- Ampannee Satoh (อําพรรณี สะเตาะ) born 1983 in Pattani, lives and works in Bangkok and Pattani
- Anuwat Apimukmongkon (อนุวัฒน์ อภิมุขมงคล), born 1995 in Trang. lives and works in Pattani
- Ariane Sutthavong (อารีแอน สุทธาวงษ์), born 1993 in Bangkok, Lives and works in Bangkok
- Chatpong Chuenrudeemol (ฉัตรพงษ์ ชื่นฤดีมล), born 1972 in Bangkok, lives and works in Bangkok
- Eakapob Huangthanapan (และเอกภาพ หวงธนะภัณฑ์), born 1994 in Phuket, lives and works in Phuket and Bangkok
- Doloh Chetae (ดอเลาะ เจ๊ะแต) born 1962 in Pattani
- Kite (ไคท์), born 1990 in Sylmar, California, lives and works in Catskill, New York
- Minnette de Silva (มินเน็ตต์ เดอ ซิลวา) born 1918 in Kandy, d. 1998 in Kandy
- Mochu (โมชุ และ เ), born 1983 in Kottayam, lives and works in Berlin and Delhi
- Merve Ertufan (มิร์ฟ เออร์ตุฟาน) born 1985 in Istanbul, lives and works in Berlin and Delhi
- Noémie Goudal (โนเอมี กูดาล), born 1984 in Paris, lives and works in Paris
- Ryue Nishizawa (ริวเอะ นิชิซาวะ), born 1966 in Kanagawa, lives and works in Tokyo
- Speedy Grandma (สปีดี้ แกรนด์มา), founded in Bangkok in 2012, lives and works in Bangkok
- Tun Win Aung (ตัน วิน อ่อง และ วา นุ), born 1975 in Yangon, lives and works in Yangon and Chiang Mai
- Wah Nu (และ วา นุ), born 1977 in Yangon, lives and works in Yangon and Chiang Mai
- Woraphob Tantinantakul (วรภพ ตันตินันทกุล), born 1989 in Phuket, lives and works in Phuket
- Wu Tsang (อู๋ เจิง), born 1982 in Worcester, Massachusetts, lives and works in Zürich
Ampannee Satoh
Ampannee Satoh is a visual artist whose work in photography and video explores themes of cultural identity, faith, nationhood, and the complex narratives of her native Pattani.
She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (Photography) from Rangsit University (2006), continued her studies at L’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, France (2010), and received her Master of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) from Silpakorn University (2013).
Her solo exhibitions include “Ports of Refuge” at the Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines (2025), “Du port de Pattani au port de La Rochelle” at Centre Intermondes, France (2022) and “The Light 24:31” at Patani Artspace, Thailand (2018).
She has participated in international group exhibitions such as the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2019) and “Nation, Narration, Narcosis” at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Germany (2022). Ampannee’s work is held in collections including the Singapore Art Museum, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, and the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC), Ministry of Culture, Thailand. She was also the recipient of the Excellence Award in Photography from the Young Thai Artist Award 2007.
Anuwat Apimukmongkon
Anuwat Apimukmongkon earned his Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus. His artistic approach is deeply rooted in personal experience and social observation. A recurring symbol in his work is the shape of “Bunglee,” his close friend who identifies as bisexual. He uses this symbol to reflect myths and social structures deeply embedded in the contemporary world through his personal perspective and emotions.
Anuwat is an interdisciplinary artist and a co-founder of the decentralized curatorial network, Pootorn Connect, which drives the concept of art and cultural sovereignty. His mediums include painting, sculpture, mixed media, video, live performance, and even gastronomy as a channel for research and critique.
Anuwat’s work engages issues of nationhood, religion, culture, politics and violence, through symbolism and the lens of gender and identity. His artworks have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions both in Thailand and abroad, such as the “Queer International Exhibition” by the Queer Museum in London, United Kingdom; “Jerayawara Seni Dwimusim” in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia; “Dissident Affections: Sexual Diversity in Contemporary Art”, Brazil; “Minamikaze” at the University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany; the “A&DT International Invitation Exhibition”; South Korea; and “Of Place and A Paradox”, Singapore.
As a curator, he focuses on amplifying the voices of local artists and exploring contemporary art in Southeast Asia. Anuwat has worked on international and local exhibitions, including “Kenduri Seni Nusantara” (2022), “Kenduri Seni Patani” (2024), “Patani Abstract” at Xspace, Bangkok; “STAMPING” at YMD Artspace, Konkhaen; “The Apparel of Dunya” at Warin Lab Contemporary, Bangkok; “The City of Goat” at Head-High Second Floor, Chiang Mai; and “Deep South” at VS Gallery, Bangkok (2022).
