about Mayha Suaysom

Ma-Yha-Suay-Som (she/her)
is an Illustrator, Drawing Workshop host and Graphic Designer.
lives currently in Stuttgart, Germany. She is also open to worldwide projects and collaborations.
does an "IlluMayha" (Illu-Automat or a live portrait drawing booth)
is a CO-founder of ZEBRAS Collective with Duc-Thi Bui , represented Asian-German community through cultural and artistic work.
is a CO-founder of KUNSTMARKT.Info a very small art market for locals in Stuttgart, "klein aber fein!".
does an Art Direction for Stuttgart Comic Festival Stuttgarter Comictage.
does an Art Direction, PR (ÖA) for Begegnungsraum Stuttgart Mitte.

was a member of Ousa.Collective (project closed)
was a CO-founder for a Podcast "Long.Stay.Podcast" (project closed)

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Her Background
born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand
full-time interior architect, interior set-stylist and journal writer for Elle Decoration Thailand magazine

2 Bachelor's degrees:
B.Arch in Interior Architecture from Thailand
B.Art in Communication Design with a major of Editorial design and Illustration from Germany.
(see her illustration book "Knaggig")

Language skills
ไทย | English | Deutsch

Illustration skills
Analog and Digital
LIVE Illustration | Graphic Recording
Freehand Illustration | Doodle
Perspektive | Isometric | Architecture Drawing
Editorial
Stop motion

Graphic Program skills
Adobe Suite Photoshop | Illustrator | Indesign
Davinci Resolve
Procreate
Figma

Scholarships
SHIFT Stipendium Stuttgart 2025 - Comicstrips: ZEBRAS Stories

Awards
2023 Merit Award (Categorie: Commercial), i JUNGLE ILLUSTRATION AWARDS
2022 Merit Award (Categorie: Editorial illustration), i JUNGLE ILLUSTRATION AWARDS
2022 BKKIF Artist 2022, 1 of 150 Finalists, Bangkok
2021 BKKIF Artist 2021, 1 of 150 Finalists, Bangkok
2020 They Draw and Travel Illustrated Maps from Outer Space, 1 of 100 Finalists, USA

VITA & Reference
ZAV - Arbeitsagentur

Selected Clients (Germany and Worldwide)
CLAIM gGmbH
POP-Büro Stuttgart
Stadt Palais Stuttgart
Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg
VHS Esslingen
KUBI-S Stuttgart
Siltronic AG
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Goethe Institut Thailand
Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
Koordinierungsstelle Erinnerungskultur Stuttgart
Süddeutsche Zeitung
ZEIT
Klima Community, Stuttgart
MBPS
Spinanacker
korientation e.V.
Sensor Mainz
BK Magazine
Elle Decoration Thailand
Themomentum.co
Urban Creature

Collaborations & nice projects
Mobile Jugendarbeit Stuttgart (MJA)
GROUNDBREAKERS
KuBinO Ostfildern
koriantation e.V.
1000 drawings Stuttgart
Comic Invasion Berlin
Schreibbude / Get shorties by Maringo Verlag
PAPA TOM
Alicia ceramics
das Puzzle Kollektiv
Boobsbusiness

Exhibition | Event

2026 (Coming) Kunstmarkt WOUaHOU Stuttgart
   (Coming) She connected Tübingen
(Coming) Kunstmarkt im Kulturzentrum Merlin Stuttgart
   "Schreibbude" LIVE Drawing Stöckachfest Stuttgart,
Kunstmarkt: Straßenfest LABYRINTH

2025 Kunstmarkt Wagenhallen Stuttgart
   Kunstmarkt WOUaHOU Stuttgart
Kunstmarkt im Kulturzentrum Merlin Stuttgart
   Kunstmarkt: Geben und Geben Esslingen
Kunstmarkt: Straßenfest LABYRINTH
  Artwalk Stuttgart 9.

2024 Kunstmarkt Wagenhallen Stuttgart
Kunstmarkt WOUaHOU Stuttgart
Kunstmarkt im Kulturzentrum Merlin Stuttgart
Kunst im Hinterhof, Johannesstraße 72
Artwalk Stuttgart 7.

