Chan Dany

CHAN Dany (born in 1984 in Prey Veng province) lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He studied art at Reyum Art School and Workshop from 2002-2007. His contemporary works employ a flexible knowledge of Kbach Rachana or Khmer decorative forms – an ancient code of organic shapes and patterns applied in different styles and his delicate work made with pencil shavings, which from a distance appear to be embroidery.

Dany’s selected solo exhibitions Sampot Civilisé, Plantation, Phnom Penh, 2017; Sampot: The Collection of Small Things, Independence Hotel, SihanoukVille, Cambodia; Sampot: The Collection of Small Things, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2013); If They Were With Us Today, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2012). Selected group exhibitions Soft Opening, Silapak Trotchaek Pneik, Phnom Penh, 2021; Sa Sa Art Projects Fundraising Auction & Exhibition 2020, Factory Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, 2020; Out of Line (Tracing Abstraction Within Contemporary Art in Cambodia), Akar Prakar, India 2019; Shapeshifting: Contemporary Art From Southeast Asia, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong (2016), And That Which Was Always Known, Yavuz Gallery, Singapore 2015; Swimming in Sand; Growing Rice Under an Umbrella, No Vacancy, Melbourne, Australia / parallel programming at National Gallery of Victoria’s Ian Potter Centre and Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2014.