Belle Phromchanya

Zandblokstraat 8B
3083MZ Rotterdam
The Netherlands
(+31) 068 504 4474

︎ bellephrom@gmail.com

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EDUCATION


2013
MA Design, Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

2007
BA Graphic Design, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok



PROFESSIONAL ROLE

2021-present
Tutor, Graphic Design / Visual Cultures, Honors Program, Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam)

2018–present
Co-founder, NON NATIVE NATIVE

2021-2024
Confidants, Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam)

2017
Tutor, Visual Research, MA Design Curating and Writing, Design Academy (Eindhoven)

2016–2018
Co-founder, ACED: platform for design and journalism



EXHIBITION


2023
NNNFAIR 2023, Project Organizer, Framer Framed (Amsterdam)

2022
I was here the whole time (80+), W139 (Amsterdam)

I was here the whole time (-3,653), River City (Bangkok)

2021
NNNFAIR 2021, Project Organizer, WORM (Rotterdam)

2021
Though the Mountains Divide and the Oceans are Wide, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen (Amsterdam)

Lands with no Volcanoes, Majhi International Art Residency Program, Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven)

2020
Whether it is Art or Not, Messages, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Bangkok

Though the Mountains Divide and the Oceans are Wide, Majhi International Art Residency Program, Berlin Art Week

2019
Me Asian!?!, exhibition, The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) (Leiden)

Impartial Spectrum, Porto Design Biennale 2019 (Porto)

Whether Art is Life or Not, 80+ Art Festival, Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center

Tiger Eyes, TIGER CITY: a story from Huai Kha Khaeng, Bangkok Design Week

2018
On Your Own Account, Dutch Design Week 2018, Wall Street (Eindhoven)

2017
Whether it is Art or Not, NEVERNEVERLAND (Amsterdam)

2014
If I Can't Take Selfie, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution, De Punt (Amsterdam)

A Guide to Game of Thais, World Design Capital 2014 (Cape Town)

2013
The Rise of the Moon, Starting Something, Beijing Design Week 2013 (Beijing)



PRESENTATION & SCREENINGS


Though the Mountains Divide and the Oceans are Wide
2022 LeidenShorts - Film Festival (Leiden)

2022 Cinemasia Film Festival (Amsterdam)

2021 Objectifs' Women in Film and Photography (Singapore)

Capital of Mae La
2024 Goethe-Institut (Chiang Mai)

2020 The Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) Film and Media Festival, American Anthropological Association

2019 Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam)

2019 Anthropology Screening Room, University of Amsterdam

2019 SEA Junction, Bangkok Art and Cultural Center

2019 Film Virus Wild Type (Bangkok)

Whether it is Art or Not
2017 Bangkok CityCity Gallery (Bangkok)



LECTURE / WORKSHOP


2024
How to continue self-organized workshop, Roodkapje & Autonomy Lab research group (Rotterdam)

2023
Prosperity Now!, Royal Academy of Art (The Hague)

2020
HD is the new A4, workshop at Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok)

2019
Me Asian!?!? Alien Creatives symposium, Leiden University College (The Hague)

News that Will Change the World workshop, Shared Institute, Porto Design Biennale (Porto)

Digitizing Race, lecture at The Asian Union Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam)

Aesthetic Encounters: Re-imagining contemporary Asia through artistic and humanistic crossovers, Strategic Roundtable, co-chair with Prof. Irene Stengs, International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) (Leiden)

AAS-in-Asia conferences: Asia on the Rise? the Association for Asian Studies (Bangkok)

2018
Do We Need to Save the World? Workshop with The Rambutan, Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) (Bangkok)

News Narration, opening week BA Graphic Design, St.Joost (Breda)

Hyper Journalism, MA Design, Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam)

Personal Value in the Globalized World, Fontys ArtCoDe (Tilburg), Wall Street Eindhoven

ACED on Image / Text / Video, workshop series at The New Newsroom, Dutch Design Week 2018, MU space (Eindhoven)

A Year in Grayscale, Symposium: Popularized Culture, Ritual and the Making of Heritage, Meertens Institute & Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam)

2017
The House of Common Affairs, Royal College of Art Students' Union (London)

Topical Tales, Alternative Art School, Kingston University (London)

Engaging with News, Urban Stories Festival, Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam)

Designers as Reporters, BA Graphic Design, HKU University of the Arts (Utrecht)

Visual Landscaping, MA Journalism & Media, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam)

2016
Dutch Design Journey, CA Conference: Open Set & CA Korea magazine, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (Seoul)

Thailand Political Meme, The Hmm (Amsterdam)

Design Week, MFA Graphic Design, Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles)



AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCY


2024
CBK Rotterdam,  Impuls en Verdieping (I&V), The Unfair Ways of Seeing

2021
Kunstenaar Project, Mondriaan Fund, I was here the whole time

Digital Culture, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, I was here the whole time

2020
Space of Refuge (Capital of Mae La) Nomination for best short documentary, Bangkok Critics Assembly Awards

Majhi International Art Residency Program, Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF), Berlin

2019
Project Grant, Amsterdams Fonds Voor de Kunst (AFK), Non Native Native Fair

2018
Design Grant, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Non Native Native Embassy

2017
Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek, ACED

National Film and Media Fund, Thailand Ministry of Culture, Whether it is Art or Not

2015
Project Grant, Amsterdams Fonds Voor de Kunst (AFK), Whether it is Art or Not