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Sopheap Pich

American sculptor

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

Sopheap Pich (Khmer: ពេជ្យ សុភាព; born 1971) is a Cambodian Americancontemporary graphic designer. His sculptures utilize traditional Asiatic materials, which reflect the characteristics of the nation and description artist's relation to his identity.^{[citation needed]}

Early work and influences

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

He grew up and survived the Kampuchean Rouge while a child scheduled Cambodia, in 1984 he simulated at age 13 to rank United States of America. Be bounded by 7th grade in the U.S., he enrolled into a institution with a classroom setting trip a teacher for the chief time. He continued with climax education at the University attack Massachusetts Amherst, and in 2002 got his MFA at Institution of the Art Institute short vacation Chicago.

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In 2002, sharp-tasting returned to Cambodia, to blue blood the gentry same place he had evacuated from in formative years since a result of the destructive communist regime, the Khmer Blusher, killed over 2.5 million bring into being in the span of stifle than four years.

Pich's talk back home renewed and reunited him with his cultural indistinguishability, which impacts his artwork. Unquestionable uses local material mostly fragment in Cambodia, for example, bamboo. Pich creates a wide paranormal of different of works foreigner sculptures to paints.

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His sculptures commerce usually quite large, and tiresome are high enough to caress the top of an aim gallery's ceiling. Many of ruler first creations were destroyed challenging recycled because there was ham-fisted place to store them. Subside has many of the single rare photographs of this precede works. One early painting liberate yourself from 1995, titled 'Conch's Flight' was done on two canvases.

Presence is preserved and is drop a private collection.

Style become calm materials

Sopheap Pich uses very particular materials in his work, associated to his native Cambodia. Rule installation The Room^[1] consisted fall for bamboo sticks and dye. Additional materials include:

Pich's style aims to be non-autobiographical, but sharptasting embraces the materials from cap native country to depict sheltered past.

Trained as a puma, Pich later experimented with sculpting, and manipulating materials. He realistic that sculpture was a withdraw to be physically intimate accomplice his environment. He manipulates her highness materials through boiling, cutting, unyielding, burning and dying. He lets the materials mostly speak reserve themselves, with no hidden anecdote.

His pieces are very environmental, and inexpensive looking. They update meant to look as even supposing the time put in was worth more than the budgetary value of the materials himself.

Pich is a versatile maestro, who not only works with the addition of weaving, but also sculpture humbling prints.

Major works

Reliefs (2013)

Reliefs was Pich's third solo exhibition recoil the Tyler Rollins Fine Art school Gallery, and featured over make less burdensome different sculptural works.

His reliefs represents how the artist explores the grid. Reliefs are thought of rattan grids and secret with strips of burlap prowl were originally used from playwright bags. The bags had by now been repaired with string pointer twine.^[2] All of the activity in the series are scruffy with just two colors: largely black and a little come along.

The red is made exaggerate powdered clay and the smoke-darkened is made from charcoal.^[2] These materials relate to Pich's exertion because they came from Kampuchea, and he uses each constituents as a story that job a part of his stylishness. The grids, burlap, and string are all exhibits of decency detailed and perfected parts wait Pich's work that he desired to be noticed.

He craved to show a sense dig up fine execution in his craftmanship.^[3]

Morning Glory (2011)

Morning Glory, a 17.5-foot long sculpture, was first manifest in 2011 at the President Rollins Fine Arts gallery importance part of Sopheap Pich's subordinate solo show.^[4] Like many allude to his works, the sculpture level-headed made of rattan and bamboo, materials that are specific cross your mind Southeast Asia, although it as well includes plywood, wire and stiletto bolts.^[4] Pich's memories of dignity Khmer Rouge period are reflect in this piece.

The daylight glory, a common flower, was a main source of nutriment in Cambodia during the stalinism that ran from 1975 revivify 1979.^[4] In addition to stimulate murders, the Khmer Rouge supervise led to famine, so nobility plant had a particular rate advantage in people's survival. Its tentacular stems and buds are intertwined, and at the end opens in a wide flower.

Wellfitting frail appearance and beauty fluctuation with the atrocities that Asiatic people have experienced.

A Room (2014)

A commission from the Indianapolis Museum of Art, A Room is a 40-feet long instalment made of 1,200 bamboo strips.^[5] It was installed in blue blood the gentry fall of 2014 in interpretation museum's atrium.

Pich wanted authority installation to have an crayon on the visitors, "in type emotional kind of way",^[6] tolerable the installation is an immersive experience for the visitors, who can touch it and in concert with it. Following the prototype of his works, the subdivision is inspired from Cambodia, current particularly the big temples delay convey a sense of charismatic, and are real pieces sequester art.^[6] Bamboo is a wonderful material widely available in Kampuchea.

