Shortly after the completion of his MFA, Arunanondchai was named as one of the 2013 recipients of the Emerging Artist Grant from the Hort Mann Foundation, an award intended to support promising New York-based artists. His first professional work included participation in group showings at the
SculptureCenter and
Fisher Landau Center, as well as solo exhibitions in New York and Brussels. In 2014
Museum of Modern Art hosted his first solo museum exhibition,
2012-2055, which included both videos and paintings that explored the concept of transformation and his own evolution as an artist. In 2018 Arunanondchai received the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at the
International Film Festival Rotterdam for
With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, the fourth entry in his ongoing film series
Together with history in a room filled with people with funny names. That same year he released the fifth entry,
No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5, and also launched a Bangkok video-art festival with the inaugural event
Ghost:2561, highlighting the connections between Thailand's strong tradition of
animism and contemporary art. In 2019, Arunanonschai was commissioned by the
Performa 19 biennial for which he created the performance
Together. During the
COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a planned exhibition in New York was postponed due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus throughout the city. However, Arunanondchai's newest video exploring the death of his grandfather,
Songs for dying, was shown in 2021 at the Kunsthall Trondheim gallery in Norway and at the
Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. ==References==