Draft:Som Supaparinya

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Som Supaparinya (Thai: ส้ม ศุภปริญญา, b. 1973, Thailand) is a installation artist and documentarian. Her work focuses on the entanglement of human and landscapes, often through sociopolitical and literary lenses. She is a pioneer of multi-channel video installation and synchronized video art in Southeast Asian Region, with her early public media art dating back to 1995. Her works are stories on noodles cultures, the change of the riverscapes, cityscapes, routes, electricity generation, resistance sites and banned books.

Education & Early Life

Supaprinya was born in Lamphun. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University in 1997. She studied printmaking and painting in class, and also learned video, sound, and computer graphics in her spare time. She then attended Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany to study media arts. She was a recipient of the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländerdienst (KAAD) scholarship and the Free State Sachsen Funds (Fördermittel des Freistaates Sachsen) during this period. Supaparinya spent 3 years in Germany before returning to Thailand in 2002.

Career

Upon her return, Supaparinya started her professional career in Thailand as an assistant to the Thai curator, Gridthiya Gaweewong in Chiang Mai. During this time, she also lectured at Chiang Mai University's Painting Department.

In 2003, Supaparinya joined Media Arts and Design, a new department at Chiang Mai University. She would continue to lecture at art schools in Chiang Mai throughout 2000s.

She was a 2005 'Imaging Our Mekong' media fellow and a 2010 Asian Cultural Council fellow at the International Studio & Curatorial Program - ISCP in New York City. In 2011-2012, Supaparinya co-organized the Lifescape Southeast Asian Film Festival with Payap University, Chiang Mai.

Inspired by the Chiang Mai Social Installation, an artist-initiated festival that marked a turning point in Thailand’s contemporary art scene, Supaparinya cofounded the artist-run Chiang Mai Art Conversation in 2013 to collect, share, and produce local art activities including art map brochures and a website.

Exhibitions

A summary of important exhibitions, accessed 18 June 2026.

Solo exhibitions

Year	Exhibition
2026	Melted Stars — DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany. 23 April – 7 June 2026.
2026	Mo num en ts — Museion, Bolzano, Italy. 15 May – 14 June 2026.
2025	Mo num en ts รู ป ระ ลึก — Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand. 4 December 2025 – 29 March 2026.
2025	The River They Don't See — Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany. 25 April – 20 July 2025; 16 August – 16 November 2025.
2025	Collapsing Clouds Form Stars: A Mini Retrospective of Work by Som Supaparinya — Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand. 30 January – 26 April 2025.
2023	Sweet Corn, Bitter Air — Gallery Seescape, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Mid-March – End of April 2023.
2021	Tipping Point (with Florian Goldmann) — Memphis, Linz, Austria. 6 March – 8 April 2021. Curated by Kai Maier-Rothe.
2020	Outdoor Screening: Noodles and the Wild Things — Bann Wak, On Klang, Mae On District, Chiang Mai, Thailand. 22 February 2020. Hosted by MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum.
2017	UNINTENTIONALLY Waiting — Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China. 20 May – 22 July 2017.
2016	Novel Without a Name — WTF Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. 8 October – 20 November 2016.
2016	10 Places in Tokyo — Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand. 18 August – 24 September 2016.
2016	Paradise of the Blind (Asia and Oceania Banned Books Library) — Reading Room, Bangkok, Thailand. 5–29 May 2016.
2015	Steal This Book — Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Wellington, New Zealand.
2012	The 28th Video Art Programs (A Window to the World) — Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
2011	Hypothetical — Medianoche, Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, United States.
2011	Disc is Dead, Disco is Alive! (แผ่นดิสก์ตายแล้ว แต่ดิสโก้ยังอยู่!) — WTF Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2009	Sutthirat Supaparinya — Dotscape, 24HR Art, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia.
2004	Invisible Lines (Installation and Games) — Brand New II, Bangkok University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. Curated by Ark Fongsamut.

