b. Waterford, Ireland, 1969.
EDUCATION
2020 PGCEi, University of Nottingham, UK.
2001 Ph.D. (Fine Art), University of Bristol, UK.
1993 M.A. (Fine Art), University of Ulster at Belfast, Ireland.
1991 Diploma (Fine Art), Crawford College of Art and Design, Ireland.
1990 Department of Fine Art, Newcastle Polytechnic, UK.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006+ Lecturer, BFA and MFA in Communication Design, Faculty of Architecture,
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
2011-18 Founder and Director, H Project Space, Thailand.
2017 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Communications Design, Shieh Chien
University, Taiwan.
2017+ External Examiner, MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE College of the Arts,
Singapore.
2010-13 Art Critic, Bangkok Post.
2010 MFA Tutor, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, US.
2009+ External Examiner, MFA Visual Communication, King Mongkut’s
University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.
2007+ Independent curator of contemporary art.
2005+ Contributing editor/contributor to the magazines Art Asia Pacific, Art iT,
Artforum, Art Review Asia, Circa, Contemporary, Flash Art, Frieze, amongst
others.
2000+ Various teaching posts.
TEACHING Histories of Art. Critical Theories of Representation. Research Methods. Art and Design Studio.
SELECTED PANELS & WORKSHOPS
2024 ‘‘Queer Photography’ Now,’ Annual Conference of Association for Art History,
University of Bristol.
2022 ‘Mediations of Queerness: Sexual and Gender Diversity and the Surpassing of
Thai Heteronormativity,’ 14th International Conference on Thai Studies, @Kyoto
University.
2021 ‘Bodies of Occupation: In Conversation with Nontawat Numbenchapol and May
Adadol Ingawanij,’ Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia (COTCA),
@University of Nottingham.
‘Queering/Transing Indigeneity,’ Queer Asia as Method: Roundtable and
Townhall, @Kings College London.
‘Escapetopia,’ Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB 2020), Bangkok Art and Culture
Centre, Thailand.
2020 ‘Queer Research,’ Spectrosynthesis II-Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in
Southeast Asia, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand.
2018 ‘Research Methods,’ Uncommon Pursuits: A Temporary School for Emergent
Curators in Southeast Asia, Sàn Art, Vietnam.
‘Sate of Affairs,’ Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting, Roxas City,
Philippines.
2017 ‘Art Coaching,’ EARLY YEARS PROJECT #1, Bangkok Art and Culture Center,
Thailand.
‘Philippines and Thailand,’ National Imaginations in Southeast Asian Art, Yusof
Ishak Institute, Singapore.
‘Teleology,’ Modernity’s Other: Southeast Asia Architecture Research
Collaborative, National University of Singapore.
2016 ‘Engaging with People-Centered Processes: The Perspectives of Art
Historians,’ Art, Education and Cross-Sector Collaboration, ASIA Center,
Thailand.
‘Trash: From the Margins to the Canvas,’ Queer Asia 2016, School of Oriental
and African Studies, University College London.
2015 ‘Bangkok and Phnom Penh: The Art of Cities, Un-Compared,’ Art News Talk
Series, Art Stage, Singapore.
‘Hookup #1: Professional Speed-Dating for Artists,’ Art Stage, Singapore.
‘Subjection and Subversion: Rethinking Antagonisms in Thai History, Literature
and Society,’ SEASIA 2015, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University,
Japan.
‘Don’t Tell Me You Love Me: How to Submit Professionally to a Curator or Art
Dealer,’ Autopilot Project, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand.
‘Art and Society in Southeast Asia,’ SEA Studies Symposium/Project South East
Asia, (University of Oxford), Sunway University, Malaysia.
2014 ‘Writing Southeast Asian Art History,’ Concept, Context, Contestation,
Symposium, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand.
2011 Asian Modernities, The Reading Room, Bangkok, Thailand.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023 ‘After Spectrosynthesis: Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now?,’ Contemporary Queer
Chinese Art, eds. Hongwei Bao et. al., London: Bloomsbury.
2022 Contributor, SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia, eds. Ute Meta Bauer,
Karin Oen, Boon Hui Tan, Berlin and New York: Weiss Publications.
