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ss3592@cornell.edu

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Born in Khao-I-Dang, Thailand;
Based in Boston and Lowell, MA 1 Education

2023–2025 MFA Art, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2021–2022 Post-baccalaureate, Studio Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2014–2018 BFA Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2024–2025 Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship, Khmer (AY)
2024    Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship, Khmer (Summer)
2024    Einaudi International Research Travel Grant
2024 Helen Swank Research Fellowship
2024 Individual Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts
2024 Exhibition Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts
2024 Department of Art Fellowship, Cornell University
2023 John Hartell Graduate Award for Art
2022–2023 U.S. Fulbright Student Research Grant, Thailand
2018    Barbara Grad Auction Award
2018 Departmental Honors, Studio for Interrelated Media
2017 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
2017 Morton R. Godine Travel Fellowship
2017 Rob Moore Grant in Painting

Solo Exhibitions

2025
I Miss You More Than I Remember You, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell, Ithaca, NY

2024
You Are From My Past Life (curated by Achariyar Rojanapirom), Kalm Village, Chiang Mai, Thailand
i love the way you see the world but why can’t you see me?, Experimental Gallery, Cornell, Ithaca, NY

2022
Waiting for Enlightenment (curated by Shane Levi), Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA

Group Exhibitions

2025
Body’s First Architecture (curated by Leeza Meksin and Tamar Ettun), Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Even the Phrase Each Other, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Proleung Khmer, Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, MA
Willful Dialects (curated by Cynthia Yi Chen), No Call No Show Gallery, Boston, MA

2024
Pchum Ben for Palestine, FT Gallery, Factory Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The Future is Not Binary (curated by Brett Taylor), Denison Museum, Granville, OH
Surviving Together (curated by Sunny Moxin Chen), A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
Freedom of Expression, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2023
over and over, Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2022
(RE)CONNECT: 6th Biennial Juried Alumni Exhibition, Frances Euphemia Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
Connections II, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
Out of Service, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2021
Sutures (curated by Suriya Khuth), Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul
Bad Service, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2020
if we want it (collaboration with Melissa Teng), Art on the Marquee, Boston, MA
Free Form (juried by Ben S. Wallace), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
MassArt Senior Exhibition, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
Space (curated by Savanna Nelson), North Crackatorium Gallery, Boston, MA
Series 4, Student Life Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
Perpetual Collapse, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA

2017
Contact List, Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
Sent From a Pure Moment, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
Echo, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
Brujas in Boston: Board Auction (curated by Julian Cintron, May Singleton-Kahn), Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
(in)visibility: a queer artist collective (curated by Archie Snow, Austen Shumway, Moon Decker), Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA

2016
Process Is (curated by Marissa Cote, Jackiie Holliday), Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
You Think It's ____, But It's Really ____. (curated by Allison Maria Rodriguez), Midway Gallery, Boston, MA
Congratulations! You have a new Match! (curated by Ellen Formby, Craig Waddell), North Crackatorium Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA

Curatorial Projects

2025
(Forthcoming) hisssssssss: Serpents & Social Imaginings, Peach Pit Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019
You must not stand in one place (co-curated with Melissa Teng), Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA

2018
Homecoming, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
In a Domestic Partnership (It's Complicated), How's Howard?, Boston, MA
like nobody is watching, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, M

2017
Point of Departure (co-curated with Marissa Cote, Jackiie Holliday), MassArt, Boston, MA

Residencies

2024 SLOWSPACE Studio, Rue Pasteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2022–2023 Chiang Mai University Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2022    Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY

Selected Press and Publications

(Forthcoming) Contributor in Technology, sociality, and coloniality: The visual in research with Southeast Asia’s socially marginalized, edited by Charlotte Hill, Jason Cabanes, et al. UK: Cultural Studies Journal, 2026.

(Forthcoming) Hernandez, Brianna L., Reclaiming Death (catalogue), Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., Southhampton, NY, 2025.

Fall 2025 Bulletin (Front and Back Cover Artwork), Cornell Southeast Asia Program, edited by Ava White, Ithaca, NY, August 20, 2025, https://hdl.handle.net/1813/117393

Hutnick, Will, “What is lost and what is found: Sopheak Sam on grief, mixed-media, and cycles of displacement,” (Essay) Cornell University MFA 2024-2025 Publication, 2025.

