Management Team

Director

Miwako Tezuka

Miwako Tezuka was appointed Director of Dib Bangkok in February 2024. Before her relocation to Bangkok, she was a dedicated art professional in New York where she held positions at the Reversible Destiny Foundation (RDF), established by Arakawa and Madeline Gins. As the Associate Director of RDF, she advocated for A+G’s distinctive work spanning art, poetry, and architecture. Their works were exhibited by esteemed galleries such as Gagosian and Castelli Gallery. 


Tezuka’s career also includes roles as the Gallery Director of Japan Society, New York (2012–2015), and Curator of Contemporary Art at Asia Society Museum, New York (2005–2012). She has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions featuring artists such as Chen Chieh-jen, Robert Indiana, Kimsooja, Maya Lin, Mariko Mori, Yoshitomo Nara, Pinaree Sanpitak, teamLab, Yang Fudong, among others. She has also contributed to many exhibition catalogues and publications from such reputed institutions as MoMA, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wash. DC; San Francisco Asian Art Museum, CA; and Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, on artists and art collectives including Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop), Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan, teamLab, and more. 


Her recent large-scale project, as Associate Curator, was the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022, which took place at seven venues throughout Honolulu in Oʻahu, showcasing the works of forty-six artists and art collectives from Asia and the Pacific region.
Tezuka holds a PhD in post-war Japanese art history from Columbia University, New York. She is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of PoNJA-GenKon, an on-line global network of more than 250 postwar Japanese art scholars and curators founded in 2003. In addition, Tezuka currently sits on the board of Collaborative Cataloguing Japan (CCJ), an international non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the legacy of Japanese experimental moving images produced from the 1950s through 1980s, and the Brooklyn Experimental Art Foundation (BEAF), a non-profit organization supporting art practitioners through cultural exchange and the strategic utilization of technology.

Senior
Art Handler

Pikumporn Cherdchanchaisri

Pikumporn Cherdchanchaisri began his career as an art handler in 2010, collaborating extensively with CMO Public Company Limited on the installation of paintings and sculptures. He has many years of experience in installing art for private collectors, galleries, and exhibitions in prominent museums such as The National Gallery of Thailand, River City, BACC, and Bangkok Sculpture Center. Cherdchanchaisri’s background also includes organizing events in various venues, which has provided him with valuable project organization experience. Since 2021, he has served as an art handler for the Dib Collection.

Art
Administrator

Pikumporn Cherdchanchaisri

Noey Patumrat is a motivated and experienced Arts Administrator with a passion for museology. Her diverse range of skills, developed through various roles including Project Coordinator at the ttb foundation, Curator at the Phra Borom Chanok Chonlapat Nakhon Nayok National Museum, Project Manager of the Longtruck Grant for Arts project 2020, and Registrar of The Chanthaburi Archives of Thailand, demonstrates a proven ability to manage projects on budget, foster effective collaboration with stakeholders, and ensure high-quality project completion. This experience further highlights her ability to manage diverse projects, develop operational plans, and deliver museum education programs. Her passion for learning continues to grow, evident in her three years of participation in the Museum Academy program, where she focuses on storytelling, experience design, and digital media for online museums.

Education
Program Manager

Manuporn Luengaram

Manuporn Luengaram has been working with nonprofit art organizations in Bangkok since 1997, including About Art Related Activities, The Queen’s Gallery Bangkok, and The Jim Thompson Art Center. She was also a former manager of Arts Network Asia (ANA), a Singapore-based, regional arts network and an enabling grant body that encourages and supports artistic collaboration and exchange within Asia. Most recently, Luengaram was Co-curator of Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023. In her art historical research, she is a co-editor of an anthology of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art, a Thai version, published by Thailand’s Ministry of Culture (2015), and a member of the editorial committee of The Modern in Southeast Asian Art: A Reader, published by National Gallery Singapore and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2023).

Curator

Ariana Chaivaranon

Ariana Chaivaranon is a Thai-born artist and curator. Before joining Dib Bangkok, Chaivaranon worked at the U.S. National Gallery of Art, the Beijing Palace Museum, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums, and The Frick Collection, among others. Chaivaranon’s writing appears in catalogs and publications including MoMA Post (NY) and Southeast of Now NUS (Singapore). Chaivaranon participated in the ICI Curatorial Intensive, the Asia Art Archive in America Leadership Camp, and was awarded the ASEAN-China Young Leaders Scholarship. Chaivaranon holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. from Tsinghua University, Schwarzman Scholars.

Registrar and
Collection Manager

Wannita Makaroon

Wannita Makaroon holds a B.A. in Art History from Silpakorn University in Thailand and an M.A. in Museum Professions from Seton Hall University in the United States. With a background as a journalist at Fine Art Magazine, Makaroon has extensive experience in freelance writing, ranging from art exhibition reviews and interviews with artists and curators. She is also an alumna of Thai Artists in New York (TANY), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting diversity in Thai arts. Since 2018, Makaroon has served in registrar and collection management roles for the Petch Osathanugrah Collection (now the Dib Collection), with a strong focus on the preservation and meticulous management of significant artworks.

Installation
Manager

Kawinwat Rojboonyasiri

Kawinwat Rojboonyasiri has more than ten years of art handling experience specializing in contemporary art. His career began as an art handler at Supernormal Studio, collaborating with various prominent art institutions in Thailand such as The Art Center – Chula, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok University Gallery (BUG), among others. In 2019, he joined Gallery VER where he installed over twenty exhibitions with artists from both local and international scenes. He also managed exhibitions at Frieze London in 2023 as Installation Manager.