Rirkrit Tiravanija
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His work defies media-based description, as his practice combines traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action. Winner of the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum, his exhibition there consisted of a pirate radio (with instructions on how to make one for yourself). Tiravanija was also awarded the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Lucelia Artist Award.
He had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam that then was presented in Paris and London. Tiravanija is a founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective project of artists, art historians, and curators. Tiravanija is also president of an educational-ecological project known as The Land Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is part of a collective alternative space located in Bangkok, where he maintains his primary residence and studio.
Recently, Rikrit’s work was shown at Art Basel Miami Beach, November 2016: untitled 2016 (the tyranny of common sense has reached its final stage), DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY. His piece was also shown at Art Basel Hong Kong this March 2017: untitled 2009 (who is afraid of chrome, chrome and chrome), untitled 2017 (no water no fire), untitled 2013 (indexical show no. 1), untitled (do we dream under the same sky / June 25, 2016)
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija
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2009
Chew The Fat / Rirkrit Tiravanija creates spare yet provocative installations designed to blur lines between art and life, transforming galleries and museums....
2008
Gavin Brown's enterprise / Tiravanija has exhibited a number of shows at this West Village gallery, including 2008's JG Reads....
2007
Untitled 1992 (Free) / This acclaimed installation, where viewers enjoy a Thai curry cooked by the artist in a makeshift kitchen, has been re-created in the David Zwirner Gallery....
News
Several Columbia artists are featured in Common Space, an exhibition on display at Oolite Arts in Miami, Florida until January 23, 2022.
Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija is featured in five exhibits around the world this fall.
Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija will participate in Art Basel Hong Kong’s 2021 Fair. The ninth annual exhibition, which was cancelled last year because of the pandemic, will run from May 21, 2021 to May 23, 2021.
Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija, Assistant Professor Aliza Nisenbaum, Adjunct Assistant Professor Gina Beavers, Mentor Mika Rottenberg ’04 and alumnus Uri Aran ’07 appear in 100 Drawings from Now at The Drawing Center in New York.
Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija and Adjunct Assistant Professor Dan Torop have photography on show in the New York-based Carriage Trade’s show Social Photography VIII.
The Institute of Contemporary Art in London commissioned a work by Professor Rirkrit Tiravanija to be stationed permanently in the institute’s lower bar.
Four Visual Arts faculty members are featured in Venice Bienniale's 58th Annual Art Exhibition, running May 11 to November 24, 2019.
Battleship Potemkin, an exhibit curated by alumnus Rafael Domenech '19, runs June 28 – August 24, 2019 at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami, Florida.
