Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook is an artist, writer, professor, and one of Southeast Asia’s most respected contemporary practitioners. She has been exhibiting internationally for 45 years, including at documenta, the Carnegie International, and biennales in Venice, Johannesburg, Sydney, Istanbul, Bangkok, Jakarta, Gwangju, Singapore, and beyond. 

Her works are held in collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; M+, Hong Kong; and major museums in Singapore, Australia, Japan, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, Thailand, and beyond. Important smaller surveys of her work have been presented at SculptureCenter, New York (2015) and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (2014). 

Araya has also played a major role in innovating arts education in Thailand, where she established the country’s first interdisciplinary art school curricula at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University. At her home and studio in Chiang Mai, she cares for dozens of stray dogs, who often appear in her artworks.

Pieta, 2014Pieta, 2014 remade 2025
Digital painting printed on canvas
40 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist

Lai Lee Ya, 2015Lai Lee Ya, 2015
Two-channel video, sound
12 min
Courtesy of the artist

Dinner With Cancer (rebirth), 1993 2025Dinner with Cancer (Rebirth), 1993/2025
Medical equipment, steel and glass frame, bed, light bulb, Chinese ink, powder color, oil
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist

Writing Has Begun Now, 1992

Writing has Begun Now, 1992
Tempera sand on wood
185 x 182 cm
Collection of Rat Osathanugrah