Navin Rawanchaikul

Navin Rawanchaikul relies heavily on collaboration as a tool for artistic production. His practice examines the relationship between specific local conditions and the ongoing process of globalization. Rawanchaikul's projects often incorporate social commentary, community interventions, and recurring fictional narratives and characters. Working mostly under his production company, Navin Production Co., Ltd. (founded in 1994), Rawanchaikul recently exhibited Paradiso di Navin: A Mission to Establish Navinland (2011 Venice Biennale), which simultaneously responds to the history of the Giardini waterfront while continuing his first attempt to initiate a worldwide network of Navins called the Navin Party. The Navinland Pavilion is both an effort to subvert the utopian idealism visible in many contemporary art practices and an attempt to create a nation free from borders and ideology. In addition to continuing his community-based practice in Thailand, Rawanchaikul has exhibited at P.S.1; the 11th Sydney Biennale; the 2nd Kwangju Biennial; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Wiener Secession, Vienna; and the National Gallery, Bangkok. He was awarded the national Silapathorn citation from the Thai Ministry of Culture in the field of Visual Arts in 2010.

Born 1971 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.