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b. Thai-Cambodia Border
Currently based in Lowell and Boston, MA (ancestral land of the Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Pennacook peoples)

Education

2025 MFA Art, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY
2018 BFA Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Solo Exhibition

2026 Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Pteah Chas, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2025 I Miss You More Than I Remember You (Thesis), Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2024 You Are From My Past Life (curated by Achariyar Rojanapirom), Kalm Village, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2024 i love the way you see the world but why can’t you see me?, Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2022 Waiting for Enlightenment (curated by Shane Levi), Distillery Gallery, Boston, MA

Select Group Exhibitions

2026 We hold these truths… American Stories, Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, MA
2026 SALON/STYLE (curated by Elina Ansary), Peach Pit Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Body’s First Architecture (curated by Leeza Meksin/Tamar Ettun), Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2025 Even the Phrase Each Other, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Willful Dialects (curated by Yi Cynthia Chen), No Call No Show Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 Pchum Ben for Palestine, FT Gallery, Factory Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2024 The Future is Not Binary (curated by Brett Taylor), Denison Museum, Granville, OH
2024 Surviving Together (curated by Sunny Moxin Chen), A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA
2024 Freedom of Expression, Hartell Gallery, Cornell, Ithaca, NY
2023 over and over, Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2022 (RE)CONNECT: 6th Biennial Juried Alumni Exhibition, Frances Euphemia Thompson Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2022 Connections II (curated by Beckah Jean Marsh), Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
2022 Out of Service, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2021 Sutures (curated by Suriya Sam-Khuth), Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
2020 if we want it (collaboration with Melissa Q. Teng), Art on the Marquee, Boston CyberArts, Boston, MA
2018 Free Form (juried by Ben S. Wallace), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2017 Contact List, Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
2017 Sent From a Pure Moment, Godine Family Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 You Think It’s ____, But It’s Really ____. (curated by Allison Maria Rodriguez), Midway Gallery, Boston, MA

Awards / Grants / Fellowships

2026 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, Boston, MA
2026 Professional Development Fellowship in Visual Arts, Honorable Mention, College Art Association, New York, NY
2025 Boston Artadia Award, Artadia, Brooklyn, NY
2024–25 Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship (Khmer), Academic Year, U.S. Department of Education, Washington D.C.
2024 Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship (Khmer), Summer, U.S. Department of Education, Washington D.C.
2024 Research Travel Grant, Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Helen Swank Research Fellowship, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2024 Cornell Council for the Arts Grant, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 John Hartell Graduate Award for Art, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY
2022–23 U.S. Fulbright Research Grant, Thailand, U.S. Dept of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Washington D.C.
2018 Barbara Grad Auction Award, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2017 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Washington D.C.
2017 Morton R. Godine Travel Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2017 Rob Moore Grant in Painting, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Residencies

2027 Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL, Visual Arts Fellow (forthcoming)
2026 Byrdcliffe Arts Residency, Woodstock, NY (declined)
2026 Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, Full Tuition Scholarship
2026 Sâmleng Artist-in-Residence, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2024 SLOWSPACE Artist-in-Residence, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2022–23 Visiting Fellow in the Department of Media, Arts & Design, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
2022 Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY

(Updated August 2026)

SOPHEAK SAM

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