Leang Seckon

Born in Prey Veng province, Cambodia in 1970, artist Leang Seckon completed his graduation in 2002 from the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh. Among the foremost members of the emerging Cambodian contemporary art scene, Leang Seckon, in the early 1970s at the onset of the American bombings of Indochina grew up during the rise of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

His selected solo and group exhibitions internationally include the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan, USA (2024); The Weight of Freedom at Akar Prakar, New Delhi (2024); documenta fifteen, with Sa Sa Art Projects, Kassel, Germany (2022); Leang Seckon Prophecy, Macnichols Civic Center, Denver, USA (2019); Out of Line at Akar Prakar, Delhi (2019); Rebirth Revitalise Regeneration, National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2017); Mekong New Mythologies, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong (2016); the Thematic Exhibition, Shanghai Biennale (2012); Kathmandu International Art Festival, Nepal (2012) and Hell on Earth, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK (2014); 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) held at Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia in (2015); 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale in Japan in (2009); the ASEAN New Zero Contemporary Art Exchange, Yangon, Myanmar, also in (2009), and his Rubbish Project (2008) a public project in Phnom Penh.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies such as the ArtVarta Residency in collaboration with Khoj Artists’ Association, 2023; Residency at Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 2013; Residency at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 2009 and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, The Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong in 2009 to name few. The artist lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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