Pharos, 11th
Topic: Artist talks
Speaker: Pich Sopheap Moderator: So Phina Date: 8 December 2015 Time: 3:00pm Venue: CDRI Conference room #26 Artist Pich Sopheap’s bio
Pich Sopheap was born in 1971 in Battambang, Cambodia. He received a BFA from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1995, followed by an MFA in painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. His work has been exhibited extensively in Asia, the United States, Europe and Australia. Pich has had solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, entitled Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich (February 23—July 7, 2013). Other solo shows include Collection + Sopheap Pich, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia (2013). His site- specific installation, A Room was shown at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2014). Pich’s 2011 work, Compound, was the focus of a solo exhibition at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Wash. (2011-12) He has been included in many prestigious international exhibitions, including the Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia (2013); dOCUMENTA, Kassel, Germany (2012); Asian Art Biennial, Taichung, Taiwan (2011); the Singapore Biennale (2011); the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan (2009); and the Asia-Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia (2009). Invisible Cities at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass. (2012-13). His work is included in many museum collections around the world, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY. Sopheap Pich lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. |
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