Jakkai Siributr
Jakkai Siributr is known primarily for his textile and embroidery works, and his installations increasingly offer an element of audience participation. Siributr is concerned with the unofficial histories that have been written out of Thai account as well as intersections between personal and regional histories.
He creates a delicate tension between his subject matter — ongoing conflict driven by nationalistic discrimination against minorities — and the visual sensuality of his chosen form and materials. More recently he has begun to work with various communities through embroidery workshops including refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border and the USA. He also worked with the Thai Government on a social developmental program in remote areas of Mozambique.
Studying and residing in the USA for nearly ten years, Siributr earned his BA in Textiles/Fine Arts at Indiana University Bloomington in 1992 and MS in Printed Textile Design at the Philadelphia University in 1996.
He was an instructor at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts from 1996-2003. His exhibition history includes: 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Centemporary Art (2018), Bangkok Art Biennale (2018), Dhaka Art Summit (2018), PATANI SEMASA, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (2017); DISPLACED, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (2017); First Look: Collecting Contemporary at the Asian, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Transient Shelter (2015); Viewpoints and Viewing Points – the 2009 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2009); and ArtPosition, Murten, Switzerland (2005); among others.
Born, Lives and Works
Bangkok, Thailand
ARTICLES
MY OWN WORDS: JAKKAI SIRIBUTR; Yellow Fever’, ‘Black Death’ and ‘White Plague’ at the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial 2021
THE FABRIC OF MEMORY, Gregory Galligan, Art in America
Acknowledgements & Funders
Communities to be acknowledged.
Exhibited at
Fremantle Arts Centre
FAC is a multi-arts organisation based in a historic building complex in Fremantle, Western Australia.
Address
1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle