Gridthiya Gaweewong, born in 1964 in Chiang Rai and raised in Chiang Mai, holds a Master of Arts in Art Administration and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Doctorate in Fine and Applied Arts from Chulalongkorn University.
She co-founded Project 304, an alternative art space in Bangkok, from 1996 to 2002, and has curated numerous exhibitions addressing social transformation since the Cold War. Notable projects include "Under Construction" at Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo (2002) and "Politics of Fun", HKW in Berlin (2005), collaborating with various regional curators. Gridthiya curated Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "The Serenity of Madness,(2016-2019)" which initiated by ICI, NY and toured internationally, Kader Attia’s “The Urgency of Existence”(2024) at Jim Thompson Art Center and participated in the 12th Gwangju Biennale's curatorial team in 2018. In 2023, she co-directed the Open World international exhibition, at the 3rd Thailand Biennale. Recently,she co-curated The Shattered Worlds: Micro Narrative from Ho Chi Mnh Trail to the Great Steppe, at Bangkok Art and Culture Center and Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok and Almagul Menlibayaeva’s retrospective, “I Understand Everything”, Almaty Museum of Art, Almaty, and “Living in Elastic Time,” Thai pavilion, Cheongju Craft Biennale, South Korea in 2025. A 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership at MoMA, she has served on the acquisition committee for the Singapore Art Museum since 2020. Gridthiya received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2023 and the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence in 2025, and she currently works as the Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok.
