Som Supaparinya

Som Supaparinya (, b. 1973, Thailand) is a Thai installation artist and documentarian. Since 1995, her video and media art in Southeast Asia generally focuses on the entanglement of human and landscapes, as well as Thai history. She is also the recipient of the 2024 Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant, and Frieze named her an artist to watch in 2026.

Early life and education Supaprinya was born in Lamphun in 1973. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University in 1997. She studied printmaking and painting in class, and also learned video, sound, and computer graphics. She then attended Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany to study media arts as a recipient of the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländerdienst (KAAD) scholarship and the Free State Sachsen Funds (Fördermittel des Freistaates Sachsen).

In 2021, Supaparinya participated in the Thai Biennale, showcasing her two-channel video Two Sides of the Moon.

In 2024, Supaparinya won the Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant, awarding her $15,000 to create work to be exhibited at several partner institutions including the Jim Thompson Art Center, the Museion, the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and the Rockbund Art Museum.

In 2026, Supaparinya held the solo exhibition MO NUM EN TS at the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok, curated by Gaweewong. Reviewing it, Frieze wrote, "Exposing how power manifests through the censorship of knowledge, together Supaparinya’s two works create a space for audiences to contemplate the ways in which memory, knowledge production and the natural landscape intertwine."