Born in 1973, California, The United States of America.
Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand. She has a focus in Art and Culture dialogues along with interests in Social and Environment issues. Penwadee pursued both a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Communication Arts and a Master's Degree in Environmental Management. She started her career as a Graphic Designer, and shifted to the field of Art and Cultural Management by working as an Assistant Curator at Project 304 alternative art space in 2001. Later, she became part of the Curatorial Team at The Jim Thompson Art Center, during 2007-2012. She is currently an Independent Art Curator, as well as a Cultural Worker.

Stay: February 22 - March 26, 2016
Co-organized by: The Agency of Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)
Event:A Roundtable with artists and other guests from Thailand
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Born in 1981, Bangkok, Thailand.
Co-founder of mute mute, which emphasizes mutual discussion about society in order to expand the boundary of perception through art, cultural performances and social activities in different forms. He is personally interested in media/art culture, especially domestic photography, freedom of expression and the state of art in Thailand. These form the basis for many of the conditions used in his media/art performances. Currently, he has been collaborating on the project "Chiang Mai Art Conversation" which originated in Chiang Mai. The purpose of the project is to facilitate a connection of art with discussion and Thai society to gain greater knowledge through all kinds of management and media.
He has been involved in many art projects including "Art Jockey" (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, 2015), "Mycelioid Adjustment" (Gallery Seescape, Chiang Mai, 2014) and "Run for No One / ART AIDS (Thailand 2012): You Are Not Alone" (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, 2012).

Stay: February 1 - March 31, 2016
Co-organized by: The Agency of Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)
Event: Exhibition "Karaoke at Le moulin de la Galette" The Revival of the Lost Exhibition by Thai Artivists curated by Atikom Mukdaprakorn
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Born in Chester, lives and works in London.
Jesse Wine gained his BA Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art (2007), and his MA Fine Art at Royal College of Art (2010). His work combines humour, biography and art history. While Wine's work is multi-disciplinary, he often describes himself as a ceramicist. His recent work, mostly using clay, has an erudite take on the medium, using its history, its alliance with craft and its placement within the visual arts. His works reveal a fascination with the medium and the process of making, as well as underlining issues of form and display. Recent and forthcoming solo shows include BALTIC Centre for Contemporary art, Gateshead, UK; Galerie Hussenot, paris, FR; Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, UK; Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, UK (All 2014); BolteLang, Zurich, CH; Offspaceprojekt, Bernkastel, DE (all 2015); South London Gallery, London, UK; Limoncello, London, UK; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (All 2014)

Stay: January 22, 2015 - March 17, 2015
Co-organized by:The Agency of Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)
Event: "At the still point of the turning world..." - a salon event curated by Gina Buenfeld (February 21, 2015)
Related: Tokyo Correspondence (Camden Arts Centre website)
At the Still Point of the Turning World (Camden Arts Centre website)
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Born in 1969 in France, lives and works in Germany.
Caroline Achaintre (FR, 1969). Born in France and raised in Germany, Achaintre trained as a blacksmith before travelling to London with the prestigious DAAD scholarship to study at Chelsea School of Art & Design and Goldsmiths College, London. Solo exhibitions include the Present / Future Illy Prize at Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT from November 7 and currently at Tate Britain, London, UK until June 2015 as part of the BP Contemporary Spotlight programme Her works belong to Museum collections that include FRAC, Aquitaine, FR, Musée d'Art moderne de al Ville de Paris, FR and the Southampton City Art Gallery, UK. The artist lives and works in London.

Stay: January 27, 2015 - March 22, 2015
Co-organized by:The Agency of Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)
Event: "At the still point of the turning world..." - a salon event curated by Gina Buenfeld (February 21, 2015)
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Born in 1984, poland.
Franciszek is a conceptual artist, and his work has existential character. A graduate of the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, his site-specific works skilfully incorporate political and social commentary, with the aim of challenging the viewer's senses. His previous works include 'Kiss of Love 2009', an installation produced from various paraphenalia that resulted from exchanging his clothes with homeless people, and 'Drobne / 2010 Small Change', which through the use of a British penny, focused on the circumstances of Polish migrant workers in London and a place known as the Polish Wailing Wall where they go to search for jobs (often illegal and poorly paid).
Franciszek has recently featured in a number of exhibitions including 'The artist in the time of hopelessness. The newest Polish art' at BWA Wroclaw Gallery of Contemporary Art (2013), 'British British Polish Polish: Art From Europe's Edges In The Long '90s And Today' at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (2013) and 'ART IST KUKU NU UT' at Prada Pravda in Estonia (2013).
British British Polish Polish: Art From Europe's Edges In The Long '90s And Today , Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle,( Warsaw,Poland,2013), The Splendor of Textiles - Zacheta ,National Gallery of Art, (Warsaw,Poland,2013) , Double Game,1.Kiev international Biennale ARSENALE 2012,Mystetskyi Arsenal,(Kiev,Ukraine,2012), Ain't no sorry ,Museum of Modern Art, (Warsaw,Poland,2008)

Stay: January 21 - March 23, 2014
Co-organized by: The Agency of Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)
Event: BYOB - Bring Your Own Beamer at AIT(February 22, 2014)
Polish Art Night: "Franek kimono king bruce lee karate mistrz"Video art and food with two emerging artists from Poland. (March 15, 2014 at Daikanyama Hillside Terrace Annex A)
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Born in 1986, poland.
Jan Szewczyk is a multimedia artist, effort- lessly moving in the sphere of objects and video installations. His work is characterized by incisive observation and reinterpretation of banal subversive situations - in this way the artist challenges our habitual perceptions of reality. Szewczyk's work oscillates between various themes, which is why it is difficult to specify the main topic of his explorations.
One of his areas of research is that of growing up and masculinity. A reflection of these themes appears at various stages of his work, from the curious act: Good bye home sweet home (2008) to the Kozacy (2012) project. The second area in which Szewczyk moves concerns the perception of reality. The project I like all these pictures (2009), where the artist is both the curator of the exhibition and the material, combines these two areas.
Since 2012, thanks to work on the set of the film Performer, the artist has increasingly boldly explored film space and has tried to find a common denominator for the world of cinematography and visual arts.

Stay: January 21 - March 23, 2014
Co-organized by: The Agency of Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)
Event: BYOB - Bring Your Own Beamer at AIT(February 22, 2014)
Polish Art Night: "Franek kimono king bruce lee karate mistrz"Video art and food with two emerging artists from Poland. (March 15, 2014 at Daikanyama Hillside Terrace Annex A)
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Born in 1979, Poland.
A curator and art producer, with background in cultural anthropology. Since 2008 she is a curator at A-I-R Laboratory - a residency programme at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland. In frames of A-I-R Laboratory she has worked on multiple art productions and long term interdisciplinary art projects involving research on institutional and social conditions of art making, such as Re-tooling Residencies (2010/2011; Ptak is the editor of the reader accompanying the project), Studio Warsaw (2011/12) and currently Re-Directing: East which seeks for the new communication channels between art practices in Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia. As a curator she is mainly dealing with collaborative frameworks, she's interested in performative and collective aspects of audiovisual media.

Stay: November 20, 2013 - December 23, 2013
Co-organized by: The Agency of Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)
Event: ARCUS Open Studio #02days / 100 days(Sat, Nov 30th - Sun, Dec 1st 2013 at ARCUS Studio)
AIT × ARCUS Night (Sat, Dec 7th 2013, 18:30 - 21:30 at Daikanyama AIT room)
AIR_J Report: AIR and I, 05: Practices of scale. A report on artistic field trip to Japan.
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Born in Mexico City, currently lives and works between Berlin and New York.
Central to Aranda's multidimensional practice are her involvement with circulation mechanisms and the idea of a "poetics of circulation"; the possibility of a politicized subjectivity through the perception and use of time, and the notion of power over the imaginary.
Julieta Aranda's work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Witte de With (2013), Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova (2013), ArtPostions, Miami Basel (2012), MACRO Roma (2012) Documenta 13 (2012), N.B.K. (2012), Gwangju Biennial (2012), Venice Biennial (2011), Stroom den Haag (2011), "Living as form," Creative Time, NY (2011), Istanbul Biennial (2011), Portikus, Frankfurt (2011), New Museum (2010), Solomon Guggenheim Museum (2009), New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY (2010), Kunstverein Arnsberg (2010), MOCA Miami (2009), Witte de With (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007), 2nd Moscow Biennial (2007) MUSAC, Spain (2010 and 2006), and VII Havanna Biennial; amongst others.
As a co-director of e-flux together with Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda has developed the projects Time/Bank, Pawnshop, and e-flux video rental, all of which started in the e-flux storefront in new York, and have traveled to many venues worldwide.

