Jakkai Siributr

JAKKAI SIRIBUTR (b 1969)

Jakkai Siributr lives in Bangkok, Thailand, and is one of Southeast Asia's leading contemporary artists, working primarily in the textile medium. He is known for his intricately handmade tapestries, quilts and installations, which convey powerful responses to contemporary and historical societal issues in Thailand.

Jakkai Siributr studied Textile and Fine Arts at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and Printed Textile Design, at Philadelphia University, USA. He has exhibited widely, with notable exhibitions including Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California, USA (2012); Exploring the Cosmos: The Stupa as a Buddhist Symbol, Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore (2013); Displaced: The Politics of Ethnicity and Religion in the Art of Jakkai Siributr, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (2017); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh (2018); Spectrosynthesis II, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (2019); Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA (2022); Matrilineal, a solo exhibition at 100 Tonson Foundation, Bangkok (2023-2024), Everybody Wanna Be Happy, CHAT, Hong Kong (2023-2024) and participation in the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024) in the Thailand Pavilion. All Directions: Art That Moves You, FENIX, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2025).

In November 2024, Jakkai Siributr’s exhibition There’s no Place at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, surveyed his practice and transformed one of the Whitworth's core collection galleries into the latest iteration of the artist's long-term project There’s no Place. Exploring ideas of home and belonging, this collaborative embroidery piece creates an ongoing dialogue between the artist, the community of Koung Jor Shan Refugee Camp and viewers around the world and was featured in The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, presented by the Bangkok Art Biennale as an Official Collateral Event at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Jakkai Siributr’s works are in the public collections of FENIX museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA; Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey and the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore and amongst others.