Gridthiya Gaweewong, born in 1964 in Chiang Rai and raised in Chiang Mai, is the Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok. 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. Gaweewong curated Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness,(2016-2019) which was initiated by ICI 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, Gaweewong 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; 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.
Gaweewong has served on the acquisition committee for the Singapore Art Museum since 2020. Currently she also serves as the advisor for the National Art Gallery, Ministry of Culture, Bangkok. She received the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2023 and the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence in 2025.
