Thasnai Sethaseree will discuss his work in conversation with Dr. Tamara Loos in conjunction with the exhibition Cold War: The Mysterious.

An artist and professor of media arts and design at Chiang Mai University, Sethaseree holds a master’s degree in visual arts from the University of Chicago and a PhD in social sciences from Chiang Mai University. In the series Cold War: The Mysterious (2019–22), Sethaseree focuses on specific authoritarian actors, freedom-fighters, political uprisings, and violent crackdowns, but also those that draw more generally from the press and popular culture to convey the complications and chaos of this period.

All are encouraged to visit the exhibition (in the Gold Gallery, also on Floor 2L) prior to the program. The exhibition will also be open after the talk during a public reception, free and open to all.

The annual Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art at the Johnson Museum is funded by a generous gift from Judith Stoikov, Class of 1963, and is cosponsored this year by the Southeast Asia Program.