Education
B.A. Painting, Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh, 2006
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 A Forest of Spirits, Nova Contemporary Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Khvay Samnang “Preah Kunlong” and “Where is my land?”, Batia Sarem Gallery,
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Capsule 10: Khvay Samanng, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2017 Where is My Land? Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2016 Bloom Projects Exchange Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara,
USA
2015 The Pacific Project: Khvay Samnang, Orange Counry Museum of Art, CA, USA
Enjoy My Sand, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Footprints of Yantra Man, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Rubber Man: L’Homme caoutchouc, Jeu de Paume, Paris, CAPC Musée d’art
contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2014 Human Nature, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore
Rubber Man, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Staging Cambodia: Video, Memory and Rock-n-Roll, HAU, Berlin, Germany
2012 Newspaper Man, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2011 Human Nature, Royal University of Fine Art, Phnom Penh
/ PhotoPhomPenh, Cambodia
Untitled, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Wedding + Hair, Hotel de la Paix Arts Lounge, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2010 Wedding, Sa Sa Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2009 Hair, Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Frieze (Live Performance), London, United Kingdom
An Opera for Animals, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
In one drop of water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Bruised: Art Action and Ecology in Asia, RMIT Gallery, RMIT University,
Melbourne, Australia
Borderlines, Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future, CU Art Museum, The
University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
2018 Post Nature (Taipei Biennial 2018), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Beyond Wonder – Perspectives of Utopia, Art and Design Center at Nagoya
University of Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Constructing Mythologies, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Taehwa Eco Art Festival 2018, Ulsan, South Korea
Sopheap Pich-Khvay Samnang-Shooshie Sulaiman, Tomio Koyama Gallery,
Tokyo, Japan
Animals & Us, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
When animals talked to human, Travesia Cuatro Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2017 Le Paysage Apres Coup, Faux Mouvement- Contemporary Art Center, Metz,
France
The Pacific, Libby Leshgod Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Fleeting Territories, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
documenta 14, EMST, Athens, Greece, and Ottoneum, Kassel, Germany
Political Acts: Pioneers of Performance Art in Southeast Asia, Art Center
Melbourne, Australia
The Darkened Mirror: Global Perspectives on Water, San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose, CA, USA
Human Nature, Northern Photographic Center, Oulu, Finland
Dendromorphies : Créer avec l’arbre, Topographie de l’art, Paris
People, Money, Ghosts (Movement as Metaphor), Jim Thompson Art Center,
Bangkok, Thailand
Currents, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2016 The Immeasurable Here, Outlet Fine Art, NYC, USA
Anywhere but here, Betonsalon, Paris, France
Bloom Projects: Khvay Samnang, Footprints of Yantra Man, Musuem of
Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California, USA
Histories of Future, National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Future Nature, Jack Hanley Gallery, NYC, USA
Phnom Penh, Rescues Archaeology, The Body and the Lens in the City,
Fragments & Empire: Cambodian Art from the Angkor Period, John Young
Museum of Art, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Shifting Geographies, Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
2015 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT), Queensland Art Gallery,
Brisbane, Australia
The Pacific Project: Khvay Samnang, Orange Country Museum of Art, California,
USA
Globale: Global Control and Censorship, ZKM | Center of Art and Media,
Karlsruhe, Germany
I see you see me, Delhi Photo Festival, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2015 – Architectural Landscapes: SEA in the
Forefront, Queens Museum, NYC, America
And That Which Was Always Known, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore
Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom
Penh, H Gallery, Bangkok and SA SA BASSAC,Phnom Penh
Eagles Fly, Sheeps Flock, Southeast Asian Platform, Art Stage Singapore,
Singapore
Prudential Eye Awards Finalist Exhibition, Art Science Museum, Singapore
Social Engagement Artists, Tomio Koyama, Singapore
The Khmer Rouge and the consequences. Documentation as artistic memory
work, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2014 Swimming in Sand; Growing Rice Under an Umbrella, No Vacancy, Melbourne
with parallel programming at National Gallery of
Victoria’s Ian Potter Centre and Federation Square Melbourne, Australia
Phnom Penh Rescue Archaeology: The Body and the Lens in the
City, Goldsmiths University of London for SEA Fest, UK
Looking at the Big Blue Sky, Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Phnom Penh Rescue Archaeology: The Body and the Lens in the City, The
Disappearance, Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore
Medicine to Heal: Cambodian Photography since 2000,Xishuangbanna Foto
Festival, Yunnan, China
Censorship, The 7th Move On Asia, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
Rescue Archaeology: The Body and the Lens in the City, SA SABASSAC, Phnom
Penh
2013 Everyday Life: 4th Asian Art Biennale, Taipei Fine Art Museum,Taipei, Taiwan
If The World Changed, 4th Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Sights and Sounds: Global Video Art, The Jewish Museum, NYC, USA
Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology, ifa, Berlin and Stuttgart, Berlin
Out of Nowhere: Photography in Cambodia, creativetimereports.org
Developments, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Poetic Politic, Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, USA
Deep Sea, Primo Marella Gallery, Milano, Italy
Mondi, DryPhoto Contemporaneo, Prato, Italy
Tobias Rehberger Pavilion “You Owe Me. I Don’t Owe You Nothin.’
