Sharing some professional shots of my show at @campbelltownartscentre . Thank you @silversalt_photography for wonderfully capturing this body of work. I'm incredibly grateful to be able to relive these moments through these photographs. 💫
📸 Silversalt Photography, courtesy Campbelltown Arts Centre
This piece "soft presence, hard absence (Study 1)" will be up for auction as part of mādar, a group benefit exhibition and auction curated by Melika Abikenari @melikaabikenari and Golnar Adili that presents works by over 80 contributing artists. At a moment of ongoing uncertainty in Iran, the exhibition brings together artists spanning generations and disciplines — from Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Iran to Brooklyn, New York — in a collective gesture of solidarity. While the bombing has temporarily paused, the situation remains precarious. Critical infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, and millions — already burdened by years of economic crisis, inflation, and U.S. sanctions — face the threat of displacement, food insecurity, and long-term instability.
mādar features contributed artworks available for acquisition, with proceeds supporting humanitarian relief efforts through Moms Against Poverty and additional initiatives supporting people on the ground in Iran. An online auction featuring exhibited works will launch simultaneously with the opening reception, allowing supporters to view, learn more about, and acquire works both in person and remotely until 11:59 pm EST on Friday, May 15th. The event features sounds by Nar beginning at 9 pm, aragh cocktails by Sag, and beer provided by Back Home Beer. Attendance is free and open to all; RSVPs are encouraged.
mādar will remain on view through the weekend at CUE’s gallery space at 137 West 25th St.
Nyc peeps - I'm excited to share that my work will be on show as part of the inaugural Curatorial Squad program at Pen + Brush, with the first cohort of curators Vida Sabbaghi , Amy Rosenblum Martín @amyrosenblummartin , and Vai Jong Hunken @vaijonghunken and Alfonso Alday Vergara @alfonsoaava .
I hope you can join me for the opening tomorrow April 30 from 6-8pm. Show runs until June 30.
Pen + Brush
29 East 22nd Street NY
Sharing some pics from my recent artist talk and opening night at @mamalbury . Many thanks to @emilysrolfe for your wonderful and considered questions, and for the many folks at MAMA for helping make this happen.
'Reincarnations of an altar cloth' runs until 21 June 2026.
Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch courtesy Murray Art Museum Albury
Linda Sok: Reincarnations of an altar cloth
@mamalbury , NSW - 21 June 2026
A selection of woven silk works from the ongoing series Deities in Temples, reimagining lost, stolen, collected, and destroyed silk weavings.
Sok engages in decolonial practices and methodologies to reclaim and present fragments of her Cambodian heritage.
Curator Emily Rolfe.
Reincarnations of an altar cloth is a @campbelltownartscentre exhibition presented in partnership with Murray Art Museum Albury. The exhibition includes new work commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre that expands the visual narrative of the ongoing series.
Images: installation @mamalbury courtesy of @cato__gallery and the artist.
@lendasock is represented by @cato__gallery Sydney
I'm currently in Albury, Australia to launch 'Reincarnations of an altar cloth', an exhibition by Campbelltown Arts Centre travelling to Murray Art Museum Albury.
Reincarnations of an altar cloth presents a selection of works from my ongoing series Deities in Temples, with works spanning across 2023-2025.
Opening tonight with artist talk with CAC curator Emily Rolfe. Many thanks to Michael Moran and Blair French as well as the rest of the team from MAMA for helping me feel so welcome and bringing the show to fruition. Special shout-out to Eloise from Cato Gallery for all the support!
Reincarnations of an altar cloth
Murray Art Museum Albury
Opening Thursday 19 March, 5.30 - 7.00pm
19 March - 21 June 2026
@mamalbury@michael_kieran_moran@blair_french_@campbelltownartscentre@emilysrolfe@__hannahjames@cato__gallery@eloisecato
We are delighted to announce that Linda Sok has been invited to present new works for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia’s renowned ‘Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists’ exhibition curated by Antares Wells.
Spanning photography, film, installation, textiles and painting, ‘Primavera 2026’ brings together artists from across the country who open up new ways of working with history, memory and the archive. They consider the material and psychic traces of the past in diverse ways. These include irreverent and experimental approaches to archival material, acts of obsession and reparation, and making art at the edges of memory.
‘Primavera: Young Australian Artists’ is the MCA Australia’s annual exhibition of exciting new work by Australian artists aged 35 and under. Since 1992, ’Primavera: Young Australian Artists’ has featured the work of over 250 artists and 30 curators and launched the careers of many of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. Each year, the curator of Primavera undertakes extensive research, visiting artists’ studios across the country to develop the exhibition.
