Korakrit Arunanondchai is a contemporary Thai artist known for constructing fantastic visual worlds with both installations and videos. Interested in exploring the crossover between collective digital memory and personal experiences, Arunanondchai culls from a myriad of cultures, religions, and popular imagery. “I feel a need to connect things, as I feel very disconnected, having two very different lives in two very different places,” he has explained. Born in 1986 in Bangkok, Thailand, he received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2012. Influenced by Pierre Huyghe, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Olafur Eliasson, Arunanondchai began producing a cycle of videos incorporating themes as varied as Thai art history, denim, and rap. He has gone on to have solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki. Arunanondchai currently lives and works between New York, NY and Bangkok, Thailand. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Astrup Fearnly Museum in Oslo.