Gridthiya Gaweewong is an independent curator and the Artistic Director of the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok whose practice addresses issues of social change experienced by artists from Thailand and beyond since the Cold War. Gaweewong also serves as a Guest Curator of the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai. Previously, she co-founded the Thailand Biennale 2023 in Chiang Rai with Rirkrit Tiravanija, as well as the alternative art space, Project 304, with Montien Boonma, Kamol Phaosavasdi, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, which operated from 1996 through 2003.
Her curatorial projects include Imagined Borders, the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018); Missing Links, Bangkok (2015); Between Utopia and Dystopia, Mexico City (2011); Unreal Asia, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen (2009); Politics of Fun, Berlin (2005); and Under Construction, Tokyo (2000–2002). Gaweewong also organized the Independent Curators International (ICI) exhibition Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity in Madness in Chiang Mai, which traveled to Manila, Hong Kong, Chicago, Oklahoma, and Taipei (2016–2020). Gaweewong is a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership, MoMA, New York. Since 2020, she has been a member of the acquisition committee for the Singapore Art Museum. She was awarded the French Ministry of Culture’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2023, and currently serves as a member of the Finding Committee for Artistic Direction of Documenta 16.
Gaweewong received a Master of Arts in Administrations and Policy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in1996 after working as an English teacher and librarian in a refugee camp in Phanat Nikhom.
