Krai Sridee (Luan)
Chiang Mai
Architecture/Urban Development, Community engaged arts, Contemporary visual arts, Creative Industries/ cultural+ social business
Book: republic / TEMPO.wav
Krai Sridee is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist and curator who uses art as a tool to explore social and political crises.
Drawing from his educational background and life in Chiang Mai, he has developed a collaborative, cross-disciplinary process with various artistic networks including tomorrow.lab (2021), Chiang Mai Performance Art Group (2019), and artn’t (2020). His work focuses on integrating art into social processes, science, tradition, and urban spaces to expand the possibilities of art in building collective challenging across diverse contexts. He firmly believes in the role of art as a driver for social change by raising awareness and questioning distorted myths. Driven by an interest in politics and human rights, Krai participated as an assistant mentor for the 5th and 6th "Human ร้าย, Human Wrong" (2023-2024) workshops organized by Book:Republic—a non-profit organization that promotes human rights through art for any discipline students. This experience expanded his focus toward marginalized groups and political refugees residing in Thailand. He collects the narratives of displaced people and weaves them into exhibitions that highlight the blurring of nation-state boundaries and the international violence that violates human rights.
Since 2022, Krai has collaborated with Myanmar artists and creatives in Chiang Mai under the collective "A New Burma," serving as a curator for significant exhibitions such as For the Love of Coming Home (2023) and When We See The Planes (2024). Additionally, he is a member of the LIMBO Collective and exhibited the work Temporary Borders (2024) in the LIMBO Festival. Through his work with local artistic networks in both Thailand and Myanmar, Krai has become a prominent voice in expanding the boundaries of freedom, imagining new possibilities for borders, and reflecting the shared destiny of those oppressed, regardless of geographical boundaries.
Drawing from his educational background and life in Chiang Mai, he has developed a collaborative, cross-disciplinary process with various artistic networks including tomorrow.lab (2021), Chiang Mai Performance Art Group (2019), and artn’t (2020). His work focuses on integrating art into social processes, science, tradition, and urban spaces to expand the possibilities of art in building collective challenging across diverse contexts. He firmly believes in the role of art as a driver for social change by raising awareness and questioning distorted myths. Driven by an interest in politics and human rights, Krai participated as an assistant mentor for the 5th and 6th "Human ร้าย, Human Wrong" (2023-2024) workshops organized by Book:Republic—a non-profit organization that promotes human rights through art for any discipline students. This experience expanded his focus toward marginalized groups and political refugees residing in Thailand. He collects the narratives of displaced people and weaves them into exhibitions that highlight the blurring of nation-state boundaries and the international violence that violates human rights.
Since 2022, Krai has collaborated with Myanmar artists and creatives in Chiang Mai under the collective "A New Burma," serving as a curator for significant exhibitions such as For the Love of Coming Home (2023) and When We See The Planes (2024). Additionally, he is a member of the LIMBO Collective and exhibited the work Temporary Borders (2024) in the LIMBO Festival. Through his work with local artistic networks in both Thailand and Myanmar, Krai has become a prominent voice in expanding the boundaries of freedom, imagining new possibilities for borders, and reflecting the shared destiny of those oppressed, regardless of geographical boundaries.