NOV CHEANIK
b. 1989, Battambang, Cambodia. Lives and works in Battambang, Cambodia. Nov Cheanik grew up in rural Battambang province, where he lives today, and where he finds the subjects for his paintings: subsistent rice farmers, both men and women, young and old. Like the farmer’s precarious, nature-dependent livelihoods, Nov’s process is also mercurial. He considers his black ink paintings on paper an emotional process -the reactive moment when the water and ink meet is a metaphor for our reaction to unpredictable circumstances in life. Removing his subjects from their original context and titling them by number only further extends this metaphor to the audience – as we “meet” these blurred and anonymous faces, we can only meet our own associations and emotions.
b. 1989, Battambang, Cambodia. Lives and works in Battambang, Cambodia.
Education
2003-2009 Phare Ponleu Selpak Art School, Battambang
Group Exhibitions
2012 Four Rising Talents From Southeast Asia, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Farmers & Freshies, Sa Sa Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2009 Cambodia: The Memory Workshop, Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
