[1] At the age of three, she lost her mother as the result of a forced childbirth which was assisted by her physician father, and eight days after, the newborn sister.
[2] As a training instructed by her father, she wrote texts summarising happenings that appeared in the newspaper Siam Rath.
[2] Araya listed the death date of her parents and her grandmother on her curriculum vitae, indicating the importance of including autobiographical and collective experience in her work.
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook experimented with intaglio printmaking and sculptural installations in the 1980s and 1990s, before starting to focus in on film and video.
In the late 1990s and 2000s, Rasdjarmrearnsook began to bring the rituals of the dead into her practice, accompanied by a shift to video work.
In her series Two Planets (2008) and Village and Elsewhere (2011), Rasdjarmrearnsook looked at the interactions between viewers and artworks when placing reproductions of iconic Western paintings in rural areas in Thailand.