Pam Virada
based in Bangkok and Amsterdam

virada.b(at)gmail.com
@_pamvirada

education:


M.A. in Interior Architecture, Studio for Immediate Spaces, Sandberg Instituut (Master of Gerrit Rietveld Academie), Amsterdam, NL

B.A. in Communcation Design, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, TH



solo/duo exhibitions:

2023    <forthcoming> a Trick of the Light, Meno Avilys, Vilnius, LT (solo)     
2021    The Mirror, Merten Frames Project Space by Plan B, Amsterdam (with Diego Diez), NL
2020    Liste Art Fair Basel (solo)
2019    engineered ruin, TheTip, Frankfurt, DE (solo)
2018    RAEIC director's choice 2018, Mirage Gallery, Kobe, JP (with Wada Mei)
2016    Three-Cornered World, Tentacles, Bangkok, TH (solo)


selected group exhibitions:

2023
<forthcoming> The Land of Exile, Aranya Art Center, Hebei, CN Supersensible, Digital Art Centre Taipei, TW
Threads, MADA Gallery, Melbourne, AU
from here to here, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, TH
XXL Dreams, Laak, The Hague, NL, curated by Home Cinema and WYSIWYG
The Heritors, Neverneverland, Amsterdam, NL
The House That Jack Built, APT Gallery, London, UK, curated by No Man’s Land
onsite 01, Space 2, Bangkok University Gallery (BUG) Main Campus, TH, installation conceived by Yuki Kishino 

2022
Holding Pattern, Former Courthouse, Amsterdam, NL
Perfect Nature: Amstelpark Test Site, Zone2Source, Amsterdam, NL, curated by May Adadol Ingawanij, Julian Ross and Neal White

2021
Open New Window, 469 Phrasumen Rd., Bangkok, TH, curated by expensive to be poor
Capture/Display, Gallery 3 at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Julius Bär Next Generation Art Prize, Moving Image, virtual platform, curated by Louis Ho

2020
S.E.A. Focus (with Nova Contemporary), Gillman Barracks, Singapore, SG
A Way of Seeing: Reading SEA photobook and self-publishing, PonDing, Taipei, TW

2019
Louie!: Attitude Against Failure, Cartel Artspace, Bangkok, TH, curated by Charoen Contemporaries
Common Traces, TCB art inc., Melbourne, AU
Praxis Makes Perfect, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC), TH
Sangnual (2561), Sangnual Lap, Bangkok, TH

2018
appearing unannounced, put together by Sathit Sattarasart, part of Painnale 2018, Rirkrit Tiravanija’s studio, Chiang Mai, TH
Multiple Planes, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC), TH, curated by Mary Pansanga


screenings:

2023
Casting a Spell to Alter Reality (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, part of Worlds We Are, PH
Casting a Spell to Alter Reality (2020), The Projector, part of S.E.A. Focus, SG

2022
นิราศสีชัง / Sonnet for Si Chang (2022), Home Cinema, Sandberg Instituut Graduation Show 2022
Prelude: Points of Departure (2022), Perfect Nature: Amstelpark Test Site, Amsterdam, NL

2021
Clouds obscure then blow away (2021), Landscapes, part of Eye on Art Research Labs: Sandberg Instituut, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Clouds obscure then blow away (2021), Julius Bär Next Generation Art Prize
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Casting a Spell to Alter Reality (2020) as part of Monographs:
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, JP
Cinemateca de Bogotá, CO
Essay Film Festival, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, UK
Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, US
Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, NL

2020
Casting a Spell to Alter Reality (2020) as part of Monographs:
Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF), IN
31st Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), SG


awards, grants, recognitions:

2023    Mondriaan Fund Artist Project
2022    Longlisted, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Municipal Art Acquisitions, NL
2021    Moving Image Finalist, Julius Bär Next Generation Art Prize 
2020    Monographs film series, Asian Film Archive 
2019    Finalist, Early Years Project #4: Praxis Makes Perfect, Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC), TH
2018    Grand Prix, Wonder Foto Day, Taipei, TW
            Diane Wen Goldberg Award, Wonder Foto Day, Taipei, TW
2017    Kazuki Kitahara Reviewer Award, Unknown Asia, Osaka, JP
            Takeki Sugiyama Reviewer Award, Unknown Asia, Osaka, JP
            Fang Yen-Wen Judge Award, Unknown Asia, Osaka, JP


residencies:

2023    Rupert Residency, Vilnius, LT
2022    Habitat, Cà de Monti, Tredozio (FC), IT
2019    Animistic Apparatus - Residency and Lab, Udon Thani, TH
2018    Mt. Rokko International Photo Festival, Guest Artist, Kobe, JP


artist talks:

2023     <forthcoming> Reading Fold on Spirit, SEA Foundation, Tilburg, NL
            from here to here, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, TH
            The Articulations series, joint initiative of Rupert and Autarkia, Meduza, Vilnius, LT
2022    Perfect Nature: Amstelpark Test Site, Zone2Source, Amsterdam, NL
2021    Essay Film Festival, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, UK
2018    Bibliomania, Tentacles, Bangkok, TH
            Mt. Rokko International Photo Festival, Kobe, JP


press:

  1. Metropolis M, ‘Graduation Shows 2022 – Sandberg Instituut: Look and contemplate’: No Transcendance, Only Immanence, 2022
  2. Sight & Sound Magazine, ‘The best video essays of 2020’: Casting a Spell to Alter Reality, 2020 as part of Monographs series
  3. Contemporaneities: the space is altered, 2018 
  4. Tzvetnik: the space is altered, 2018  
  5. Contemporary Art Daily: the space is altered, 2018
  6. art4d magazine no. 265, Bangkok Biennial 2018: dusk, 2018
  7. British Journal of Photography, 'Thai New Wave Photography: Multiple Planes': memory palace, 2018
  8. art4d magazine no. 262, 'Medium Format’: Memory Palace, 2018
  9. Wonder Foto Day: window series reviewed by Diane Wen Goldberg