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Curriculum Vitae ประวัติและผลงาน Som Supaparinya ส้ม ศุภปริญญา
Art Exhibitions Künstlerischer Austellungen นิทรรศการศิลปะ
Selected Solo/Duo Exhibitions  Auswählte Einzelaustellungen นิทรรศการเดี่ยว และคู่
2027 Upcoming Show: Som Supaparinya’s first mid-career survey show at Hiroshima MoCA, Japan [13 February 2027 onward]
2026 Upcoming Show: Melted Stars, a solo show at DAAD Gallerie, Berlin, Germany [23 April – 7 June 2026] – Upcoming Show: a solo show, Museion, Bolzano, Italy [15 May – 14 June 2026] – Upcoming Show: a solo show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark [26 September 2026 – 21 February 2027]
2025 Current Show: mo num en ts รู ป ระ ลึก, a solo show, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand. [4 December 2025 – 29 March 2026]- The River They Don’t See, a solo show at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany [25 April-20 July 2025 and 16 August – 16 November 2025] – Collapsing Clouds Form Stars, a Mini Retrospective of Work by Som Supaparinya, Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand. [30 January – 26 April 2026]
2023 Sweet Corn, Bitter Air, Gallery Seescapes, Chiang Mai, Thailand [10 March – 5 May, 2023]
2021 – Tipping Point, a Duo Show with Florian Goldmann, Memphis, Linz, Austria [6 March – 8 April 2021] Curated by Kai Maier-Rothe
2020 Outdoor screening | Noodles and the Wild Things (3 short videos by Sutthirat Supaparinya), Bann Wak, On Klang, Mae On District, Chiang Mai, Thailand [22 February 2020] hosted by Maiiam Contemporary Arts Museum
2017 UNINTENTIONALLY Waiting, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China [20 May to 22 July 2017]
2016 Novel Without a Name, WTF Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand [8 October – 20 November] – 10 Places in Tokyo, Gallery Ver, Bangkok, Thailand [18 August – 24 September] – Paradise of the Blind (Asia and Oceania banned books library), SLEEP OVER projectby and at Reading Room, Bangkok, Thailand [Thu 5 – Sun 29 May]
2015 Steal This Book, Toi Pōneke Art Center, Wellington, New Zealand
2012 The 28th Video Art Programs (A Window to the World), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2011 Hypothetical, Medianoche, Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, USA – Disc is Dead, Disco is Alive! (แผ่นดิสก์ตายเเล้ว เเต่ดิสโก้ยังอยู่!), WTF Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2009 – Sutthirat Supaparinya, Dotscape, 24HRArt, Northern territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia
2004 – Invisible lines (Installation and Games), under the project Brand New II, Bangkok University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (curated by Ark Fongsamut) *catalog
Selected group exhibitions  Auswählte Groppenaustellungen นิทรรศการกลุ่ม
2025
  • AlienAtion 2025 Acquisitions: Office of Contemporary Art & Culture, Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand [21  November – 21 December 2025]
  • WasserGalerie Gruppe Motto, Hamburg, Germany [27 November – 14 December 2025]
  • 19th Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF) Special Screening, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon-si, South Korea [14 November – 28 December 2025]
  • Sea Art Festival 2025—Busan Biennale, Undercurrents: Waves Walking on the Water, Dadaepo Beach, Busan, South Korea [September 27–November 2, 2025]
  • 19th Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF), Space Heem, Busan, South Korea [September 2–26, 2025]
  • เรื่องเล่าขนาดย่อมจากเส้นทางโฮจิมินส์ถึงทุ่งหญ้าสเต็ปป์  The Shattered Worlds: Micro Narratives from the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Great Steppe: An international art exhibition to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the James H.W. Thompson Foundation, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand [3 April- 6 July 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- 25 February 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]. – reconnecting.earth (02) (Biennale de l’Art et de la Nature Urbaine) – Beyond Water, Genève, Switzerland [1 September -1 October 2023] – After Hope: Video of ResistancePeabody Essex Museum, USA, in Collaboration with 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]. – Other Possible Worlds, 16Albermarle Project Space and Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, Sydney, Australia. [June 25, – July 30 2022] – Documenta15, as part of the Sa Sa Art Project, Kassel, Germany [18 June – 25 September 2022]. – SAWANG SAWAI SIWILAI, Siwilai City Club, Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand. Curated byGallery Ver
