Biography
b. 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts
Samnang Riebe is a Cambodian American Visual Artist who’s upbringing was split between Phnom Penh, Cambodia and the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts.
Riebe received a B.F.A in Graphic from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2010, and an M.F.A in 2D Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015.
He was awarded a Vermont Studio Fellowship in 2015 and is currently positioned as a Lecturer at Boston University’s School of Visual Arts and as a Senior Adjunct Faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Art & Design Department, teaching Painting and Drawing.
While Riebe considers Painting to be his primary discipline, his formal artistic concerns also encompass sculpture and object-making, as evident in his most recent Skeleton Paintings. These three-dimensional paintings serve as abstracted representations of his Khmer and Buddhist upbringing, at play with and enmeshing ideas of place, landscape, and cultural color sensibilities.
b. 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts
Samnang Riebe is a Cambodian American Visual Artist who’s upbringing was split between Phnom Penh, Cambodia and the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts.
Riebe received a B.F.A in Graphic from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2010, and an M.F.A in 2D Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015.
He was awarded a Vermont Studio Fellowship in 2015 and is currently positioned as a Lecturer at Boston University’s School of Visual Arts and as a Senior Adjunct Faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Art & Design Department, teaching Painting and Drawing.
While Riebe considers Painting to be his primary discipline, his formal artistic concerns also encompass sculpture and object-making, as evident in his most recent Skeleton Paintings. These three-dimensional paintings serve as abstracted representations of his Khmer and Buddhist upbringing, at play with and enmeshing ideas of place, landscape, and cultural color sensibilities.