Kong Vollak
PARTICIPATING ARTIST
Kong Vollak
Vollak believes that as an artist he “should experiment with design, drawing, sculpture, photography, performance…everything”. He studied fine art and sculpture at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh from 2002-2006 and has been exhibiting frequently throughout Cambodia since 2005. Like others his age, Vollak has been impacted by a decade of rapid transformations in his home city - Cambodia’s bustling capitol Phnom Penh. In his ongoing drawing series of buildings has been exhibited in two solo exhibitions: Line and Lost Line,Hotel de la Paix Arts Lounge, Siem Reap, 2007; Many Floors, French Cultural Centre, Phnom Penh, 2009).
Other selected group exhibitions by Kong Vollak in Cambodia include Pillar, Java Café and Gallery, 2009; Art of Survival, Metahouse, 2008; Spirit House, Khmer Arts Academy, 2007; 14+1, French Cultural Centre, 2007; Surfacing and Anon, Sala Art Space, 2007. International exhibitions include Transformation II, Long Beach Cultural Center, USA, and Thhertha International Artist Workshop, Kandi, Sri Lanka (both 2008). Vollak was co-curator of the Mekong Art and Culture Project in 2007, and was chosen for the rotating collection of the Ambassador of the United States, Cambodia.