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Sothea Thang

Sothea Thang was born in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia, in 1983. He graduated in Architecture and Urban Planning from Norton University and worked as an architect at a French firm in Phnom Penh before teaching himself to paint in 2009, later moving into sculpture and installation. His architectural training still shapes the work: structure, space, volume and material. He uses natural and traditional materials, Cambodian sarong fabric, metal and recycled objects to make pieces about memory, spirituality and the bond between people and nature. He has exhibited at the Institut français and Meta House in Phnom Penh, and in Paris and Bangkok. In 2024 his 5.7-metre sandstone sculpture Coral Kingdom, made with Bloom Architects, was installed on the Kep seafront. The Mekong Flow (2025), built from aluminium cans and plastic bottles, was shown at the MSU Broad Art Museum in Michigan, and in October 2026 Galerie Lee in Paris presents his solo exhibition The Keepers.

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Julia Higgs

Julia Higgs is an Australian visual artist based between Canberra and the New South Wales coast. She works across drawing, sculpture, installation and performance, and much of her practice centres on performative drawing: marks made through movement, gesture and the body. She holds a Master of Visual Arts (2017) and a Graduate Certificate in Art History and Curatorial Studies from the Australian National University, and a BA in Fine Art from RMIT. Residencies in the Netherlands, Finland and the United Kingdom, including Draw to Perform in 2019, led to projects such as Remanence (2022), ink melting onto paper in Finnish woods, and I drag a line out in the sand (2021), a path traced across a Queensland beach. Her solo exhibition About Drawing was shown at Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum in 2023. Her Art for Kep residency ran from August to October 2026.

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Rith Bonrotanak

Rith Bonrotanak, known as Rotanak, is a Cambodian artist, architect and actor. He holds degrees in Architecture and Urbanisation from the Royal University of Fine Arts and a BA in English from the Royal University of Phnom Penh. His signature style, which he calls Particlisation, turns everyday objects and Khmer cultural symbols, including Kbach patterns, into dense, layered hand-drawn compositions, finished digitally or in mixed media. His first solo exhibition, The Particles, opened at Sra'Art Gallery in 2024 and led Prestige Magazine to name him a rising creative voice in Cambodia. In 2025 he won first prize for Digital Art at the Ekarieach Multi-Art Competition at Sofitel Phnom Penh, took second place in Color Outside the Lines at Sosoro, and showed 49 works in The Particles: Odyssey at Rosewood Phnom Penh. As an actor he plays Meng in Chheangkea's Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites, winner of the Short Film Jury Award for International Fiction at Sundance 2025.

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Nguyen Xuan Hoang

Nguyen Xuan Hoang is a Vietnamese visual artist, born in 1981 in Thuan Thanh, Bac Ninh, and based in Hanoi. He studied at the Hanoi University of Industrial Fine Arts from 1999 to 2003 and at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts from 2003 to 2008, and since 2004 has worked across painting, installation, performance and collaborative workshops. His central question is how a painting occupies space and how we perceive it. He often takes the painted image off the wall and extends it into installations and three-dimensional environments. His ongoing Reverse series, shown as both paintings and installations, turns familiar viewpoints around and tests what an image can be beyond the flat picture plane. Since 2005 he has held solo exhibitions and taken part in group exhibitions, workshops and performances across Vietnam. Recent exhibitions include Station at Quang San Art Museum (2024), Maternal Form in Hanoi (2025) and Migration Season in Ho Chi Minh City (2026).

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Olga Cuxart Oriol

Olga Cuxart Oriol is a Spanish artist-researcher working across sculpture, public art, installation and painting. Born in Barcelona and based between Europe and China, she has spent more than a decade working with the artistic and material cultures of Asia, and holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. Her sculpture asks how material, place and human experience meet. Working in wood, bamboo, metal, stone and ceramics, she treats materials as active participants whose physical properties, past uses and traces shape the work. Her research turns on material agency, operational memory and distributed authorship. She has made monumental, site-responsive public works in China, including permanent outdoor sculptures made with local materials and fabricators, and has exhibited across Asia and Europe, including France and Germany. In 2026 her work took her to Japan, India and Singapore, with writing published in the United States, India and China. Painting still informs her sense of colour, gesture and surface.