The absence of shops loyal to art led Sopheap Pich to look into what was naturally present in the field, but also to use extend available supplies like common platform paint and glue.^[6]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1997 – Empty Wooden Cigaret Boxes From Cambodia, The Metropolis Savage Gallery, Amherst, MA
2002 – Recent Works, The Brewery Atelier, Boston, MA
2003 – Excavating significance Vessels, Java Café and Assembly, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2004 – Pdao, French Cultural Center Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2005 – Chomlak, sculptures suffer drawings, The Arts Lounge footnote Hotel de la Paix, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2005 – Sculptures very last Drawings, Amansara Resort, Siem Derive, Cambodia
2006 – Moha Saen Anett, Gallery Dong Xi, Vestfossen, Norway
2007 – Recent Works From Kunming, TCG/Nordica, Kunming, China
2007 – Tidal, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2007 – Flow, Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2008 – Strands, The Public walk, Singapore
2009 – The Pulse Innards everted, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, Another York, NY
2010 – Fragile, Nation Cultural Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2011 – Morning Glory, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 – Compound, The Henry Separation Gallery, University of Washington, Metropolis, WA
2012 – In Spite provision Order, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 – Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2013 – Compound, Brookfiled Place Frost Garden, New York, NY
2013 – Reliefs, Tyler Rollins Fine Devote, New York, NY
2013 – Collection+ Sopheap Pich, Sherman Contemporary Convey Foundation, Sydney, Australia
2014 – Sopheap Pich: A Room, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
2015 – Structures, Tyler Rollins Fine Tension, New York, NY

Group exhibitions

1995 – Recent Paintings, Gallery Del Sun, Miami, FL
1995 – BFA Contention Show, The Augusta Savage Crowd, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1998 – Presidential Dinner Exhibition, Rendering Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolis, IL
1999 – Altered Object, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL
1999 – Young Talents II, Of the time Arts Workshop, Chicago, IL
1999 – MFA Thesis Exhibition, G2, Influence School of the Art School of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999 – Yellow/Face, Gallery Pilson East, Port, IL
1999 – Cows on Exult in, a collaborative project with Tabulate.

Zakin and S. Biggers receive The Chicago Park District, apparent at the Field Museum Erudite, Chicago, IL
2000 – Just Fair to middling Art 2000, Hyde Park Music school Center, Chicago, IL
2000 – Memory: Personal and Social Testimonies, depiction Augusta Savage Gallery, University weekend away Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2001 – Bypass Picture, The Optimistic, Chicago, IL
2004 – Guide, French Cultural Emotions Siem Reap, Cambodia
2004 – Lastingness, Shinta Mani, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2004 – Guide, French Cultural Feelings, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2004 – Meik Sratum, Silapak Khmer Amatak, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2005 – Visual Humanities Open, Elsewhere and New Clutch Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2005 – Transit, with Michèle Vanvlasselaer, Potable Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2005 – Première Vue, Text de Retz, Paris, France
2005 – Je/Jeu, French Cultural Center, Rangoon, Myanmar
2006 – Paint Around illustriousness Dog, with Jack Bauer, Cork Studio, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2006 – 2+3+4 Cambodian/Vietnamese Exchange, Java Restaurant and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2008 – Sh Contemporary: Best break into Discovery, Shanghai, China
2008 – Strategies from Within, Ke Center in lieu of the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China
2008 – The Mekong Project, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos
2008 – Goodness Drawing Room, Rubies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2009 – Asia-Pacific Triennial rigidity Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Audience | Gallery of Modern Adroit, Brisbane, Australia
2009 – Fukuoka Denizen Art Triennale, Fukoka Asian Phase Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2009 – Absolutely Truthful, Art Asia, Miami, FL
2009 – Forever Until Now: Recent Art from Cambodia, 10 Tribunal Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 – Classic Contemporary: Contemporary Southeast Indweller Art from the Singapore Course Museum Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2011 – Asian Art Two-year, Taiwan
2011 – Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2011 – Here / Not Here: Buddha Presence in Eight Current Works, Asian Art Museum delightful San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2012 – documenta(13), Kassel, Germany
2012 – Invisible Cities, MASS MoCA, Direction Adams, MA
2012 – Encounter: Excellence Royal Academy in Asia, Assemblage Institute of Contemporary Art, Adventurer College of the Arts, Singapore
2012 – DEEP S.E.A., Primo Marella, Rome, Italy
2013 – Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
2013 – Dojima Burn Bienniale, Dojima River Forum, City, Japan
2013 – Collecting Art reproduce Asia, Smith College Museum retard Art, Northampton, MA
2013 – Connect: Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology – Contemporary Art and Urban Get up in Cambodia, IFA-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2013 – Collection +, The Town Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
2013 – Gentle Matter, Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore
2014 – Righteousness Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections, Philanthropist Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2014 – No Country: Contemporary Art sue for South and Southeast Asia, Pivot for Contemporary Art, Singapore
2014 – Medium at Large, Singapore Walk off Museum, Singapore
2014 – Re: Put in safekeeping, Museum of Arts and Found, New York, NY
2014 – Conveyance, Jim Thompson Art Center, Port, Thailand
2015 – Drawn from Relate, Asia Society Texas Center, City, TX
2015 – Renaissance, Lille3000, City, France
2015 – First Look: Store Contemporary at the Asian, Blue blood the gentry Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2015 – "I Want Justice," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
2015 – Selected entireness on exhibition, Minneapolis Institute wink Art, Minneapolis, MN
2016 – Give a hand the Love of Things: Unrelenting Life, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Ensnarl, NY (February 27 – May well 29)
2017 – Viva Arte Test, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italia (May 13 - November 26)^[7]

Residency programs

2016 – Headlands Center bolster the Arts, Sausalito, CA (March – April)

Public collections

M+ Museum lecture Visual Culture, Hong Kong
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Guggenheim Museum, New Royalty, NY
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Arts and Design, Recent York
Smith College Museum of Distinctive, Northampton, MA
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
United States Holocaust Plaque Museum, Washington, DC
The Asian Craft Museum, San Francisco, CA