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His family was able to migrate to the United States in 1984. Object” National Gallery Singapore
November 16, 2018 - April 14, 2019
Solo Exhibition “Expanses” Tyller Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA
November 1 - December 21, 2018
Group Exhibition “We the People: New Art from the Collection” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
October 23, 2018 - July 21, 2019
Group Exhibition “Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.10” CUBE 1, 2, 3 (Shibuya Hikarie), Tokyo, Japan
September 21 - October 3, 2018
Group Exhibition “Trees of Life – Knowledge in Material” NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
July 21 - September 30, 2018
Group Exhibition “In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections” M+, Hong Kong
June 22 - September 30, 2018
Group Exhibition “Angkor: Exploring Cambodia’s Sacred City” Asian Civilization Museum, Singapore
Group Exhibition “SUNSHOWER Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now” The National Art Center, Tokyo x Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
July 5 - October 23, 2017
The 57th Venice Biennale “VIVA ARTE VIVA”
May 13 - November 26, 2017
Born in 1971 in Battambang, Cambodia
Lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
In 1979, when the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia led to the ousting of the Khmer Rouge regime, he fled with his family to Thailand, spending four years in refugee camps before immigrating to the United States.
In a series of wall reliefs from 2012, he returns to the format of painting, rendering hybridized, abstract compositions in materials derived from his sculptural practice by infusing burlap canvases (rice sacks) with Cambodian soils for pigments, sealing them with beeswax and damar resin, and setting them in three-dimensional bamboo grids.
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“Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024 AFTER RAIN” JAX District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia2023 “WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Gwangju Biennale “soft and weak like water” Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
“MOT Collection: Membrane of the Time / Breathing” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan2022 “Setouchi Triennale 2022” Shodoshima Island, Kagawa, Japan
“Souffles” National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“Mode & Parfums” l’Institut français du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia2021 “A beast, a god, and a line” MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand 2020 “From the Colour of Its Bloom: Camas Prairie” Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID 2019 “Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture” Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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Since the start of the pandemic, he has been preoccupied with repurposed aluminum of pots and pans that he collects and buys from local recycling depots. Pich’s childhood experiences during the genocidal conditions of late 1970s Cambodia had a lasting impact on his work, informing its themes of time, memory, and the body. Memories of traveling vast distances on foot and witnessing the devastation of war — broken bodies, ravaged landscapes, abandoned artillery, and ruined buildings — underpin his sculptural practice.
Light. A subtle tension exists between the precise linearity of the impressions of the sticks and the irregularities caused by the natural texture of the bamboo, variations in the surface of the work table, and changes in pressure of the artist’s hand. In 2003, he established the artist group Saklapel, and launched the acclaimed exhibition Visual Art Open (2005) in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
They consist of bamboo grids covered with strips of burlap salvaged from used rice bags that had been patched by previous owners with old fabrics and colorful bits of plastic twine, with added layers of encaustic. In 1990 he entered the University of Massachusetts to study medicine, later transferring to the Department of Art, graduating in 1995.
While Pich studied painting, earning a BFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1995), and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1999), he turned his attention to sculpture after returning to Cambodia in 2002. This was followed by The World Outside (2019), an exhibition of floor-standing and wall-hanging sculptures, mainly organic in form, that make use of a diverse array of natural materials, including goat hide, stone, antler, and naturally curved bamboo stalks, as well as Pich’s characteristic strips of rattan and bamboo.
The passage of time is recorded as the ink slowly fades from the sticks after repeated pressings. William pediatrics
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Sopheap Pich is widely considered to be Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist.