Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art at McGill University. He researches contemporary and modern art, with emphasis on conditions of artistic production and reception for the global majority. Such conditions include the precedence of religious forces in modernity, chronic “illiberalism” and “underdevelopment,” and non-temperate climactic ecologies. His essay “David Medalla: Dreams of Sculpture” (2020) was awarded the Oxford Art Journal Prize for Early Career Researchers. His research has been supported by the Getty Foundation, Japan Foundation, Dedalus Foundation, and Delfina Foundation.
Prior to joining McGill in 2022, Professor Praepipatmongkol was Curator at Singapore Art Museum and Visiting Lecturer at National University of Singapore. He was also a curatorial fellow at Tate Britain and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and worked on projects for Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Hood Museum of Art, and Jim Thompson Art Center. He holds an MBA and a PhD in History of Art.
Invocation of Montien Boonma (1953–2000) almost always arrives in the form of an elegy. Best known for meditative sculptural installations that incorporate herbal medicines and earthy fragrances, he was a rising star of the international biennial circuit before an untimely death from cancer at the age of forty-seven. For many curators and critics who came…
In an assiduous reading of Philippine modern artist Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s painting, In the Marketplace, art historian Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol discusses notions of gender, economic value, and spirituality.
