Linda Sok’s practice is rooted in her Cambodian cultural heritage. She considers her upbringing in Australia as a fracture through which she can begin to unwind and untangle personal and historical traumas. Distance and absence become inciting moments through which her practice can emerge as acts of weaving, rituals, and material translations. By positioning memory, historical and personal stories, speculations, and the imagination as equally reliable archives, she hopes to blur the lines between fact and fiction; to leave space to allow for the questioning of authority and authenticity inside the logic of colonisation. Materials such as silk, salt, sand, dye, and air-dry clay feature prominently throughout her sculptural, fiber-based practice.
Sok has exhibited extensively throughout institutions in Australia, North America, Europe, and South East Asia, including the Textile Art Center (NY, USA), Center for Craft (NC, USA), Artspace (NSW, Australia), Institute of Modern Art (QLD, Australia), Gertrude Contemporary (VIC, Australia), Maloop (PHN, Cambodia) and University of Copenhagen (CPH, Denmark). In 2024 she was awarded the Monash Room Emerging Artist Prize from the Australian Consulate in New York, and the Dorner Prize through the RISD Museum in Providence, RI. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales Art & Design with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Fine Arts. Linda is currently completing her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and will be in residence at BEMIS Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska, USA in 2025.