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          Pich's sculptures are made of rattan, bamboo, and other common materials that reference his memories and connections to Cambodia's landscape and history.

        1. Your sculptures are made mostly with bamboo and rattan - two of Cambodia's most ubiquitous materials, so there are very obvious associations to your work in.
        2. Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi is pleased to present “Every Turn A Refuge,” a solo exhibition featuring works by Sopheap Pich.
        3. K: Sopheap Pich is a Cambodian artist who creates abstract shapes out of rattan.
        4. 'my main materials are rattan, bamboo, and metal wire – the stuff that is common and cheap in cambodia.
        5. Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi is pleased to present “Every Turn A Refuge,” a solo exhibition featuring works by Sopheap Pich.!

          Sopheap Pich

          American sculptor

          The native form of this personal name is Pich Sopheap. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

          Sopheap Pich (Khmer: ពេជ្យ សុភាព; born 1971) is a Cambodian Americancontemporary artist.

          His sculptures utilize traditional Cambodian materials, which reflect the history of the nation and the artist's relation to his identity.[citation needed]

          Early work and influences

          Sopheap Pich was born in Battambang, Cambodia (then known as the Khmer Republic) in 1971.

          He grew up and survived the Khmer Rouge while a child in Cambodia, in 1984 he moved at age 13 to the United States of America.

          This catalogue is published on the occasion of Sopheap Pich's third solo exhibition with Tyler Rollins Fine.

          In 7th grade in the U.S., he enrolled into a school with a classroom setting and a teacher for the first time. He continued with his education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and in 2002 got his MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

          [citation needed]

          In 2002, he returned to Cambodia, to the sa