Selected group exhibitions

Year	Exhibition
2026	Once Becoming: A Visible Presence — Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand. 11 June – 13 September 2026.
2025	AlienAtion 2025 Acquisitions — Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand. 21 November – 21 December 2025.
2025	Wasser — Galerie Gruppe Motto, Hamburg, Germany. 27 November – 14 December 2025.
2025	19th Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF), Special Screening — Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon-si, South Korea. 14 November – 28 December 2025.
2025	Sea Art Festival 2025 (Busan Biennale), Undercurrents: Waves Walking on the Water — Dadaepo Beach, Busan, South Korea. 27 September – 2 November 2025.
2025	19th Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF) — Space Heem, Busan, South Korea. 2–26 September 2025.
2025	The Shattered Worlds: Micro Narratives from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Great Steppe (50th Anniversary of the James H.W. Thompson Foundation) — Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand. 3 April – 6 July 2025.
2025	Asia Moving Image by Loop Lab Busan — Busan Cinema Center, South Korea. 25 April 2025; 7–14 May 2025.
2024	Bangkok Art Biennale (Nurture Gaia) — National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. 24 October 2024 – 25 February 2025.
2024	(Re)Connecting Earth: Biennial and Nomadic Exhibition — Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany. 13 September – 27 October 2024.
2023	22nd The Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grants Exhibition — Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. 15 September – 11 November 2023.
2023	reconnecting.earth (02) (Biennale de l'Art et de la Nature Urbaine) – Beyond Water — Geneva, Switzerland. 1 September – 1 October 2023.
2023	After Hope: Video of Resistance — Peabody Essex Museum, United States (in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum). 11 March – 31 December 2023.
2022	Survey Show: DC Collection of 21st Century Thai Contemporary Arts — DC Collection, Chiang Mai, Thailand. December 2022 – November 2025.
2022	Other Possible Worlds — 16Albermarle Project Space and Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, Sydney, Australia. 25 June – 30 July 2022.
2022	Documenta 15 (as part of the Sa Sa Art Project) — Kassel, Germany. 18 June – 25 September 2022.
2022	SAWANG SAWAI SIWILAI — Siwilai City Club, Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand. Curated by Gallery VER.
2021	Thailand Biennale Korat 2021 — Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. 18 December 2021 – 31 March 2022. Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Seiha Kurosawa and Vipash Purichanont.
2021	Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia. 4 December 2021 – 25 April 2022. Curated by Zara Stanhope / Tarun Nagesh.
2021	Fluidity of Senses — Lanna Architecture Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand. 2 November 2021 – 28 February 2022. Curated by Kittima Chareeprasit.
2021	ERRATA1: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories — MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand. 30 July – 2 November 2021. Curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong, Anna Catharina Gebbers, Grace Samboh and June Yap.
2021	beuys radio 2021 — online podcast, 12 May – September 2021 (Beuys 2021 with the Goethe-Institut, Munich).
2021	Water Crossers (Zomi) – Contemporary Art in the Mekong Region (AURA Contemporary Art Foundation Collection) — Senba Art Site Project, Osaka, Japan. 18 July – 15 August 2021.
2021	After Hope: Videos of Resistance — Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, United States. From 4 March 2021.
2020	ASEAN Street Foods: Hororok Chopchop Omulomul — ASEAN Culture House, Busan, South Korea. 15 December 2020 – 11 April 2021. Curated by LIUSHEN.
2020	A beast, a god, and a line — MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand. From 14 November 2020. Curated by Cosmin Costinas.
2020	TERATOTERA Festival 2020 – Collective: Next-generation Symbiosis — Kichijoji area, Tokyo, Japan. 15–18 October 2020 (online until 31 October 2020).
2020	Decameron 2020 (online exhibition) — Decameron Row. 16 July – 27 August 2020.
2019	Biennale Jogja Equator #5 — Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 20 October – 30 November 2019.
2019	Eyes East Bound – 13th Cairo Biennale — Cairo, Egypt. 10 June – 10 August 2019.
2019	A Short Film Program (curated by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, within Rirkrit Tiravanija: who's afraid of red yellow and green) — Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States. 17 May – 24 July 2019.
2019	Temporal Topography: MAIIAM's New Acquisitions from 2010 to Present — MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand. 30 March 2019 – 31 October 2020. Curated by Kittima Chareeprasit.
2019	The Machine in Nature — The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. From February 2019. Curated by Zoe Butt.
2018	Elevations Laos — I-cat Gallery, Vientiane, Laos. 10 November 2018 – 16 January 2019. Curated by Erin Gleeson.
2018	12th Gwangju Biennale — Gwangju, South Korea. 9 September – 11 November 2018. Curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong.
