jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
ARTISTS / CURATORS
Co-founders of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture, a nonprofit artist-run initiative in Nongpo District, Ratchaburi, Thailand
Address: 162 Moo2, Nongpo, Potharam, Ratchaburi 70120 Thailand
Email: [email protected]
Baan Noorg Website: www.baannoorg.org, https://www.facebook.com/baannoorg/, https://plus.google.com/+BaanNoorgCollaboratory
Pornpilai Meemalai (Born in Chiang Mai, 1968), Jiradej Meemalai (Born in Ratchaburi, 1969)
EDUCATION
2004 (Jiradej) MFA, Sculpture, Department of Applied Art, Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
1998 (Pornpilai) MA, School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Portrait [Archives of Dialogue: Seeing and Being], Gallery Seescape, (September – October)
2017 The Ontology of Gold: Magic Mountains, Cartel Artspace, Bangkok, (June – July)
2012 AIR Overlapping, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan (May, 4 – June 17) 2010 Too Close to Seeexhibition, Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, CA
2009 Relations are More Real and More Important than the Things They Relate. Ardel Gallery of Modern Art, Bangkok, Thailand
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Documenta 15, as artistic team and project members of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture, Kassel, Germany
2021 Jakarta Biennale, as project members of Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture with Ekstak Kolektif, Jakarta, Indonesia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Trans-southeast Asia triennial, Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture with jiandyin, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (Oct – Dec 2021)
Busan Sea Art Festival 2021, Busan, South Korea
2020 The 2020 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival, If on the Margin, Draw a Coordinate project, curated by Sandy Lo Hsiu Chih, Green Island White Terror Memorial Park, Taiwan (March – April 2020)
2019 2019 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, co-curated by Hsu Chia Wei and HO Tzu Nyen (Oct 2019 – Febraury 2020)
2018 Thailand Biennale, Krabi 2018, The Edge of the Wonderland, Thailand
2018 Kuandu Biennale [Seven Questions for Asia], Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (October 2018–January 2019)
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2020 Longtruk Grant for the Art project 2020, a project by Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture in collaboration with Art Centre Silpakorn University, Jitr Collective, Black Out Collective, funded by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand
2018 Local Agents project, granted by Ratchaburi Provincial Culture Office and Mobility First! – ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative 2018
2015-6 365 Days: LIFE MUSE project, granted Japan Foundation Small Grant Program, Bangkok Thailand and Art Centre Silpakorn University
2015 Provincial Cultural Contribution Award, Cultural Awareness of Institution Category, Ministry of Culture, 2015
2012 ThaiTai : A Measure of Understanding project, granted by Asian Cultural Council Council grant for 2009 Asian Cultural CouncilFellowship Awards, New York
2008 Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant, Silpakorn University, Thailand
RESIDENCIES
2013 Civitella Ranieri, Umbria, Italy Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany
2012 Treasure Hill Artist Village (THAV) of AIR Taipei, The Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, USA International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2008 Art Omi International artists’ residency, Art Omi International art Center Ghent, New York, USA
Curatorial projects:
2018 Local Agents (Model Study for Nongpho Community) project, Nongpho district, Ratchaburi, Thailand, December, supported by Ratchaburi Provincial Culture Office and Mobility First! – ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative 2018
Thaitai Re-conversation: based on true story, co-curated and co-organized with Open Contemporary Art Center (Taipei), , About Photography space, Bangkok, Thailand, Sep 2018
Bangkok Layers – Topography of Mirror Cities project, a project by Sandy Lo, a mapping of the development of the urban planning of each city within six Asian Cities, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, 4 – 22 April
2015-2016 365 days: LIFE MUSE, day OFF LABoratory #2, a one year interdisciplinary and collaborative art
project organized by Baan Noorg Colaborative Arts and Culture in collaboration with Art Centre Silpakorn University, cooperated by 98B Collaboratory, Philippines, Waft Lab, Indonesia and Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan
2011-2014 THAITAI : A Measure of Understanding, Contemporary art exhibition, co-curated and co-organized with
Open Contemporary Art Center (Taipei), Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok and URS21, Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei
Workshops/Symposiums/Conference
2019 Asian Curatorial Forum 2019, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, organized by National Culture & Arts Foundation (Taiwan), Prameya Art Foundation (India), 7th–9th November
2018 Southeast Asian Art Residencies Meeting 2018, 20-22 April 2018 | Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines, organized by Viva Excon
2017- Baan Noorg – NPKD Social Enterprise project for Nongpo community, Ratchaburi, supported by Thai Health Organization, Thailand
2016 Master Class for MFA students, Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan, University of Art, Taiwan September 16-28, 2016
The International Symposium : “Non-capital Cities as a Cultural Movement” organized by Asian Culture Center, Chiang Mai, 27 – 28 August 2016
2015 Tou Cheng Old Street Art and Culture project, Yilan, Taiwan, August 12-18, 2015
2014 MITTing: Art and Cultural Network Forum, February 8-10, 2014, URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei, Organized by OCAC and jiandyin
Thaitai workshop for Taipei National University of the Arts, URS 21 Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei
Orchid Sound workshop for children, Orchid Island, supported by Taitung County Government, Taiwan
AUCTIONS
2007, 2009 : Christie’s, Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Kasikorn Bank Group, Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Sculpture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Mahidol University, College of Music, Thialand
(Private collections) Thailand, Singapore, USA.