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Kris Marko

Born in France in 1975 to a family of Yugoslav origin, Kris Marko builds a symbolic body of work about desire, memory, culture and transformation. His eye was formed by French painting and by the Byzantine, Orthodox, Greek and Etruscan traditions of his Balkan roots. Many years in Cambodia have added Khmer art, animist cosmologies and Asian symbolism to that vocabulary. A painting may begin with a rational intention, but deeper forces increasingly steer it, and the hesitations, revisions and changes of direction stay visible on the surface, like the geological strata of a thought in motion. Horses, dragons, bulls, spines, bones, gold leaf and symbolic architecture recur. Between Eros and structure, instinct and civilisation, chaos and order, his paintings look for a tension that runs through personal experience and collective history. He thinks of them as maps: attempts to chart what cannot be photographed or measured: desire, contradiction, memory, wounds and the invisible forces that shape a life.

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Alexandra Maul

Alexandra Maul (AlexMaulArt) is a self-taught German mixed-media artist, born in 1965 and based in Phnom Penh. Years spent in Germany, Austria, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Cambodia, and the personal turns of motherhood, marriage, divorce and relocation, sit at the centre of her work. Through painting, texture, words and colour she explores identity, displacement, belonging, urban nature, emotional memory and change. Working mainly in acrylic and spray paint, with layered textures and intuitive mark-making, she pairs expressive abstraction with fragments of language and symbolic imagery. Her canvases move between rawness and harmony, urban energy and nature, and read as emotional states rather than literal scenes. The idea of living between worlds runs through all of it. Recent shows include the solo exhibition French Electronic Music at the Hyatt Regency Phnom Penh and a private solo exhibition in Bali, both in 2025. She was artist in residence at Art for Kep in April 2026.

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Justina Edwardsen

Justina Edwardsen is a pop-art painter, photographer and international visual arts educator based in Phnom Penh. For more than 15 years she has combined studio practice with teaching, working with the IB Primary Years Programme and the Alberta Fine Arts curriculum. Her paintings celebrate everyday life in Cambodia with the bold energy of Pop Art: the crowded streets of Phnom Penh, the patterns of Khmer textiles, ancient temples beside a fast-changing city. A saturated palette carries her interest in where tradition meets modernity. Her work has been shown from Washington, DC to Phnom Penh, in solo exhibitions, group shows and luxury galleries. Her solo exhibition Here to There ran at Sra'Art in Phnom Penh in 2024, and in 2025 her painting Fish For Two was first runner-up in the art design, drawing and painting category of the Ekarieach competition at Sofitel Phnom Penh. She also leads community workshops and Sip & Paint evenings.

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Thun Dina

Thun Dina, born in 1989 in Kampong Cham Province, is an independent Cambodian painter whose work follows the shift from quiet rural life to the pace of Phnom Penh. He began painting his countryside childhood at a young age, trained in pencil drawing at the Yamada School of Arts in 2013, and the following year earned a BA in Oil Painting from the Royal University of Fine Arts. His subjects are mostly people met in the streets of Phnom Penh, caught between tradition and modernity and between generations. He paints in bright, expressive colour as a sign of hope and combines traditional oil technique with the influence of late 19th-century Symbolism. Wet-on-wet passages let colours blend softly, and migration, adaptation and the dignity of daily life recur. He has taken part in more than ten group exhibitions in Cambodia, South Korea, France and Singapore, and in 2017 was selected for the 81st Shinseisaku International Exhibition in Tokyo.

