Kanha Hul (b. 1999, Siem Reap) is a multidisciplinary artist. Her creative praxis and interests evolve around themes of community, women, the environment, and memory. Her works often delve into the complexities of these themes through a variety of mediums, including photography, performance art, painting, paper cutting, collage, stencil techniques, participatory projects, and, more recently, installation and sculpture.
Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English at the Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, Hul believes that art, either as an expression, abstractly and artifactually, or as a space, is vital for self-fulfillment and self-mastery while providing how to intercommunicate and reconnect to one’s soul, identity and community. Hul’s ongoing interest, which has become her artistic signature, concerns the position of women in (Khmer) society: she challenges society’s deeply held beliefs—especially about women’s bodies and roles—while celebrating women’s lives, experiences, and legacies.
Besides her first solo exhibition at Silapak Trotchaek Pneik by YK Art House (STP Cambodia) in 2023, Hul was an invited speaker and art instructor at the United Nations Women i4i Conference in Phnom Penh. In 2020, she taught art at the NOMADIX Arts Festival in Siem Reap. She is also the recipient of the Treeline Urban Resort Artist Grant (2020). Kanha’s works have been featured in group exhibitions throughout Cambodia and at international galleries, including Galerie Lee in Paris and Artxchange Gallery in Seattle, USA.
Skill of Education
Bachelor's degree in English, Lino print, Painting, Drawing, Photography (mixed media).
Solo Exhibition
2023 “Part of Life” Photo Phnom Penh Festival at Plantation Resort & Spa, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2023 “Values” Silpak Trochaek Pneik Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Group Exhibition
2024 No River we cay, Office of Contemporary Arts and Culture, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand.
2023 Vertical Art Exhibition, Sa Sa Art Projects, Raintree Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Visualizing History, the Museum Collective, NCCA Gallery, Manila, Philippines.
2022 Realms of Kintsugi, Urgent Action Fund Asia and Pacific Organization.
Sa Sa Fundraising Auction and Exhibition at Factory Phnom Penh.
2021 To Celebrate Siem Reap, Asean City Culture, Khmer Kite Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Visualizing History, Sa Sa Art Projects collaboration with the Museum Collective, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Hope on the Horizon, Open Studio Cambodia, AIR Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Penh Art, Factory Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Contrasted Visions, Sra’ Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Asians Belong Here, SaveArtSpace organization, Art Billboard, New York, USA.
2020 Tomorrow is a New Day, Open Studio Cambodia, AIR Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Sa Sa Fundraising Auction and Exhibition at Factory Phnom Penh.
“Invisible Voices” at Treeline Urban Resort, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Contemporary Cambodia, Artxchange Gallery, Seattle, USA
Group Exhibition of Cambodian Contemporary Art, Galerie Lee, Paris, France
“Women of the World” at Sra’Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“Mirage in Sight” at Mirage Contemporary, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Artist Talk and Organize workshop
2023 Part of Life, artist talk and tour, Plantation Resort & Spa, Phnom Penh,
Cambodia.
2023 Art active workshop, Urgent Action Fund Asia and Pacific Organization,
Kathmandu, Nepal.
2021 Mixed Media (Photo) workshop workshop at Ikigai Arts Certer, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2021 Layers of Architecture & Nature in Art, artist talk at Treeline Urban Resort, Siem Reap,
Cambodia.
2020 Serey Siv’s Visual Storytelling Workshop at Mirage Contemporary, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
2020 Lino print, workshop part of NOMADIX Arts Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2019 Lino print, workshop and speaker with i4i United Nations Women Conference, Factory Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Residencies
2024 GMS Artist Residency, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Award/Grant
2022 Kintsugi grant, Urgent Action Fund Asia and Pacific Organization.
2021 Dum Dos project grant, Cambodia Living Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2020 Winner, Treeline Urban Resort Artist Grant, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Workshop and Training course
2023
- Basic Art Education Training Program, by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea in cooperation with the - Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia
2022
- Training Kintsugi Sessions, Urgent Actions Fund for Women’s Human Rights Asia and Pacific Organization
2019-2021
- Open Studio Cambodia (Lino print), Siem Reap, Cambodia.
2016
- “Envisioning Eternal Wonders behind Lens”, the 14th EIU Photo Class co-organized by APCEIU, Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Collection
- Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Thailand’s Ministry of Culture.
- Many artworks of Kanha Hul has been collected by private collector.