Sopheap Pich: Sculpting Memory and Resilience Sopheap Pich is a Cambodian American contemporary artist born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 1971. His artistic journey began amidst the harrowing realities of the Khmer Rouge regime—a period marked by unimaginable violence and suffering—leaving him to emigrate to the United States at age 13 as part of a refugee family. This formative experience profoundly shaped his worldview and fueled his creative impulse, inspiring him to explore themes of displacement, identity, and remembrance through sculptural mediums. ### Early Influences and Artistic Form…