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Nout Daro

Nout Daro is a Cambodian painter, born in Kandal Province in 1991, who graduated from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh in 2018. Fallen leaves, organic forms and cycles of renewal drive his work, which looks at the bond between nature, life and culture. His palette, which he calls "Sunrise Colors", carries both the beauty and the fragility of the natural world. His motto: "Love nature like the way you love your child." Daro has held solo exhibitions at Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra and Raffles Hotel Le Royal, and his work is available at The Gallerist on Street 240 in Phnom Penh. Abroad, he has shown in Singapore, in an international exhibition with artists from 18 countries, and in a group exhibition in France, where solo exhibitions are now in preparation. In 2024 he received the Jury Award at the Ekarieach art competition at Sofitel Phnom Penh.

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Mohd Jayzuan

Mohd Jayzuan is a multidisciplinary artist from Ipoh, Malaysia, working across performance, songwriting, writing, curating, filmmaking and independent publishing. He began making work as a teenager in the late 1990s, and his practice has stayed rooted in experiment and play, moving freely between forms and mediums. Experimental music, alternative literature, contemporary art, film, relational art and youth culture are his main territory. Since the 2000s he has released music albums, books, films and hybrid projects that mix personal exploration with collective energy. In 2011 he founded Projek Rabak, a multidisciplinary artist collective that activates youth culture and countercultural practice in Malaysia and beyond. With Projek Rabak he took part in documenta fifteen in Kassel and the 59th Venice Biennale, and he has presented performances, talks and exhibitions across Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe.

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Michael Klinkhamer

Michael Klinkhamer is a Dutch photographer, visual artist, writer, photo editor and educator with more than four decades in the field. His work covers portraiture, documentary and social reportage, travel, architecture, art and culture, automotive and studio photography. Since the early 1990s he has produced assignments and illustrated stories for leading Dutch magazines, publishers, companies and cultural organisations, and has managed specialist photo studios. He also writes, with interviews and articles on art, architecture, travel and social subjects. People, place and personal stories link it all. From 2012 he built an international practice in Southeast Asia, based mainly in Cambodia, with projects in Thailand, Korea and China and assignments for NGOs across the region. He works independently as photographer, editor, teacher, workshop leader, writer and producer, and runs photography tours in Cambodia and Amsterdam. He was artist in residence at Art for Kep in January 2026.

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Alain Peyrun-Berron

Alain Peyrun-Berron has spent more than 40 years in culinary art competitions and event decoration, as a competitor, coach and judge at international level. His speciality is sugar work, from an ikebana competition in Montreal, Canada, to Easter rabbits and chocolate cake displays. He is also a woodturner and carver. He took part in the Ekarieach wood carving competition at Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra in 2024 and 2025 with Möbius Wave, and in 2026 made Blow Holes, a carved piece for the hotel's lobby.

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Dương Quý Dương

Dương Quý Dương is a Vietnamese painter, born in Hanoi in 1977, who lives and works in the city. He graduated in Lacquer Painting in 1998 and has built his practice around lacquer, treating it both as a traditional medium and as a material for contemporary work. Surface comes first: the layering, sanding and polishing that give lacquer its depth and glow. His paintings carry a sense of slow, repeated movement, and although he works with black, white, blue, gold, red and violet, each piece tends to rest on two or three dominant colours. Since the early 2000s he has shown regularly in Hanoi, including S5 at PuKu (2004), Hanoilink and Hanoilink 2112 at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi and Gallery 39A Ly Quoc Su (2006), and his solo exhibition Polishing at Gallery 39A (2011). More recently he took part in 7+8+9 (2022) and, in January 2026, MuD at Artera Space in Hanoi, a two-person show with Trương Thúy Anh.

