Born 1971 in Battambang, Cambodia. Lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

EDUCATION

  • 1999
    MFA in Painting: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA.
  • 1995
    BFA in Painting: The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, USA.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    • 2023
      Every Turn a Refuge, Tomio Koyama Gallery Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan.
    • 2022
      Walking the Woods, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
    • 2019
      RECLAIM, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
      The World Outside, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA.

      • 2018
        Expanses, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA.

        • 2017
          Sopheap Pich “desire line”, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
          Hidden Nature: Sopheap Pich, The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX, USA.
          SOPHEAP PICH: FROM STUDIO TO FINE ART, Gallerie L’Institut français du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
        • 2016
          Rang Phnom Flower, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA.
          ELEMENTAL,H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
        • 2015
          Structures, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA.
        • 2014
          Sopheap Pich: A Room, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA.
        • 2013
          Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
          Compound, Brookfield Place, Winter Garden, New York, USA.
          Reliefs, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA.
          Collection+ Sopheap Pich, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia.
        • 2012
          In Spite of Order, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
        • 2011
          Morning Glory, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA.
          Compound, The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
        • 2010
          Fragile, French Cultural Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
        • 2009
          The Pulse Within, Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, USA.
        • 2008
          Strands, The Esplanade, Singapore.
        • 2007
          Recent Works From Kunming, TCG/Nordica, Kunming, China.
          Tidal, H Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
          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.
        • 2003
          Excavating the Vessels, Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
        • 2002
          Recent Works, The Brewery Studio, Boston, MA, USA.
        • 1997
          Empty Wooden Cigarette Boxes From Cambodia, The Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst, MA, USA.

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS

        • 2024

          The 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, JAX District in Diriyah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
          Angkor Complex, University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Ann Arbor, USA.

        • 2023
          WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower), Tokyo, Japan.
          14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju National Museum, Korea.
        • 2022
          Setouchi Triennale, Shidoshima Island, Japan.
          Souffles, National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
          Mode & Parfums, l’Institut français du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
        • 2021
          A beast, a god, and a line, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

          • 2020
            From the Colour of Its Bloom: Camas Prairie, Sun Valley Museum of Art, USA.

            • 2019
              Home Is a Foreign Place, The Met Breuer, New York, USA.
              SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan.
              MOT Collection Part 1 & 2: Please to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan.
              Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
            • 2018
              Minimalism: Space. Light. Object, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore.
              We the People: New Art from the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA.
              Two houses: Politics and histories in the contemporary art collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore.
              Trees of Life – Knowledge in Material, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore.
              In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections, M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon, Hong Kong.
              Sopheap Pich – Khvay Samnang – Shooshie Sulaiman, TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan.
              Angkor: Exploring Cambodia’s Sacred City, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.
            • 2017
              Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA.
              Sunshower: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to now, Mori Art Museum Tokyo, Japan.
              The 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, curated by Christine Macel.
              Buddha’s Smile, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
            • 2016
              Flora and Fauna, Ackland Art Museum’s Asian galleries, Chapel Hill, NC.
              Northern Land, Southern Seas, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand.
              Histories of the Future, The National Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
              For the Love of Things: Still Life, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA.
              (Feb. 27 – May 29).
            • 2015
              Drawn from Nature, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX, USA.
              Renaissance, Lille3000, Lille, France.
              First Look: Collecting Contemporary at the Asian, The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
              “I Want Justice,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. Selected works on exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN.
            • 2014
              The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain.
              No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore.
              Medium at Large, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
              Re: Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA.
              TRANSMISSION, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
            • 2013
              Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia, curated by Catherine de Zegher.
              Dojima River Bienniale, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan.
              Collecting Art of Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA.
              Connect: Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology – Contemporary Art and Urban Development in Cambodia, IFA-Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
              Gentle Matter, Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore.
            • 2012
              dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
              Invisible Cities, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA.
              Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, Asia Institute of Contemporary Art, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore.
              DEEP S.E.A., Primo Marella, Rome, Italy.
            • 2011
              Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.
              Singapore Biennale, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore.
              Here / Not Here: Buddha Presence in Eight Recent Works, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
            • 2010
              Classic Contemporary: Contemporary Southeast Asian Art from the Singapore Art Museum Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
            • 2009
              Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
              Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
              Truly Truthful, Art Asia, Miami, FL.
              Forever Until Now: Contemporary Art from Cambodia, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong.
            • 2008
              Sh Contemporary: Best of Discovery, Shanghai, China.
              Strategies from Within, Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China.
              The Mekong Project, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos.
              The Drawing Room, Rubies, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
            • 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, Cambodia.
            • 2005
              Visual Arts Open, Elsewhere and New Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
              Transit, with Michèle Vanvlasselaer, 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, IL.
            • 2000
              Just Good Art 2000, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL.
              Memory: Personal and Social Testimonies, the Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
            • 1999
              Altered Object, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
              Young Talents II, Contemporary Arts Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA.
              MFA Thesis Exhibition, G2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
              Yellow/Face, Gallery Pilson East, Chicago, IL.
              Cows on Parade, a collaborative project with J. Zakin and S. Biggers for The Chicago Park District,exhibited at the Field Museum Campus, Chicago, IL, USA.
            • 1998
              Presidential Dinner Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
            • 1995
              Recent Paintings, Gallery Del Sol, Miami, FL.
              BFA Thesis Show, The Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.

        RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

            • 2023
              C.I.R.V.A International Center of Glass and Plastic Arts, Marseille, France.
            • 2022
              C.I.R.V.A International Center of Glass and Plastic Arts, Marseille, France.
            • 2017
              Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva Island, FL, USA.
            • 2016
              Headlands, Sausalito, CA, USA.
            • 2013
              Civitella Ranieri, Perugia, Italy.
            • 2008
              Ke Center for the Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China.
            • 2007
              TCG/Nordia, Kunming, China.
            • 2006
              Galeri Dong Xi, Vestfossen, Norway.
            • 2001
              The Vermont Studio Center, USA.

        PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

        Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
        Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.
        Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
        Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
        Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
        M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong.
        National Gallery Singapore, Singapore.
        Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
        Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
        San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.
        The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA.
        Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA.
        United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA.
        The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA.
        Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA.
        Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia.
        Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
        Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA.
        MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
        King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
        Mori Building Co.,Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
        The Ford Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
        Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA.