Born in 1989, Bangkok, Thailand
Currently lives and works between Los Angeles, CA and St Paul, MN
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. They 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.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2024 Pridi in Paris, The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA Sheer Panel, Two Curtains, a two-person performance evening with Louis Fontenot, Mudroom Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Maps of Paris, virtual Zoom performative lecture for Summer University 2023,
Performing Arts Forum, Saint Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France
2022 Monuments of Ratchadamnoen, 2021, Marathon Screenings, Pan Pacific Park,
Los Angeles, CA
2021 Chloropsis Aurifrons Pridii, The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2021
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
L.E.H.M. (Le Corbusier Entering Hadrian’s Mausoleum, 1965), Actual Size Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2016 Site-Specificity II, The Meyer Library, Oakland, 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, Screenings and Performances
2024 Itinéraires Fantômes, Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
An Inverted Journey of Counter Archiving, screening program at esea contemporary, Manchester, United Kingdom
A Moment in Extended Crisis, guest-curated by Andy Butler, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2023 nada que declarar, the closing reading, organized by Fía Benitez, for Mercancía de
Pacotilla by Marek Wolfryd at Aparador LA, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai & Dickie Bahto, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Stranger Intimacies I & II, as part of Archival Intimacies research and exhibition project,
co-curated by Aziz Sohail and Alexis Bard Johnson, ONE Archives at USC Libraries and
Pacific Asia Museum, USC, Los Angeles, CA
2021 REWIND: a collective virtual screening series by Pau Pescador, Feminist Center for
Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA
2020 History’s Handmaid, GalleryPlatform LA, guest curated by Ana Iwataki
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
2018 Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Pauline Gloss, Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
Field Notes for Useful Light, The Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA
2016 D.U.M.P., SOMA Summer program, Mexico City, Mexico
Artist Drawing Club: 5 x Paik, collaboration with Shaghayeh Cyrous, Asian Art Museum,
San Francisco, CA
Moving Shelter #2, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2015 Arizona Biennial 2015, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Sonoran Hot Dog Stand, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Plural Zone, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023-2024 The New Commons, a BROADCAST series, for the Prospect Art Curatorial Fellowship,
Los Angeles, CA
2023 Tactics of Erasure and Rewriting Histories, ReflectSpace, Glendale, CA
2022 Tactics of Erasure and Rewriting Histories, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2020 MAHA Pavilion, for the Bangkok Biennial, multiple locations
2019 Forms and Figures, curated with Anna Berenice Garner, Echo Park Film Center,
Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Individual Artist Fellowship for Los Angeles County funded by the California Arts Council
and administered by Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP)
Prospect Art Curatorial Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
Carrizozo Artist in Residency, Carrizozo, NM
2022 ONE Archives at USC Libraries, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA
2020 emi kuriyama spirit award, Los Angeles, CA
2019 PAM Residencies, Los Angeles, CA
Nominated for the Rema Hort Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Barclay Simpson Award Semi-Finalist, San Francisco, CA
2016 SOMA Summer Award, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
2011 Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
TALKS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2022 The Invisible Archive Vol. 7: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, written by Lara Salmon,
edited and published by The Invisible Archive, LA/Berlin
Conversation between Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Lara Salmon, moderated by
Umi Hsu, The Invisible Archive Launch, June 2022, ONE Archives at USC Libraries,
Los Angeles, CA
Vinhay Keo and Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai in conversation with Nayan Shah,
Professor of American Studies at USC, ONE Archives at USC Libraries, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai in conversation with organizer Pau Pescador, Feminist
Center For Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA
2019 1973/Seven Springs, risograph print, edition of 4, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive,
Los Angeles, CA
L.E.H.M. Le Corbusier Entering Hadrian’s Mausoleum, 1965, risograph print, edition of
100, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Songs of Insurrection: Reading and Auction for Standing Rock, MFA Writing studio,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Trans-Versing: A Conversation with Frances Richard, Hubbell Street Galleries,
San Francisco, CA
MFA Now 2017, catalog published by Roots Division, San Francisco, CA
2016 D.U.M.P., SOMA Summer program, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 Platica, Arizona Biennial 2015, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 "Prima Sakuntabhai at the Fulcrum Press", Renee Reizman, Artillery Magazine, January 29, 2025
2023 “A View From the Easel”, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Hyperallergic, June 29, 2023
2022 “Existing is Resisting. AAPI Artists at Work”, Vanessa Holyoak, Carla Issue 29
"Queering the Archive, Tracing One's History", Vanessa Holyoak, Hyperallergic
2021 “How Do We Regard and Recall What Susan Sontag Has So Powerfully Described As
‘The Pain of Others’”, Thanavi Chotpradit, the101.world, April 6, 2021
2020 “How Not To Forget: In Commemoration of Things Past”, conversation with Thanavi
Chotpradit and Paphop Kerdsup, [BOOKMARK MAGAZINE] ISSUE 06,
“The State of Performance Art 2019”, Jacki Apple, Performance Art Journal, vol. 125
2018 “Weekend at Berenice: Performance Art is Well and Alive in the Hillside of Los Angeles”,
by Lara Salmon, Art and Cake, May 19, 2018
“Slicing History: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai’s performative lectures and collages”, by
Kathryn Barulich, Trace, April 4, 2018
“Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai”, by Megan Mueller, The Studio Visit, March 10, 2018
2017 “Guest Blogger: Kathryn Barulich on 4 Artists who are Reimagining Architecture at
MFA Now 2017”, by Kathryn Barulich, Roots Division Talk, March 10, 2017
2015 “Arizona Biennial 2015”, by Andrew Brown, Arizona Public Media, September 14, 2015
Currently lives and works between Los Angeles, CA and St Paul, MN