2023    "Schreibbude" LIVE Drawing with Maringo publishing,  Staatsgelerie, Stuttgart
      "Schreibbude" LIVE Drawing with Maringo publishing, Langenacht der Museen, Singen
Kunst im Hinterhof, Johannesstraße 72
   LIVE Drawing during Comic reading and discussion from Barbara Yelin 12.05.23, Stadtarchiv, Stuttgart
   (im Rahmen von Lit.Festival Stuttgart und eine Kooperation von Stuttgarter Comictage)
     LIVE portrait drawing: Tag der Wissenschaft, Green Office , Universität Stuttgart
Artwalk Stuttgart
   Satellite exhibition FUMETTO Comic festival Luzern
2022 (Solo exhibition) _____Satellite exhibition, "Finding ... in Stuttgart / Das findet man in Stuttgart" 7.Sep-5.Oct.- Raupe Immersatt, Stuttgart
(Event)_____"Schreibbude""Schreibbude" LIVE Drawing according form your wish & keywords, with Maringo publishing
(Group exhibition)_____ "ComicJuju - Risonanz " Risoprint,  Schacher Raum für Kunst, Stuttgart----
(Event)_____  BKKIF Fair 9-11 Sep. , BACC, Bangkok ---- "Finding Cats in a Labyrinth-City" a Mural Art
(Solo exhibition)_____(Solo) LIVE Mural and Illustration exhibition Ink&Lion Cafe, Bangkok
2021 (Solo exhibition) LIVE Drawing on the wall Raupe Immersatt, Stuttgart
    (Event)"Schreibbude" LIVE Drawing with Maringo publishing, Staatsgelerie, Stuttgart
(Group exhibition) "Hope Punk" A comic hunt through Berlin #Zine and exhibition, Comicinvasion, Berlin
(Group exhibition) "Wir sind #vonhier" - Maviblau, Berlin
2020 (Group exhibition) "Was wir wurden, wie wir sind." Graduate exhibition, LUX Pavillon, Mainz
2018 (Group exhibition) "Seitenweise Kunst II Ein Rendezvous von Typografie, Illustration und Papier" Art book project, Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek, Mainz
2011 (Group exhibition) "Made Interior" Graduate exhibition, Central World, Bangkok
2009 (Group exhibition) "Draw It Real" CDC, Bangkok

IlluMayha (public events.)

2026 (coming) Spielbank Stuttgart
(coming) Aktionstag Kultur, VHS Esslingen
75.Kulturamt Stuttgart (Auftrag von KUBI-S)
AboutPOP Music festival
IKF 2026 (Agent: ZAV)

2025 CZS - Carl Zeiss Stiftung
ZAV - Künstlervermittlung
   Badewelt Sinsheim
Badeparadies Schwarzwald
  Thermen & Badewelt Euskirchen
  "Schreibbude" LIVE Drawing  with Get Shorties Lesebühne

2024 SFZ Adventsfeier
Tag der offenen Tür PRISMA, Bad Cannstatt
Tag der offenen Tür Rathaus Stuttgart, KUBI-S
Kunstaktionswoche, Labyrinth
Tag der Wissenschaft, Green Office, Uni Stuttgart
Mariensplatz Fest
Raupe Immersatt 5. Jubiläum
Westallee mit Kunst im Hinterhof
Just 4 fund, Pop-up im Schloss Ludwigsburg (with other artists)
9. Artwalk Stuttgart
   das blaue Haus
"Schreibbude" LIVE Drawing with Get Shorties Lesebühne

2023    Merlin Kulturzentrum
                Linden-Museum Stuttgart
               Sommerfest Merz Akademie
               Westallee 2023
                CZS Opening day
CIB 2023 , MfK, Berlin
Wein-Lese-Tage, Literarturmuseum Marbach a. Neckar

