Introduction

Thanavi Chotpradit (born in 1981, Saraburi) is an art historian, independent curator, and member of the editorial collective of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, a peer-reviewed journal focusing on Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art. She currently serves as a lecturer at the MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art (CCSCA), National Taipei University of Education.

She co-organized “Writing Modern and Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia: Transnational Approaches and Local Ecologies” (2021) and “Art Writing and Publishing in Southeast Asia: Sustainable Ecosystems and Infrastructures” (2024) with British Academy funding. In 2024, she was a Connecting Art Histories (CAH) Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and Scholar in Residence in the Sydney Asian Art Series, co-presented by the Power Institute and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.