2018	38th EVA International – Ireland's Biennial — Limerick, Ireland. 14 April – 8 July 2018. Curated by Inti Guerrero.
2018	Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions — Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. 10–26 February 2018. Curated by Hiroko Tasaka.
2017	Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs — Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand. 15 July – 31 October 2017. Curated by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero.
2017	SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now — Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. 5 July – 23 October 2017.
2017	On Attachments and Unknowns — SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 19 May – 19 August 2017. Curated by Erin Gleeson.
2017	Under the Influence: Books that Inspire Artists — Asia Art Archive, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong. 21–25 March 2017.
2016	Public Spirits — Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. 22 September 2016 – 8 January 2017. Curated by Meiya Cheng.
2016	Spirit of Place — Jendela Gallery, Esplanade, Singapore. 14 July – 25 September 2016. Curated by Sam I-shan.
2016	Intimate Curiosity (4th Annual Collectors' Contemporary Collaboration; collection of Daisuke Miyatsu) — Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong. 20 March – 10 April 2016. Curated by Fumio Nanjo and Roger McDonald.
2016	A Touch for the Now — MONA Inner Spaces, Poland. 18 March – 3 April 2016. Curated by Yipei Lee.
2016	Prudential Eye Awards Exhibition 2016 — ArtScience Museum, Singapore. 16 January – 27 March 2016.
2016	Seismograph: Sensing the City – Art in the Urban Age — Southeast Asia Forum, Art Stage 2016, Singapore.
2015	Soft Power 2015 — Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China.
2015	Open Secret — The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
2014	Unseen Existence: Dialogues with Environment at the Contemporary Art — Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong.
2014	WATER / Life Line (Mekong Platform) — Milan Image Art Fair, Singapore (with the 4th Singapore International Photography Festival).
2014	Unearthed — Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. 20 March – 7 June 2014.
2014	Anarchy Artist Alliance (AAA) — Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.
2014	South East Asia Topology — Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan.
2014	Here and There — The Ferry Gallery, Wat Arun Pier, Bangkok, Thailand.
2013	THAITAI: A Measure of Understanding — URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan.
2013	After Tsunami, Embracing Japan-Thailand Tsunami Experience — Mitaka City Cultural Center, Japan.
2013	Tokyo Story 2013 Part 3 – Identities in the World — Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. 13 July – 23 September 2013.
2013	Riverscape In Flux — Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2013	Film Program (in conjunction with No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia) — Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States.
2013	Gliding, Scrub and Squeeze — RMIT University School of Art Gallery and Screen Space, Melbourne, Australia. 7–23 March 2013.
2013	Riverscape In Flux — Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines. 14 March – 15 April 2013.
2013	Can You Hear Me? — Numthong Gallery at Aree, Bangkok, Thailand.
2012	Can You Hear Me? — Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore.
2012	THAITAI: A Measure of Understanding — Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
2012	Art in the Ninth Reign: Thai Trends from Localism to Internationalism — Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
2012	Riverscapes IN FLUX (a Goethe-Institut in Southeast Asia project) — Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi; Cactus Contemporary Art, Ho Chi Minh City; g23, Bangkok; SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh.
2012	Yebisu International Festival for Arts and Alternative Visions — Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan.
2012	Art on Farm — Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand.
2011	Koganecho Bazaar 2011 — Koganecho, Yokohama, Japan.
2011	Siamese Connection 2011: Rediscover — Invisible Dog, New York, United States.
2011	Print Installation — Horace Mann School, New York, United States.
2010	Art on Farm — Jim Thompson Art Farm, Pak Thong Chai, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
2010	Return Ticket Thailand-Germany — Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand. Curated by Axel Feuss (Goethe-Institut Bangkok, 50th anniversary).
2010	Surface Depth — H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. Curated by Brian Curtin.
2010	Imagine Peace — Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand. Curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija.
2010	Tich Dien Festival (Traditional Cow Painting Festival) — Ha Nam Province, Vietnam.
2010	Con+ent: Conten+ — SMU Arts Festival (10th anniversary of Singapore Management University), Singapore.
2009	Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia. Curated by Kathryn Weir.
2009	The View From Elsewhere — Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia. Curated by Kathryn Weir.