Anuwat continues to develop his artistic practice in parallel with his curatorial endeavors. In addition, he holds a full-time academic position as a lecturer in the Visual Arts Program, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook is an artist, writer, professor, and one of Southeast Asia’s most respected contemporary practitioners. She has been exhibiting internationally for 45 years, including at documenta, the Carnegie International, and biennales in Venice, Johannesburg, Sydney, Istanbul, Bangkok, Jakarta, Gwangju, Singapore, and beyond.
Her works are held in collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+, Hong Kong; and major museums in Singapore, Australia, Japan, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, Thailand, and beyond. Important smaller surveys of her work have been presented at SculptureCenter, New York (2015) and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (2014).
Araya has also played a major role in innovating arts education in Thailand, where she established the country’s first interdisciplinary art school curricula at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University. At her home and studio in Chiang Mai, she cares for dozens of stray dogs, who often appear in her artworks.
Ariane Sutthavong
Ariane Sutthavong works across curatorial, editorial and discursive formats, moving through collective processes and the uneasy intersection of art and politics. Her practice often emerges from sites of friction—between languages, temporalities or social imaginaries—and seeks to hold space for forms of knowledge that do not readily translate. She has delivered exhibitions, programs and talks for Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Asian Art Biennial (2024); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; documenta fifteen; Bangkok Biennial (2020); and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum among others. From 2020 to 2025, Ariane co-founded and co-led the inappropriate BOOK CLUB, an ongoing initiative centred on the collective reading and writing of texts to support a third view of contemporary art in Thailand, beyond both the confines of the state and the interests of capital.
Her archival research on Suwanni Sukhontha’s multifaceted legacy reflects the writer’s entanglements with shifting aesthetics and politics, as well as the gender and class roles in Thai modernity. Invoking the opacity and fragmentation that mark acts of transmission, the project is conceived as a body of footnotes, translations, and marginalia circling an absent centre.
Chatpong Chuenrudeemol & Eakapob Huangthanapan
Chatpong Chuenrudeemol is an architect deeply impacted by the beauty and ugliness of Bangkok. His architectural firm, CHAT Architects, focuses on multi-scalar projects derived from their “Bangkok Bastards” research, or the documentation of the Thai capital’s live street vernacular, often overlooked for their informality but brimming with architectural invention and cultural authenticity. In 2020, Chatpong received Thailand’s “Silpathorn Award,” the country’s highest award for contemporary artists, presented by the Ministry of Culture of Thailand.
Eakapob Huangthanapan is a multidisciplinary designer and urban strategist whose work spans architecture, resilience planning, and community research. Based between Phuket and Bangkok, he co-leads the MIT Resilience Collective Thailand, part of MIT Urban Risk Lab founded by Professor Miho Mazereeuw. Together with the collective’s co-leads, he explores how design can foster resilient cities and communities through both physical and systems design, bridging ecology, infrastructure, and community.
CHAT Architects and the MIT Urban Risk Lab, together with their collectives, have collaborated on a range of community- driven urban initiatives.
Doloh Chetae
Doloh Chetae was a fisherman, artist-draftsman, ommunity scholar and independent researcher from Baan Datok, a coastal village on Pattani Bay.
Born into a fishing family, he left formal education after primary school and studied at a local pondok. Yet his lived experience and profound knowledge of the sea made him an invaluable guide to researchers, activists, and his own community.
Starting in 1984, Doloh began using line drawings and hand-drawn maps to communicate with villagers about the changing environment, new technologies, and cultural practices at risk of disappearing. Rooted in oral histories, local wisdom and collective memory, his work offered alternative ways to document and resist environmental degradation.
Kite
Kite is an award winning Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, composer and academic, known for her sound and video performance with her machine learning hair-braid interface.
Kite’s practice explores contemporary Lakota ontology through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Across her body of work, Kite often works in collaboration with family and community members.
Her interdisciplinary practice spans sound, video, performances, instrument building, wearable artwork, poetry, books, interactive installations, and more. She is currently Director of Wihanble S’a Lab, Distinguished Artist in Residence, and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies at Bard College.
Kite holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, and Concordia University. She is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux tribe.
Minnette De Silva
Minnette De Silva was the first Asian woman to become an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1948. Born in 1918 in Kandy, Sri Lanka, De Silva qualified as an architect in 1948 and set up The Studio of Modern Architecture in Kandy the same year.
De Silva articulated innovative ideas about urban planning, sustainability, the use of local architectural features, materials, and craft through a practice that combined architectural design, writing, research, and teaching. She coined the term “modern regional architecture,” to refer to her “experiments” which emphasized community, ecology, and craftsmanship from a Sri Lankan perspective. “The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect (Volume 1)”, De Silva’s autobiographical memoir, outlines her philosophy, influences, and contributions to modernist architecture in Asia. It was published posthumously in 1998, a few months after her death.
Mochu & Merve Ertufan
Mochu and Merve Ertufan are authors and artists who often work with and through text. Across their oeuvres, both Mochu and Merve gravitate towards a concept-based practice that gives form to otherwise free-floating ideas such as anxiety, futurity, and subjectivity in the circulatory system of economy. Together, Mochu and Merve developed the recent collaboration Ion Drift, exploring unorthodox ideas of political economy that emerged in conjunction with ancient philosophy in the region once known as Ionia (8th-6th century BC), now spread over Turkey and Greece.
Mochu’s work has been featured in exhibitions held at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2024), 9th Asian Art Biennial (2024), Whitechapel Gallery (2023), 9th Asia-Pacific Triennial (2018), 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018), 13th Sharjah Biennial (2017) and Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (2022).
Merve Ertufan
Merve’s works have been featured in institutions such as Liquid Architecture, Arter, Tanas, Zilberman Gallery, Wilhelm- Hack-Museum, Bahar, the Istanbul off-site project of Sharjah Biennial 13, SPOT Production Fund, Corridor Project Space, with two solo exhibitions – at Depo (2020), and Bilsart (2022).
Noémie Goudal
Noémie Goudal’s practice is underpinned by rigorous research at the intersection of ecology and Earth sciences. Goudal’s work involves the construction of elaborate, illusionistic interventions within the landscape, documented using film, photography and performance. The artist’s work pushes photography beyond its standard parameters. Employing optical illusion techniques such as anamorphosis and trompe-l’œil, Goudal stages meticulously constructed sets using models made of paper, mirrors and wood.
Noémie Goudal received the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024 and exhibited at Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. She will present solo shows in 2025 at Edel Assanti, Frieze London, United Kingdom; and will unveil a new installation commissioned by Artangel.
Ryue Nishizawa
Ryue Nishizawa is a Japanese architect. In 1995, he founded the architectural design firm SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates) with Kazuyo Sejima. Together, their works include structures such as the New Ryue Nishizawa Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando, Tokyo, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, among others.
They were jointly awarded the Golden Lion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale (2004), The Berlin Kunstpreis (2007), and the Pritzker Prize for Architecture (2010). More recently, they have been awarded the Praemium Imperiale in Honour of Prince Takamatsu (2022) and the Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects (2025).
In 1997, Nishizawa established the Office of Ryue Nishizawa. Since then he has been awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) Prize and the 25th Murano Togo Prize (2012), as well as the 5th Yoshizaka Takamasa Award (2019). He is currently a professor at Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA).
Speedy Grandma
Speedy Grandma is a collective-cum-community of artists, curators, and practitioners loosely held together by shared commitments to the seriousness of playing. Named after an urban ghost legend in which a grandmother—killed in a motorcycle accident—returns as a half-bodied spectre to haunt night-time street racers, Speedy too has transfigured many times. Youthful in spirit and irreverent in tone, the collective began as an art gallery but never stayed put.
From the outset, Speedy Grandma embraced experimentation and welcomed those bold enough to dash headlong into their creative practices. What Grandma looks for is potential—flickers of new ideas, the energy of becoming. And with this comes an understanding that art, broadly and expansively defined, does not and cannot exist in a vacuum. It moves with the world, entangled in dialogues and disciplines beyond itself, stretching the idea of what art can be.
Woraphob Tantinantakul
Woraphob Tantinantakul is an artist from Phuket who works in sculpture, often using reclaimed wood and materials from defunct ships.
With a father in the shipping industry, Tantinantakul grew up along the shores of the island and observed the transformation of fishing practices to the industry of shipping.
The handcrafted tools used for sustenance by the sea nomads and consequently, those they traded with, have now become objects used purely for ceremony. Interested in the transformation of the status of the object and the possibilities of reclamation, the artist engages with often large-scale votive forms that are hand carved and welded by himself.
Tantinantakul has obtained a Bachelor of Arts in the Department of Fine Arts and Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and a Master of Arts, in the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts from Silpakorn University.
Wu Tsang
Wu Tsang is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist who combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary. Her projects have been presented at museums, biennials, and film and theater festivals internationally, including the Venice Biennale (2022), Manifesta 15, Whitney Biennial (2012, 2022), SXSW (2012), Holland Festival (2022, 2024).
Tsang is a 2018 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, and she has won numerous awards including 2016 Guggenheim (Film/Video), 2018 Hugo Boss Prize Nominee, and Rockefeller Foundation. Wu Tsang received a BFA (2004) from the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and an MFA (2010) from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). From 2019-2024 she was a director-in-residence at the Schauspielhaus (City Theatre) Zürich. Tsang is known for her long-term collaborations, notably with Moved the Motion, a performance collective that she co-founded with Tosh Basco in 2013.
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