Linda Sok is a Cambodian-Australian artist focused on investigating the culturally and personally significant period, the Khmer Rouge Regime, which forced her family to flee Cambodia. Her practice navigates the complexities of the trauma embedded in the Cambodian diaspora and aims to shift its legacy from one focused on genocide to one of healing.
With careful considerations for cultural objects, rituals, traditions and their materiality, her practice often manifests in sculptural installations. By accessing fragments of the past, she attempts to recontextualise lost traditions and culture to allow living descendants to process the traumatic history experienced by older generations.
Linda has exhibited in institutions such as Artspace, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Firstdraft Gallery, Institute of Modern Art and Gertrude Contemporary. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNSW Art & Design with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Fine Arts. Linda is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the NARS Foundation in New York.
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Solo Exhibitions
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
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Cambodian Ikat Reinvented: from lost heritage to living practices, The University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Something earned, Something left behind, curated by Kehayr Brown-Ransaw, Center for Craft, NC
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
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
2020 Rising from the ashes, Gaffa Gallery, NSW
2020 GENERATOR, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, (Virtual)
2020 Sizzle!, Bromfield Art Gallery, Boston (Virtual)
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)
2018 The Annual, UNSW Galleries, Paddington
2018 Piece of Mind, Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove
2018 Ritual / Resistance presented by Peril, Down/Under Space, Chippendale
2018 Remembering ancestors, Three Foot Square, Paddington
2018 Pro/positions, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington
2017 Counter Conduct presented by F123, 541 Art Space, Sydney (Catalogue)
2017 NOX Night Sculpture Walk, Randwick Environmental Park, Randwick (Catalogue)
2017 Collective Realities presented by F123, 541 Art Space, Sydney (Online Catalogue)
2017 Eden Unearthed, Eden Gardens, Macquarie Park (Catalogue)
2017 Dislocation, Kudos Gallery, Paddington (Catalogue)
2017 What's the Meme-ing of this?, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula (Catalogue)
2016 Somebody Nobody, UNSW Blackbox, Paddington
2016 Interval, Wayward Art Project, Camperdown (Catalogue)
2016 Spirit, BEAMS Arts Festival, Chippendale (Catalogue)
2016 Second to None, AD Space, Paddington
2016 Refugeez, Hurstville LMG, Hurstville
Grants & Awards
2023 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program for Visual & Multidisciplinary
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
2023 Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont
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
Education
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), University of New South Wales Art & Design
University Medal in Fine Arts
First class Honours
2015 Bachelor of Science, University of Sydney
(Majors in Psychology and History & Philosophy of Science)