Sopheap Pich’s recently works from Kunming

Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich’s recently works from Kunming

Opening:Jan 5,2008,20:00
Exhibition Duration:Jan 5, 2008 – Mar 29, 2008
Address:TCG Nordica,xibalu 101,Kunming,Yunnan,China
Tel:0871-4114692,4114961
www.tcgnordica.com
TCG Nordica Gallery

Artist statement:I started to make my first sculpture two years after having moved back to my birth country, Cambodia, six years ago. I spend most of my childhood in the United States.

Collectively, my sculptures are forms that reflect on the theme of the boarder: between the interior and the exterior. The shapes are echoes or reflections of my experiences of someone whose life has always been in transition and feeling like there’s no permanent home. I think often about current situation in Cambodia – it’s development, and it’s difficulties.

My main materials are rattan, bamboo, and metal wire – the stuff that is common and cheap in Cambodia. My tools are simple: razorblades, knives, axes, pliers, a blowtorch.

The manual labor allows me the time to contemplate on the forms and my relationship to it. This relationship between the viewer and the form is what matters most to me, and each pieces are open to interpretations by the viewer.

about Sopheap Pich

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Sopheap Pich

Artist statement:I started to make my first sculpture two years after having moved back to my birth country, Cambodia, six years ago. I spend most of my childhood in the United States.

Collectively, my sculptures are forms that reflect on the theme of the boarder: between the interior and the exterior. The shapes are echoes or reflections of my experiences of someone whose life has always been in transition and feeling like there’s no permanent home. I think often about current situation in Cambodia – it’s development, and it’s difficulties.

My main materials are rattan, bamboo, and metal wire – the stuff that is common and cheap in Cambodia. My tools are simple: razorblades, knives, axes, pliers, a blowtorch.

The manual labor allows me the time to contemplate on the forms and my relationship to it. This relationship between the viewer and the form is what matters most to me, and each pieces are open to interpretations by the viewer.

Sopheap Pich’s solo exhibition at TCG Nordica

Sopheap Pich, b. 1969 Battambang, Cambodia. Email: Sopheap.pich@gmail.com

Education:
1999
MFA in painting: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Chicago, USA.
1995
BFA in painting: The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. 1993-94 :Ecole National d’Art, Cergy Pontoise, France.
1993
January Photographic exploration of Mayan ruins in Mexico and Guatemala.
1991
summer Painting workshop in Cannes, France; traveled to Italy.

Exhibitions:
Solo:
2007
“Flow”, Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2006
”Moha Saen Anett”, Gallery Dong Xi, Vestfossen, Norway.
2005
Chomlak”, sculptures and drawings, The Arts Lounge of Hotel de la Paix , Siem Reap, Cambodia.
“Sculptures and Drawings”, Amansara Resort, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
2004
“Pdao”, French Cultural Center Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
200
“Excavating the Vessels”, Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2002
“Recent works”, The Brewery Studio, Boston, USA.
1997
“Empty Wooden Cigarette Boxes From Cambodia”, The Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst, MA, USA.

Group:
2006
“Paint Around the Dog”, With Jack Bauer, Lake Studio, Phnom Penh,Cambodia.
“2+3+4 Cambodian/Vietnamese Exchange”, Java Cafe and Gallery,Phnom Penh.
2005
“Visual Arts Open”, Elsewhere and New Art Gallery.Phnom Penh.
“Transit” With Michèle Vanvlasselaer, at Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
“Première Vue , Passage de Retz, Paris, France.
Je/Jeu French Cultural Center, Yangon, Myanmar.
2004
“Guide”, French Cultural Center Siem Reap, Cambodia.
“Continuity”, Shinta Mani, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
“Guide”, French Cultural Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
“Meik Sratum”, Silapak Khmer Amatak, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2001 “Subject Picture”, The Optimistic, Chicago, USA.
2000
“Just Good Art 2000”, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, USA.
“Memory: Personal and Social Testimonies”, the Augusta Savage Gallery, UMASS, USA.
1999
“Altered Object”, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, USA.
“Young Talents II”, Contemporary Arts Workshop, Chicago, USA.
“MFA Thesis Exhibition”, G2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
“Yellow/Face”, Gallery Pilson East, Chicago, USA.
“Cows on Parade”, a collaborative project with J. Zakin and S. Biggers for The Chicago Park District exhibited at the Field Museum Campus, Chicago, USA.
1998
“Presidential Dinner Exhibition”, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
1997
“Empty Wooden Cigarette Boxes From Cambodia”, The Augusta Savage Gallery, USA.
1995
“Recent Paintings”, Gallery Del Sol, Miami, USA.
“BFA Thesis Show”, The Augusta Savage Gallery, UMASS, USA.

Residencies:
2006 (June-August) Galleri Dong Xi, Vestfossen, Norway. Two months full fellowship.
2005 Hotel De la Paix, Siem Reap, Cambodia. One month full fellowship.
2001 (October) The Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA. One month full fellowship.

Awards:
1999
The Ryerson Painting Award. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. USA
1990-94
The Wilbur Ward Scholarship, Umass, USA.
1993
Junior & Senior show, Exposition d’Arts Européens.
1992
Foundation show, Umass, USA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2007
Art teacher: Interdisciplinary Art Appreciation, Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Co-curator: Reinventing the Spirit House, Khmer Arts Academy, Takhmao, Cambodia
2005
Co-curator of Visual Arts Open, VAO, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Organized 19 contemporary Cambodian visual artists from the capital city.
2000
Art Teacher / Counselor: Gateway Crafts of VINFEN Corporation.
Duties include critiquing art works, select and install works at exhibitions, desktop publishing, write reports, coordinate in-house events for artists with psychiatric and mental disability. Boston, MA
Summer 99
Instructor: Drawing: Materials and Techniques. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Intensive program focusing on the issues and methods of drawing.
Duties: design curriculum, lead class discussions and field trips, grading.
Spring 99
Instructor: Drawing 102, College Excel, Robert Morris College (RMC), Chicago. Duties: design curriculum, manage all aspects of lectures, field trips,individual and group critiques, counseling.
Teaching Assistant: 3D Design, RMC.
Duties: assisted in developing curriculum, grading, purchased class materials, lead critiques.
Fall 98 TA: Abstract Drawing, SAIC
Lead group and individual critiques for advanced drawing students, help organize slide lectures.
TA: Beginning Drawing, RMC, Chicago.
Help develop curriculum and grading.
Summer 98
TA: Multi-level painting, SAIC. Intensive summer courses for high school students: help develop curriculum, oversee museum trips, organize slide lectures,Figure models drawing sessions, group and individual critiques.
TA: Beginning Painting, SAIC. (Same duties as above.)