Jakkai Siributr

JAKKAI SIRIBUTR (b. 1969, based in Bangkok and Chiang Mai)

Jakkai Siributr 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, and globally.

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 (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 (2019); Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (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.

In 2024, the artist’s long-term collaborative project There's no Place was featured in The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, presented by the Bangkok Art Biennale as an Official Collateral Event at the 2024 Venice Biennale. In November 2024, 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 There's no Place.

In 2025, Siributr’s work was shown in All Directions: Art That Moves You, the inaugural exhibition of the FENIX museum, the Netherlands; in the 2025 London Design Festival at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; in the 2025 Setouchi Triennale, Japan; and in a solo exhibition, Jakkai Siributr: Cultura (im)materiale at Murate Art District, Firenze.

Jakkai Siributr was an honouree of the 2025 Hirshhorn and Smithsonian Artist x Artist Gala in New York. In 2026, the exhibition There’s no Place toured from the Whitworth Art Gallery to Canal Projects, New York.