Pojai Akratanakul, based in Bangkok, is a curator and researcher. She is a Curatorial Section Lead at Bangkok Art Biennale and is Assistant Curator for Bangkok Art Biennale 2020 "Escape Routes" and Bangkok Art Biennale 2022 "CHAOS : CALM". Her independent curatorial experience include 'Footnotes on Institution' at Gallery VER (2019) and 'Almost Nature' (2019). Pojai is also a member of a collective Charoen Contemporaries, with whom she curated 'PostScripts', Praisaneeyakarn; 'Louie: Attitude Against Failure', Cartel Art Space; and co-juried 'Early Years Project: Praxis Makes Perfect', Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).
In previous roles, she has managed and acquired works for the Petch Osathanugrah Collection and worked as the Project Director for the collector’s museum-in-planning. She has been working in the fields of exhibitions, publications, and public programs for non-profit institutions including Bangkok University Gallery, BACC, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, where she assisted in producing shows such as Mon Art du Style (2017); Operation Bangkok (2014) with Roslisham Ismail; Concept Context Contestation: art and the collectives in SEA (2013). She has been a frequent guest lecturer at Chulalongkorn University and Silpakorn University, among others.
Pojai holds an MA in Visual Arts Administration with Non- profit Management and Curatorial concentration from New York University. Between 2014-2016, Pojai lived in New York and interned at ICI, the SculptureCenter, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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