‘Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists’ will be on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art from 27 June – 28 September 2026.
Image credit: Linda Sok, ‘Deities in Temples IX’, 2024, silk threads (printed then woven with visuals drawn by family members) & dye, 94 x 178 cm. Exhibition image: ‘Reincarnations of an Altar Cloth’ held at Campbelltown Art Centre, 2025. Image courtesy of Silversalt Photography, Linda Sok and Eloise Cato Gallery.
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You're invited to celebrate the opening of Reincarnations of an altar cloth, an exhibition by Cambodian-Australian artist Linda Sok.
Reincarnations of an altar cloth presents a selection of woven silk works from the ongoing series Deities in Temples, re-imagining lost, stolen, collected, and destroyed silk weavings. Sok engages in decolonial practices and methodologies to reclaim and present fragments of her Cambodian heritage.
On the evening, Sok will be in conversation with Emily Rolfe, Curator, Contemporary Visual Arts, Campbelltown Arts Centre, to discuss and share insights into her practice.
Thursday 19 March 2026
5.30pm – 7.00pm
Free entry, please RSVP via our website
Artwork: Linda Sok
Reincarnations of an altar cloth
Installation view,
Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2025.
Photo: Silversalt Photography.
Reincarnations of an altar cloth is a Campbelltown Arts Centre exhibition presented in partnership with Murray Art Museum Albury. The exhibition includes new work commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre that expands the visual narrative of the ongoing series.
“How do you commemorate, or move on from something that is one generation removed from you?”
This question was asked by artist Linda Sok about her family’s experience of the Cambodian genocide fifty years ago.
Her answer is to make art, saying “The ability to give material form to loss … becomes very important.”
Linda Sok’s artwork ‘Deities in Temples XIV’ (2025) has been acquired by the Australian War Memorial. The silk ikat weaving was made in the ‘pidan’ tradition of Khmer people. Pidan weaving was almost lost during the 1975–1979 genocide in which 1.7 million Cambodians were killed in one of the worst crimes of the 20th century.
Linda researched pidan weaving in colonial French archives held at the National Museum of Cambodia then reclaimed the centuries-old tradition as a contemporary practice. She invited her family to contribute drawings that were printed and woven into the work and incorporated a gap in the warp threads that symbolises loss or grief.
Australian Peacekeepers served in Cambodia from 1991–1993, supporting ceasefires and democratic elections after decades of violence in the country.
From the late 1970s and 1980s, thousands of displaced Cambodians found refuge in Australia.
This artwork helps audiences to understand their experiences.
‘Deities in Temples XIV’ will be on display at Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) from 20 March – 21 June 2026 in the exhibition ‘Linda Sok: Reincarnations of an altar cloth’, a Campbelltown Art Centre exhibition.
Linda Sok
‘Deities in Temples XIV’
2025
silk threads (printed then woven with visuals drawn by family members), mixed media,
dye
137 x 213 cm
Image courtesy of the artist and Eloise Cato Gallery
Linda Sok is represented by Eloise Cato Gallery
2025 saw the opening of Eloise Cato Gallery & I thank all who have been so kind with their encouragement & enthusiasm in our fledgling year.
To set 2026 in motion, January saw an artist pilgrimage to Egypt with an invitation from the Australian Friends of GEM, part of a 30 year collective that builds relationships and promotes cooperation with the newly founded Grand Egyptian Museum, the Greco-Roman Museum & the Alexandria Bibliotheca.
It’s been phenomenal to share this journey with Kathrin Longhurst, Linda Sok, Sophie Clague & Sophie Victoria as they navigate their own observations & experiences of Egypt’s ancient legacy with consideration to their contemporary practice. To approach the cultural plundering of Egypt analytically requires an understanding that it’s not a closed colonial event but a continuing epistemic condition— one that structures how knowledge about Egypt is produced, circulated & authorised.
The global visibility of Egyptian antiquity is inseparable from the imperial infrastructures that displaced it. Thus, artistic engagement cannot remain as symbolic critique or aesthetic enshrinement it must resist re-enacting the fetishisation of the object & instead redirect attention to regimes of classification, conservation & display that naturalise dispossession. By unsettling frameworks that rendered Egypt an extractable resource in the first place we are compelled to confront not only historical injustice but our own position within Egypt’s ongoing afterlife.
So how do we artistically give back? It’s a big question & something we plan to delve into in July with an exhibition of work by each travelling artist.
For now we would love to share some photos of what has been a once in a lifetime experience & encourage you to hopefully make your own pilgrimage.
@kathrinlonghurst@lendasock@sophievictoria.a@sophieclague
