Som Supaparinya

Som Supaparinya is from Chiang Mai and Lamphun, Thailand. Studied Painting in Thailand and Media Arts in Germany. Her works encompass a wide variety of mediums such as installation, objects, still and moving images which have produced mainly with a documentarian and experimentarian approach. The works focus on the impact of human activities on other humans and landscape through political, historical, and literary lenses. The changing landscape by various means motivated her practice. Her works are stories on noodles cultures, the change of the riverscapes, cityscapes, routes, electricity generation, resistance sites and banned books.

 

As a visual artist among the art community in Chiang Mai, she has participated in the founding and operation of CAC – Chiangmai Art Conversation since 2013. She was a director of Asian Culture Station (ACS) in the year 2016-2019 when CAC partnered with the Japan Foundation Asia Center Tokyo to establish the project. CAC aims to promote contemporary art in Chiang Mai while ACS activated Asian culture and its network.

Sutthirat earned a BFA in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Chiang Mai University and a Meisterschüler (postgraduate studies for artists) in Media Arts from Hochschule Fuer Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany. She is a 2005 Imaging Our Mekong media fellowship and a 2010 Asian Cultural Council fellowship at International Studio & Curatorial Program – ISCP in New York City. She was selected to participate in the International Creator Residency Program at the Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama in 2012, Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, NRW, Germany in 2013 and Wellington Asia Residency Exchange, New Zealand in 2015. She was nominated for the Prudential Eye Awards 2016 shortlist in ‘Best Emerging Artist Using Digital/Video’, Singapore. Winners of Institut Français for an artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France in 2018.

 

Museums and galleries that have featured Som’s work include Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Japan, Jim Thompson Art Center, Maiiam Contemporary Art Museum, Gallery Ver, Thailand, Queensland Art Gallery and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Australia, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA, Singapore Art Museum and ArtScience Museum, Singapore, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong,  Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Poland, ASEAN Culture House, Busan, South Korea, and the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA.

 

International art festivals and biennials; Koganecho Bazzar 2011 in Yokohama, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2012 and 2018, Japan, EVA International[Ireland’s Biennial] in Limerick City, Ireland, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, Cairo Biennale 13 in Cairo, Egypt, Biennale Jogja Equator #5, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Thailand Biennale Korat 2021,  and 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, Australia.

 

Recent exhibitions: Documenta15 as part of the exhibition of the Sa Sa Art Projects Collective, 16Albermarle Project Space and Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, Sydney, Australia and DC Collection, Thailand, SURVEY SHOW: DC COLLECTION OF 21ST CENTURY THAI CONTEMPORARY ARTS, DC Collection, Chiang Mai, 22nd The Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grants Exhibition, Art-Centre Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, reconnecting.earth (02) (Biennale de l’Art et de la Nature Urbaine) – Beyond Water, Genève, Switzerland  and  After Hope: Video of Resistance, Peabody Essex Museum, USA.

 

She was a fellow of the one-year artist in residence – DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program  in Berlin, Germany in 2021-2022 and schedule to exhibit her solo show at the DAAD Gallerie in Berlin in the year 2024/2025.