Artists and Designers

Annya was born in Cambodia in July of 1979 near Siem Reap. At the age of 5, her family left Cambodia for Khao I Dang Refugee Camp in Thailand. After 4 years in the camp, an uncle sponsored her family to immigrate to America. As a child growing up, she always liked the outdoors and nature, and finds she is more...

CHAN Dany

CHAN Dany is a Cambodian artist born in 1984 in Prey Veng and who now lives and works in Phnom Penh. From 2002-2008, he studied at the Reyum Art School, Phnom Penh and in 2008 opened Bassac Studio, also in Phnom Penh. He divides his time between studio work and teaching. In 2008, he returned to Reyum Art School...

Julian PARKER-BURNS

Julian PARKER-BURNS was born on May 14th, 1969. His first nine years were spent in Maine on a 25 acre farm where he lived during the school year, while summers were spent on Hurricane Island. After graduating from Falmouth High School (Massachusetts) in 1987, he attended a semester program at The Aegean Center for...

Nick SELLS

Nick is a self-taught photographer from the UK. He bought his first camera while traveling throughout Southeast Asia in 2006. His first break into professional photography came in Cambodia in 2007 when he was employed as a layout editor for The Mekong Times daily newspaper. Later, he photographed for various...

Patrick KERSALÉ

Patrick Kersalé est ethnomusicologue, archéomusicologue et musicien. Au cours des trois dernières décennies, il a œuvré dans une quarantaine de pays d’Europe, d’Afrique, d’Amérique et d’Asie pour photographier, enregistrer, filmer les musiciens traditionnels et étudier leur musique. Musicien, conférencier, pédagogue...

SERA

Séra was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 1961. Upon completing with honors his graduate and postgraduate studies in art, and the science of art, at the Sorbonne University, he devoted himself both to teaching and to art. An artist as protean as he is consistent, Séra's work finds expression in a multitude of fields..

SREANG Pisey

SREANG Pisey is an emerging Artist born in Battambang - one of the cultural centers for new art in Cambodia. He studied wood carving at high school, and under the guidance of his father. While helping his father run the family wood carving shop, he discovered his own passion for the medium and decided to it his...

SOM Rany

SOM Rany is a self-taught artist and jewelry designer inspired by the diversity of color, texture and shape found in the natural environment. Instead of working with metals and precious stones, she sees the beauty in organic materials such as seeds and plant stems, and combines them into innovate fashion...

THANG Sothea

THANG Sothea was born in Kompong Cham Province, Cambodia, in 1983. He is a self-taught artist who began to paint in 2009. He graduated from Norton University with a Bachelor Degree of Architecture and Urban Planning and worked in an architectural agency in Phnom Penh from 2007-2010. In parallel with his artistic...

NOU Sary

NOU Sary was born in Kandal province, Cambodia in 1971. He studied at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh from 1994-2000, and then moved to France to continue his studies at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Saint-Etienne from 2001-2006 where he earned a Diplôme National supérieur d’Expression Plastique. He is...

NAMARITH

NAMARITH was born in Cambodia in 1945 into a large family of nine children. He spent a brief period studying at l’école des Beaux Arts de Phnom Penh. Later, at the expense of time with his family, he spent three years working with the great Cambodian painter who instructed DIM, a gifted artist working with Walt...

Gwendolyn McKENZIE

Gwendolyn McKENZIE studied fashion design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and while at school took her first class in ceramics. 15 years after completing her studies at Pratt Institute, she earned a Master’s degree in Social Work at New York University, but throughout her working life, art remains her...

Takakazu YAMADA

Mr. YAMADA was born in 1957 in Nagoya, Japan and he completed his undergraduate studies at Aichi Prefecture University of Fine Arts in 1981. He went on to complete his Master’s Degree at the same university two year later. He spent the next decade working in the field of art restoration and preservation. By 1996...

MAGIC GECKO

Ms. Simach Soth, nick-named Ms. Gecko by her friends, started her wrought iron business in 1997 when she was only 21. She was the only woman in a traditionally male industry. During a trip to New Orleans, Louisiana, she admired the colorful South American style painted geckos for sale in the local markets. On her....

KIM Sok Hwa

KIM Sok Hwa graduated from Kyeongmin University, South Korea, and is a member of the Korea Photographer’s Association. He is a reporter for BI Peoples magazine and came to Cambodia to support KDfCC an NGO supporting children and the disabled. Once in Cambodia, he became the director of Life Photo Studio, and has....

KIM Dae Sung

KIM Sok Hwa graduated from Kyeongmin University, KIM Dae Sung was born 1945 in HamBuk chungjin in what would become the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea. He works as a calligrapher and shell artist...

KUN Sotha

JUNE Beong Sei

JUNE Beong Sei was born in Korea and has been carving for over 15 years. He is a member of Korean Fine Arts Association, and has worked in Cambodia for five years with a missionary NGO KDfCC assisting Khmer children and handicapped people...

Donvirao Douglas

DONVIRAO est le nom d'artiste de Douglas Victor Nathaporn Rahotan, né en France, en 1998 à une époque où son grand-père, Francais, était déjà installé au Cambodge. Le jeune Douglas s'intéresse très tôt aux multiples formes d'expression artistique dont le dessin mais il est animé par une grande curiosité et son ...

Chhan Dina

Ayant grandi avec les traumatismes de la guerre et des mines terrestres, Chan Dina a commencé à développer une obsession unique pour son expérience ...

Ly Pisith

Sa renommée grimpe et parvient même à dépasser les frontières de la bijouterie recherchée dans la grande région du Sud-Est asiatique. « Silver » et pierres ...