Stay: Feburuary 4, 2013 - March 9, 2013
Founder: The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, in Fiscal Year 2012
Event: THIS IS A GEOGRAPHY LESSON - A 2-day discussion and dinner event, mapping Art and Social situations of Mexico and Japan - (closed)
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Born in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico in 1970. Lives and works in London and Mexico City. She has presented exhibitions and colaborative projects at Museum of Modern Art and Museo Anahuacalli in Mexico City, Eastside Projects in Birmingham, The Louisiana Museum in Denmark, RedCat in Los Angeles and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London among many others. She has been recipient of an ISCP residency in New York in 2004, and Gasworks in London in 2009. She has also worked as an editor, teacher and independent curator in Mexico and abroad since 1996. She is the co-founder of SOMA, artist space in Mexico City. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores Grant in Mexico.
With a background in photography, Laureana Toledo's practice has developed to incorporate various media, chosen in relation to a specific concept or theme of the work. Laureana is inspired by the imperceptible or transient moments of the everyday, speculating on how such phenomena can gain new forms of visual presentation. Her work often involves systematic and repetitive interventions into different media (texts, books, photographs, painitngs, etc.) to re-code their existing narratives. Laureana also takes this approach into her exploration of the history of rock music, one of her passions.　SOMA：http://somamexico.org/
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Born in 1987 in Wellington, currently lives and works in New Zealand.
Vera Mey is a curator and currently Assistant Director of AUT University?s ST PAUL St Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests lie in reading contemporary Asian art and it?s histories from her particular locale and context in the antipodes and from a perspective of being a first generation Asian New Zealand with heritage from Cambodia and Indonesia. She has held various teaching and education related positions at Artspace, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University and was the 2010 contemporary art correspondent of National Radio?s Nights with Bryan Crump. In 2011 she was selected as a participating curator on the Gwangju Biennale Foundation 3rd International Curator Course led by Professor Ute Meta Bauer. Curated exhibitions and projects include: Local Time: Horotiu (2012), Assembly (2012), In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary (2012), ST PAUL St Gallery and The Dowse Art Museum. In 2012 she convened the inaugural ST PAUL St Gallery Curatorial Symposium. In that year she was also selected for the Asia New Zealand Foundation/Creative New Zealand Curator's Tour to South Korea, Japan and China to further research in the region. For 2013 she will convene the AUT University Master of Arts Management Curatorial Strategy programme. Outside of her institutional position she is part of the independent initiative Parlour working alongside three artists in to realise various art projects.

Stay: January 18, 2013 - Feburuary 19, 2013
Founder: The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, in Fiscal Year 2012
Event: Talk&Dinner with Curator in Residence　（closed)
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Sudjud Dartanto (b. 1976) is a Curator, Lecturer and Cultural Researcher based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia . He graduated with a BA from Craft Department, Faculty of Visual Arts, Indonesian Art Institute (ISI) Yogyakarta, and received a MA in Religious and Cultural Studies from Sanata Dharma University also in Yogyakarta. Sudjud has co-organized international project and exhibitions including: "South Project, 5th International south-south Gathering" (Yogyakarta, 2009) and "Trajectory" (Australia, 2008), "Immemorial, Reaching Back Beyond Memory" (Australia and Indonesia, 2009 and 2011, "U(dys)topia", (Dresden and Berlin, 2010). Sudjud's articles and art review's have been published on numerous occasions in Indonesian domestic news media and art catalogues. http://www.isi.ac.id/) http://sudjuddartanto.blogspot.com/

Stay：March 2, 2012 - April 2, 2012
Event：Contemporary Art in Indonesia today and Revisiting Relational Aesthetics
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Born in Mufulira, Zambia in 1976, Nick Evans studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, and lives and works in Glasgow. In 2008 he held a residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands and was awarded the National Galleries' inaugural Artists' Fellowship Programme in collaboration with Creative Scotland in 2011.

Selected solo exhibitions include Anti Autonome, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2010), Use History Autonome, Washington Garcia, Glasgow (2009), Primary School, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2008), Rational Slab, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2007), Abstract Machines, Tate Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall (2006), Some Newer Formalisms, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow (2005), Remember Old Pineapple Face, Glasgow Project Room and Lumumba is Dead, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2002).

Stay: February 16 - March 31, 2012
Partner Organization：Cove Park
Event: FOUND AND MADE：A 2-day workshop by three Scottish artists: Mary Redmond, Katy West, and Nick Evans
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Katy West graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007. Originally from Dublin, Katy studied at the Glasgow school of Art prior to her move to London where she ran Firework Studio, a shop and collaborative organization providing ceramic facilities for artists and designers. Katy West is also committed to education and has worked as lecturer in a number of third level institutions, taught in secondary schools and run workshops in a broad range of contexts.

Stay: February 16 - March 31, 2012
Partner Organization：Cove Park
Event: FOUND AND MADE：A 2-day workshop by three Scottish artists: Mary Redmond, Katy West, and Nick Evans
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