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• Biography

Born in 1983 in Cambodia

Oeur Sokuntevy studied painting at the Phare Ponleu Selpak in Battambang and moved to Phnom Penh in 2007. Sokuntevy has had much interest in her work as one of the very few female contemporary artists currently showing in Cambodia.

Solo exhibitions include Love, Death and Dreams at Utterly Art (Singapore), Love to Death at the French Cultural Centre, I Curl in Memory’s Belly at Java Gallery in 2010, and Star Signs at Hotel De La Paix in 2008 (Cambodia). Group exhibitions include Sightlines at Noel-Baza Fine Art Gallery, 2010 (USA), Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale (Korea) in 2009, The Art of Survival, Meta House Gallery, 2008 (Cambodia) and more. Sokuntevy’s work is included in art collections of the Singapore Embassy (Cambodia) and the Singapore Art Museum. Her work has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Art Asia Pacific, Asialife, Cambodge Soir, Phnom Penh Post, The Cambodia Daily and the Southeast Asia Globe Magazine.

• Event

2013 Me Love You Long Time, Boston Center for the Arts, MA, USA

2013 Feeding Cambodia, Utterly Art, Singapore

2012 Me Love You Long Time, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, USA