• "Artist Korakrit Arunanondchai on community, duality in his art, and why he sets his work on fire—literally"
  by Aaina Bhargava, Tatler, 2023

• "Korakrit Arunanondchai's Spiritual-Materials Ecosystems"
  by Stefanie Hessler, Flash Art, 2022

• "Korakrit Arunanondchai in conversation with Alex Quicho"
  The White Review, 2021

• "Meet the Artist: Korakrit Arunanondchai"
  ArtBasel, 2020

• "Korakrit Arunanondchai in conversation with Martha Kirszenbaum"
  BOMB, 2019

• "Korakrit Arunanondchai: Ghost and the Machine"
  Feature by Adriana Blidaru, Interview with Andrea Lissoni, Kaleidoscope, 2018

• "Korakrit Arunanondchai: The Denim Painter's Universe"
  by Robin Peckham, Leap, 2015

• Korakrit Arunanondchai: No History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 5
  Published on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, 2020
• Korakrit Arunanondchai
  Published on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Secession, Vienna
  Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2019
• Korakrit Arunanondchai
  With texts by Letizia Ragaglia, Flora Katz, Carol Yinghua Lu, James Leary
  Kaleidoscope, Milan, 2016

b. 1986, Bangkok, Thailand
Lives and works in New York and Bangkok

2012, MA Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York
2012, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
2009, BA Fine Arts Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2026
The Ghost takes us by the hand, with Tosh Basco, Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), New York

2025
The Blood of the Earth, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

2024
Sing Dance Cry Breathe | as their world collides on to the screen, Museum MACAN (Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara), Jakarta
nostalgia for unity, Bangkok Kunsthalle, Bangkok
Mas palavras fazem mundos, Solar dos Abacaxis, Rio de Janeiro

2023
K11 Collection Show: Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
No History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 5, The Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), Belfast
Painting, Prayer, Text, C L E A R I N G, Los Angeles

2022
Image, Symbol, Prayer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
The Finiteness of Our Songs Against the Infinity of Time and Space, National Gallery, Prague
From dying to living, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
PRAY, with Alex Gvojic, Canal Projects, New York
Songs for dying/Songs for living, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Together: a Ghost Cinema Performance, with Alex Gvojic & Tosh Basco, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
Songs for living, with Alex Gvojic, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
PRAY (Songs for living in a room filled with people with funny names), with Alex Gvojic, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok
A Machine Boosting Energy Into the Universe, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

2021
Songs for dying / Songs for living, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Songs for dying / Songs for living, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
3 SONGS, C L E A R I N G, New York
Songs for Dying, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway

2020
Days after the reverie (a prelude), C L E A R I N G, New York
No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, Museu Serralves, Porto

2019
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Secession, Vienna
Painting with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 3, K11, Hong Kong
with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, Gallery Share: Carlos/Ishikawa hosted by Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo
No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, in collaboration with Alex Gvojic (with Tosh Basco), Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok
with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, Kaleidoscope Spazio Maiocchi, Milan

2018
No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, J1, Marseille
A workshop for peace: nowhere to go: let the song hold us: in a room filled with people with funny names 4, C L E A R I N G, Brussels

2017
with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, C L E A R I N G, New York

2016
PAINTING WITH HISTORY IN A ROOM FILLED WITH MEN WITH FUNNY NAMES 1, C L E A R I N G, New York
Painting with history 3 or two thousand five hundred and fifty nine years to figure stuff out, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
2012-2555, 2556, 2557, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok
Gift Korakrit Arunanondchai | Letters to Chantri #1, S.M.A.K., Ghent
Korakrit Arunanondchai, organised by Franklin Melendez, Lodos Gallery, Mexico City

2015
2558, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing
Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2014
The Last 3 Years and the Future (with Tosh Basco and AJGvojic), ICA Off-Site, Old Selfridges Hotel, London (performance)
2012-2555, 2556, Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names and the Future (with Tosh Basco, AJGvojic and Harry Bornstein), Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (performance)
2557 (Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names 2) (with Korapat Arunanondchai), Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Letters to Chantri #1: The lady at the door/The gift that keeps on giving (in collaboration with Tosh Basco), The Mistake Room, Los Angeles
Korakrit Arunanondchai, MoMA PS1, New York

2013
Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names 2 (with Korapat Arunanondchai) (Phrase I), Bill Brady KC Gallery, Kansas City
Muen Kuey (It’s always the same), C L E A R I N G, Brussels
Painting with history in a room filled with men with funny names, C L E A R I N G, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects

2026
Sonsbeek 2026: Memory as Living Action, Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands (forthcoming)
A Dream in Four Colours, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki

2025
Dis/orient: Contemporary Art of the Asian Diaspora, Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina
14th Taipei Biennial: Whispers on the Horizon, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
New Asian Art, The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Parkes, Canberra, Australia
36th Bienal de São Paulo: Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, São Paulo
fantasmagoria, Casa Zalszupin, São Paulo
The Sea Into Dresses That Dissolve Like Salt, Leros Project, Perasma, Leros, Greece
12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Affinities, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok
Moving on Asia, Loop Lab Busan, Goeun Museum of Photography, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
TONO Festival 2025, Mexico City, Mexico & Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM), Lisbon
Ditto and Veto, Heredium, Daejeon, South Korea

2024
Liquidscape: Southeast Asia Today, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Manifesta 15: Balancing Conflicts, Cure and Care and Imagining Futures, Barcelona
Spirit House, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Visaraloka Exhibition, Indonesia Bertutur at Museum Puri Lukisan, Bali
Together: Collaborative Art Practices, S.M.A.K., Ghent

2023
Thailand Biennale: The Open World, Chiang Rai
Horizons: Is there anybody out there?, Antenna Space, Shanghai
Connecting, Kanal Pompidou Centre, Brussels
Meaning, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
Humane Ecology: Eight Positions, The Clark, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Art Encounters Biennial: My Rhino is not a Myth, Timisoara, Romania
Au-delà: Rituals for a new world, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris

2022
Ultra Unreal, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Copenhagen – Red Light Green Light: Intimacy, desire and tension (In the Realm of the Senses), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Mountain/Time, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
Kaleidoscope: Manifesto, Espace Niemeyer, Paris
Let The Song Hold Us, FACT, Liverpool
Sweet Lust, White Cube, Paris
Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Kathmandu, Nepal

2021
Nation, Narration, Narcosis, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
The Endless Garment, X Museum, Beijing
Trauma and Care, Bangkok CityCity Gallery, Bangkok
On the Level or The Man Who Fell Out of Bed, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna
Often vary never change, C L E A R I N G, New York
Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2021, Brussels
The 13th Gwangju Biennale: Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju, China

2020
Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich
Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Solastalgia—Wild Tales, curated by Filipa Ramos, Art Basel Online Screening
7th Biennale Gherdëina: – a breath? a name? – the ways of worldmaking, Ortisei, Val Gardena, Urtijëi, Italy
The Yokohama Triennale 2020: Not an end, an Afterglow, Yokohama, Japan
Life Still, C L E A R I N G, New York
The Secret Life of Lobsters, C L E A R I N G, Cwart, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong
The Dhaka Art Summit 2020: Seismic Movements, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2019
Singapore Biennial 2019: Every Step in the Right Direction, Singapore
Performa 19 Biennial, New York
Asian Art Biennial: The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea, Taichung, Taiwan
Transformer, 180 The Strand / The Vinyl Factory, London
Don’t Touch Me: Acts of Faith, curated by Precious Okoyomon & Quinn Harrelson, Robert Grunenberg Gallery, Berlin
16th Istanbul Biennial: The Seventh Continent, Istanbul
Whitney Biennial 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Venice
Future Generation Art Prize 2019, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine

2018
6th Athens Biennale 2018: ANTI, Athens
Robot Love, Campina Milk Factory, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Absurdity in Paradise, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
Baltic Triennial XIII: Give Up the Ghost, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Biennal of Moving Images 2018: The Sound of Screens Imploding, curated by Andrea Bellini and Andrea Lissoni, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Switzerland

2017
SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, The National Art Center & Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Mode of Liaisons, Bangkok Art and Cultural Center, Bangkok
Paratoxic Paradoxes, Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annexe, Athens

2016
iwillmedievalfutureyou5, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
9th Berlin Biennale: There’s a word I’m trying to remember, for a feeling I’m about to have (a distracted path toward extinction), Berlin
20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia
9th SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul: NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, Seoul
Fritto Misto, C L E A R I N G, New York
Emotional Supply Chains, Zabludowicz Collection, London
The Fire is Gone But We Have The Light, with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York

2015
The Extreme Present, curated by Jeffery Deitch, The Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut

2014
Beware Wet Paint, ICA, London, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin

2013
High Desert Test Site 2013, Joshua Tree, California
Digital Expressionism, Suzanne Geiss Gallery, New York
Memonikos, Jim Thompson House, Bangkok
Double Life, SculptureCenter, New York

Selected Curatorial Projects

2025
Ghost:2568 – Wish We Were Here, Bangkok, Founder (Ghost Foundation) and Co-curator

2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Film Programme Guest Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2022
Ghost:2565 – Live Without Dead Time, Bangkok, Founder (Ghost Foundation)

2018
Ghost:2561, Bangkok, Founder (Ghost Foundation) and Curator

Selected Film Festivals & Screenings

2025, Moving on Asia, Loop Lab Busan, Busan Cinema Centre, South Korea
2025, Luxembourg City Film Festival in collaboration with MUDAM (Modern Art Museum of Luxembourg), Luxembourg
2024, Entre les 2 rives, le regard de la Tempête, TANDEM, Douai, France
2024, Space-Body Entanglement: Thai artists' video, Pyramid Club, Wellington, New Zealand
2023, Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart
2022, KFFK / Short Film Festival, Cologne
2022, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, Canada
2022, Transfigured Boundaries, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City
2022, Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart
2021, Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival in Zurich, Switzerland
2021, Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow
2020, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
2020, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Rotterdam
2019, 48th edition of Montréal Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), Montreal
2019, Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Recipient of the “Coming World” Garage Museum Prize
2019, Sheffield Doc Fest, Sheffield
2017, Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival, Golden Horseman Short Fiction Film International Competition Winner, Dresden
2016, Painting with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 3, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)

Selected Residencies and Awards

2026 New Museum Artist Residency, New York (forthcoming)
2025 Circa Prize, London, Finalist
2025 Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Residency, Troy, New York
2024 Art Explora Residency, Paris
2020 Bellas Artes Residency, Batan, Philippines
2019 NOWNESS Award for breakthrough cultural excellence in film and video art, honouree
2019 Future Generation Art Prize, shortlisted artist
2013 Recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant

Selected Public Collections

Aishti Foundation, Beirut
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Han Nefkens Foundation, Barcelona
K11, Hong Kong/Shanghai/Beijing
Kiasma, Helsinki
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Museion, Bolzano
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC) Ministry of Culture, Bangkok
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
S.M.A.K., Ghent
Qiao Collection, Shanghai
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Tate, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London