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Pen Robit. Photo credit Ahmad Izzrafiq Alias – The Star Media Group.
Pen Robit. Photo credit Ahmad Izzrafiq Alias – The Star Media Group.
Pen Robit, ‘Floral Bombardments’, 2020, oil on canvas 200x155cm. Photo courtesy RKFA
Pen Robit, ‘Floral Bombardments’, 2020, oil on canvas 200x155cm. Photo courtesy RKFA
Pen Robit, ‘The Last Dinner’, 2020, oil on canvas 155x200cm. Photo courtesy RKFA and the artist.
Pen Robit, ‘The Last Dinner’, 2020, oil on canvas 155x200cm. Photo courtesy RKFA and the artist.

Pen Robit

b. 1991, Battambang, Cambodia
Lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Pen Robit’s work attempts to represent Cambodia’s past, present and future socio-political fabric. He draws influences from Cambodian cultural iconography as well as ongoing societal discourses.

He has been selected as an artist-in-residence for the following: OzAsia Festival (ADELAIDE) Australia (2016); Peninsula Austronesia International Art and Culture Exchanges in Taiwan (2015); The Memory Workshop with Vann Nath & Séra Ing, Bophana Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2009); South East Asian Workshop, Tep Seri Sok Sopha Studio, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2008). Solo exhibitions include: Out Of This World (2020), Richard Koh Fine Art Malaysia; Beyond (2018), Tribe Cambodia, Siem Reap, Cambodia; Thread (2018), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Krama (2013), Romeet Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Untitled (2012), Romeet Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Country: Cambodia