2021 – Thailand Biennale Korat 2021, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand [December 18, 2021–March 31, 2022]. Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Seiha Kurosawa and Vipash Purichanont. The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia [4 December 2021 – 25 April 2022] Curated by Zara Stanhope/ Tarun Nagesh. – Fluidity of Senses, Lanna Architecture Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand [2 November 2021 – 28 February 2022] Curated by Kittima Chareeprasit – ERRATA1 : COLLECTING ENTANGLEMENTS AND EMBODIED HISTORIES , Maiiam Comtemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand [30 July – 2 November 2021] Curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong, Anna Catharina Gebbers, Grace Samboh and June Yap beuys radio 2021, podcast online from 12 May – September 2021, a cooperation of Beuys 2021 with the Goethe-Institut, Munich under the direction of Catherine Nichols and Marc-André Schmachtel. Water Crossers (Zomi) -Contemporary Art in the Mekong Region– (As a showcase of AURA Contemporary Art Foundation Collection), Senba Art Site Project, Osaka, Japan [July 18th-August 15th, 2021] – After Hope: Videos of Resistance, the video program under #MuseumFromHome and engage with art at a distance policy, the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA [Open from 4 March 2021]
2020 – ASEAN Street Foods: Hororok Chopchop Omulomul, Special Exhibition Gallery, ASEAN Culture House 1F, Busan South Korea [15 December 2020 to 11 April 2021] Hosted by ASEAN Culture House, The Korea Foundation. Curated by LIUSHEN – A beast, a god, and a line, Maiiam Comtemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand [14 November 2020 – April Curated by Cosmin Costinas – TERATOTERA Festival 2020 – Collective: Next-generation symbiosis, various venues around Kijichoji area, Tokyo [15-18 October 2020, but continue to keep the show online until 31 October 2020.] –  Decameron 2020 (Online Exhibition),  10 people, 10 days, 100 tales at Decameron Row, an experimental community [16 July – 27 August 2020 and continue to leave the show online]
2019 – Biennale Jogja Equator #5, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. [20 October – 30 November 2019] – Eyes East Bound -13rd Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt. [10 June – 10 August 2019] – A Short Film Program Curated by Apichatpong Weerasethakul under Rirkrit Tiravanija: who’s afraid of red yellow and green Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Ring Auditorium at 2 pmWashington DC, USA [May 17 through July 24, 2019] – Temporal Topography: MAIIAM’s New Acquisitions; from 2010 to Present แดนชั่วขณะ: ศิลปะสะสมใหม่เอี่ยมจาก พ.ศ. ๒๕๕๓ จนถึงปัจจุบัน Maiiam Contemporary Arts Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand. [30 March 2019 – 31October 2020] Curated by Kittima Chareeprasit – 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 PDR [From November 10, 2018 – 16 January 2019] Curated by Erin Gleeson *catalog12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, curated by Gridthiya Gaweewong [Fri 9 September – Sun 11 November 2018] *catalog38th EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick, Ireland, curated by Inti Guerrero [14 April – 8 July 2018] *catalogYebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, curated by Hiroko Tasaka [Friday, February 10 – Sunday, February 26 2018] *catalog
2017 Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand curated by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero [July 15 – October 31, 2017] – SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan [5 July – 23 October] *catalogOn Attachments and Unknowns, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, curated by Erin Gleeson [19 May – 19 August] – Under the Influence: Books that Inspire Artists, Asia Art Archive [booth P7 at Art Basel Hong Kong], Hong Kong [21-25 March]
