Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook studied printmaking at Silpakorn University in Thailand, before obtaining a master’s degree from Braunschweig University of Art in Germany. For the thirty years since, she had taught at Chiang Mai University. Rasdjarmrearnsook’s work deals with topics deeply rooted in Thai culture while also exploring the universal themes of the link between the human and nonhuman, life and death, and spirituality. In the early 2000s, she gained critical attention for her video works featuring Thai villagers freely discussing Western painting masterpieces and a Thai Buddhist monk attempting to draw moral lessons from the work of Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman. In addition to major international exhibitions like the Venice Biennale (2005) and documenta (Kassel, 2012), her work was previously seen at Mori Art Museum in SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now (2017).