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Hen Sophal, born 1958 is a Cambodian artist noted for his contrasting black and white art often with social representations of contemporary society. [1]
In 1985 he worked at Painting at the School of Fine Arts, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and in 1987 won First prize in the National Exhibition of Cambodia.
Hen Sophal is known for his abstract paintings often portraying social themes and values, often negatively, several of his works have depicted the vices of the night. However he has also produced paintings based on his Buddhist beliefs, including Buddhist rituals, and rivers often with contrasting shades of light and dark with the meeting of day and night.
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You Khin was a Cambodian architect and artist. He graduated from the Royal University of Fine Arts in 1973, and left Cambodia prior to the Khmer Rouge evacuation of Phnom Penh. Over the next two decades, he practised architecture in France, Sudan, Qatar and the United Kingdom. You Khin returned to Cambodia in 2003 with his wife Muoy where they founded a Montessori school for disadvantaged children and a guesthouse to help support it. His mixed media paintings are of the impressionist style and have been exhibited in the US, Sudan, the UK and Cambodia. The You Khin Memorial Women’s Art Prize was established by the United States Embassy in Cambodia and JavaArts
Oeur Sokuntevy born in 1983, is a Berlin-based artist from Cambodia. Brought up in the country region of Battambang where took up studies in Phare Ponleu Selpak art school, she learnt how to paint using oil and water colour as well as refining her pencil skills. In December 2007, she met Dana Langlois, a fellow artist who owned the java café and gallery who also let Oeur have her first show which she earned money from. In February 2008, she moved to Phnom Penh to become a professional artist. Her parents were not supportive of her career choice at the beginning with Sokuntevy saying in an interview that they threw all her art away, and instead wanted her to be a woman adhering to the traditional norms in Cambodia and therefore lived with her aunt. Later in 2015, Sokuntevy moved to Berlin with her husband to learn about the art there and meet other artists as well as to show people Cambodian living and culture through her painting.
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