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You Are From My Past Life
An ongoing exploration of Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, this solo exhibition locates sites of return and reincarnation: a poetic meditation on the afterlives of refugees through Buddhist ontology.
09.11.2024–11.24.2024
Kalm Village
Chiang Mai, Thailand
The Lexicon of Freedom
A re-staging of a 1986 forgotten Disney film The Girl Who Spelled Freedom to complicate the nationalizing practice of American spelling bees as a cultural project shaping identity and language—explored through the lens of Cambodian diasporic subjectivity.
03.04.2024–03.29.2024
Cornell Council for the Arts
Hartell Gallery
Ithaca, NY
i love the way you see the world, but why can’t you see me?
Working from a collection of family photographs from Khao-I-Dang refugee camp as a point of departure, this solo exhibition engages with opacity to reveal and conceal landscapes and bodies to destabilize time/space and renegotiate identity.04.29.2024–05.9.2024
Experimental Gallery
Tjaden Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Waiting for Enlightenment
Created over the span of a year, this solo exhibition centers the snake as an avatar for various states of being. Theravada Buddhism, body politic, and queer personhood meet at the intersection of ornamentality to arrive at spaces of hybridity and belonging.
06.01.2022–07.09.2022
Distillery Gallery
South Boston, MA
Losing My Religion
Video installation where multiple diasporic Cambodian visual cultures collide. Drawing inspiration from Buddhist notions of animism, an altar is assembled that references popular media from the post-Khmer Rouge era.
10.30.2021–01.29.2022
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN
if we want it
Collaboration with Melissa Q. Ten with linh-phương vũ, Lucky Li / 李乐言, Luisina Pozzo Ardizzi, Melice Lopes, Sybille Gorneille. Monumental public video art piece inspired by a book on capitalist ruins and mushrooms. “... staying alive—for every species—requires livable collaborations.”
06.24.2020–10.01.2020
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston, MA
Two Hearts
Small installation about a Cambodian boy and his pet snake (giant python) by appropriating video footage searched on YouTube.
2022
Holiday in Cambodia
Sculptural video installation collaging and forming a space where multiple diasporic Cambodian visual cultures collide. Created as part of the group exhibition Sutures.
2018
A single journey can change the course of a life.
Exploring my fascination with Angelina Jolie as a UN ambassador, celebrity humanitarian, and the adoptive mother of a Cambodian son.
2017-Ongoing
Idol/Idle
Slow, reflective meditation on juxtaposing lenses on Khmer life, past and present—one of an early ‘70s French documentary film; the other through my own personal capture of my hometown.
2016
