Rirkrit Tiravanija (Advisory Board)

Rirkrit Tiravanija is a Buenos Aires-born contemporary artist of Thai descent, who divides his time between New York, Berlin and Chiang Mai. Since the early 1990s he has explored the social role of the artist and has fostered interactivity with his audience. He has cooked and served food to gallery-goers, set up a recording studio in a museum, reconstructed his apartment inside an exhibition space, corresponded via the internet while on an American road trip with Thai students, and provided opportunities for numerous other everyday activities to occur within art spaces. In 2004 he was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize by the Guggenheim Museum, and received the Silpathorn Award in 2007 from the Ministry of Culture of Thailand. Recent exhibitions include Serpentine Gallery, London, 2005; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2005; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2006; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, 2007; Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, 2007; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007 and solo exhibitions at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 2007 and Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, 2008. Forthcoming in New York, 2008 are solo exhibitions at the Drawing Center, Gavin Brown's enterprise, and the Guggenheim Museum.