Pojai Akratanakul is a curator based in Bangkok, Thailand, and appointed curator for Bangkok Art Biennale 2024: Nurture Gaia. She works full-time as the Curatorial Section Lead at Bangkok Art Biennale and was Assistant Curator for the 2020 and 2022 editions.
Prior to joining Bangkok Art Biennale, Akratanakul had experience working in exhibitions, public programs, and publications, in Bangkok and New York, including at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok University Gallery, and Independent Curators International (ICI), as well as managing the Petch Osathanugrah Collection and his private museum project.
Akratanakul holds an MA in Visual Arts Administration in Curatorial Concentration and Non-profit Management from New York University, with internships at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and SculptureCenter.
She was an alumna of ICI’s Curatorial Intensive Bangkok (2018). Her research interests include the history and the study of different models of art institutions in Thailand, and the development of the artist career. Selected independent curatorial experience includes Area 721,346 and Footnotes on Institution at Gallery VER (2023, 2019) and Almost Nature at 3RD Fl alternative space (2019). She is also a member of collective Charoen Contemporaries, with whom she curated exhibitions PostScripts, a site-responsive and public art exhibition at Thailand’s first and historical post office Praisaneeyakarn (2018), and co-juried and co-curated Early Years Project 4: Praxis Makes Perfect at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2019).
Akratanakul was a guest lecturer on curatorial studies, art history, and subjects in contemporary art at Chulalongkorn University, Silpakorn University, Bangkok University, and King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang.
