Artist

Chitti Kasemkitvatana

Chitti Kasemkitvatana is an artist and a curator who lives in Bangkok. In the early nineties he studied at Prahran TAFE and RMIT University in Melbourne where he met Aleks Danko, his teacher and a senior Australian figure who is contributing to the exhibition. He has a longstanding interest in the relationship between actions and installations and the transmission of ideas across networks. Through his involvement with independent projects, About Studio/About Café as Curator (1997-9) and Messy Sky as Co-founder and Co-editor (2011-15), he has made a significant contribution to the Thai art community. He is now Curator in Residence with Mrigadayavan Palace, Cha-am, an important heritage site. A recipient of a DAAD residency in Berlin in 2014, he has recently been included in group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris; FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; and Silpakorn University, Bangkok.