Linda Sok

My practice is rooted in my Cambodian cultural heritage and considers my upbringing in Australia as a fracture through which I can begin to unwind and untangle personal and historical traumas. Distance and absence become inciting moments through which my 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, I hope to blur the lines between fact and fiction; to leave space to allow for the questioning of authority and authenticity inside the logic of colonization. Materials such as silk, salt, sand, dye, and air-dry clay feature prominently throughout my sculptural, fiber-based practice.  

 Linda Sok has exhibited extensively throughout Australia, North America, Europe, and South East Asia, including the Textile Art Center (NY, USA), Center for Craft (NC, USA), Artspace (NSW, Australia), Campbelltown Arts Centre (NSW, Australia), Institute of Modern Art (QLD, Australia), Gertrude Contemporary (VIC, Australia), Maloop (PHN, Cambodia) and the 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. Notable publications that have written of her work include Artist Profile, Art Guide, Art Spiel, Liminal Magazine and Running Dog. She held residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop (NY, USA), NARS Foundation (NY, USA) and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (NE, USA). Sok completed her MFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025 and was selected to exhibit in Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. Sok is represented by Eloise Cato Gallery, Sydney.