosmos. The artist employs acrylic on cement board, a technique inspired by Thai temple mural practices, where textured surfaces and layered traces evoke the weathered qualities and flattened spatial dimensions found in traditional frescoes. In using material as metaphor, Pannaphan weaves what is earthly with the divine, an alignment of human expression on the concepts of impermanence, earthly elements and spiritual narratives profoundly guided by the feminine and the infinite.