Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija creates conceptual performances and installations that invite audience participation and aim to promote social and political epiphanies. His works have included pad thai (1990) and Untitled (Free) (1992), in which the artist cooked and served pad thai and curry, respectively, and Apartment 21 (Tomorrow Can Shut Up and Go Away) (2002), which featured a replica of his apartment and free tea for visitors. Tiravanija has also reinterpreted iconic works of Western art and architecture as in Untitled: 1997 (Glass House) or untitled 2006 (pavilion, table and puzzle representing the famous painting by Delacroix La Liberté Guidant le Peuple, 1830). Throughout all these pieces, he undermines the traditional social, conceptual, and cultural boundaries of art. Tiravanija has exhibited at the Serpentine Galleries, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Centre Pompidou, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the Stedelijk Museum, and the National Gallery Singapore. He has participated in the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Bienal, and the Whitney Biennial.