ARTISTS
1991 -
Pen Robit was born in 1991 in Battambang province, Cambodia. He graduated from Phare Ponleu Selpak in 2010. His art 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.
Pen 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).
Pen Robit solo exhibitions include Beyond, Tribe Cambodia, Siem Reap, Cambodia; Thread, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2019); Krama, Romeet Contemporary Art Space, Phnom Penh Cambodia (2013) and Untitled, Romeet Contemporary Art Space, Phnom Penh (2012). His 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.
Thread (Blue)
2018
Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm
Krama
2013
Enamel paint on canvas
120 x 150 cm
Untitled 3
2018
Acrylic on paper
27.50 x 37.50cm
Women Under the Light
2010
Oil on canvas
The artist interview :
Cambodian artist, Pen Robit (Painting)
In pictures: The last years of the White Building
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-life-arts-culture/pictures-last-years-white-building
The Phnom Penh Post
By Jenni Reid
Auguest 30, 2017
One last celebration of art
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/one-last-celebration-art
The Phnom Penh Post
By Harriet Fitch Little
June 13, 2015
Art After Social Media in Cambodia
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/apr/03/postinternet-cambodia/
Rhizome
By Ben Valentine
April 3, 2015
Performance is Contemporary: Performance and its documentation in visual art in Cambodia
http://www.yosothor.org/uploads/images/Udaya/UDAYA_ISSUES/Udaya_12/07_A_Roger_Nelson_Udaya12_A.pdf
Udaya
Journal of Khmer Studies, 12
2014
Battambang Artistic Talent Showcased
https://www.asialifemagazine.com/cambodia/battambang-artistic-talent-showcased/
Asialife
January 29, 2014
Inside artist’s studio home
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/inside-artist’s-studio-home
The Phnom Penh Post
By Rosa Ellen
June 27, 2013
Cambodian art’s Aussie envoy
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/cambodian-arts-aussie-envoy
The Phnom Penh Post
By Nikki Majewski
June 24 2012
Airport Exhibition Exposes Travelers to Contemporary Arts
https://cambodianallianceforthearts.com/airport-exhibition-exposes-travelers-to-contemporary-arts/
Cambodian Alliance for the Arts
By Lauren Q.
May 7, 2012
