Pen Robit

(he / him)
b 1991, Battambang, Cambodia

Pen Robit graduated from Phare Ponleu Selpak in 2010. His art practice primarily employs painting, including occasional live painting and performance. He draws on various techniques, shuttling between figuration and abstraction, and often commenting on social realities and influences from Cambodian cultural iconography as well as ongoing societal discourses. Robit’s work attempts to represent Cambodia’s past, present and future socio-political fabric.

Beautiful day 2020
oil on canvas
155 x 120 cm