My practice is rooted in my Cambodian cultural heritage and considers my upbringing in Australia as a fracture through which I can begin to unwind and untangle personal and historical traumas. Distance and absence become inciting moments through which my practice can emerge as acts of weaving, rituals, and material translations. By positioning memory, historical and personal stories, speculations, and the imagination as equally reliable archives, I hope to blur the lines between fact and fiction; to leave space to allow for the questioning of authority and authenticity inside the logic of colonization. Materials such as silk, salt, sand, dye, and air-dry clay feature prominently throughout my sculptural, fiber-based practice.
Linda Sok has exhibited extensively in over three dozen prestigious institutions throughout Australia, North America, Europe, and South East Asia, including the Textile Art Center (NY, USA), Center for Craft (NC, USA), Artspace (NSW, Australia), Institute of Modern Art (QLD, Australia), Gertrude Contemporary (VIC, Australia), Maloop (PHN, Cambodia) and the University of Copenhagen (CPH, Denmark). In 2024 she was awarded the Monash Room Emerging Artist Prize from the Australian Consulate in New York, and the Dorner Prize through the RISD Museum in Providence, RI. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales Art & Design with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Fine Arts. Linda is currently completing her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and will be in residence at BEMIS Center for Contemporary Arts in 2025.
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Education
2025 Master of Fine Art, Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
RISD Fellowship
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), University of New South Wales Art & Design, Australia
University Medal in Fine Arts
First class Honours
2015 Bachelor of Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Majors in Psychology and History & Philosophy of Science
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Solo Exhibitions
2025 Reincarnations of an altar cloth, Campbelltown Arts Center, NSW
2024 Deities in Temples, Monash Room, Australian Consulate General, New York
2020 Corporeal/Spiritual, Firstdraft, NSW (catalogue, Virtual Tour)
2019 Soft Monument, Seventh Gallery, VIC
2019 Soft Monument, AD Space, NSW
2019 For my ancestors (ritual for the dead), Wellington St Projects, NSW
2018 A space for remembrance, 541 Art Space, NSW
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Selected Exhibitions
2025 Within Heaven and Earth, Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Sydney
2025 Idioms of Distress, curated by Joe Bun Keo, AS220 Projects, Rhode Island
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2024 Everything we inherit, curated by Jennifer Yang, ISA Art Gallery, Indonesia
2024 Visions & Revisions, curated by Immaterial Projects, 9D Gallery, New York
2024 soft presence, hard absence, RISD Museum, Rhode Island
2024 Forest Bathing, curated by Alex Santana, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Connecticut
2024 Spiritual Machines, curated by Amelia Marzec and Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Flux Factory, New York
2024 Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, Indianapolis
2024 Deities in Temples, Maloop, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2024 The Art of Ikat, Copenhagen University Library, Denmark
2024 UN-IMPRESS, Lower East Side Printshop, New York
2024 Interwoven, Bob’s Gallery, New York
2023 Home and Away, 16albermarle Project Space, Sydney
2023 Each Thing Every One, RISD Sculpture Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island
2023 Crossing Borders, ArtsWestchester, New York
2023 Memory Mirage, Kunstraum, New York
2023 Something earned, Something left behind, Center for Craft, North Carolina
2023 In/Between, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York
2023 Edition Four, curated by More Than Reproduction, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
2023 Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, New York
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2022 Empty Pockets, curated by Sineenart Meena, Gertrude, VIC (essay)
2022 Sift, NARS Foundation, NY
2022 Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Institute of Modern Art, QLD (catalogue, Virtual Tour)
2022 Liminality, Textile Arts Centre, NY (exhibition)
2022 Ash, Pari, Parramatta, NSW
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2021 In the fibre of her being, curated by Sarah Rose, Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, NSW
2021 LOSS, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, NSW
2021 Wyndham Art Prize, Wyndham Art Gallery, VIC
2021 Footscray Art Prize, Footscray Art Centre, VIC
2021 Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, NSW
2021 As above, so below, AIR Space Projects, NSW
2021 Krik Krak, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge
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2020 Rising from the ashes, Gaffa Gallery, NSW
2020 GENERATOR, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, (Virtual)
2020 Sizzle!, Bromfield Art Gallery, Boston (Virtual)
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2019 Create NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch, Artspace, Sydney
2019 Launch, Sydney Art Collective, Marrickville
2019 Eden Unearthed, Eden Gardens, Macquarie Park (Catalogue)
2019 Speak Softly, Tread Heavily, curated by Talia Smith, Peacock Gallery and Auburn Arts Studio, Auburn
2019 Dear Homeland, Kudos Gallery, Paddington
2019 Subverting "The Intolerable Narrative", Firstdraft, Woolloomooloo (Catalogue)
Grants & Awards
2024 Winner, The Dorner Prize, RISD Museum, Rhode Island
2024 Winner, Monash Room 2023 Emerging Artist Prize, New York
2024 Finalist, American Tapestry Alliance, Peeler Art Center, Indianapolis
2024 Art Noir Jar of Love Fund
2024 RISD Graduate Conference and Exhibition Fund
2024 Symposium panelist, CONFLICT: Archives, Collections and Heritage, Denmark
2023 Finalist, Llyod Rees Emerging Artist Prize, Lane Cove Gallery
2023 Finalist, 61st Annual Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2023 Rhode Island School of Design Fellowship
2023 Finalist, Burwood Art Prize, Sydney
2022 Finalist, Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Brisbane
2022 Arts Grant Fund, American Australian Association
2021 Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize
2021 Footscray Art Prize, Melbourne
2021 Wyndham Art Prize, Melbourne
2021 Cambridge Art Association National Prize, Massachusetts
2021 Cambridge Arts Association Covid-19 Relief Scholarship
2020 NAVA Artists Benevolent Fund
2020 Myer Foundation: National Assistance Program for the Arts Fund
2019 Finalist, Create NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney
2019 Arc @ UNSW Art & Design Grant
2018 Highly Commended, Kudos Emerging Artist and Designer Award, Paddington
2018 Finalist, Jenny Birt Award, AD Space, Paddington
2017 Randwick Council Grant for NOX Night Sculpture Walk
2017 Arc @ UNSW Art & Design Grant
2017 Eden Gardens Stipend for Eden Unearthed
Residencies
2025 Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Nebraska
2024 FT Gallery AIR, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2023 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program for Visual & Multidisciplinary
2023 Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York
2023 Residency, Hambidge Arts Center, Georgia
2022 Artist in Residence, NARS Foundation, New York
2022 Artist in Residence, Textile Arts Center, New York
2021 Studio Resident, Boston Center for the Arts, Massachusetts
2020 Artist Residency, Cementa20, Kandos
2020 Studio Residency, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2019 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Creative Studio Space
2017 Eden Gardens Artist in Residence