Personal Profile

Name: KONG Vollak

Position Title: Deputy head of Social Science Department

Affiliation: Phnom Penh Teacher Education College (PTEC), MOEYS

Cambodia.

Tel: (855) 12 34 24 57

E-mail: kong.vollak@ptec.edu.kh

Bio:

KONG Vollak (born in 1983) lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He graduated from the sculpture department of the Royal University of Fine Arts in 2006. He works for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport as an art education teacher since 2007, and he is also working with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and UNESCO as Pedagogical Coordinator for 5 years as part of one NGO, Cambodia Living Arts (CLA), recently he is the deputy head of social science department of Phnom Penh Teacher Education College.

To be an actor 2025 - 2026 Vollak joint the film actor of 3 films of Promiss space by Ivan Macovic, Incident on the Mountain by Seng Sovuthara, To Leave To Stay by Danich, Vollak also join the Set design of a film of Monologue Trilogy by vandy rattana in 2016.

As an artist Vollak work closely with many dimension of art form such as visual arts, performance, and film. He works primarily with charcoal, ink, and pencil on paper and creates sculptures from a range of materials. He also produces etching and lithography as well as photography – both digital and through film. His focus is often on urban life and architecture – skyscrapers, wires, and streets – and history and memory. Vollak has participated in workshops and exchanges with artists from France, Poland, Japan, Cambodia, Andorra, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong kong, Taivan, China and Mexico. He was an artist-in-residence with the Asain Cultural Center (ACC) in 2013.

Vollak’s selected exhibitions include Cambodia: Looking Back on the Future, The Flinn Gallery, New York City, USA; Invisible Conversations, Java Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2017); Histories of Future, National Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Silhouettes of Tomorrowland, the Asia Foundation, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2016); Jorng Jam I, Bophana Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2014); Jorng Jam II, Logan Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia (2015); Phadeth, Bliss on Bliss Art Studio, in Queens, New York City, USA (2013).

Vollak’s selected exhibitions include Cambodia: Looking Back on the Future, The Flinn Gallery, New York City, USA; Invisible Conversations, Java Art Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2017); Histories of Future, National Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Silhouettes of Tomorrowland, the Asia Foundation, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2016); Jorng Jam I, Bophana Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2014); Jorng Jam II, Logan Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia (2015); Phadeth, Bliss on Bliss Art Studio, in Queens, New York City, USA (2013).

More about Vollak by these website  https://ccva.art/artists/kong-vollak/

https://aura-asia-art-project.com/en/artists/kong-vollak/

https://artworlddatabase.com/portfolio/kong-vollak/

https://cargocollective.com/JorngJam/Kong-Vollak-WORK-HARD

https://flinngallery.org/cambodia-looking-back-future/

https://cargocollective.com/JorngJam/Kong-Vollak-WORK-HARD