2021 Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand, London: Reaktion Books.
‘Between Art and Politics: A Report from Bangkok,’ Check-In, Singapore: Art and
Market Publications.
2020 ‘Report from Bangkok: Biennials in Crisis,’ Frieze, November.
2019 ‘Kamonlak Sukchai,’ Foam: International Photography Magazine, #15.
2018 ‘Queer Theory,’ International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, ed. Hilary Callan,
New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
2016 ‘Sense of Identity: Craft, Decoration and Queer Challenges in the Art of Jakkai
Siributr,’ Craft Research, 7:1.
‘Contemporary Art Scene in Thailand,’ A.M. Post, May.
2015 Introduction, The Space Between Us: Ohm Phanphiroj, Berlin: Bruno Gmünder
GmbH.
‘Contemporary Art in Thailand: An Introductory Genealogy,’ Thailand: Projects
and Art Guide, Run and Learn 2015, Southeast Asia: The Japan Foundation.
2014 ‘Roundtables (Cambodia): The Body, The Lens, The City,’ Art Radar Asia, April.
2013 ‘Imaging Atrocity,’ Vann Nath Tribute, Phnom Penh: Friends of Vann Nath.
2012 ‘Olivier Pin-Fat,’ MONO Volume One, London: Gomma Books Ltd.
Artists’ Profiles, Bastards of Misrepresentation: New York Edition, exh. cat., New
York: Topaz Arts.
‘Of Photography,’ 11:11: Piyatat Hemmatat, Bangkok: RMA Institute.
‘Khvay Samnang’, Public Journal 45: Civic Spectacle, Spring.
2011 ‘Manuel Ocampo: On the Threshold of the Senses,’ C-Arts, March.
2010 ‘Contemporary Art and Artists,’ The Best of Chiang Rai: Gateway to the Greater
Mekong, Chiang Rai: Knowledge Media Group Ltd.
‘The World at Play: Natee Utarit,’ Beacons of Archipelago: Contemporary Art from
Southeast Asia, exh. cat., Seoul: Arario Gallery.
‘Against Appearances,’ Rupture: Cause and Effect, exh. cat., Bangkok: Bangkok
Art and Culture Center.
2009 ‘Thailand,’ The International Art Markets, ed. James Goodwin, London and
Philadelphia: Kogan Page.
‘Letter from Bangkok,’ Circa, 127.
2008 Editor, ‘Art and AIDS: The Early Years,’ More to Love: The Art of Living Together,
Barcelona: ARTAIDS.
‘Pushpamala N,’ Art iT, Spring-Summer.
‘That Spectacular Object of Desire: On Paul Pfeiffer,’ Contemporary, 95.
‘The Architecture of Memory,’ In My Mother’s Footsteps: Yishay Garbasz, exh.
cat., Chiang Mai: Chiang Mai University Art Museum.
‘Asimulasian? Thoughts on the National and the Contemporary,’ Contemporary
Art Studio, Beijing: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House.
2007 ‘Semiotics and Visual Representation,’ The Academic Journal of the Faculty of
Architecture of Chulalongkorn University, vol. 01-2551.
‘The Bitch is Back: An Interview with Kathe Burkhart,’ Art Signal, 1.
‘Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: Matters of Life and Death,’ Art Asia Pacific, May-
June.
‘The New Internationalism: An Interview with Pen-ek Ratanaruang,’
Contemporary, 90.
‘Maps without Territories’, So Close/So Far Away, exh. cat., France: Crac Alsace
Art Center.
2006 ‘Eat the Moment: An Interview with Rirkrit Tiravanija,’ Art.es, 16.
‘Back to the Beach: Post-tsunami Sculpture Projects in Southern Thailand,’
Art4D, February.
Response to the Armory Show catalogue, Outsourced Critics and Critical
Conversations in a Limo, New York: AC Institute.
2005 ‘Phuket a Year Later,’ Flash Art, November/December.
‘Eye-Spy: An Interview with Rattawut Lapcharoensap,’ Metro, September.
2000+ Review articles in Art Journal, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies
in Culture and Politics, Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies,
Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, InVisible Culture:
An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Journal of Curatorial Studies, New
Mandala, Parachute, Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies,
South East Asia Research, Visual Artists’ News Sheet.
