Korakrit Arunanondchai

• Born in 1986  Bangkok, Thailand
  Lives and works in New York, US and Bangkok, Thailand

Education

• 2012     MFA, Columbia University, New York, US
  2012     Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, US
  2009     BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2025
  The Blood of the Earth, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
  
  2024
  Korakrit Arunanondchai: Sing Dance Cry Breathe | as their world collides on to the screen, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia
  nostalgia for unity, Bangkok Kunsthalle, Bangkok, Thailand
  
  2023
  K11 Collection Show: Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
  Korakrit Arunanondchai, The MAC Belfast, Belfast, UK
  Painting Prayer Text, CLEARING, Los Angeles, US
  
  2022
  "Image, Symbol, Prayer", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  Korakrit Arunanondchai: The Finiteness of Our Songs Against the Infinity of Time and Space, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  PRAY, with Alex Gvojic, Canal Projects, New York, US
  From dying to living, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Songs for dying / Songs for living, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea 
  Songs for dying, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
  Together: a Ghost Cinema Performance, with Alex Gvojic & Tosh Basco, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
  Songs for living with Alex Gvojic, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
  PRAY (Songs for living in a room filled with people with funny names) with Alex Gvojic, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 
  Korakrit Arunanondchai: A Machine Boosting Energy Into the Universe, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 
  
  2021
  KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Songs for dying / Songs for living, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
  3 SONGS, CLEARING, New York, US
  Songs for Dying, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
  
  2020    
  Days after the reverie (a prelude), CLEARING, New York, US
  No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  
  2019    
  KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI, Secession, Vienna, Austria
  Painting with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 3, K11, Hong Kong
  with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, Gallery Share: Carlos / Ishikawa hosted by Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Sao Paolo, Brasil
  No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, in collaboration with Alex Gvojic (with boychild), Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
  with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, Kaleidoscope Spazio Maiocchi, Milan, Italy
  
  2018    
  No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
  with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, J1, Marseille, France
  A workshop for peace: nowhere to go: let the song hold us: in a room filled with people with funny names 4, CLEARING, Brussels, Belgium
  
  2017    
  with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, CLEARING New York, US The Artist and the Other Artist, CLEARING, New York, USA
  
  2016    
  PAINTING WITH HISTORY IN A ROOM FILLED WITH MEN WITH FUNNY NAMES 1, CLEARING, New York, US
  Painting with history 3 or two thousand five hundred and fifty nine years to figure stuff out, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
  2012-2555, 2556, 2557, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
  Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
  Gift Korakrit Arunanondchai | Letters to Chantri #1, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
  Korakrit Arunanondchai curated by Franklin Melendez, Lodos Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
  
  2015    
  2558, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
  Painting with History in a room filled with people with funny names 3, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  
  2014    
  The Last 3 Years and the Future (with boychild and AJGvojic), performance at ICA Off-Site, Old Selfridges Hotel, London, UK
  2012-2555, 2556, Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names and the Future (with boychild, Alex Gvojic and Harry Bornstein), performance at Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
  2557 (Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names 2) (with Korapat Arunanondchai), Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
  Letters to Chantri #1: The lady at the door/The gift that keeps on giving (in collaboration with Boychild), The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, US
  Korakrit Arunanondchai, MoMA PS1, New York US; performance as part of the exhibition at MoMA PS1, New York, US
  
  2013    
  Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names 2 (with Korapat Arunanondchai) (Phrase I), Bill Brady KC Gallery, Kansas City, US
  Muen Kuey (It’s always the same), CLEARING, Brussels, Belgium
  Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names, CLEARING, Brooklyn, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2026
  Staging Grounds, Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, US
  
  2025
  Taipei Biennial 2025: Whispers on the Horizon, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
  Ghost 2568: Wish We Were Here, Ghost Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
  36th Bienal de São Paulo: Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil 
  12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time, various venues including SITE SANTA FE, Santa Fe, US
  Goeun Museum of Photography+Loop Lab Busan, FRANCE ART SPACE, Busan, Korea
  Ditto and Veto, Heredium, Daejeon, Korea
  
  2024
  From the Collection: Together – Collaborative Art Practices, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
  Spirit House, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, US
  Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana, Barcelona, Spain
  Symphony of Coexistence, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
  
  2023
  Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai 2023: The Open World, Chiang Rai, Thailand
  Connecting, KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
  Landscape of Life: How Are You Today?, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
  My Rhino Is Not a Myth., 5th edition of Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania
  Humane Ecology: Eight Positions, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, US
  MAIDEN VOYAGE, CLEARING, New York, US 
  Au-delà: Rituals for a new world, Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
  
  2022
  Ultra Unreal, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
  One hundred eighty-six billion steps to the sun, CLEARING, New York, US 
  Kaleidescope: Manifesto, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, France
  Copenhagen – Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Mountain/Time, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
  Let The Song Hold Us, FACT, Liverpool, UK
  Sweet Lust, White Cube, Paris, France
  Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Kathmandu, Nepal
  
  2021
  Nation, Narration, Narcosis, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany 
  The Endless Garment, X Museum, Beijing, China
  Trauma and Care, Bangkok CityCity Galley, Bangkok, Thailand
  On the Level or The Man Who Fell Out of Bed, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, AU
  OFTEN VARY NEVER CHANGE, CLEARING, New York, USA
  Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2021, Brussels, Belgium 
  Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  
  2020    
  Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
  Summer Exhibition 2020, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
  Solastalgia—Wild Tales (curated by Filipa Ramos), Art Basel Online Screening Programme
  7th Biennale Gherdëina, Ortisei, Val Gardena, Italy
  Life Still, CLEARING, New York, US
  The Secret Life of Lobsters, CLEARING, CWART, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
  The Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
  Magical Soup, Hamburger Banhoff, Berlin, Germany
  Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong
  Seismic Movements: Dhaka Art Summit 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
  2019    
  Every Step in the Right Direction, 6th Singapore Biennial, Singapore
  Performa 19 Biennial, New York, US
  The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea, 7th Asian Art Biennial, Taichung, Taiwan
  Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder, 180 The Strand / The Vinyl Factory, London, UK
  Don’t Touch Me: Acts of Faith, curated by Precious Okoyomon & Quinn Harrelson, Robert Grunenberg Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
  DOG DAYS., CLEARING, New York, US
  16th Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, OGR, Turin, Italy
  Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Itlay
  L’âge de raison, CLEARING, Brussels, Belgium
  Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
  
  2018    
  ANTI, Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
  Robot Love, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Absurdity in Paradise, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
  Baltic Triennial XIII, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnus, Lithuania
  Biennal of Moving Images 2018, curated by Andrea Bellini and Andrea Lissoni, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  2017    
  SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, The National Art Center, Tokyo / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Mode of Liaisons, Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand
  Paratoxic Paradoxes, Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annexe, Athens, Greece
  
  2016    
  iwillmedievalfutureyou5, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
  There’s a word I’m trying to remember, for a feeling I’m about to have (a distracted path toward extinction), 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
  20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, Korea
  Fritto Misto, CLEARING, New York, US
  Emotional Supply Chains, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
  The Fire is Gone But We Have The Light, with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, US
  
  2015    
  "PAINTING WITH HISTORY IN A ROOM FILLED WITH PEOPLE WITH FUNNY NAMES 3", International Film Festival Rotterdam: IFFR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  The Extreme Present, curated by Jeffery Deitch, The Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon
  Private Settings. Art after the Internet, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
  
  2014    
  Beware Wet Paint (in collaboration with ICA, London), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
  
  2013    
  High Desert Test Site 2013, Joshua Tree, US
  Digital Expressionism, Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, US
  Memonikos, Jim Thompson House, Bangkok, Thailand
  
  2012    
  Double Life, Sculpture Center, New York, US

Selected Awards

• 2020    
  Bellas Artes Residency, Batan, Philippines
  
  2019    
  NOWNESS Award for breakthrough cultural excellence in film and video art, honouree
  Future Generation Art Prize, shortlisted artist
  
  2013
  Recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 
  Tate Modern, London, UK 
  S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
  Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  Museion, Bolzano, Italy
  Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
  Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  Astrup Fearnly Museum, Oslo, Norway 
  Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC) Ministry of Culture, Bangkok, Thailand
  Rubell Museum, Miami, US
  Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Swiss
  Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
  Qiao Collection, Shanghai, China
  Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
  K11, Hong Kong/Shanghai/Beijing, China
  Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK 
  Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
  Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium