Ariana Chaivaranon is a Thai-born artist and curator based at in-tangible institute, Chiang Mai. She has worked full-time for five years in art museum departments of Interpretation, Research, Curatorial, and Education to cultivate transformative connections between the public and globally renowned art displays (including the U.S. National Gallery of Art, the Beijing Palace Museum, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, and The Frick Collection). Concurrently, she was Vice President of the Board of the nonprofit artist-run Plug Gallery, a member of Asia Art Archive in America’s 2020-2021 Leadership Camp “Other Racisms,” and 2022 awardee of the ASEAN-China Young Leaders Scholarship.
In 2023, she moved back to Thailand to focus on developing curatorial and artistic practices in this region and to understand how artists work without infrastructure. Her publications on Thai contemporary art appear in Art & Market, MoMA Post (NY), Southeast of Now NUS (Singapore), and Di’van Journal UNSW (Sydney). Her recent writing examines how Thai contemporary artists deploy historically potent symbols to re-image democracy, monarchy, and Buddhism and propose alternative futures for the country.
Her artwork (painting, printmaking, sculpture) has been exhibited in venues including Cartel Artspace (Bangkok), H&R Block Artspace (Kansas City), Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Venice), and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge). She holds a B.A. from Harvard University in Art, Film, and Visual Studies and Art History, as well as an M.A. in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, Schwarzman College.
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