Swaray, Tima, “Yi Cynthia Chen on Willful Dialects,” (Interview: Field Trip) Mister Magazine, April 20, 2025, https://www.misterzine.com/web/yi-cynthia-chen-on-willful-dialects

Chakravorty, Swagato, “Group Show Willful Dialects Refuses a Frame for Asian Diasporic Artists in Boston,” Boston Art Review, May 19, 2025, https://www.bostonartreview.com/read/willful-dialects-distillery-gallery-no-call-no-show-swagato-chakravorty

“Cornell University MFA ’25 Presents Even the Phrase Each Other,” Hyperallergic, May 19, 2025, https://hyperallergic.com/1013947/cornell-university-mfa-2025-even-the-phrase-each-other/

Dean, James, “Art exhibition to explore freedom of expression theme,” Cornell Chronicle, February 19, 2024, https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/02/art-exhibition-explore-freedom-expression-theme

Karr, William, “Influences, connections: 2nd CVA Resident exhibition opens in Fowler-Kellogg,” The Chautauqua Daily, July 20, 2022, https://chqdaily.com/2022/07/influences-connections-2nd-cva-resident-exhibition-opens-in-fowler-kellogg

Teng, Melissa Q., “Wait... Remember Your Lover,” Waiting for Enlightenment (Exhibition Catalog), Published by Distillery Gallery, June 2022.

Hanesworth, Ian, “Sutures: An Interview with Suriya Khuth,” Sixty Inches From Center, May 17, 2022, https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/sutures-an-interview-with-michael-khuth/

Khuth, Suriya, Sutures Exhibition Catalog, Published by the Minnesota Museum of American Art and Emerging Curators Institute, October 2021, pg. 11.

Linder, Gina, “Went There: You Must Not Stand In One Place at Distillery Gallery,” The Boston Hassle, June 27, 2019, https://bostonhassle.com/went-there-you-must-not-stand-in-one-place-distillery-gallery

Cote, Marissa, “like nobody is watching,” (Artist Interview) Godine Family Gallery Catalog, Published by Studio for Interrelated Media, MassArt, 2019, pg. 58

Gill, Gabriel, “Perpetual Collapse at the Godine Family Gallery,” Big Red & Shiny, March 2, 2018,
https://bigredandshiny.org/38991/perpetual-collapse-at-the-godine-family-gallery-at-massart

Kapplow, Heather, “It’s Art, It’s Queer. It’s Here to Stay,” DigBoston, June 7, 2017, https://digboston.com/its-art-its-queer-its-here-to-stay

Gallagher, R., Fenner, D., Young Angel Midnight: An Emerging Generation in the Arts in Lowell, Bootstrap Press, October 2011

Guest Speaking and Panels

2025
Panelist: “Imagin(ed/ing) Peace: Toward Peace and Trust Building amidst Cambodian-Thai Border Conflict,” Annual Council on Thai Studies Meeting hosted by Southeast Asia Research Group (SEARG), October 4, UW-Madison, online

Panelist: “Artistic Responses to Impunity and Injustice: Perspectives from Southeast Asia,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 13, Columbus, OH (certificate)

2023
Panelist: “Affect and Memory in Northern Khmer Traditional Music,” Media in Everyday Life, Syntopia: 1st National Symposium on Media, Arts, and Design, Chiang Mai University, Jul 26, Thailand.

2021
Panelist: “Seeing New Potentialities” (Artist Talk), Minnesota Museum of American Art, Nov 16, online

Relevant Teaching and Work Experience

2024-25
Design Chair, SEAP Graduate Conference: Mobility, Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, NY
Graduate Assistant, Print Media: The Cultures of Print with Julianne Hunter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2024Guest Speaker, ARTH 1100 Art Histories: An Introduction, Theme: “Materiality,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2024
Graduate Assistant, Painting: Language of Painting with Carl Ostendarp, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Graduate Assistant, Print Media: The Cultures of Print with Elisabeth Meyer, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2023
Graduate Assistant, Contemporary Art Practice Through Drawing with Ashley Teamer, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2022-23
Research Assistant for Khathaleeya Liamdee, Ph.D., Institute of Asian Studies (fieldwork in Sa Kaeo and Trat, Thailand), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

2023
Guest Lecturer, MAAD 101: Intro to Visual Culture with Charlie Hill, Ph.D., Chiang Mai University Department of Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2021-22
Teaching Assistant in the Department of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Language proficiency (*written)

Khmer*, Thai*

Land acknowledgement

* Lowell, Massachusetts is the original homelands of the Pennacook communities with the Pawtucket Village and Wamesit Village.