Sopheak Sam
Fulbright Scholar (Study/Research Award \'22) | Cornell Art MFA \'25
- Role
- Graduate Teaching Assistant at Cornell University College Of Architecture, Art, And Planning
- Location
- Ithaca, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sopheak Sam
Interdisciplinary visual artist working at the intersection of design, fine arts, new media, museology and cultural anthropology. Experienced writer, researcher, and strategic planner, constantly observing fields of knowledge production, popular media, and contemporary art issues. From 2022 to 2023, I lived and worked in Thailand as a Fulbright Research Fellow affiliated with Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Through experimental ethnography, I explored the politics of belonging in kantreum musical arts in Surin province (and Lower Isan), along the Thai-Cambodian border. Positing kantreum as an enduring intermediary of cultural past and present, I observed its trajectory renegotiating identity claims within contentious spaces of citizenship, heritage, and language rights. My focus on kantreum and Northern Khmer indigeneity are part of my longstanding research interests in legacies of cultural labor and performance, state formation, border conflict, identity politics, and counter-memory in continental Southeast Asia. I graduated with an MFA from Cornell University; my thesis exhibition/paper focused on Buddhist funeral rites and reincarnation/afterlives through a critical diaspora lens.
Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Cornell University College Of Architecture, Art, And Planning
Aug 2023 — Present
Education
The Glasgow School of Art
Semester Abroad, Painting and Printmaking
Be Like Khmer Language School
Certificate, Khmer/Cambodian Language and Literature
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Departmental Honors, Studio for Interrelated Media
2014 — 2018
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Master of Fine Arts - MFA
Cornell University
Master of Fine Arts
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