Rirkrit Tiravanija

Tiravanija obtained his BFA from the Ontario College of Art, Toronto in 1984; his MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1986; and underwent the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1985–1986). His work is found in leading collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art; Bundeskunstsammlung, Berlin; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Bangkok; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Notable recent solo exhibitions include DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG (HAPPINESS IS NOT ALWAYS FUN) (2024), Gropius Bau, Berlin; A LOT OF PEOPLE (2023), Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rirkrit Tiravanija (2023), Haus der Kunst, Munich; la paura mangia l’anima (2020), Fondazione Converso, Milan; untitled 2019 (the form of the flower is unknown to the seed) (2019), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green (2019), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. The artist has also participated in major international festivals including more recently Flowing Moon, Embracing Land (2022), 3rd Jeju Biennale; DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY (2017), 1st ARoS Triennial, Aarhus; CURRENT:LA Water (2016), 1st Public Art Biennial, Los Angeles; and All the World’s Futures (2015), 56th Venice Biennale.

Tiravanija has had a long relationship with STPI, resulting in multiple residencies at the Workshop in 2012, 2015, 2020 and 2022. His 2012 residency culminated in the exhibition Time Travelers Chronicle (Doubt): 2014 – 802,701 A.D. (2014), while his 2015 residency led to the group exhibition Exquisite Trust (Blindly Collective Collaborations) (2017) with artists Carston Höller, Tobias Rehberger and Anri Sala. His 2020 and 2022 residencies resulted in the exhibition We Don’t Recognise What We Don’t See (2023), curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist; and SAY YES TO EVERYTHING (2026).