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. They 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.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2024 Pridi in Paris, The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA Sheer Panel, Two Curtains, a two-person performance evening with Louis Fontenot, Mudroom Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Maps of Paris, virtual Zoom performative lecture for Summer University 2023,
Performing Arts Forum, Saint Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France
2022 Monuments of Ratchadamnoen, 2021, Marathon Screenings, Pan Pacific Park,
Los Angeles, CA
2021 Chloropsis Aurifrons Pridii, The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA, 2021
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
L.E.H.M. (Le Corbusier Entering Hadrian’s Mausoleum, 1965), Actual Size Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2016 Site-Specificity II, The Meyer Library, Oakland, 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, Screenings and Performances
2024 Itinéraires Fantômes, Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
An Inverted Journey of Counter Archiving, screening program at esea contemporary, Manchester, United Kingdom
A Moment in Extended Crisis, guest-curated by Andy Butler, UTS Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2023 nada que declarar, the closing reading, organized by Fía Benitez, for Mercancía de
Pacotilla by Marek Wolfryd at Aparador LA, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai & Dickie Bahto, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Stranger Intimacies I & II, as part of Archival Intimacies research and exhibition project,
co-curated by Aziz Sohail and Alexis Bard Johnson, ONE Archives at USC Libraries and
Pacific Asia Museum, USC, Los Angeles, CA
2021 REWIND: a collective virtual screening series by Pau Pescador, Feminist Center for
Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA
2020 History’s Handmaid, GalleryPlatform LA, guest curated by Ana Iwataki
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
2018 Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Pauline Gloss, Land and Sea, Oakland, CA
Field Notes for Useful Light, The Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA
2016 D.U.M.P., SOMA Summer program, Mexico City, Mexico
Artist Drawing Club: 5 x Paik, collaboration with Shaghayeh Cyrous, Asian Art Museum,
San Francisco, CA
Moving Shelter #2, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2015 Arizona Biennial 2015, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Sonoran Hot Dog Stand, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Plural Zone, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023-2024 The New Commons, a BROADCAST series, for the Prospect Art Curatorial Fellowship,
Los Angeles, CA
2023 Tactics of Erasure and Rewriting Histories, ReflectSpace, Glendale, CA
2022 Tactics of Erasure and Rewriting Histories, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2020 MAHA Pavilion, for the Bangkok Biennial, multiple locations
2019 Forms and Figures, curated with Anna Berenice Garner, Echo Park Film Center,
Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Individual Artist Fellowship for Los Angeles County funded by the California Arts Council
and administered by Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP)
Prospect Art Curatorial Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
Carrizozo Artist in Residency, Carrizozo, NM
2022 ONE Archives at USC Libraries, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA
2020 emi kuriyama spirit award, Los Angeles, CA
2019 PAM Residencies, Los Angeles, CA
Nominated for the Rema Hort Foundation Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Barclay Simpson Award Semi-Finalist, San Francisco, CA
2016 SOMA Summer Award, SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
2011 Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
TALKS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Visiting Artist Lecture, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2023 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2022 The Invisible Archive Vol. 7: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, written by Lara Salmon,
edited and published by The Invisible Archive, LA/Berlin
Conversation between Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai and Lara Salmon, moderated by
Umi Hsu, The Invisible Archive Launch, June 2022, ONE Archives at USC Libraries,
Los Angeles, CA
Vinhay Keo and Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai in conversation with Nayan Shah,
Professor of American Studies at USC, ONE Archives at USC Libraries, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai in conversation with organizer Pau Pescador, Feminist
Center For Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA
2019 1973/Seven Springs, risograph print, edition of 4, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive,
Los Angeles, CA
L.E.H.M. Le Corbusier Entering Hadrian’s Mausoleum, 1965, risograph print, edition of
100, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Songs of Insurrection: Reading and Auction for Standing Rock, MFA Writing studio,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Trans-Versing: A Conversation with Frances Richard, Hubbell Street Galleries,
San Francisco, CA
MFA Now 2017, catalog published by Roots Division, San Francisco, CA
2016 D.U.M.P., SOMA Summer program, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 Platica, Arizona Biennial 2015, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 "Prima Sakuntabhai at the Fulcrum Press", Renee Reizman, Artillery Magazine, January 29, 2025
2023 “A View From the Easel”, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Hyperallergic, June 29, 2023
2022 “Existing is Resisting. AAPI Artists at Work”, Vanessa Holyoak, Carla Issue 29
"Queering the Archive, Tracing One's History", Vanessa Holyoak, Hyperallergic
2021 “How Do We Regard and Recall What Susan Sontag Has So Powerfully Described As
‘The Pain of Others’”, Thanavi Chotpradit, the101.world, April 6, 2021
2020 “How Not To Forget: In Commemoration of Things Past”, conversation with Thanavi
Chotpradit and Paphop Kerdsup, [BOOKMARK MAGAZINE] ISSUE 06,
“The State of Performance Art 2019”, Jacki Apple, Performance Art Journal, vol. 125
2018 “Weekend at Berenice: Performance Art is Well and Alive in the Hillside of Los Angeles”,
by Lara Salmon, Art and Cake, May 19, 2018
“Slicing History: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai’s performative lectures and collages”, by
Kathryn Barulich, Trace, April 4, 2018
“Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai”, by Megan Mueller, The Studio Visit, March 10, 2018
2017 “Guest Blogger: Kathryn Barulich on 4 Artists who are Reimagining Architecture at
MFA Now 2017”, by Kathryn Barulich, Roots Division Talk, March 10, 2017
2015 “Arizona Biennial 2015”, by Andrew Brown, Arizona Public Media, September 14, 2015
