Leang Seckon

 

Born in Pier Reang Cambodia, lives and works in Cambodia

Solo Exhibitions

2010

Heavy Skirt, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK

2009

See You Later Pt. 1, Galeria 346, Phuket, Thailand

2008

Char Joul, Centre Culturel Français, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Skin, Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

My Feeling from the Buddha, Café Living Room, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Collages, solo exhibition, FCC Angkor, Cambodia

2007

New Collages, Amansara Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Huos Samay, Art Café, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

My Feeling from the Buddha, Amansara Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia

2006

Changing the Face of Culture - Collages, Amansara Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Tik Ey Kom Arl Ho, Amansara Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Tik Ey Kom Arl Ho, Linga Bar, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Jonghan Hoi, Amansara Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Leang Seckon, Retrospective, Mutrak Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2005

Kuntrup UU, solo exhibition, Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2003

Attak, Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2002

Apey Mutrak, Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Selected Exhibitions

2011

What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?, Rossi and Rossi, London, UK

2009

Fukuoka Triennial, Fukuoka, Japan

Global Hybrid, Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Teuk Khmean Charon or Still Water, Bophana Audiovisual Resource Centre, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Geometries Virtuelles, Centre Culturel Français, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Forever Until Now, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

The 5^th International Art Festival 2009/The Greater Mekong Sub-Region Art Sans Frontiers/Queens Gallery Art Exchange Festival 2009, Chiang Rai, Luang Prabang and Bangkok, Thailand 

Mekong Organisation for Mankind, ASEAN Contemporary Art Exchange, New Zero Art Exchange, Yangon, Myanmar, 

2008

I Love PP, Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Strategies from Within: an Exhibition of Vietnamese and Cambodian Contemporary Art Practices, Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai, China 

Naga installation, Siem Reap River, Cambodia

Underlying, TADU, Bangkok, Thailand

2007

Com Haic Thaim, The Art House, Siem Reap, Cambodia

The Recycled Fashion Show, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Group Exhibition, Art House, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Crew Group Silk Exhibition, Siem Reap, Cambodia

2006

Review of Cambodian Art, Sala Art, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Spirit Learner, Artist-in-Residence Programme, VBNK, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

4 Cambodian Artists, Art-2 Gallery, Singapore

Reflow: Exhibition of Paintings & Photographs, Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2+3+4, Java Café and Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2005

Contemporary Art Exhibition’, Visual Art Open, Sunrise Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Folk-05: lokal global, Galleri Lista Fyr, Norway

Group Exhibition, Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong

2004

Centre Culturel Français, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Mekong Jitney, Java Café & Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Guide, Centre Culturel Français, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2003

Residency tour and group exhibition, Alabama, USA

Group Exhibition, New York, USA

2001

Group exhibition, School of Plastic Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Awards

2009

Finalist, Sovereign Asia Art Prize

2008

King Norodom Sihamoni personally endorsed the Naga, Seckon’s work with Kids and Rubbish

2005

Finalist, Sovereign Asia Art Prize

2004

King Norodom Sihanouk personally endorsed Seckon and his artwork

Second prize, painting contest, HIV/AIDS World AIDS Day, UNESCO, December 2000

Final selection for the 2000 International Poster Contest ‘A World of Opportunities’, UNFPA, June 2000

Residences

2009

Residency at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Other Experience

2008

Kids and Rubbish Recycled Fashion Show at BHOR Art Centre, Sihanoukville

Delegate to Dialogue on Arts and Climate Change, Asia-Europe Foundation, Beijing,

Designed Naga installation, and oversaw workshops with volunteers to construct and install the Naga, for World Water Day

2006 and 2007

Art consultant to Rajana Association, travelling with them to Laos and Thailand

Many performances of songs from the 1960s with celebrated actress Dy Saveth

Performance and round table discussion about the political realities of contemporary art in Cambodia and Vietnam, with artists from 2+3+4 exhibition

2005

One week collage workshop with Rajana Association staff, Siem Reap, Cambodia

2003

Lecture to art students at Birmingham University, Alabama, USA

Workshops with young people, Studio by the Tracks, Alabama, USA

2002 and 2004

Lectures at Pannasastra University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

1998-2001

Many illustrations and collages for Cambodian daily newspaper

1998

Illustrated Book on HIV/AIDS for Australian Red Cross

Education

1997-2002

Royal University of Fine Arts, BA (with an emphasis in design), Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Royal University of Fine Arts, Bachelor Degree in Plastic Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia