Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol
Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art at the University of Michigan, specializing in modern and contemporary art. Kenji’s work focuses on the relationship of artistic practice to intimate and infrastructural manifestations of empire, diaspora, and religion in Southeast Asia. His dissertation, “Fernando Zóbel and Chang Saetang: Religious Modernity and the Mediation of Belief,” advances a comparative history of postwar abstract art across Hispano-Filipino and Sino-Thai diasporic corridors. Kenji is a recipient of research and travel grants from the Tate Research Centre Asia-Pacific, the National Research Council of Thailand, and the American National Council for History of Art, among others. He has worked on curatorial and educational projects at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Hood Museum of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Center, and Jim Thompson Art Center. Kenji’s published writing has been featured inArtforum.
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