‘Art History,’ ‘Photography: Overview,’ Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay
Studies, ed. Timothy F. Murphy, Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn
Publishers.
SELECTED CURATORIAL WORK
2023-24 Curatorial team, Bangkok Art Biennale 2024: Nurture Gaia.
2022 Decorative Despair, Lars Breuer, Bangkok: Cartel Artspace, August-October.
2018 Time Less Held: Artists Revisiting the Overlooked, Bangkok: Tadu Contemporary
Art, August-September.
2016 Future’s Ruins: The Southeast Asia Movie Theatre Project, An Installation,
Bangkok: H Project Space, January-June.
2014-15 Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom
Penh: A Six Month Project of Exhibitions, Residencies, Gatherings and Symposia,
various venues, July-January, co-curated with Roger Nelson.
2014 Possession (II), UK: Lanchester Gallery, March-April, co-curated with Prof. Steve
Dutton.
RADIATION: Art and Queer Ideas from Bangkok and Manila, Un-Compared,
Bangkok: Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, February-April.
2013 Possession (I), Bangkok: Bangkok Art and Culture Center, March-May, co-
curated with Prof. Steve Dutton.
Gentle Matter, Singapore: Richard Koh Fine Art, January-February.
In Spite of Order: Sopheap Pich, Bangkok: H Gallery, December 2012 –January.
2012 RADIATION: Art and Queer Ideas from Bangkok and Manila, Un-Compared,
Manila: DAGC Gallery, November-December.
Intimately: An Exhibition of Photography, Bangkok: H Gallery, August.
On the Threshold of the Senses: New Art from Southeast Asia, New York: Tally
Beck Contemporary, March-April.
2011 Southeast Asia Pavilion, Chongqing Youth Biennale, Chongqing, China, October-
November.
Songs of the City: Michael Lee and Olivier Pin-Fat, Bangkok: H Gallery, October-
November.
More or Less Queer, Bangkok: No Space, March.
2010 On the Edge: 8 Artists Curated by Brian Curtin, Bangkok: Ardel Gallery, June-July.
Unspeaking Engagements, Coventry, UK: Lanchester Gallery Projects, February-
March, co-curated with Prof. Steve Dutton.
2009 Dreaming in Public, Bangkok: Gallery Soulflower, May-July.
2008 The Ethics of Encounter, Bangkok: Gallery Soulflower, August-September, co-
curated with Dr. Pandit Chanrochanakit.
From Surface to Origin: Journeys through Recent Art from India and Thailand,
Bangkok: Gallery Souflower, March-April.
2007 Prana: Art, Light, Space, Bangkok: Art Center of Chulalongkorn University, August-
September.
GRANTS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2023+ Advisory Board, Oyster: Feminist and Queer Approaches to Arts, Cultures and
Genders, De Gruyter Publishers.
2022 ‘Archive Project Editor’ Award, Circa Art Magazine.
2021-25 International Advisory Committee, The First Homosexuals, curated by
Jonathan D. Katz, Alphawood Foundation, Chicago.
2020+ Peer Reviewer, Burlington Contemporary, Cornell University Press, Journal of
Urban Culture Research, Manusya: Journal of Humanities, Third Text.
Recommender, After Hope program, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2018 Coordinator, Uncommon Pursuits: A Temporary School for Emergent Curators in
Southeast Asia, Sàn Art, Vietnam.
2016+ Nominator, Sovereign Art Prize, Hong Kong.
Nominator, Prix Pictet: The Global Award in Photography and Sustainability,
France.
2015 International Visitors Programme, Dusseldorf Photo Weekend.
2014 Jump Mentorship Award, Australia Council for the Arts, with Roger Nelson.
Grant Award, Arts Council England, with Steve Dutton.
2013 Grant Award, Arts Council England, with Steve Dutton.
2012 Selected Curator, 100 Curators/100 Days, Saatchi Online.
Panel Judge, Google Photography Prize, London: Saatchi Gallery.
2010 Grant Award, Arts Council England, with Steve Dutton
2007 Writer-in-Residence, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing.
2006 Writer-in-Residence, Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia.