Thanavi Chotpradit is an art historian, independent curator, and member of the editorial collective of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, a peer-reviewed journal focusing on Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art. She earned her PhD in Art History from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2016. From April 2016 to January 2025, she served as a full-time lecturer in the Department of Art History, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2021. Her writings have appeared in Thai and international journals, including Aan, Fah Diew Kan, Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, and South East Asia Research, as well as in art magazines and exhibition catalogues. She co-curated the 2021 Asian Art Biennial: Phantasmapolis at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) in Taichung. Her research on archival photographs of the 6th October Massacre (1976) was supported by the National Research Council of Thailand (2019–2022). She co-organized workshops such as “Writing Modern and Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia: Transnational Approaches and Local Ecologies” (2021) and “Art Writing and Publishing in Southeast Asia: Sustainable Ecosystems and Infrastructures” (2024) with British Academy funding. In 2024, she was a Connecting Art Histories (CAH) Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and Scholar in Residence in the Sydney Asian Art Series, co-presented by the Power Institute and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her research focuses on Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art, memory studies, archives, politics, and art activism.