About the artists

Pen Robit (b. 1991, Battambang) graduated from Phare Ponleu Selpak in 2010. His practice primarily employs painting including occasional live painting and performance. His painting draws on various techniques, shuttling between figurative and abstraction, and often comments on social realities. Robit participated the Memory Workshop with Vann Nath and Séra Ing at Bophana Center, Phnom Penh (2009) and did an exchange study at Pivaut Applied School of Art, Nantes, France (2011). He was an artist-in- residence with Peninsula To Australia International Art and Culture Exchange, Taiwan (2015) and at OzAsia Festival, Adelaide, Australia (2016). Solo exhibitions include Krama (2013) and Untitled (2012) both at Romeet Contemporary Art Space, Phnom Penh. Recent group exhibitions include No Boundaries, Art Exchange Project Indonesia & Cambodia (2015), Java and Asia Foundation, Phnom Penh; 20 ANS! Made in Cambodia (2015), Galerie Impressions, Paris, Made in Battambang (2014), French Institute, Phnom Penh; and Southeast Asia: Figurative Speaking (2014), The East Gallery, Vancouver.