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TITH Kanitha

b. 1987, Phnom Penh

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Tith Kanitha (born 1987, Phnom Penh) is a cross-disciplinary artist working between the visual arts in sculpture, performance and installation and in Cambodia’s independent film industry as an artistic director and actress.

Kanitha’s solo exhibitions include Instinct, SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh (2018) and Companions, French Cultural Center, Phnom Penh (2011). Select group exhibitions include Le paysage après coup, Centre d'art contemporain Faux Mouvement, Metz (2018); SUNSHOWER: Southeast Asian Art from 1980s to Today, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2017); Today of Yesterday: The Return, Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo (2015); Rates of Exchange: Uncompared | Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, H Gallery, Bangkok and SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh (2014); Phnom Penh Rescue Archaeology: Contemporary Art and Urban Change In Cambodia, ifa, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany and The Memory Workshop, Columbia University, NYC (both 2013); SurVivArt, the artist’s home, Phnom Penh and House of World Cultures, Berlin; Dom-naer Thmey / New Journey, Cambodian Youth Art Festival, Cambodian Living Arts, Phnom Penh (2013). Still Water, Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, Phnom Penh (2011); I Love PP, Java Café, Phnom Penh (2008); With a Body Comes Suffering, Department of Plastic Arts, Phnom Penh (2007). Select performances include Heavy Sand, as part of Reclamation Recreation: An Urban Beach Party, SA SA BASSAC (2012), and Women Move Away from the Stove, as part of Hey Sister, Where Are You Going?, Sovanna Mall, Phnom Penh (2010). Kanitha was an artist-in-residence with New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar, for Gender Under Reflection, Southeast Asia Contemporary Art Exchange Program (2012); The Art Initiative Tokyo – Backer foundation at Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo (2015); Bose Pacia Transparent Studio, NYC for Season of Cambodia and FIELDS: An Itinerant Inquiry Across the Kingdom of Cambodia (both 2013), and FIELDS II: On Attachments and Unknowns, Phnom Penh (2017). She was nominated for the DAAD Berlin Residency (2014) and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize (2017). She holds a BA in Interior Design, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2008).