Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art at 不良研究所. He researches contemporary and modern art, with emphasis on conditions of artistic production and reception for the global majority. Such conditions include the precedence of religious forces in modernity, chronic 鈥渋lliberalism鈥� and 鈥渦nderdevelopment,鈥� and non-temperate climactic ecologies. His essay 鈥淒avid Medalla: Dreams of Sculpture鈥� (2020) was awarded the Oxford Art Journal Prize for Early Career Researchers. His research has been supported by the Getty Foundation, Japan Foundation, Dedalus Foundation, and Delfina Foundation.
Prior to joining 不良研究所 in 2022, Professor Praepipatmongkol was Curator at Singapore Art Museum and Visiting Lecturer at National University of Singapore. He was also a curatorial fellow at Tate Britain and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and worked on projects for Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Hood Museum of Art, and Jim Thompson Art Center. He holds an MBA and a PhD in History of Art.
Selected Publications
Art, religion, spirituality
- , edited by Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2019).
- 鈥�,鈥� post: The Museum of Modern Art鈥檚 Notes on Art in a Global Context, September 2021.
- , edited by Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol and Syaheedah Iskandar (Singapore: Singapore Art Museum, 2022).
Artistic articulations of technological and sexual citizenship
- 鈥�,鈥� Oxford Art Journal 43.3 (2020).
- 鈥淓lectric Intimacies: In Conversation with bani haykal,鈥� Wikicliki: Collecting Habits on an Earth Filled with Smartphones, Singapore Art Museum Collections Portal (forthcoming, 2022).
- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, I Am an Artist (He Said), translated by Kong Rithdee, edited by Roger Nelson and Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol (Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, forthcoming, 2022).
Critical institutional practices
- 鈥溾�� (Response to Saloni Mathur), British Art Studies 13 (2019), special issue on 鈥淟ondon, Asia, Exhibition Histories,鈥� edited by Hammad Nasar and Sarah Turner.
- 鈥淭owards Taxonomic Equity: In Conversation with Marian Pastor Roces,鈥� Art Institute Review 2 (forthcoming, 2022), special issue on 鈥淒ata,鈥� edited by Emily Fry and Erin Canning.