b. Khao-I-Dang, Thailand
Currently based in Ithaca, NY, and Lowell, MA


Research Interests

Intersections of politics, religion, and queerness in postcolonial Southeast Asia; migration, mobility, and encampment; Buddhist visual modernity; cultural and media studies; queer studies; anthropology of Cambodia and Thailand; critical diaspora studies; and (Asian-)American studies


Education

2025    MFA, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2018    BFA, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
2017    Semester Abroad in Painting/Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK


Solo Exhibitions

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 University, Ithaca, NY

2022
Waiting for Enlightenment (Organized by Shane Levi and Savanna Nelson), Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA


Group Exhibitions

2025
(Upcoming) TBD, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
(Upcoming) TBD, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
(Upcoming) How We Speak (curated by Cynthia Yi Chen), No Call No Show Gallery, Boston, MA

2024
Pchum Ben for Palestine, FT Gallery, 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
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
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 Popjes), 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

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, MA

2017
Point of Departure (co-curated with Marissa Cote, Jackiie Popjes), Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA


Residencies

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


Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2024-25    FLAS Fellowship, Academic Year, Cornell Southeast Asia Program
2024    Individual Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts
2024    Einaudi International Research Travel Grant, Cornell University
2024    Helen Swank Research Travel Grant, Cornell Southeast Asia Program
2024    FLAS Fellowship, Summer, Cornell Southeast Asia Program
2024    Freedom of Expression 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    Departmental Honors, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art
2018    Barbara Grad Auction Award
2017     Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, U.S. Department of State
2017    Morton R. Godine Travel Fellowship
2017    Rob Moore Grant in Painting


Guest Speaking and Panels

2025
(Upcoming) Disscusant, “Artistic Responses to Impunity and Injustice: Perspectives from Southeast Asia,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 13, Columbus, OH

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.


Selected Press and Bibliography

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 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


Relevant Teaching and Work Experience

2024-25
Graduate Assistant, Print Media: The Cultures of Print with Julianne Hunter,
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*