Born in 1989, Bangkok, Thailand
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Prima earned a Visual Arts Degree (Diplome National des Arts Plastiques) from the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nantes Metropole, a License in Film Studies (Licence en Cinema et Audiovisuelle) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. The artist completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2013 and obtained a Master of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA in 2017.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2021
Chloropsis Aurifrons Pridii
The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Excerpts of Memories From the Screen, performance for Zoom, hosted by [BOOKMARK MAGAZINE],
BOOKSHOP LIBRARY, BANGKOK CITY CITY GALLERY, Bangkok, Thailand
2019
The Anthropologist as Hero,
PAM Residencies, Los Angeles, CA
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai: L.E.H.M. (Le Corbusier Entering Hadrian's Mausoleum, 1965)
Actual Size Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
(Site) Specificity III
Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA
Other Symmetries
The Nave, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016
(Site) Specificity II
re-performance of (Site) Specificity II
Meyer Library, Oakland, CA
Principle of Ruins, or the Future is Decay
PlaySpace, San Francisco, CA
2014
Propositions for Self-Ascension (the Space of Engagement)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Tucson, AZ
2012
Prima Sakuntabhai
Cobalt Studio, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
REWIND, curated by Pau S. Pescador
Feminist Center for Creative Work, online
2020
History’s Handmaid, guest curator: Ana Iwataki
GalleryPlatform LA
2 Lecture Performances: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Rachel Yezbick,
MySpace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Irrational Exhibits 11: Place-Making and Social Memory
Track 16, Los Angeles, CA
Seven Springs, collaboration with Chris McKelway
Pieters Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Forms and Figures, curated with Anna Berenice Garner
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Pauline Gloss
Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
Field Notes for Useful Light
The Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA
Weekend at Berenice
Los Angeles, CA
More is Different
Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Office Hours
The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Now
Root Division, San Francisco, CA
MFA Thesis Show
360 S. Kansas, San Francisco, CA
Trans-Versing Sites, collaboration with Jamee Crusan
Project Space at Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016
The Immediate Archive, collaboration with Esther Sadeli
College Avenue Galleries, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
D.U.M.P.
SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum in Museum, collaboration with Shaghayeh Cyrous
Artist Drawing Club: 5 x Paik
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Moving Shelter #2
Artists’ Television Acces, San Francisco, CA
2015
Revolving Doors, pop-up show
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Outside Ourselves, Ourselves Outside
1340 Bryant Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Arizona Biennial 2015, juried by Irene Hofmann, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Sonoran Hot Dog Stand, curated by Jocko Weyland
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014
11 Gallon Bucket, curated by Michael Fadel
Steinfeld Warehouse, Tucson, AZ
Untitled, collaboration with Wylwyn Dominic Reyes “Get Dicked”, Bookclub Burlesque
Maker House, Tucson, AZ
2013
Propositions for Self-Ascension (Alterity)
Night of the Living Fest, Old Tucson Studios, Tucson, AZ
Innovative Oklahoma
Nault Fine Arts Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Inflated Ego Gallery, organized by Simon Donovan
The Toole Avenue Art Walk, Tucson, AZ
2012
Solidarity
Tom Robinson gallery
Chicago, IL
Plural Zone, curated by Torkwase Dyson
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2011
Merit Scholarship, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016
SOMA Summer scholarship award
July-August 2016
SOMA Summer residency program, Mexico City, Mexico
TALKS & PUBLICATIONS
2017
Songs of Insurrection: Reading and Auction for Standing Rock
MFA Writing Studio, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Trans-Versing Sites: A Conversation with Frances Richard
Project Space at Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016
D.U.M.P., group publication for the 2016 SOMA Summer program
Mexico City, Mexico
2015
Platica, artist talk for the Arizona Biennial 2015
Tucson Museum of Art. Tucson, AZ
On-camera interview on the Arizona Biennial 2015
Tucson Museum of Art. Tucson, AZ
PRESS
Arizona Biennial 2015, by Andrew Brown, Arts and Culture, AZ Public Media
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjG5uO1KUs
Guest Blogger Kathryn Barulich on 4 Artists Who Are Reimagining Architecture at MFA Now 2017
Root Division Talk, March 10, 2017
rootdivisiontalk.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/guest-blogger-kathryn-barulich-on-4-artists-who-are-reimagining-architecture-at-mfa-now-2017/
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Megan Mueller, The Studio Visit, March 10 2018
http://thestudiovisit.com/prima-jalichandra-sakuntabhai/?fbclid=IwAR3ecSfpfo2JhabtZQt8-RTyadlA2_0C46TkR_SNFd2AcdUPS4ntBdbUYAQ
Slicing History: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai's performative lectures and collages, Kathryn Barulich, Trace: The Dissolve Blog, April 04 2018
http://www.dissolvesf.org/trace/primajalichandra-sakuntabhai?fbclid=IwAR11tT29oAGVWb1zdXLrySUAQMmF_8LDxLWoQMAKIYFsDnbGaU1HAIqN2Kw
Weekend at Berenice: Performance Art is Well and Alive in the Hillsides of Los Angeles, Lara Salmon, Art and Cake, May 19 2018
https://artandcakela.com/2018/05/19/weekend-at-berenice-performance-art-is-well-and-alive-in-the-hillsides-of-los-angeles/