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Bui Hoang Duong

Bui Hoang Duong is a Vietnamese visual artist from the Muong ethnic community, born in 1981 and based in Hanoi. He studied at the College of Music and Fine Arts of Guangxi Normal University in China from 2002 to 2006. His painting borrows from expressionism, surrealism and pop art, but the language is his own, and it is built around his love of dogs. They appear again and again, and through them he has found his own way of painting. For Duong, art is both a refuge and a place to explore, where vulnerability, joy and love sit beside environmental concerns and social questions. His solo exhibitions include Muong Shaman (2021), Duong's Verse (2022) and Duong's Forest I and II (2026), and he has shown in Vietnam, China and Australia and online. Since 2021 his community project Dancing Forest has travelled across Vietnam. That same year he received the Nguyen Dinh Thi Prize for Art and Literature.

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Voon Kim Cheong

Voon Kim Cheong is a Malaysian artist and musician, born in Kuala Lumpur in 1968 and based in Petaling Jaya. He graduated from Saito Academy in 1992 and then trained under an established artist from 1993 to 1998. Painting and music run side by side in his work, and his exhibition titles say as much: Vibrancy (2011), Cultural Exuberance (2018), Cultural Diversity (2019), Rhythms of Culture (2023), Symphonic Horizons (2024) and Visual Notes, Invisible Songs (2025). He has also shown in group exhibitions and art events in Malaysia, Cambodia and the United States, and his work has appeared at several regional auction houses. He has been involved with the National Visual Arts Gallery, the Penang State Museum & Art Gallery, the Penang Art Society, the North Kedah Art Society and The Wildlife Art Society of Singapore. Away from the canvas he composes original instrumental music, which he shares on his YouTube channel, @voonkimcheong.

Tan Kok Tiong

Tan Kok Tiong was born in 1969 in Muar, Johor, Malaysia, and grew up in a rural village in northern Johor. He graduated from the Central Academy of Art in 1990. Childhood memories, traditional crafts, heritage food and family customs run through everything he makes, whether in sculpture, ceramics or baking. He draws no line between them, since all of it comes from the same pair of hands. In his words: "I am not sculpting objects; I am sculpting memories. I am not baking food; I am baking culture." Projects such as Art, Hands, Form, Carving, Causal Thought of Kueh and Parental Kiln look at memory, family and tradition, and at the way a material holds experience. In 2024 he founded Lian Tiong Studios, a community space where art, baking, cultural heritage and everyday life meet. He comes to Kep with Voon Kim Cheong.

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Tony Ng Chit Keong

Tony Ng Chit Keong is a Malaysian contemporary artist and art conservator, born in Seremban in 1980. He holds a Fine Art Diploma from the Kuala Lumpur College of Art and studied art restoration at Accademia Riaci in Italy. For over twenty years he has worked as painter and conservator, and each role feeds the other: restoration has given him a close knowledge of materials and history, and a conviction that cultural memory must be cared for. His paintings draw on Malaysian identity, memory and craftsmanship, and on the changing relationship between people, images and technology. Through symbols and layered narratives they ask how we see, what we remember and how we decide what something is worth. His solo exhibitions include The Beauty of Faith (2015), Ukiran (2022) and Fabric of Time (2026), alongside group exhibitions and art fairs across Asia and Europe. In 2026 he won the Grand Prize at the MR D.I.Y. Art Competition.

Herman Wong Seng Yin

Herman Wong Seng Yin is a Malaysian contemporary artist working mainly in watercolour and mixed media. He holds a Diploma in Commercial Art from the Perak Institute of Art. His paintings deal with nature, memory and time, and with the relationship between people and the environment, moving between representation and abstraction. He combines traditional watercolour with mixed media, building up texture, layers and expressive marks. His work shows the natural world as fragile, resilient and always changing, and the traces time leaves on nature and people. He thinks of the painted surface as a living archive, able to hold layers of memory, emotion and texture. Wong is President of the Malaysia Perak Art Society and of Asia Art Alliance (Malaysia), and Vice President of the Contemporary Malaysian Watercolourists Association. He has taken part in international exhibitions, workshops and artist camps across Asia, including in Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal and Korea. He comes to Kep with Tony Ng Chit Keong.