2016 Public Spirits, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Meiya Cheng [22 Sep, 2016 to Jan 8, 2017] *catalogSpirit of Place, Jendela Gallery, Esplanade, Singapore, curated by Sam I-shan [Thu 14 Jul to Sun 25 Sep] *catalogHong Kong Arts Centre 4th Annual Collectors’ Contemporary Collaboration; Intimate Curiosity- Invitation to Japanese Collectors of Contemporary Art, “Shooting Stars” presents as a collection of Daisuke Miyatsu, curated by Fumio Nanjo and Roger McDonald, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong[Sat 20 Mar – Sun 10 Apr] *catalogA Touch for the Now, MONA Inner Spaces, Poland, curated by Yipei Lee [Fri 18 Mar – Sun 3 Apr] –Prudential Eye Awards Exhibition 2016, Level 3, ArtScience Museum, Singapore [Sat 16 Jan – Sun 27 Mar] *catalogSeismograph: Sensing the City – Art in the Urban Age, Southeast Asia Forum, Art Stage 2016, Singapore  *catalog
2015 Soft Power 2015, Leo Gallery (Shanghai), Shanghai, China –Open Secret, The Art Center, Office of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2014 – Unseen Existence: dialogues with Environment at the Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong *catalogWATER/ Life Line, Mekong Platform, Milan Image Art Fair, Singapore (in conjunction with the 4th Singapore International Photography Festival) Unearthed, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore- from March 20th to 7 June 2014 *catalogAnarchy Artist Alliance (AAA), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan*catalogSouth East Asia Topology, Project Fulfill art Space, Taipei, Taiwan –Here and There, The Ferry Gallery, cross Chao Praya river ferry pier (Wat Arun Pier), Bangkok, Thailand
2013 THAITAI: A measure of Understanding, an exchange and collaboration exhibition of Thai and Taiwanese artists, URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan – 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 July 13-Sep 23, Tokyo, Japan  – Riverscape In Flux, Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia –Film Program In conjunction with the exhibition “No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA *catalog – Gliding, Scrub and Squeeze at RMIT University School of Art Gallery 12-22 march and Screen Space on 7 – 23 March, Melbourne, Australia –Riverscape In Flux, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, 14 March-15 April, 2013, Manila, Philippines *catalog -Can You Hear Me?; Video works by six artists from Thailand at Numthong Gallery at Aree, Bangkok, Thailand *catalog
2012 -Can You Hear Me?; Video works by six artists from Thailand at Objecitfs Center for Photography and Film, Singapore -THAITAI: A measure of Understanding at BACC , Bangkok (2012) *catalog Art in the Ninth Reign: Thai Trends from Localism to Internationalism, Bangkok Art And Culture Centre,Bangkok, Thailand –Riverscapes IN FLUX, a Goethe Institue in Southeast Asia Project, Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi, Cactus Contemporary Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Art Gallery g23, Bangkok, SA SA BAASSAC, Phnom Penh. *catalogYebisu International Festival for Arts and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan*catalog -Art on Farm, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2011 Koganecho Bazaar 2011, Koganecho, Yokohama, Japan Siamese Connection 2011: Rediscover, Invisible Dog, New York, USA*catalog -Print Installation, Horace Mann School, New York, USA*catalog
2010 -Art On Farm, Jim Thompson Art Farm, Pakthongchai, Nakorn Rachasrima province, Thailand – Return Ticket Thailand-Germany, BACC- Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok (Curated by Dr. Axel Feuss and organized by Goethe Institute Bangkok on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Goethe Institute in Bangkok) *catalog Surface Depth, H Gallery, Bangkok(Curated by Dr. Brian Curtin) -Imagine Peace, BACC-Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok (Curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija and organized by Ministry of Culture, Thailand) *catalog -Tich Dien Festival (Tradition Cow Painting Festival), Ha Nam Province, Vietnam -Con+ent: Conten+, SMU (Singapore Management University) Arts Festival and 10th year Anniversary of SMU, Singapore*catalog
2009 The View From Elsewhere, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia(http://qag.qld.gov.au/)(curated by Kathryn Weir) *catalog The View From Elsewhere, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia (curated by Kathryn Weir) *catalog
Artist-in-residence programs Artist-in-Residenz Programme โครงการศิลปินในสถานพำนัก
2023-2024 Artist in residence in Vientiane, hosted by Elevations Laos, Vientiane, Laos PDR, [April-May, October-November 2023 and November 2024]
2021-2022 DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program , 2021 -2022, the one-year artist in residence in Berlin, Germany.
2019  – River in residence: Rimpang Nusantara x Kelana residency 2019 is part of a collaboration project between Cemeti-Institute for Art and Society and Biennale Jogja Equator #5., Pontianak – Sintang, Borneo Island, Indonesia -Artist in Residence grant and exhibition 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), Wellington City Council at Bolton Street Cottage for three months from mid September 2015.
2014 Kaundu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, NRW, Germany  – Artist in Residence at an ceramic studio in Sagamiko, Kanasawa Prefecture to prepare an exhibition After Tsunami, Embracing Japan-Thailand Tsunami Experience at Mitaka City Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan, 2013 Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Tokyo Wonder Site – Aoyama. Selected by Juries to participate an artist in residence in International Creator Residency program 2012, Japan – EOS Visiting Artist Program. Selected by Juries to stay and discuss with scientists at Earth Observatory of Singapore, An institute of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2011 – ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York – temporary residency 2 MANHATTAN, Horace Mann School and a home of Prawat Laocharoen on Great Jones Street, Noho Studio, New York, USA –Koganecho Bazaar 2011, Koganecho, Yokohama, Japan
2010 – Art on Farm, Jim Thompson Art Farm, Pakthongchai, Nakorn Rachasrima province, Thailand
2009 – Artist in Residence/ artist talk and workshop at Singapore Management University (SMU-http://www.smu.edu.sg/) August-September 2009 – Video Art workshop/ artist in residence of Theatre of the Disturbed at Alliance Francaise, Yangon, Myanmar(June 2009) http://theatreofthedisturbed2009.blogspot.com/
2007 9th International Symposium of Modern Art d. fleiss & east – west artists, August 25th to 3th September 2007, Carei, Romania – Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia http://www.meta-house.com/
2006 Lijiang Studio, Kunming and Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
2005 CONVERGENCE-International workshop, Blue world resort, Mui Ne Beach, Phan Thiet, Vietnam (3 weeks in June 2005)
2002 Alliance Françoise Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand (May 2002)
Education Ausbildung การศึกษา
2001 Postgraduate /Meisterschulerin (Master Student) in Media Arts, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany
1997 B.F.A. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Selected Grants/ fellowships/ Awards/ Nomination/ support Stipendium/ Support ทุน รางวัล การสนับสนุน การเสนอชื่อ
2024 Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2024: Som Supaparinya –Connections Through Culture Grant Programme 2023 by British Council in collaboration with a UK musician – Helen Ganya
2023 Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grants 22 for a new work and an exhibition at Art Centre Silpakorn University, Bangkok,  Thailand
2021 -Fellows of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2021-2022, the one-year artist in residence in Berlin, Germany.
2019 The Japan Foundation Asia Center Fellowship Program for Fiscal 2019 1st Round for a research “The Study of Crossing Cultures through International Relationship between Small Cities.” in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Myanmar. –Artist in Residence grant 2019, Villa Ruffieux, Château Mercier, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland.
2018 -2018 winner of a residency at theCité internationale des arts, Paris, France, supported by Institut français
2016 Prudential Eye Awards 2016, nominee shortlist in ‘Best Emerging Artist Using Digital/Video’, Singapore
2015 Wellington Asia Residency Exchange (WARE), Wellington City Council, in partnership with Asia New Zealand Foundation, Bolton Street Cottage, Wellington, New Zealand
2013 Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Artist -in-Residence grantee for a research on renewable electricity generation, NRW, Germany
2012 Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Visiting Artist Program and receive grant for new art work,Singapore Tokyo Wonder Site-Aoyama for Creator in Residence, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, cultural exchange program in USA and based in New York, USA.Working at ISCP- International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NYC.
2006 Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Ethnographic Film Production Grant, Bangkok, Thailand
Sep 2005-march 2006 Imaging Our Mekong Fellowship 2005-2006 The grant provided by The Rockefeller Foundation (Southeast Asia) and organized by Probe Media Foundation, Inc./ Inter Press Service Asia-Pacific/ The Japan Foundation.
2005 -“Omkoi District, Pa-An VillageSecond Prize: 2nd Ethnographic Film Competition 2005 from Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2000-2001 Free State Sachsen Funds (Fördermittel des Freistaates Sachsen), Germany
1999-2001 Catholic Academic Exchange Service-Scholarships (KAAD-Katholicher Akademischer Ausländer Dienst-Stipendium), Germany
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