Som Supaparinya is from Chiang Mai and Lamphun, Thailand. She studied Painting in Thailand and Media Arts in Germany. Her works encompass a wide variety of mediums such as installation, objects, still and moving images produced mainly with a documentarian and experimentarian approach. The works focus on the impact of human activities on other humans and landscape through political, historical, and literary lenses. The changing landscape by various means motivated her practice. Her works are stories on noodles cultures, the change of the riverscapes, cityscapes, routes, electricity generation, resistance sites and banned books.

International art festivals and biennials Supaparinya has exhibited at include: Koganecho Bazaar 2011(Yokohama, 2011); Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Japan, 2012, 2018); EVA International [Ireland’s Biennial] (Limerick City, Ireland, 2018); 12th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, South Korea, 2018); Cairo Biennale 13 (Cairo, Egypt, 2018); Biennale Jogja Equator #5, (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2019); Thailand Biennale (Korat, Thailand, 2021-2022);  10th Asia Pacific Triennial, (Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, Australia, 2021-2022); Documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany, 2022).

Recent exhibitions and residencies include: Survey Show: DC Collection of 21st Century Thai Contemporary Arts (DC Collection, Chiang Mai, 2022-2023); 22nd The Silpa Bhirasri Creativity Grants Exhibition (Art-Centre Silpakorn University, Bangkok, 2023); (re)connecting.earth (02) (Biennale de l’Art et de la Nature Urbaine) – Beyond Water (Genève, Switzerland, 2023); and After Hope: Video of Resistance (Peabody Essex Museum, USA, 2023). She was a fellow of the one-year artist in residence - DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program  (Berlin, Germany, 2021-2022) and Elevation Laos (Vientiane, Laos PDR, 2023).