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Prima earned a Visual Arts Degree (Diplome National des Arts Plastiques) from the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nantes Metropole, a License in Film Studies (Licence en Cinema et Audiovisuelle) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. The artist completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2013 and obtained a Master of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA in 2017.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2021
Chloropsis Aurifrons Pridii
The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Excerpts of Memories From the Screen, performance for Zoom, hosted by [BOOKMARK MAGAZINE],
BOOKSHOP LIBRARY, BANGKOK CITY CITY GALLERY, Bangkok, Thailand
2019
The Anthropologist as Hero,
PAM Residencies, Los Angeles, CA
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai: L.E.H.M. (Le Corbusier Entering Hadrian's Mausoleum, 1965)
Actual Size Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
(Site) Specificity III
Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA
Other Symmetries
The Nave, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016
(Site) Specificity II
re-performance of (Site) Specificity II
Meyer Library, Oakland, CA
Principle of Ruins, or the Future is Decay
PlaySpace, San Francisco, CA
2014
Propositions for Self-Ascension (the Space of Engagement)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Tucson, AZ
2012
Prima Sakuntabhai
Cobalt Studio, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
REWIND, curated by Pau S. Pescador
Feminist Center for Creative Work, online
2020
History’s Handmaid, guest curator: Ana Iwataki
GalleryPlatform LA
2 Lecture Performances: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Rachel Yezbick,
MySpace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Irrational Exhibits 11: Place-Making and Social Memory
Track 16, Los Angeles, CA
Seven Springs, collaboration with Chris McKelway
Pieters Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Forms and Figures, curated with Anna Berenice Garner
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Pauline Gloss
Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
Field Notes for Useful Light
The Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA
Weekend at Berenice
Los Angeles, CA
More is Different
Elevator Mondays, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Office Hours
The Main Museum, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Now
Root Division, San Francisco, CA
MFA Thesis Show
360 S. Kansas, San Francisco, CA
Trans-Versing Sites, collaboration with Jamee Crusan
Project Space at Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016
The Immediate Archive, collaboration with Esther Sadeli
College Avenue Galleries, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
D.U.M.P.
SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum in Museum, collaboration with Shaghayeh Cyrous
Artist Drawing Club: 5 x Paik
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Moving Shelter #2
Artists’ Television Acces, San Francisco, CA
2015
Revolving Doors, pop-up show
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Outside Ourselves, Ourselves Outside
1340 Bryant Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Arizona Biennial 2015, juried by Irene Hofmann, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Sonoran Hot Dog Stand, curated by Jocko Weyland
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014
11 Gallon Bucket, curated by Michael Fadel
Steinfeld Warehouse, Tucson, AZ
Untitled, collaboration with Wylwyn Dominic Reyes “Get Dicked”, Bookclub Burlesque
Maker House, Tucson, AZ
2013
Propositions for Self-Ascension (Alterity)
Night of the Living Fest, Old Tucson Studios, Tucson, AZ
Innovative Oklahoma
Nault Fine Arts Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Inflated Ego Gallery, organized by Simon Donovan
The Toole Avenue Art Walk, Tucson, AZ
2012
Solidarity
Tom Robinson gallery
Chicago, IL
Plural Zone, curated by Torkwase Dyson
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2011
Merit Scholarship, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016
SOMA Summer scholarship award
July-August 2016
SOMA Summer residency program, Mexico City, Mexico
TALKS & PUBLICATIONS
2017
Songs of Insurrection: Reading and Auction for Standing Rock
MFA Writing Studio, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Trans-Versing Sites: A Conversation with Frances Richard
Project Space at Hubbell Street Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2016
D.U.M.P., group publication for the 2016 SOMA Summer program
Mexico City, Mexico
2015
Platica, artist talk for the Arizona Biennial 2015
Tucson Museum of Art. Tucson, AZ
On-camera interview on the Arizona Biennial 2015
Tucson Museum of Art. Tucson, AZ
PRESS
Arizona Biennial 2015, by Andrew Brown, Arts and Culture, AZ Public Media
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjG5uO1KUs
Guest Blogger Kathryn Barulich on 4 Artists Who Are Reimagining Architecture at MFA Now 2017
Root Division Talk, March 10, 2017
rootdivisiontalk.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/guest-blogger-kathryn-barulich-on-4-artists-who-are-reimagining-architecture-at-mfa-now-2017/
Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Megan Mueller, The Studio Visit, March 10 2018
http://thestudiovisit.com/prima-jalichandra-sakuntabhai/?fbclid=IwAR3ecSfpfo2JhabtZQt8-RTyadlA2_0C46TkR_SNFd2AcdUPS4ntBdbUYAQ
Slicing History: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai's performative lectures and collages, Kathryn Barulich, Trace: The Dissolve Blog, April 04 2018
http://www.dissolvesf.org/trace/primajalichandra-sakuntabhai?fbclid=IwAR11tT29oAGVWb1zdXLrySUAQMmF_8LDxLWoQMAKIYFsDnbGaU1HAIqN2Kw
Weekend at Berenice: Performance Art is Well and Alive in the Hillsides of Los Angeles, Lara Salmon, Art and Cake, May 19 2018
https://artandcakela.com/2018/05/19/weekend-at-berenice-performance-art-is-well-and-alive-in-the-hillsides-of-los-angeles/
