APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) studied at Khon Kaen University in Thailand and holds a master of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; he currently lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Working in both feature-length and short forms, Apichatpong plays with various narrative devices and nonlinear structures in his profoundly expressive, lyrical films, which are produced in his native Thailand through his company Kick the Machine.
Apichatpong received the inaugural Fine Prize from the 55th Carnegie International in 2008, the Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres from the French government in 2008, and the Silpatorn Award from the Thai Ministry of Culture in 2005. His feature films have won two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival - the Prix un certain regard (2003) and the Prix du jury (2004) - while his Syndromes and a Century was the first Thai film to be selected for the Venice Film Festival, where it premiered in 2006 at the 63rd festival.SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
AND SCREENINGS
- Primitive, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC (2009-10)
- Phantoms of Nabua, The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2009)
- Primitive, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2009)
- Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2008-09)
- Space for Your Future: Recombining the DNA of Art and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2007-08)
- Discovering the Other, National Palace Museum, Taipei (2007)
- Unknown Forces, REDCAT, Los Angeles (2007)
- Fourth Liverpool Biennial (2006)
- Grey Flags, SculptureCenter, Long Island City (2006)
- Waterfall, Solar Gallery, 14th Vila do Conde Shorts, Portugal (2006)
- La force de l’art, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (2006)
- First Turin Triennial (2005)
- Ghost of Asia, Ninth Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania (2005)
- Ghost of Asia, 11th Biennial of the Moving Image, Centre pour l’image contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Geneva (2005)
- Ghost of Asia and Politics of Fun, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2005)
- Slow Rushes, Artspace, Auckland (2005)
- KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brussels (2005)
- Fourth Taipei Biennial (2004-05)
- Sixth Busan Biennale, South Korea (2004)
- MixMax, Artsonje Center, Seoul (2004)
- Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2002-03)
- Fourth Kwangju Biennale, South Korea (2002)
- Seventh International Istanbul Biennial (2001)
- First Tirana Biennale, Albania (2001)
