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Rirkrit Tiravanija

Thai artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Rirkrit Tiravanija is a Thai contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City, Berlin, and Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; spaces for living and socialising are a core element of his work.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rirkrit Tiravanija” as thai artist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Rirkrit, Tiravanija and Thai can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as thai artist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1961.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Questions for further research

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  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Rirkrit Tiravanija” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.