Residencies

Year	Residency
2023–2024	Elevations Laos, Vientiane, Laos.
2021–2022	DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin, Germany.
2019	Rimpang Nusantara x Kelana Residency (Cemeti – Institute for Art and Society / Biennale Jogja Equator #5), Pontianak–Sintang, Borneo, Indonesia.
2019	Villa Ruffieux, Château Mercier, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland.
2018	Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France (supported by Institut français).
2015	Wellington Asia Residency Exchange (WARE), Bolton Street Cottage, Wellington, New Zealand.
2014	Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.
2013	Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
2013	Ceramic studio residency, Sagamiko, Japan.
2013	Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan.
2012	Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, International Creator Residency Program, Tokyo, Japan.
2012	EOS Visiting Artist Program, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2011	ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York, United States.
2011	Temporary Residency 2 Manhattan (Horace Mann School / Noho Studio), New York, United States.
2011	Koganecho Bazaar 2011, Yokohama, Japan.
2010	Art on Farm, Jim Thompson Art Farm, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.
2009	Singapore Management University, Singapore.
2009	Theatre of the Disturbed, Alliance Française, Yangon, Myanmar.
2007	9th International Symposium of Modern Art (d. fleiss & east–west artists), Carei, Romania.
2007	Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2006	Lijiang Studio, Yunnan, China.
2005	CONVERGENCE International Workshop, Mui Ne Beach, Phan Thiet, Vietnam.
2002	Alliance Française Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.

Awards and grants

Year	Award / grant
2025	Silpathorn Award for Visual Arts, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, Thailand.
2024	Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant.
2023	Connections Through Culture Grant (British Council, with musician Helen Ganya).
2023	Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grant 22, Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
2021	Fellow, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (2021–2022), Berlin, Germany.
2019	Japan Foundation Asia Center Fellowship Program (Fiscal 2019, 1st Round).
2019	Artist in Residence Grant, Villa Ruffieux, Château Mercier, Sierre, Switzerland.
2018	Residency at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France (Institut français).
2016	Prudential Eye Awards 2016, nominee shortlist, "Best Emerging Artist Using Digital/Video", Singapore.
2015	Wellington Asia Residency Exchange (WARE), Wellington City Council with Asia New Zealand Foundation, New Zealand.
2013	Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Artist-in-Residence grant, Germany.
2012	Earth Observatory of Singapore Visiting Artist Program grant; Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama Creator in Residence.
2011	Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, United States (based at ISCP, Brooklyn).
2006	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Ethnographic Film Production Grant, Thailand.
2005–2006	Imaging Our Mekong Fellowship (Rockefeller Foundation Southeast Asia; Probe Media Foundation / IPS Asia-Pacific / Japan Foundation).
2005	Second Prize, 2nd Ethnographic Film Competition, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Thailand.
2000–2001	Free State of Saxony Funds (Fördermittel des Freistaates Sachsen), Germany.
1999–2001	KAAD (Catholic Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship, Germany.