Apichatpong Weerasethakul Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1970 -

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok, Thailand) works and lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He attended Khon Kaen University and received a bachelor’s degree in rchitecture. He also attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a master’s degree of fine arts in Filmmaking in 1997. His art projects and feature films have won him widespread recognition and numerous festival prizes, including two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival. In 2005 he was presented with one of Thailand’s most prestigious awards, Silpatorn, by the Thai Ministry of Culture. In 2008, the French Minister of Culture bestowed on him the medal of Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettre (Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature). In 2011, he was given another honor for the same field with an Officer Medal, and later in 2017, Commandeurs medal.