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 (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, MA0
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
2022-23    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
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Academic Year, Cornell Southeast Asia Program

2024
Individual Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts
Einaudi International Research Travel Grant, Cornell University
Helen Swank Research Travel Grant, Cornell Southeast Asia Program
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Summer, Cornell Southeast Asia Program
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, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
U.S. Department of State

2018
Departmental Honors, Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art
Barbara Grad Auction Award

2017
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
U.S. Department of State
Morton R. Godine Travel Fellowship
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,” Sutures (Exhibition Catalog), Published by the Minnesota Museum of
American Art and Emerging Curators Institute, October 2021, pg. 11.

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
Graduate Assistant, Print Media: The Cultures of Print with Julianne Hunter,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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*