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American sculptor

The native form of this personal name is Pich Sopheap. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Sopheap Pich (Khmer: ពេជ្យ សុភាព; born 1971) is a Cambodian Americancontemporary artist.

His sculptures utilize traditional Cambodian materials, which reflect the history of the nation and the artist's relation to his identity.^{[citation needed]}

Early work and influences

Sopheap Pich was born in Battambang, Cambodia (then known as the Khmer Republic) in 1971.

He grew up and survived the Khmer Rouge while a child in Cambodia, in 1984 he moved at age 13 to the United States of America.

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In 7th grade in the U.S., he enrolled into a school with a classroom setting and a teacher for the first time. He continued with his education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and in 2002 got his MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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In 2002, he returned to Cambodia, to the sa