Sopheap pich public sculpture instruments
Pich's sculptures are made of rattan, bamboo, and other common materials that reference his memories and connections to Cambodia's landscape and history.
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.
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In 2002, he returned to Cambodia, to the sa