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. Supaparinya's past projects touches on: noodles cultures, rivers, cityscapes, electricity generation, resistance sites and banned books, often centering Thai histories.

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.