KONG Siden (b. 1997, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) is an artist and interior designer who also works as a designer and digital coordinator at Sa Sa Art Projects. His artworks are produced across various media including photography, video, installation, light, and sound. Through his practice, he focuses on the contemporary human perspective, the environment, and the society he is living in. He uses his works to devise the interconnection between the work and the audience by observing and reflecting on their own experiences.
Siden graduated in Interior design from the Royal University of Fine Arts (Cambodia) in 2019 and has joined several contemporary art courses. In 2020 he was awarded the Creative Generation 3 Award for visual arts. He has exhibited in several group exhibitions including Creative Generation: Worlds Unknown Art Festival (2022) “Invisible Voices: Treeline Artist Grants,” Siem Reap (2020), “Possibility, Transferring, Passing,” Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh (2019), “Immerse,” Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh (2018), “Beauty of the Dirty Water,” Screening photos, Photo Phnom Penh Festival (2018), “Stories of Reality,” Studio Images, IFC (2018), “People and Space,” Studio Images, IFC (2018), and “Portraits,” Studio Images, IFC (2018).
Group Exhibitions
- 2022 Mindfulness, Creative Generation: Worlds Unknown Art Festival,Friends Futures Factory (F3), Phnom Penh
- 2020 Symbolism, Invisible Voice, Treeline Urban Resort, Siem Reap
- 2019 Broken Pieces, “Possibility Transferring Passing”, Graduate Exhibition, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh
- 2019 Inside the Plastic, Plastic Free Festival, Future Factory
- 2018 The Passengers, “Portraits” with Lola Reboud and Le Studio Images, Institut français du Cambodge, Phnom Penh
- 2018 Lost, “People and Space” by Khiev Kanel and Studio Images, Institut français du Cambodge, Phnom Penh
- 2018 “Stories of Reality” with Caroline Chevalier, of Studio Images, Institut français du Cambodge, Phnom Penh
- 2018 Inside the Plastic, “Immerse”Graduate Exhibition, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh
Awards | Grants
- 2020 Treeline Artist Grants Program 2020, Treeline Urban Resort, ISI GROUP’s KMH Foundation
- 2020 Creative Generation 3 Award, Creative Generation
Education
- 2018 Contemporary Art Class, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh
- 2019 Documentary and Contemporary Photography Art Class, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh
- 2019 English for Artist, Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh,
- Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design from Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia
Talks | Workshops
- 2020 Virtual Dialogue, Treeline Artist Grants Program 2020, Treeline Urban Resort, ISI GROUP’s KMH Foundation
- 2022 Field Prep: Starting Cycles with the Collective in the I with Siddharta Perez, Rong Cheang: A Community Art Studio
- 2022 There’s no Place: An embroidery installation project with Jakkai Siributr, Rong Cheang: A Community Art Studio
- 2022 Drawing is Free with Sopheap Pich, Rong Cheang: A Community Art Studio
- 2022 “Light Mission” by artist Mit Jai Inn, Rong Cheang: A Community Art Studio
COLLECTIONS
- Aura Asia Contemporary Art Project