2022   BRYCKE - Opening Day, Stuttgart
Klima-Community
Night of a 1000 Drawing
          Westallee 2022

Workshop Host

2026 (coming) DOO & DRAW  - VHS Esslingen
  DOO & DRAW  - GROUNDBRAKERS
  Empowermentworkshop: Verbund gegen Rassismus, Berlin
Walk & Draw: im Rahmen von ITFS
  DOO & DRAW - School vacation program for children,  Kunstschule Fellbach
2025 Walk & Draw: Kessel Chroniken
DOO & DRAW - Sommer vacation program for children, Kunstschule Fellbach
  Walk & Draw: im Rahmen von ITFS
Antidiskriminierungsstelle Esslingen (ADES) - Safer Space : Im Rahmen von Internationale Wochen gegen Rassismus 2025
Labyrinth Kulturzentrum - Doodle Workshop for Children

2024   VHS Esslingen - Safer Space
  VHS Esslingen - Comiczeichnen
Walk & Draw: im Rahmen von JETZT!
  Walk & Draw: im Rahmen von ITFS
Zeichen AG, (Drawing afternoon class) Campus Nachmittag, KuBinO, Ostfildern
2023    Comiczeichen AG, Campus Nachmittag, KuBinO, Ostfildern
   Kinderworkshop, HORT Montisory, Stuttgart Süd
Stuttgart Wie geht's! Workshop, BRYCKE
   YOU! Projekt, Empowernt Zeichenworkshop für Jugend, Stuttgart
Safer Space Vol.3-4, co-host with Partof SHAN, Stuttgart (im Rahmen des Projekts Empowerment Academy, Deutsch-Türkisches-Forum Stuttgart e.V.)
Comiczeichen-Kinderworkshop, 2. Schul-Halbjahr 2023 Campus Nachmittag, KuBinO, Ostfildern
   19. - 20.05. OUSA.Collective Empowerment- Zeichenworkshop im Rahmen von korientation Festival Berlin (Info)
Safer Space Vol.2 - dORT , co-host with Partof SHAN, Stuttgart (im Rahmen des Projekts Empowerment Academy, Deutsch-Türkisches-Forum Stuttgart e.V.)
2022 Safer Space Vol.1 - How your safer space looks like, co-host with Partof SHAN, Stuttgart
  "Walk, Talk and Draw zum Thema: Elemente in der Stuttgarter Stadt” Open skill workshop, Stuttgart
   "Ein Figürchen!" Children workshop 6-12yrs., Fais Dodo, Stuttgart
  "Empowerment through Illustration with OUSA.collective, ARRAS, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
   Free as a bird Children workshop 6-12yrs. with OUSA.collective, Comicinvasion 2022, Berlin
(Online)  Drawsome with OUSA.collective
2021 (Online)  Drawsome with OUSA.collective
  (Online) วาด.เป็น.เล่น.ไป (Drawing Therapie) -  LSEG, Thailand

Talk
2025  Lange Nacht der Museen mit Stadtkind Stuttgart (DE)
2021  "comic.juju 2021" work and inspiration, Stuttgart

Interview
2023 Stadtarchiv Stuttgart (DE)
2022 Goethe Institut Thailand (TH
IAMEVERYTHING.co (TH)
Page Magazin Online (DE)
2021  Sieben auf einen Strich  (DE)

Writing | งานเขียน
Since 2020 - เจอนี่.ที่.เ(จ)อรมัน - Journey.in.Germany  Topic: Mayha's cultural perception base in Germany
2017 - Elle Decoration Thailand Blog  Topic: Unpopular architectures but that's worth a visit in Germany PDF

Comic Strip
Since 2021 Same Same but different @ Ousa.collective
2020-21  Somsri in the City (Thai) @ Urban Creature

Interests
Intercultural communication | Nonverbal communication
Design in different culture | Trend forecasting
Equality | Diversity
Veganism | Sustainable living | Zero waste

Visit my works in another field
Interior stylist
Graphic & Editorial works
Collage
Photography
Co-founder & Producer long.stay.Podcast

More Info, CV, PDF Portfolio and rate card - hello(at)mayha-suaysom.com