CV
ss3592@cornell.edu
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(b. Khao-I-Dang, Thailand)
Currently based in Ithaca, NY,1 and Lowell, MA 2
Education
2025 MFA, Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2018 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2025 I Miss You More Than I Remember You, Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 You Are From My Past Life (curated by Achariyar Rojanapirom),
Kalm Village, Chiang Mai, TH
2024 i love the way you see the world but why can’t you see me?,
Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Waiting for Enlightenment (Organized by Shane Levi),
Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2025 (Forthcoming) Idioms of Distress (curated by Joe Bun Keo), AS220 Projects, Providence, RI
2025 (Forthcoming) Body’s First Architecture (curated by Leeza Meksin and Tamar Ettun),
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2025 Even the Phrase Each Other, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Proleung Khmer, Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, MA
2025 Willful Dialects (curated by Cynthia Yi Chen), No Call No Show Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 Pchum Ben for Palestine, FT Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2024 The Future is Not Binary (curated by Brett Taylor), Denison Museum, Granville, OH
2024 Surviving Together (curated by Sunny Moxin Chen), A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
2024 Freedom of Expression, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 over and over, Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2022 Connections II, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
2022 Out of Service, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2021 Sutures (curated by Suriya Khuth), Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul
2021 Bad Service, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2020 if we want it (collaboration with Melissa Teng), Art on the Marquee, Boston, MA
2020 Free Form (juried by Ben S. Wallace), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2020 Senior Exhibition, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Space (curated by Savanna Nelson), North Crackatorium Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Series 4, Student Life Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2020 Perpetual Collapse, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Contact List, Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
2017 Sent From a Pure Moment, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Echo, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Brujas in Boston: Board Auction (curated by Julian Cintron, May Singleton-Kahn), Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 (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 Popjes), Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 You Think It's ____, But It's Really ____. (curated by Allison Maria Rodriguez), Midway Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Congratulations! You have a new Match! (curated by Ellen Formby, Craig Waddell), North Crackatorium Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
Curatorial Projects
2019 You must not stand in one place (co-curated with Melissa Teng),
Distillery Gallery
2018 Homecoming, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2018 In a Domestic Partnership (It's Complicated), How's Howard?, Boston, MA
2018 like nobody is watching, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Point of Departure (co-curated with Marissa Cote, Jackiie Popjes), MassArt
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2024-25 FLAS Fellowship, Academic Year, Cornell SEAP
2024 Individual Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts
2024 Einaudi International Research Travel Grant, Cornell University
2024 Helen Swank Research Travel Grant, Cornell SEAP
2024 FLAS Fellowship, Summer, Cornell SEAP
2024 Department of Art Fellowship, Cornell University
2024 Exhibition Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts
2023 John Hartell Graduate Award for Art, Cornell University
2022-23 Fulbright Student Research Grant, U.S. Department of State
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
Residencies
2024 SLOWSPACE Studio, Rue Pasteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2023 Chiang Mai University Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2022 Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY
Selected Press and Bibliography
(Forthcoming) 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/
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 Michael Khuth,” Sixty Inches From Center, May 17, 2022, https://www.sixtyinchesfromcenter.org.dream.website/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
(Forthcoming) Panelist: “Artistic Responses to Impunity and Injustice: Perspectives from Southeast Asia,” Canadian Studies for Southeast Asia Conference, October 23, Victoria, BC
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 acknowledgements
* Ithaca, New York, and Cornell University are located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation).
* Lowell, Massachusetts is the original homelands of the Pennacook communities with the Pawtucket Village and Wamesit Village.
2025 MFA, Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2018 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2025 I Miss You More Than I Remember You, Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 You Are From My Past Life (curated by Achariyar Rojanapirom),
Kalm Village, Chiang Mai, TH
2024 i love the way you see the world but why can’t you see me?,
Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Waiting for Enlightenment (Organized by Shane Levi),
Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2025 (Forthcoming) Idioms of Distress (curated by Joe Bun Keo), AS220 Projects, Providence, RI
2025 (Forthcoming) Body’s First Architecture (curated by Leeza Meksin and Tamar Ettun),
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2025 Even the Phrase Each Other, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Proleung Khmer, Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, MA
2025 Willful Dialects (curated by Cynthia Yi Chen), No Call No Show Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 Pchum Ben for Palestine, FT Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2024 The Future is Not Binary (curated by Brett Taylor), Denison Museum, Granville, OH
2024 Surviving Together (curated by Sunny Moxin Chen), A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
2024 Freedom of Expression, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 over and over, Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2022 Connections II, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
2022 Out of Service, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2021 Sutures (curated by Suriya Khuth), Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul
2021 Bad Service, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2020 if we want it (collaboration with Melissa Teng), Art on the Marquee, Boston, MA
2020 Free Form (juried by Ben S. Wallace), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2020 Senior Exhibition, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Space (curated by Savanna Nelson), North Crackatorium Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Series 4, Student Life Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2020 Perpetual Collapse, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Contact List, Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
2017 Sent From a Pure Moment, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Echo, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Brujas in Boston: Board Auction (curated by Julian Cintron, May Singleton-Kahn), Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 (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 Popjes), Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 You Think It's ____, But It's Really ____. (curated by Allison Maria Rodriguez), Midway Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Congratulations! You have a new Match! (curated by Ellen Formby, Craig Waddell), North Crackatorium Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
Curatorial Projects
2019 You must not stand in one place (co-curated with Melissa Teng),
Distillery Gallery
2018 Homecoming, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2018 In a Domestic Partnership (It's Complicated), How's Howard?, Boston, MA
2018 like nobody is watching, Godine Family Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2017 Point of Departure (co-curated with Marissa Cote, Jackiie Popjes), MassArt
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2024-25 FLAS Fellowship, Academic Year, Cornell SEAP
2024 Individual Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts
2024 Einaudi International Research Travel Grant, Cornell University
2024 Helen Swank Research Travel Grant, Cornell SEAP
2024 FLAS Fellowship, Summer, Cornell SEAP
2024 Department of Art Fellowship, Cornell University
2024 Exhibition Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts
2023 John Hartell Graduate Award for Art, Cornell University
2022-23 Fulbright Student Research Grant, U.S. Department of State
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
Residencies
2024 SLOWSPACE Studio, Rue Pasteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2023 Chiang Mai University Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2022 Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY
Selected Press and Bibliography
(Forthcoming) 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/
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 Michael Khuth,” Sixty Inches From Center, May 17, 2022, https://www.sixtyinchesfromcenter.org.dream.website/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
(Forthcoming) Panelist: “Artistic Responses to Impunity and Injustice: Perspectives from Southeast Asia,” Canadian Studies for Southeast Asia Conference, October 23, Victoria, BC
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 acknowledgements
* Ithaca, New York, and Cornell University are located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation).
* Lowell, Massachusetts is the original homelands of the Pennacook communities with the Pawtucket Village and Wamesit Village.
