Phnom Penh

Roger Nelson is an art historian and curator based in Phnom Penh. He is co-founding co-editor of ‘Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia’, a journal published by National University of Singapore Press. Roger recently completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne, on modernity and contemporaneity in ‘Cambodian arts.’ He writes for journals, magazines, books and catalogues internationally, and has curated projects in Australia, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Roger’s most recent exhibitions include ‘Where Is My Land?’ by Khvay Samnang with Nget Rady at Phnom Penh’s Sa Sa Art Projects (2017), and ‘People, Money, Ghosts (Movement as Metaphor)’, a group exhibition with accompanying lecture series at Bangkok’s Jim Thompson Art Center (2017).