ROUNDTABLE, Gwangju Biennale
Terra Incognita, Noorderlight Photography Festival, The Netherlands
Current Views and Actions: Photography and Performance Documentation from
Phnom Penh, Northern Illinois Museum, USA
new artefacts, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Between Fantasy and Reality: Contact Photography Festival at The East Gallery,
Toronto, Canada
Ruptures and Revival: Cambodian Photography in the Last Decade,
ICAS, Singapore
2011 Tokyo 2010, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Japan
Between / Myanmar-Cambodia, Metahouse, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Arles Photography Festival Night of the Year, Arles, France
2010 Luxury Time and Space, Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Japan
Orange International Photography Festival, Changsa, China
Big Eyes, Sa Sa Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2009 Forever Until Now: Contemporary Art from Cambodia, 10 Chancery Lane
Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Arles Photography Festival Night of the Year, Arles, France
Reminder, Photo Phnom Penh, Bophanna Audiovisual Center, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
I love PP, Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Silence, Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2007 Menthoamada, Gasolina, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Spirit House, Khmer Arts Academy, Takhmao, Cambodia
14 + 1, French Cultural Center Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Market, Meta House, Phnom Penh , Cambodia
Surfacing, Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh Cambodia
Anon, Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2006 Contemporary Cambodian Art Review, Sala Artspace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
I am leaving, French Cultural Center Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2005 Sowing Seeds of Peace, Mekong River Basin, Institute of Education, Phnom
Penh, Cambodia
Similar things between the Khmer and the Thai, Thai Embassy, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
2004 Life: Student Exhibition for the 86th Anniversary, Royal University of Fine Arts,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Screening
2019 Artists’ films of Khvay Samnang, Cine Club, Bophana Center, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
2018 Living on the Edge, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre,Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam
2017 The People’s Summit, McCormick Place, Chicago, USAForces and Volumes,
Bophana Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2015 Vidéothèque Project, Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona
Inaugural Vision Forum, Gwangju at the Asian Cultural Center, South Korea
BIMI Essay Film Festival, London
Video Art Festival FOKUS, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
Inventing the Possible, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Nominations
2016 Future Generation Art Prize, Ukraine
2015 Han Nefkens Foundation, BACC Award for Contemporary
Art, Thailand
Prix Pictet Prize
AIGA AGO Photography Prize Long List, Canada
Prudential Eye Awards, Best Emerging Artist in Asia Using
Photography
Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalist, Hong Kong
2014 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong
Future Generation Art Prize, Ukraine
2013 Future Generation Art Prize, Ukraine
Prix Pictet, France
Workshops & Residencies
2017 Disarming the Gods: Think tank led by the dancer and
choreographer Akram Khan, KfW Stiftung, Frankfurt, Germany
2014-15 Artists-in-residence program by KfW Stiftung, Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2013 Residency Unlimited and Casita Maria / IN RESIDENCE,
Season of Cambodia, New York, USA
2011 Creators Program, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
Between, Metahouse, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Co-Founder, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2010 Creators Program, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan
Co-Founder, Sa Sa Art Projects, The Building, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2009 Co-Founder, Sa Sa Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2008 Bassac Studio, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2007 Photography: History and Training with Stephane Janin,
Popil Photo Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Co-Founder of the artist collective Stiev Selapak
Publications
2019 Khvay Samnang “Preah Kunlong” and “Where is my land?”
by Batia Sarem Gallery
2015 Khvay Samnang: The Life Beneath My Feet, ed. by Nicola
Müllerschön and Christoph Tannert, with an essay by Brianne
Cohen and an interview by Hendrik Folkerts, Dortmund: Verlag
Kettler,
Khvay Samnang: Rubber Man: L’Homme-caoutchouc, curated by Erin
Gleeson, exhibition catalogue Jeu de Paume, Paris, CAPC Musée
d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2015.
2014 Khvay Samnang: Human Nature, Tomio Koyama Gallery
Collections
Singapore Art Museum
Mainland Art Fund
The Queensland Art Gallery
KfW Bankengruppe
National Gallery of Australia
Kadist Foundation
MAIIAM Museum
